[UK-CONTEST] 80m cc

[G3VDB (Jim)]

"It matters not whether you win or lose but how you play the game". 

Given the rules, that must be a key objective of the committee. 

The winning club is the one who can field the greatest number of
better-than-average operators in every event - i.e. currently seven or more
operators - you can't make 6005 points per event with 6 operators! 

Adding one extra QSO, this year gave you between 6 and 27 points, depending
on event. Adding an extra operator will give you more than that if they make
more than one qso. 

If being high up the table is important to you, then the inevitable
conclusion is "Join the largest club with the most capable members".

An alternative personal incentive is, like the AFS, to view the individual
scores table each event, summate them across the season, and then within a
season and across seasons see how you come compared to other operators and
to your previous performances. 

But that is not what the published results are about.

[Personal view and not that of any club I have submitted on behalf of].

Jim
G3VDB

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Peter Hobbs
Sent: 13 August 2009 13:17
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 80m cc


I don't think AFS is a particularly good example to follow.  The 
objective of the 80m CCs was to encourage NEW entrants and to use the 
club scene to achieve this.   This objective has been met very 
successfully, thanks to Dave and Justin's imaginative rules.  If we were 
to limit participation by area or team size, the main impact would be to 
reduce the overall entry, something none of us want.

We are then left with how to deal with those "clubs" who may try to 
scavenge members from elsewhere, something which I'm sure was never 
intended but which is not easy to control, without a lot of work on the 
part of the contest adjudicators.   Again, the generally very prompt 
results we are happy to see assume that entrants can generally be taken 
at face value, without the need for a lot of manual verification and 
cross-checking.  I would suggest that peer pressure (including this 
forum) will ultimately be sufficient to keep team composition within the 
"spirit" of the event.

73
Peter G3LET
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