[CQ-Contest] CQ WW Entries

[Randy Thompson]

Good question.  The concept is derived from soccer.

Yellow and red cards in soccer operate much like the yellow and red lights on a traffic light. Yellow serves as a warning to slow down and proceed with caution, while red signals a complete stop. A referee holds a yellow card in the air to signal a disciplinary warning. If a player breaks a rule, a yellow card serves as a reminder to the offending player to exhibit caution going forward. A reckless tackle, arguing with an official, faking an injury, wasting time or any act of unsportsmanlike conduct can earn a yellow card. Receiving two yellow cards in a single match equates to a red card and an automatic and immediate ejection.

A player can receive a red card for a wide range of misconduct or unsportsmanlike behavior during a match. Violent actions, abusive, offensive or insulting language, spitting or deliberately denying the opposing team a goal-scoring opportunity by committing a handball foul are all offenses that can warrant a red card. Players who receive a red card are immediately ejected from the field of play and are unable to compete in the remainder of the match. In the FIFA World Cup, players are also banned from starting in the next match.

As originally proposed, the idea was that a yellow card just meant an entry was under suspicion, but the entry would still be allowed.  It was to be a way of warning entrants that they were pushing the limits of the rules or were under high suspicion.  A red card would be the way disqualifications work now.  The entry is removed (and the participant would be banned from the next year's contest).

The Director at the time used a different interpretation.  Entries receiving yellow cards were removed from the scores.  Red cards were also removed along with a ban for the next year.  The result of this was a lot of participant appeals to be changed from Red to Yellow.  In the end this became too much of a distraction and the Yellow/Red card concept was discarded.

Randy K5ZD


-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Brindle <jackbrindle at me.com> 
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2024 4:16 PM
To: Randy Thompson <k5zd at outlook.com>
Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Entries

Randy;

What is Yellow Card and Red Card? I find thiem in the listings, but no explanation in the rules or FAQs that I could find.

I now have this image of Randy running up to my station holding up a yellow card. Something must have been bad with the crawfish I ate last night… :-)

73,
Jack, W6FB
LA, not LAX!!!

> On Oct 11, 2024, at 1:59 PM, Randy Thompson <k5zd at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes.  Go to the scores page on cqww.com and select the year, then category of Disqualified.  This list of stations will be shown in the filtered results.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie WW3S <ww3s at zoominternet.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2024 2:30 PM
> To: Randy Thompson <k5zd at outlook.com>; cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Entries
> 
> 
> interesting......is there a list of the DQ stations somewhere?
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> From "Randy Thompson" <k5zd at outlook.com> To 
> "cq-contest at contesting.com" <cq-contest at contesting.com> Date 
> 10/11/2024 10:44:17 AM Subject [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Entries
> 
>> Every year there is a discussion about what categories are growing in popularity, when assisted will outnumber unassisted, and so on.  We have added a new page to cqww.com that can provide some data for those discussions.
>> 
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>> This page shows the number of entries by category by year based on the selected geography (world, continent, country).
>> 
>> We will be adding a page like this for the other contests soon.
>> 
>> Enjoy!
>> 
>> 
>> Randy K5ZD
>> 
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