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    RSGB Affiliated Societies Super League - Winter 2022-23

    The Super League rewards societies who field teams operating both above and below 30MHz: the winning society will have consistently achieved high places in all of the events, without necessarily winning any one of them. A new trophy was donated by the Hadley Wood Contest Group in 2013, for the winners of the Local Category in the Super League.

    To encourage clubs to enter in all eight contests, the Contest Committees award a Certificate of Achievement. This requires a certain amount of organisation in finding members with a variety of locations and skills, but is a reachable goal for an active club.


    1. Entries No entry is necessary - entries will be made automatically by the Contest Committees.

    2. AFS Contests The results of eight AFS contests contribute to the Super League: 

    (a)  70MHz Affiliated Societies Contest   September 2022
    (b) 
    50MHz Affiliated Societies Contest   October 2022
    (c)  RSGB Club Calls Contest (1.8MHz AFS)   November 2022
    (d) 
    144MHz Affiliated Societies Contest   December 2022
    (e) 
    3.5MHz-7MHz CW Affiliated Societies Contest   January 2023
    (f) 
    3.5MHz-7MHz SSB Affiliated Societies Contest   January 2023
    (g) 
    3.5MHz-7MHz Data Affiliated Societies Contest   January 2023
    (h) 
    432MHz Affiliated Societies Contest   February 2023

    The members of a club's team or teams need not be the same for each contributing contest.

    3. Calculation The position of the Team or Club listing for each Affiliated Society entering any of the eight contributing contests will be normalised to produce Super League Points (SLPs), which are then added together to produce an overall SLP score. The normalisation is carried out according to the following formula, with the result rounded to the nearest integer:

    SLP = (N+1-P)*1000/N

    where N is total number of teams in the results table,
    and P is the position of the team in the results table. 

    For example, if there are 50 teams entering the event (N=50), the team in first position (P=1) would receive 1000 SLPs. The team in 50th position (P=50) would receive 20 SLPs. The team in 26th position (P=26) would receive 500 SLPs

    Where a single club has more than one team entering any of the eight AFS contests, only the SLPs from the club's top-scoring team for that contest will be included in the Super League table, contributing towards the overall Super League score. Please note that the allocation of entrants to teams, in cases where a club enters more than four stations in a contributing contest, is carried out automatically by Contest Committee software.

    4. Results The winner of the Super League is the club with the highest total of SLPs at the end of the eighth contributing contest. The maximum possible SLP score (if a club won all eight events) would be 8000 SLPs. A running SLP total will be provided on the Contest Committees' web site after the scores for each event are published.

    5. Awards The winner of the Local Category in Super League will receive the Hadley Wood Contest Group Trophy.

    Certificates will also be presented to the Affiliated Societies achieving 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions in Local and General Categories in the Super League. 

    A Certificate of Achievement will be awarded to any Affiliated Society which enters a team in all eight of the AFS contests in the Super League, and where its score in each one is 250 SLPs or more, that is, where it appears in the top three quarters of each AFS contest table.


    6. Decisions The decisions of the RSGB Contest Committees in relation to the AFS Super League are final.
     Updated 7th Dec 2021