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    AFS Super League -- Winter 2011-12
    New for this season -- addition of 6m and 160m contests to the AFS and Super League calendar.

    The Super League was very popular in 2010-2011, and continues with an added challenge. Entrants will now have the opportunity to participate in six contests, all of which will form part of the Affiliated Society group.

    The two new contributing contests, on 160m and 6m, consist of existing RSGB contests, to which the team element characteristic of AFS is added. The rules for these contests are substantially unchanged from last year, but entrants to the Club Calls Contest should note a new requirement -- to log a club name abbreviation -- these are shown in the contest rules. Any clubs not listed who wish to enter must email the Contest Committee to obtain their abbreviations.

    Please note that the teams representing each Affiliated Society need not be the same in the six events, and that the team size in each contest is now standardised at four.

    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. So to encourage clubs to enter in all six contests, the Contest Committee will award a Certificate of Achievement. This will require 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) 
    		No entry is necessary -- entries will be made automatically by the Contest Committee. General Rules do not apply.
    (2) 
    		The results of six AFS contests contribute to the Super League: 

    (a) 50MHz AFS Contest, October 2011
    (b) RSGB Club Calls Contest (1.8MHz AFS), November 2011
    (c) 144MHz Affiliated Societies Contest, December 2011
    (d) 3.5MHz CW Affiliated Societies Contest, January 2012
    (e) 3.5MHz SSB Affiliated Societies Contest, January 2012
    (f) 432MHz Affiliated Societies Contest, February 2012

    The members of a club's team or teams need not be the same for each contributing contest.
    (3) 
    		The position of the Team or Club listing for each Affiliated Society entering any of the six 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 six 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) 
    		The winner of the Super League is the club with the highest total of SLPs at the end of the sixth contributing contest. The maximum possible SLP score (if a club won all six events) would be 6000 SLPs. A running SLP total will be provided on the Contest Committee web site after the scores for each event are published.
    (5) 
    		The winner of the Super League will receive an award as "AFS Contest Club of the Year". Certificates will also be presented to the Affiliated Societies achieving 2nd and 3rd positions in the Super League. Each team member contributing to these Society's scores will receive a certificate.
    (6) 
    		A Certificate of Achievement will be awarded to any Affiliated Society which enters a team in all six 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.
    (7) 
    		The decisions of the RSGB Contest Committee in relation to the AFS Super League are final.