The sCCOre Award:

Any member of CCO, shown on the roster, is eligible for this award. Eligible contests will be those listed for that season in the CCO Contest Calendar. All scores submitted by a member to the individual contest sponsors will be counted for the sCCOre Award. Unlike the Contest Competitions, this is independent of whether the scores come from outside the various circles or other criteria that sponsors indicate for their various club competitions. You just have to be a member and submit your score. Complete contest entries must be submitted to the contest sponsor within the sponsor's deadline for that contest.

The Yearly Tally:

All eligible contest scores from January 1 to December 31 will count towards the award for that year. Initial awards and endorsements will be processed once a year based on Award Points as tabulated by the following August. All Award points are cumulative from year to year. The first year of sCCOre operation was the calendar year 2003.

The final scores, as determined by the contest sponsor, will be the basis for the sCCOre Award points. Normalizing will be used on all scores to calculate points for the sCCOre Award taking the highest CCO single operator score or share of a Multi-operator score for a contest, assigning it a value of 1 million points and calculating all other scores as shown below. Each eligible contest will be scored separately using the high score attributed to an individual in that contest, with the exception of the NCJ Sprint and NAQP contests.

The Sprints, 6 contests of 4 hours each, will be evaluated as one entity for sCCOre and beginning in 2010 the NAQP contests of 10 hours each are to be evaluated for sCCOre as three 20 hour entities grouped by mode as CW, SSB, and RTTY. The Sprints thus become a "24 hour contest" and each of the three NAQP groups as "20 hour contests" for the purpose of sCCOre points. The total score for such a 24 or 20 hour group will be the sum of the individual scores. For 2009 the NAQP contests will continue to be evaluated as two entities, Winter and Summer, 30 hours each.

Each operator of an eligible Multi-operator entry may claim a share of a score for his/her Award total using the formula:
Normalized Multi Score / number of operators = Your Share of the Overall Score

You claim points in the following ways:

If your score is above the average score for that contest:
(Your Score / Reference Score) x 1,000,000 = Your Award Points

Starting with the 2009 sCCOre, If your score is below the average score for that contest, the following procedure takes place.
The first score lower than average takes on the average score and all other scores below this average are scored relative to it
(Your Score/ Average Score) x (Award points calculated for the Average Score) = Your Award Points

See “sCCOres for 2009” under “sCCOre Standings” for examples.

Those individuals achieving the required 5 million points will be recognized with the award of a sCCOre Award plaque. The sCCOre Award plaque can then be endorsed for additional levels of achievement on a yearly basis, 10M, 20M, 35M, 50M, 75M and 100M.

Reporting Your Scores:

The claimed score for each contest should be reported to the CCO ve3_contest reflector, to the CCO Club Secretary, or posted on the 3850 Reflector. All submissions must contain a complete list of operator callsigns for multi-op stations. When the final scores are published, the sCCOre Award Scorekeeper will tabulate the results. The claimed score information is important and is often used to check for data that may not be shown in the sponsor's tabulated results.

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