Topband: Improving the Fabulous CQ 160 Contest

[Ed K1EP]

At 1/7/2009 12:29 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:26:20 -0500, Victor A. Kean, Jr. wrote:
>
> >For the 2010 edition of CQ 160 contest, I propose the following
> >changes as followons to the 2009 changes:
>
> >1.  Make the exchange 59(9) grid where "grid" is 4 character
> >Maidenhead grid square, a-la the Stew Perry test.
>
>Yes.
>
> >2.  Make the QSO point scoring proportional to distance.  You could
> >take the Stew Perry scheme and scale it so that the longest possible
> >QSO is 10 (or maybe 12) points.
>
>Yes, but don't scale it -- the Stew Perry scale is quite good!
>
> >3.  Keep multipliers to encourage DXpeditions and pile-ups.
>
>Dump multipliers. That's the major element that gives so great an
>advantage to those in the most populous areas. Besides -- who likes
>pileups -- it turns contests into even more of a nuclear arms race!
>
>Thanks for the suggestion, Victor. Overall, I like it a lot.

So if everyone likes it so much, why aren't there more participants 
in the Stew Perry contest where these features already exist?