The Russian DX Contest Committee recently announced a rule change effective with this coming weekend’s RDXC. Specifically, in order to qualify for an award, logs must be submitted within 36 hours and also include an accurate frequency for each QSO. Any log that does not meet either criteria will place no higher than 4th in its category and be ineligible for awards.
After careful consideration, the WRTC-2014 Committee has established a position on this.
We fully expect that most high-scoring logs will comply with the new rules in order to qualify for an award. So, the likelihood that the highest scorer in a category actually finishes 4th is not very high. Still, we know that the RDXC Committee will check those logs as closely as possible, too.
Our determination is to use the highest score in a category as the comparison, even if it is 4th in the RDXC standings due to being late and/or with no specific frequencies in the log.