WRTC 2000 Homepage is broken (http://wrtc2000.bit.si/) but following is
from The ARRL Letter, Vol 19, No 28:
The World Radiosport Team Championship 2000 referees have posted the final
official results of the July 8-9 competition in Slovenia, and several team
place standings have changed as a result. No scoring adjustments affected
the rankings of the top three finishers--Dan Street, K1TO, and Jeff
Steinman, N5TJ, operating as S584M, repeated as WRTC champions--but there
were a few changes in the order of finish farther down the list. In
addition, most team scores--including the top three--were minutely affected.
Most significantly affected by the change was the standing of Team Finland,
OH1EH and OH1NOA, which moved up from 20th to fifth place in the standings.
The team operated as S537L.
After the winners of WRTC 2000 were announced in Bled, Slovenia, July 11,
Team Finland questioned why its reported score was much lower than the one
they believed they had submitted. Chief Referee David Sumner, K1ZZ, says
this occurred because the referees ended up having to rely on a binary file
to score the results instead of extracting the log data from text files as
originally intended.
Sumner explained that while Team Finland had submitted a complete text file
of its log, the team's binary file turned out to be incomplete. The
text-file log that Team Finland submitted earned them a fifth place finish,
however.
"The referees' team apologizes for initially reporting a lower score,"
Sumner said.
In posting the final official results this week, Sumner also noted that
several teams had said that their multipliers were lower than expected.
Rescoring the logs to accommodate the Team Finland problem, Sumner
explained, not only eliminated some "not-in-log" score reductions for other
contestants, but gave the referees an opportunity to correct some multiplier
scoring and "to conduct a more complete review of the logged call signs,
resulting in some changes to 'bad' calls."
Sumner said this was done "in order to provide the most accurate record
possible of the results of WRTC 2000."
The WRTC 2000 referees let stand the final score of the S511E team of DL6FBL
and DL1MFL. That score was based on the submission of a truncated log that
was missing approximately one hour of operation. The problem occurred when
the team copied its log to a floppy disk that was nearly full for submittal.
The DL6FBL-DL1MFL team moved from fifth to sixth place as a result of this
week's scoring adjustments.
The WRTC-2000 top 10 finishers represented world-class contesters from seven
countries, including three from the US and two bi-national teams--UT4UZ from
Ukraine and RW1AC from Russia, who operated as S523W, and DL6RAI from
Germany and OE2VEL, from Austria, who operated as S533G.
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