[CQ-Contest] WRTC Scoring Question

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

Ed, so in short, you believe that as written and as interpreted by you, the current rules give an unfair advantage to the top W1, W2, and W3 region scores, compared to everyone else competing from those regions.

Well, sorry to say, life isn’t always fair.

But it sounds like your beef is with the WRTC 2026 Organizers.

73

73, Ron W3WN

> On Oct 24, 2023, at 8:17 PM, Edward Sawyer <EdwardS at advanced-conversion.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ron.  Lets use this example.  The W1 winner has 1,000,000 as a score and I am number 2 with 950,000.  W1 winner gets 1,000 points and I get 950 points.  Lets say number 3 and 4 get 900,000 points and they are in W2 and W3.  The old way, would have me #2 after the first contest.  This new way, has 3 people at 1,000 points and I have 950 points and I am now number 4.
>  
> Simple math.
>  
> Ed  N1UR
>  
> From: Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net> 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 7:48 PM
> To: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS at advanced-conversion.com>
> Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC Scoring Question
>  
> Ed, I didn’t write, or was involved in writing, the rules, so I couldn’t possibly answer why they were written the way you describe.
>  
> I still don’t see your point.  Are you saying that the rules are set up to favor certain operators over others?  Or just that they’re poorly written... or at least not clear in their intent?
>  
> 73
> 
> 73, Ron W3WN
> 
> On Oct 24, 2023, at 4:37 PM, Edward Sawyer <EdwardS at advanced-conversion.com> wrote:
> 
> Ron, Then why not say there is one TL for W1 and W2 and W3.  Instead of calling 3 TL from the area and then distorting the qualifying.
> 
> Have 3 people “win” every contest that are all actually competing for the same slots is illogical.  It is NOT what you just described.
> 
> Ed  N1UR
> 
> From: Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 3:37 PM
> To: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS at advanced-conversion.com>
> Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC Scoring Question
> 
> I’m not sure I understand the question.
> 
> There are three qualifying districts.  The top score in each qualifies.  Simple.  Right?
> 
> So what’s the issue?
> 
> 73, Ron W3WN
> 
> On Oct 24, 2023, at 12:14 PM, Edward Sawyer <EdwardS at advanced-conversion.com<mailto:EdwardS at advanced-conversion.com>> wrote:
> I wanted to put out the question to the group here to see if I am interpreting this correctly.
> 
> In the 1st qualification area of the US, there are 3 qualifying districts, W1, W2, W3.  If the highest score in W1 is 5 Million and the highest score in W2 is 4 Million and the highest score in W3 is 3 Million, there will be 3 people that made those highest scores earning 1,000 points - assuming they are all HP Unassisted.  So instead of 1 winner of the area there are actually 3 winners of the area for every contest. And there are only 3 TL selected from the W1, W2, W3 area.  Even though there could have been numerous scores much higher than the W3 score in this example, the W3 winner will get the same credit as if they had the 5 Million score.
> 
> If the above is correct, this seems highly distorted.  You are guaranteeing 3 x 1000 point winners in the contest vs it should only have 1 x 1000  points.
> 
> Please comment on whether this is in fact right.  Doesn't feel right....
> 
> Ed  N1UR
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