[CQ-Contest] CQWW Committee Restructured

[Radio K0HB]

Since CQWW is Zone centric, compete by Zone, not continent.


On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 16:19 Randy Thompson K5ZD <k5zd at charter.net> wrote:

> Well put Ward.  It really is impossible to make radio contesting fair in
> the
> sense of other sports that have balls, sticks, and a playing field.  But,
> as
> you point out, we can minimize some of the variables through regional
> scoring.  This is true for all contests - not just CQWW.
>
> Since the CQWW score data is already in a database that allows selection by
> category, country, continent, zone...  it would probably be easy to create
> regional slices as well.  What regions would be "fair" for score comparison
> purposes?
>
> Randy, K5ZD
>
>
> PS: http://www.becomingminimalist.com/compare-less/
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> > Ward Silver
> > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 4:53 PM
> > To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW Committee Restructured
> >
> >  > As for CQWW, those of us here in Asia who have a perennial propagation
> > > disadvantage have no chance of winning any of the big boy categories.
> > Yet
> >  > if you look at score submissions of the last few years, you will
> > observe an  > upward trend. This is largely because ops are getting on
> > air for fun, not  > for winning. The serious efforts are largely focused
> > on doing well in Asia  > standings than World standings. All this with
> > the current rules.
> >
> > And there we have most of a very workable solution - compete regionally,
> > report regionally, recognize regionally.  Thanks, Prasad.
> >
> > Trying to come up with some kind of a complex numeric way of equalizing
> > out propagation and geography is simply not workable. There are too many
> > dependencies over which a point system has no control.  Nor can it
> > respond to day-to-day propagation variations.
> >
> > The CQ WW committee already has its hands overly-full dealing with the
> > worldwide data set - and they do a great job with that!
> >
> > My advice for those who care is to create regional competitions and
> > reporting so that the best efforts from a particular region can be
> > appropriately recognized and encouraged.  The scoring data and even the
> > logs are public - there is no reason this can't be done.  How about the
> > California Cup?  The East Asia Challenge? The Black Hole Bouquet?
> > Regional reporting allows stations to compete against peers - which
> > causes most of the perceived unhappiness.
> >
> > 73, Ward N0AX
> >
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