[CQ-Contest] WRTC 2018 - Area Activity

[Maciek SQ6MS]

 > Forget the word ''Olympics'', chose the area were you want to be
 > selected (up to you to organize your moving, to get the visa, to find
 > the money, to choose the unbeatable location, to build the super
 > station...) and participate to the contests.
 >
 > Gilles VA2EW

Why you can`t compare classic Olympics to WRTC ? I do admire the top 
op`s for their operating and technical skills. And i do admire WRTC 
organisers for their effort to make rules equal for all participants. 
But we have to keep in mind all limitations of our radio sport... There 
will be always someone with more money, bigger
station, better QTH, better area with less number of serious competitors 
and etc. So save you frustration because you always have two options : 
take it or leave it !

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W dniu 2015-09-18 o 01:23, VE2TZT pisze:
> Since the beginning, I was believing that the WRTC was comparable to a
> sort of Olympics.
>
> In that spirit, every nation can send only a limited number of
> players.Then even if there are many very good one in one nation only the
> few best will go. That is indeed very frustrating for those very good
> not sectioned who can see some athletes with a lower level than them
> participating to the Olympics because they are representing an other
> country with fewer good athletes.
>
> Accepting the idea of Olympics for the WRTC and assuming the Area as an
> extended country it was easy for me to understand that only a few guys
> are representing each area. Why not then accept that sometimes some not
> very good athletes are using they double nationality to participate via
> an other country because they were not selected in the country were they
> were used to live.
>
> What started to bring me to confusion was that in the case of the WRTC
> we may even have guys who got their selection in an area were they are
> not even used to live or were they do not have the citizenship. So the
> Olympics spirit is fading away in that case and we can understand the
> frustration of some.
>
> Then looking closer, the fact is that the ''C'' for Championship is not
> at all compatible with the Olympics principle. A Championship is
> supposed to be open to everybody and based on a succession of selection
> sessions. If you look at the rules, it is clear:
> Forget the word ''Olympics'', chose the area were you want to be
> selected (up to you to organize your moving, to get the visa, to find
> the money, to choose the unbeatable location, to build the super
> station...) and participate to the contests.
>
> Gilles VA2EW
>
>
>
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