WRTC 2000 Final Results Announced

WRTC-2000 FINAL OFFICIAL RESULTS POSTED

(Left to right) Doug Grant, K1DG; Dan Street, K1TO; Chief Referee David Sumner, K1ZZ; WRTC Organizing Committee Chairman Tine Brajnik, S50A; Jeff Steinman, N5TJ; and John Dorr, K1AR, at the WRTC-2000 closing ceremonies in Bled, Slovenia. The K1TO-N5TJ team came in at first place; the K1DG-K1AR combo placed third. [ARRL photo]

The World Radiosport Team Championship 2000 referees have posted the final official results of the July 8-9 competition in Slovenia, and several team place standings have changed as a result. No scoring adjustments affected the rankings of the top three finishers--Dan Street, K1TO, and Jeff Steinman, N5TJ, operating as S584M, repeated as WRTC champions--but there were a few changes in the order of finish farther down the list. In addition, most team scores--including the top three--were minutely affected.

Most significantly affected by the change was the standing of Team Finland, OH1EH and OH1NOA, which moved up from 20th to fifth place in the standings. The team operated as S537L.

After the winners of WRTC 2000 were announced in Bled, Slovenia, July 11, Team Finland questioned why its reported score was much lower than the one they believed they had submitted. Chief Referee David Sumner, K1ZZ, says this occurred because the referees ended up having to rely on a binary file to score the results instead of extracting the log data from text files as originally intended.

Sumner explained that while Team Finland had submitted a complete text file of its log, the team's binary file turned out to be incomplete. The text-file log that Team Finland submitted earned them a fifth place finish, however.

"The referees' team apologizes for initially reporting a lower score," Sumner said.

 

The site of the S512T station operated by the Lithuanian team of LY3BA and LY2BM was located at a ski lift shack. All WRTC-2000 sites were on hilltops or mountains. The triband Yagi and the Windom antenna for 80 and 40 meters are clearly visible above the heads of Dick Norton, N6AA (left) and Tine Brajnik, S50A. [ARRL photo]

In posting the final official results this week, Sumner also noted that several teams had said that their multipliers were lower than expected. Rescoring the logs to accommodate the Team Finland problem, Sumner explained, not only eliminated some "not-in-log" score reductions for other contestants, but gave the referees an opportunity to correct some multiplier scoring and "to conduct a more complete review of the logged call signs, resulting in some changes to 'bad' calls."

Sumner said this was done "in order to provide the most accurate record possible of the results of WRTC 2000."

The WRTC 2000 referees let stand the final score of the S511E team of DL6FBL and DL1MFL. That score was based on the submission of a truncated log that was missing approximately one hour of operation. The problem occurred when the team copied its log to a floppy disk that was nearly full for submittal. The DL6FBL-DL1MFL team moved from fifth to sixth place as a result of this week's scoring adjustments.

The WRTC-2000 top 10 finishers represented world-class contesters from seven countries, including three from the US and two bi-national teams--UT4UZ from Ukraine and RW1AC from Russia, who operated as S523W, and DL6RAI from Germany and OE2VEL, from Austria, who operated as S533G.

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