I would like to join a team for the TARA Rumble (see below). Are any members of this mail list interested in forming a team? Are you aware of any other teams?
-- Andy K3UK www.obriensweb.com (QSL via N2RJ) The Team Challenge Rules Many thanks to Steve Melachrinos, W3HF for his support and help formulating this category. Each team to select a Gaffer, a team leader, whose responsibility it is to correlate the team members scores, dupe the Multipliers, submit the Teams information to TARA via the OnLine Score Submission Form, and to make sure TARA post em! correctly. Since each team member is also encouraged to submit a non-team, individual entry, single/single operation is the only operating category allowed in the Rumble. Any individual can only be a member of one team. Each team is allowed up to 5 members, and can be comprised of mixed category operators. Super, Great or Normal, each picking up their respective category Power Multipliers. Team members are responsible for sending the Gaffer their QSO count and multiplier list. The Gaffer then applies a Power Multiplier to the individual QSO totals. For any member operating GREAT category, multiply the number of QSO's by 2, and for the SUPER category multiply by 3. Then add all the QSO's together without duping em! and enter this figure in the Total Number of QSO's box on the Score Submission Form. The multipliers however, are a different kettle of fish. The amalgamated Multipliers MUST be duped. Remember multipliers count per band. To assist ya! in duping and calculating your Team Score please download this Dupe Sheet and a Score Calculation Sheet. Now enter these figures in the multiplier table provided on the Score Form, add Soap comments if you want, then click on SEND. Don't forget the Form will calculate the final score. Please remember to select Team Challenge as Operating Category and to enter the name of your team in the Call Sign box. Members can be spread geographically. The smart Gaffer will probably select a DX diversified team to enhance the teams multipliers.. Each team must declare its name or ID and each of its members names and callsigns, at least 24 hours before contest kickoff. You can add and drop members from the Team up until this dead line. Then the Teams will be frozen. These declarations will be posted on the Results web page along with the teams other declarations. The team Gaffer can throw a challenge to another team indicating that they will whip em! Royally in the contest. If accepted by the other team, this challenge will be posted in the team's declaration on the Results web page. The winning team will add 100 points to its total and the loosing team subtracts100 points. A maximum of 5 teams can be challenged by a single team for a total of +/- 500 whip em! points on the final score. Once the challenge is declared, if the challenged team declines, that challenge cannot be used again so think carefully before challenging :) Since the Teams total scores are important for applying the challenge bonus points to the Grand Totals, I ask the Gaffers to make sure the members submit there scores a.s.a.p. This score correction will be applied by TARA from the data submitted. To keep things focused please keep all the contest banter on TARA's PSK NEWS GROUP, subscribe at.... http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/psk-tara or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put the following in the BODY of the message: subscribe psk-tara your e-mail address. Any score submission received that indicates Team Challenge Category but the member does not appear on the teams declaration, will not be included with the Team, and will be entered as a check log. Please be aware that the 1st place Team members will receive individual certificates. Only the Gaffer in the 2nd and 3rd placed Teams will receive a certificate. Teams can find their relevant declarations and member list posted on the Results web page at http://www.n2ty.org/seasons/tara_rumble_results.html Good luck !
