I felt the same way Steve when I looked at the NA10 listing. In fact, I
wrote the WRTC with my comments.
At least 7 of NA10 captain scores were from outside the area. 9 of his
scores are from multi ops, 5 from the area and 4 outside the area. 7 of
his scores appear to be from his home station. He picked someone from
EU to operate with him. W0UA and K0EU were very very close behind with
K0EU being credited with all scores in NA10. W0UA's points except for
two Multi's in the USA, were from NA10.
All of which is legal within the rules as they appear today. The NA10
team or any team should come from that area. On a cursory inspection 2
other Captains chose people outside the respective areas.
I suggest that the top 50 scores are used or only count scores from
within the area.
Do I feel like the NA10 team represents the NA10 area? No.
Mike W0MU
On 10/18/2013 7:19 PM, steve.root@culligan4water.com wrote:
"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, HS0ZC
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