[CQ-Contest] Online scoreboard usage stats (was Re: I watch Contestonlinescore but I don't post my own score)

[Joe]

I find the online live scoreboard a GIANT thing to keep my Butt in The 
Chair!

Many times I would be just about to stop for a while and see another 
station just barely ahead of me so decide to try to pass them.

Or even more often when you are in a horse race with someone else where 
you are constantly trading places.

Without the scoreboard I'd be sleeping, eating or who knows what instead 
of keeping going!

Joe WB9SBD
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On 1/30/2024 10:24 PM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
> Some stats:
>
> CQWWCW 2023 had 8058 logs submitted to the contest sponsor.
>
> 1122 of those contesters, or 14% of them, submitted their score to
> 3830scores.com.
>
> 893 of those contesters, or 11% of them, listed their score on
> contestonlinescore.com, almost all of them in real-time.
>
> Almost all contestonlinescore users were also 3830 users, not surprisingly.
> contest.run stats are very very similar to contestonlinescore.com because
> most users post to both simultaneously.
>
> For many "regular" weekly events (e.g. CWT, NS FT4), 3830 usage is nearly
> 100%, but online scoreboard usage is still not much more than 20%.
>
> It is important to not discount the 80%+ of worldwide contesters who did
> not use 3830 or online scoreboard. They are still very much real contesters
> and I'm sure lots of them read 3830 or watch the scoreboard while not
> posting to them.
>
> Online score reporting is quickly growing and just in the past couple years
> I watched the dominos fall as first K3LR then immediately after the other
> big guns started using it. Everyone posting to the scoreboard knows the
> world (including those who are serious about contesting but not posting)
> can see it and they are all OK with it. The scoreboard certainly drives up
> "water cooler" talk steering more hams towards contesting.
>
> Tim N3QE
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