Association Updates 1st October 2023

Hi Armin,
I am going to be not popular too and write some more information :wink:

In bonus altitude matter is chances inequality between activators in Czech Republic, Slovak Repoblic and Poland.

Bonus altitude is respectively 700 / 700 / 1000 m

Mountains mostly the same, winter conditions mostly the same …

Some summits are the same - examples below:

SP/BZ-035 - no bonus, before it was also OK/MO-056 with bonus
SP/BZ-036 - no bonus, before it was also OK/MO-016 with bonus
SP/BZ-073 - no bonus, now inactive - we have it now as OK/MO-061 with bonus
SP/BZ-017 - no bonus, now inactive - we have it now as OM/ZA-059 with bonus
SP/BS-001 - no bonus, before it was also OM/PO-033 with bonus
SP/BS-004 - no bonus, now inactive - we have it now as OM/PO-040 with bonus
SP/BS-018 - no bonus, before it was also OM/PO-043 with bonus

In total :
SOTA SP has 62 bonus summits of 211 - it is 29 % - bonus altitude 1000 m
SOTA OK has 134 bons summits of 230 - it is 58 % - bonus altitude 700 m
SOTA OM has 305 bonus summits of 370 - it is 85 % - bonus altitude 700 m

Repeat: mountains mostly the same, winter conditions mostly the same …
Above mentioned examples of summits are only part - in fact there are much more of them.

Why so big difference of chances ?

It was my the most important question and SOTA SP community discussed it on special anniversary meeting on April 01, 2023

Finally the community decided to find compromise altitude 850 m.

I am sure that it will help to develop SOTA popularity in Poland.

I am not discussing about another countries like Hungary (bonus altitude 600 m) or Romania (500 m).
I just compare Poland with Czech and Slovakia due to the same mountains crossed by borders of our countries.

To make things clear - the goal of this post is not to change anything in SOTA OK and SOTA OM

73, Jarek

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