[UK-CONTEST] Score publishing

[Justin Snow]

To add a little background to this for those that don't know.  The practice
of withholding claimed scores was born out of days gone by when certain
contest sponsors did not actually check the logs.  Hence if you saw that
some one had a slightly higher claimed score than you, it was a relatively
trivial task to "pad" the log with dummy QSO's.  Once this practice became
generally known those who had made an honest high score were likely to keep
it to themselves to try and avoid being the victim of such practice.

These days I think all contest sponsors check the logs so such practice has
been virtually eliminated as it can be spotted by the adjudicators.

For what it is worth the RSGB has been checking the logs of it's contests
for more years than I care to think about and certainly longer than certain
major contest sponsors.

These days I find the major barrier to getting a claimed score out is the
not insignificant challenge of getting down to preparing the entry after
the contest.  Not insignificant when you have to work out the claimed score
yourself!  Real life really gets in the way sometimes :-)

Justin, G4TSH




At 08:42 13/06/06 +0100, you wrote:
>(Renamed, with apologies to Dave NKC. No need to drag his callsign 
>through this.)
>
>I did!  The response was that they so distrusted one of their 
>competitors that they just wouldn't publish anything before the deadline 
>in case that group re-adjusted their log/score. My conclusion is that if 
>the group I asked are so aware of these things, they themselves are 
>under suspicion also. Like I say, the whole things is really very 
>distasteful and totally unnecessary.
>
>Chris G3SJJ
>
>
>Peter Bowyer wrote:
>> You'd have to ask them!
>>
>> On 13/06/06, G3SJJ <g3sjj at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>   
>>> Oooh, they wouldn't..... would they?  The rotters. JJ
>>>
>>> Peter Bowyer wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Perhaps they do it to wind you up, Chris...
>>>>
>>>> (Tongue firmly in cheek)
>>>>
>>>> Peter G4MJS
>>>>
>>>> On 12/06/06, G3SJJ <g3sjj at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>> No Graham, I am not but others think that way. There are a few
>>>>> competitors in the UK, not many thank goodness, and probably elsewhere,
>>>>> who purposely won't publicise their score until the deadline even though
>>>>> it is ready and available to do so. My feeling is that these people, by
>>>>> inference, accusing others, may themselves be inclined to cheat. I just
>>>>> find it a distasteful practice.  Chris G3SJJ.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> woodg at lindsey.tlfe.org wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>>>> Ref: Previous message from G3SJJ.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was beginning to think we were going to see the same silliness that
>>>>>> appears in some events where top teams won't declare their score in
case
>>>>>> the competition alters theirs!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Surely Chris you're not suggesting people actually cheat in
contests!!!! NEVER.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Graham G3VIP.
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