[CQ-Contest] Online scoreboards

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

 True, but unless a contest organizer mandates that the participants (at least those trying to "win" the event in their chosen category) must use an online scoreboard, this will always be the case.


There will always be operators who decline to use this particular resource, for any of a number of reasons.  So there will always be the possibility, and sometimes probability, that a previously unknown score will come up and bite you on the... surprise you when least expected.  


Comes with the territory.  And it's nothing new.


73, ron w3wn
 

On 06/05/17, Ria Jairam wrote:

Online scoreboards are most useful when everyone, or at least high
scoring stations use them. Otherwise you can have someone come out of
nowhere and totally trounce your score.

I used to use getscores.org which was hosted by KY1V. It was good when
it worked properly but I found that some scores would not update and
then the end result was different from what was in the website...

I may try CQContest.net sometime but I'm a bit skeptical. Concept
seems nice but without participation it becomes less than useful.

73
Ria, N2RJ

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Bob Burns W9BU <w9bu_lists at rlburns.net> wrote:
> Maybe an effort should be made to reduce the time it takes to get results
> published. I understand that logs have to be checked, etc., etc.
>
> Back when I was sports car racing, I generally knew when I crossed the
> finish line what my result was. Now that I dabble in amateur radio
> contesting, the waitin some contests seems a little bit absurd.
>
> Bob...
>
>
> On 6/4/2017 7:01 PM, Holger Hannemann wrote:
>>
>> Try to motivate a kid to spend the weekend on the radio and then wait half
>> a
>> year or longer for the results!
>
>
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