What Do We SaY about Cw Sweepstakes?

In a recent blog about CQP beginning with an idea to become a unique operating event, proper research (in advance of the contest event) enabled setting TWO county records: one for San Diego County and one for Contra Costa.  For November Sweepstakes Cw, having set a number of records for East Bay (EB) section, this year, the decision was made to focus on the San Diego (SDG) section and therefore the Southwest Division.

From research, the determination was made to run WQ6X as Single-OP Unlimited (U) QRP,
requiring the submission of a log score with 160+ QSOs for over 25-K points - this would be accomplished interspersed with three 8-hour operating shifts for NX6T running remote from WA6TQT's QTH on the hilltop in Anza California.

When it was all over (assuming no unexpected surprises), it would seem that WQ6X DiD indeed set a new record for the Southwestern ARRL Division.  NX6T placing 9th overall, while taking a resounding 1st-place for San Diego section, was thoroughly trounced by the W8TK team operating from Arizona (AZ) section.  Their unique QTH made for 15-meter band condx. we could only dream about. 
In Anza, from the NX6T point-of-view, 2nd-place is NO-place.

The BiG problem for the CW Sweepstakes weekend was the multitude of nuisance solar
storms that came and went - and came and went - at least they individually rather quick.
This is what I posted in the 3830 Score submission.

This is the 1st-ever WQ6X SS-Cw GiG running QRP from the S-West Division.

Researching Section/Division records it was noticed that the SOA QRP 

record for the Southwest Division was easily surpassed.  Accomplishing

that goal and putting in approximately 8-hours in the remote chair for 

NX6T made for an exciting Sweepstakes weekend.

Conditions on Saturday were quite good.  On Sunday the solar storms plagued

us creating noise everywhere and weird fast-fading of signals that fooled me

into thinking they were coming in from Europe, but were in fact N. America.

An unusual pain-in-the-ass was the DOZENS of purposely FAKE internet spots

being submitted to the 40-meter bandmaps on Sunday morning.  When I saw NX5T 

constantly being spotted on the NX6T run frequency, I knew it was NO accident.

Another issue is the deliberate FT8 signals in the Cw portions of the bands

when those signals NEVER occur during non-contest periods.  These IDIOTs

need grow-up and get a life.  If they spent as much time operating legitimately

as they do disrupting others, the bands would be a different world.

However, overall this weekend was a success and WQ6X seems to have

over-doubled the previous high-score record for the ARRL S-West Division.

While WQ6X only made 10th-place overall, evidently, the actual activity from the
Southwest division was quite lacking, making it possible to easily post a high score. 
Rest assured, someone will wake-up for 2024 and NoT let that happen again.

DiD YOU work the ARRL Cw Sweepstakes Contest?

Is WQ6X or NX6T in YOUR LoG?