Hi, As a head's up to everyone. This is from Sean and is self explanatory. We all feel bad about this but, as Sean has explained, we are taking preventive actions to prevent a recurrence of the situation. It is also being distributed to: The CQ-Contest email Reflector Sean's Contesting Blog on our Website The Next Edition of Ward Silver's ARRL Contest Update. 73, Harold Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer   ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio(tm) 860 594 0220 hkramer@arrl.org   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Kutzko, Sean, KX9X Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 3:14 PM Subject: IARU 2008 Announcement Corrections to the 2008 IARU HF World Championships Aug 21, 2009 15:01 ET Sean E. Kutzko, KX9X Since the 2008 IARU results were published, I recently received a report from a contester that some numbers didn't add up in their Log-Checking Report. After considerable review, it was determined that many calls were universally counted as "incorrect" during the log-checking process when in fact they were good calls. As a result of this discovery, we decided the best course of action was to re-score the 2008 IARU HF World Championships. The impact of this re-adjudication is relatively minor. Scores went up slightly across the board. There were no changes to the order of finish in the Top Five of any entry category except two: World Single Operator Phone Only High Power and W/VE Phone Only High Power. Some Top Ten standings have been affected, as have a select few listings in the Continental Results and W/VE Region Box. A complete listing of corrected results can be found at: http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/ We sincerely apologize. We have a volunteer team of some of the finest contesters in the world that adjudicate our events. They and the ARRL strive to have the most accurate results in every contest we administer. However, we are human, and sometimes make mistakes, despite our best computer programs and eye for detail. We never like to see errors in our results, but we feel it is far better to acknowledge those mistakes and correct them as quickly as possible, rather than to not acknowledge the errors at all. To minimize the chances of this occurring again, we have made significant adjustments to the process by which a call is determined to be "bad." We are also adding more data checks to our quality control review. New awards certificates, where warranted, will be printed and mailed by September 1. We again apologize for the errors in the 2008 IARU results. 73, Sean Kutzko, KX9X Contest Branch Manager ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio(tm) 860-594-0232 skutzko@arrl.org