[CQ-Contest] SO Categories

[w2lc at twcny.rr.com]

If CQWW merges SO and SOA then I'll pass on that contest.  And I'll also pass on the CQ magazine subscription as well.
Same goes for any other contest that combines SO and SOA.

I don't have a problem with operating unassisted, but I am puzzled as to why others want to eliminate the SO category. And I don't care if you operate assisted if that is what you like to do.  I have no interest in spots, skimmer, RBN, etc.  I have looked at them yes, but I am not interested in using those during a contest. 

"The heavy handed CC action to deter cheaters is driving participation away".  Yes Dale, me at least. 

"Then again I always got the sense that there was a movement to destroy the unassisted category for whatever reason".  Yes Ria there is, I see it too.

And then there is the 5 day log deadline that I do not like. I was asked by LU5DX (I think) to submit my CQWW CW log a few weeks ago, several months after the contest ended. He said it would help with the log checking, so I obliged and sent it in 3 months or so late.  If sending a log in 3 months late is okay with the log checker, then why the 5 day deadline?  Why not at least include the following weekend?  Or perhaps a 10 day deadline?

73 Scott W2LC