I will admit that I haven't been doing this very long, so I don't really have a reference to past contests. Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan are rare for me so the fact that I got them with no trouble may be skewing my perspective.

Dennis

As an official "old fart", this is my 50th CQWW Contest.  Asia 
(particularly Japan), and the pacific was the key to the west coast 
having a reasonably competitive score with the rest of the country. The 
15M JA runs were practically endless, those of you who were licensed 
before 1985 know what I am talking about. So............... I guess I'm 
just lamenting the loss of the west coast equalizers............de Rick, 
W6SR

On 10/31/2017 8:37 AM, Dennis Moore wrote:

I thought the Pacific was fine. China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, 
Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, Guam, Hawaii, Indonesia, Marianas, NZ, 
Papua New Guinea, and Tonga, equally distributed among 15, 20, and 40. 
I heard 4-5 different Philippines and some Thailand but couldn't get 
them, I rarely do.

Dennis