[HQRP] Team contesting anyone?

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In a message dated 01/15/2003 1:05:02 PM Central Standard Time, 
kg5u@hal-pc.org writes:


> CONVERSATION
> 
> Vitamin T -- Good For What Ails You
> 
> Those ever-more-useful Reported Score bulletins from Bruce WA7BNM's
> Web site (http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/) now include team
> efforts.  If you are patient with the scrolling key, you can now
> marvel at the sheer number of team efforts in contests like this past
> weekend's CW North American QSO Party. (The Phone version is this
> weekend.)  I counted 51 teams -- yes, 51 separate teams -- surely an
> all-time high.    I was part of the Boring team -- that's the Boring,
> Oregon Amateur Radio Club,wise guys.
> 
> Team contesting -- in the CQ WW, in the NAQP, in the Sprints -- is
> HOT!  When so many clubs are having trouble getting people to the
> meetings, we seem to be catching on (again) to the idea that working
> together is fun. Duh!  Not only does it motivate you to get on for
> the contest and keep sharp, but it helps connect you to the other
> radiosport aficionados out there.  You have something to share,
> someone to compete with or against, and a group effort to take pride
> in.  This must be fun -- the Tennesee Contest Group registered 7
> teams alone, followed by the Florida Contest Group with 5, and
> several with 4.
> 
> Club contesting has been around for a long time and is quite popular.
> The members all contribute their scores to the pot and the club
> totals go head to head.  All well and good, but it can get a little
> impersonal when the number of members in the pot can be dozens.
> Teams on the other hand have five or fewer members.  Everyone is
> visible, everyone's score counts -- we all enjoy the results.  Even
> if you're from an area of the world that isn't particularly
> competitive for a certain contest, you can still form a team and try
> to whack the stuffings out of another local group!
> 
> I highly recommend that if you haven't tried being part of a team,
> yet, that you respond to one of the pre-contest team-building
> solicitations on the CQ-Contest email reflector or in your local
> contest club newsletter. If you didn't see them, then start your own
> team.  Give it a funny name (I sometimes put together the "Watt Me
> Worry" team of Low-Power ops in the Sprint.) and challenge the
> smart-alecks in the next county that beat you in the state QSO Party.
> Care to wager a pizza or two?
> 
> If you're feeling like you could use some extra contest spark, then
> team contesting might just do the job.    Take a little "Vitamin T" and
> see if you don't have a better time next weekend!



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