"The world was divided into regions. Qualifiers were only competing with
others in their same region in order to qualify."
Except that some of the regions are enormous, thus ignoring the realities of
propagation.
Except that rules allowed for half of the qualifying scores to happen anywhere
else on Earth, like the Caribbean.
Except that the rules allow a team leader to pick a partner from anywhere on
Earth.
The rules sound good in theory but in practice one whole operator and half of
the other operator have NOTHING to do with any given geographical area.
73 Steve K0SR
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Thompson K5ZD [mailto:k5zd@charter.net]
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 08:01 PM
To: ''Charles Harpole'', ''CQ-Contest Reflector''
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC renamed?
Go back and read the qualifying rules
again.http://www.wrtc2014.org/qualifying/team-selection/The world was divided
into regions. Qualifiers were only competing withothers in their same region in
order to qualify.Yes, there are more teams from Eu and NA, but that is because
there are morecontesters in those places.The WRTC2014 committee added more
teams than ever before in an attempt toget as many competitors from around the
world as possible. It is very hardto squeeze the approximately 20,000 active
contesters in the world down toonly 118 competitors!Randy, K5ZD> -----Original
Message-----> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of> Charles Harpole> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 3:45 PM> To:
CQ-Contest Reflector> Subject: [CQ-Contest] WRTC renamed?> > World Radio Team
Competition could easily be re-named ....> NA/EU Team Competition with some
token others thrown in.> > I like the WRTC, its organizers, and the excitement
it adds to ham radio.>
But, let us not pretend the selection process has found the whole list of>
highly accomplished contesters.> > Some will just not want to do it even if in
the top ten often. Some live> in parts of the world where their scores in
contests as the contests now> exist can never turn huge numbers. That would be
residents of most of> Africa and many parts of Asia.> > Example, if Asia gives
you one point and you live in the HUGE continent> of Asia, you are in the hole
compared to other locations.> > Please do not think I am rooting for myself; I
am not, but I do know> some really talented Asians left out by the structure.
Further, I do not> think this disparity can be easily fixed. But, WRTC is a
"world" event> the same as the baseball "world" series is what its name
implies.> > Actually, virtually anything that will get ops off the computer and
on> the air has to be a good thing, but it is not healthy for NA/EU to think>
of> themselves as the WHOLE world. 73> > --> Charly, HS0ZCW>
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