There are always people who figure it's their job to impose their standards on you, Tyler.  It's your run freq, you can use it as you wish.  If he can't understand you, he can call someone else.  There are a very few who deliberately attempt to slow you down.  Years ago, we had the "Interrogator."  He'd call you, tell you he wasn't aware of a contest, which one is it?  Then engage you in a question/answer cycle of how does he give you an exchange.  Congratulations on a great score.

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 11/20/2017 2:30 PM, Tyler Laursen wrote:

I think my favorite part of the contest was in the last 3 minutes. I was CQing fairly quickly (3-4seconds in between CQs), and all of a sudden 5 people came back all at once. The loudest guy said "<Callsign> I COULD HAVE CALLED YOU EARLIER IF YOU WOULD SLOW DOWN!"... knowing I had 4 others behind him to try and get to in less than 3 minutes, I hastily gave him his report using the voice keyer (which no one else complained about the entire contest) to which he came back with "DID YOU HEAR WHAT I SAID ABOUT SLOWING DOWN?!" So I slowed down for him... waited for what seemed like forever for my report, and then sped back up and was only able to log 1 more person before 23:00  :(   To his credit, I was talking rather fast.... I dont know if I would have been able to understand me either... The 2 people after me got their info just fine though and didn't ask for any repeats. The clock turned 23:00 just as I hit enter to log the 2nd person.