[Cwo] Awards

Sun Dec 16 10:02:59 PST 2012

Trophies for all power categories sounds like a reasonable proposition. As for the mounted Vibroplex bug, perhaps there’s a way to get a 3D mold of a bug (rather than a real one) that would be less costly? Personally, I like the glass trophies a lot (even though I’ve never won one!). I think they are very classy.

Rob K6RB

From: Alan Maenchen 
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 9:29 AM
To: cwo at kkn.net 
Subject: Re: [Cwo] Awards

I think it's obvious that HP will beat LP the vast majority of the time .. unless that HP is stuck in a valley somewhere and the LP is on the hill top. Highly unlikely. It then follows that the most popular category is HP (which it is).

The awards structure allow LP and QRP to compete in their own game given the advantage of HP.
We could give a "trophy" to each power category as well as to the top winner (virtually always HP). At this point, it isn't a cost factor to us since we have Icom footing the bill. I can ask them, and I'm pretty sure they would go for it. The actual cost difference is not great.

One other point: We see this year that there are only five actual award winners out of 12 actual awards. 
KS0MO, for example, won all three QRP sessions plus the combined (four wins) but he gets only one plaque with all four wins inscribed. 

BTW, speaking of the awards, last year Icom and I were talking about the "trophy" being a mounted Vibroplex bug. That idea failed due to cost/availability, but I still like the idea. I'm not sure how to get that resurrected. 

73, Alan  AD6E

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Jim Talens <jtalens at verizon.net> wrote:

  Whoa!    Where has there been a sizably populated contest where the low-power entrant has beaten the high-power entrants?   Even in your own example of SS, “very close” is not “equal” so there is still a substantial bias.

  From: cwo-bounces at kkn.net [mailto:cwo-bounces at kkn.net] On Behalf Of Rob K6RB
  Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 10:07 AM
  To: Peter Chamalian; cwo at kkn.net
  Subject: Re: [Cwo] Awards

  If we ever get a saturation of activity, it does not follow that high power would always win both awards. If there are 500 hundred NA participants on 20 meters during a 4-hour stint, an LP player could amass a 400 x 400 score. By not having mults be distance related, it moves the playing field closer to level. The reason HP players are winning, now, is because there are still too few participants and they can pull in more mults by using spotting and band hopping. That could all change if we start getting the numbers. So, I would not mess with the awards structure at this point. We have seen that LP players in SS CW can achieve scores that are very close to HP players, for example. It all depends on turn out.

  From: Peter Chamalian 

  Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 6:39 AM

  To: cwo at kkn.net 

  Subject: [Cwo] Awards

  I’m re-reading the awards for the CWO and I think we should take a second look.  We give a trophy for the top score in each time period and a plaque for the top score in each power level.

  Without a doubt, the high power winner will always win the plaque and trophy so the awards are tilted toward high power.

  Do we award the high power trophy winner a plaque as well so they get two awards?  If the winner of a category gets two (trophy and plaque) then we should award the plaque to the second place finisher in that category.

  Perhaps we should reconsider and award first place in each time/power category a trophy.  Second place in each time/power category a plaque.  Or some other combination?  I’m quite in favor of spreading the “bling” around to as many as possible.

  Something to consider for 2013.

  Pete, W1RM

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