[WRTC2006] WRTC2010 TL Selection Critiera - Addl. Questions

[Igor Booklan SRR]

Rich and Alex,

I don't see any problems with someone winning 4 contests from REMOTE
AREA. You would still have to be good enough to win another 4 from
your HOME AREA.

73s, Harry RA3AUU

AA> Well, if it's so easy to win some remote area even 4 times are too many.
AA> This definitely is a problem that the organizers have to address somehow.

AA> 73, Alex LZ4AX

AA> Richard DiDonna NN3W wrote:
>> I'm fully aware that my score is compared to another station in my same 
>> geographic area.  But theoretically, I could run off to the South Pacific, 
>> make 1.5 million points and win the geographic area 8 times, and I could 
>> then apply that score to my easy coast entry.
>>
>> 73 Rich NN3W
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Alexander Avramov" <lz4ax at psu.edu>
>> To: <wrtc2006 at wrtc2006.com>
>> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 10:50 PM
>> Subject: Re: [WRTC2006] WRTC2010 TL Selection Critiera - Addl. Questions
>>
>>
>>   
>>> Rich,
>>>
>>> if you go back to the rules and re-read them it would stop sound so
>>> reasonable. You are competing not against John's scores from P40W but
>>> against the points he earned after his score was normalized to the best
>>> score from that area - SA or Caribbean. Your score gets normalized to
>>> K5ZD's score :) And then you compare the points. As far as I see it,
>>> this procedure doesn't give John any advantage over you. Well, unless
>>> you think that down there the competition isn't that tough as it is here 
>>> :)
>>>
>>> 73, Alex LZ4AX
>>>
>>> Richard DiDonna NN3W wrote:
>>>     
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>> From: John Crovelli
>>>>> To: ra3auu at srr.ru ; wrtc2006 at wrtc2006.com
>>>>> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 8:37 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [WRTC2006] WRTC2010 TL Selection Critiera - Addl. Questions
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Harry,
>>>>> Thank you for your quick response to my quesiton.  I am naturally
>>>>> disappointed to see a  rule that limits consideration to only 4 DX 
>>>>> contest
>>>>> scores since nearly >100% of my own DX contest entries occur from a DX
>>>>> location and not my home country, so in effect I and others in a 
>>>>> similiar
>>>>> situation are penalized for our off ?>shore efforts.
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>> Honestly, it sounds reasonable to me.  Why should I, in the eastern USA, 
>>>> be
>>>> competing against scores posted by somebody from a different part of the
>>>> world?  Theoretically, I could run off to some random place in the 
>>>> Pacific
>>>> for 8 contests, run up a decent score, and then come back and claim them 
>>>> as
>>>> top scores for the east coast.  Does that seem to be a reasonable action 
>>>> for
>>>> those hams who choose to stay at home in their relevant geographic area 
>>>> and
>>>> compete at home?
>>>>
>>>>