The Chile Contest Group is trying to inspire more radio amateurs to do more contests and more DX, which we are convinced is a global and shared goal within the radio amateur community, and it is our belief that this can be achieved by creating more local oriented world wide contests with distance considerations, e.g. by establishing a new kind of contest approach that incentivizes QSOs with e.g., a certain country, a certain set of countries, a region, or even a continent, i.e. global-to-local contests.
The benefits behind such a global-to-local contest focus, e.g., via score point and multiplier incentives for local call signs and local prefixes, are:
Of course, from our side we are starting with a local focus on Chile and working towards establishing the first Chile Contests.
Our esteemed Chile Contest Group founding member Willy XQ3SK, who is an experienced contester, had the idea to put Chile on the Contest Map, and hence add another South America event alongside the very few existing ones, e.g.: "CQ Manchester Mineira DX contest" (Brazil) and "South America 10m Contest" (Argentina), but after thinking more about it, we realized that instead of just creating another contest, it would be better to step back and look at the bigger picture and consider things that might be of interest and beneficial to more radio amateurs per se by providing an example contest approach, that could be easily copied elsewhere later.
As part of initial reviews it became also clear that in case of Chile an accompanying preparation process was needed, so our esteemed experienced member Julio XQ3OP proposed to have small and short national monthly contests beforehand, which go along with the necessary training and educational presentations, so that local radio amateurs can learn, get used to, get prepared, and finally participate in the big global-to-local contest.
The goal of the Chile Contest Group is to have in near future global-to-local Chile contests for different modes (SSB, CW, FT8/FT4, RTTY) where the scoring motivates farther QSOs, but with biggest incentives for Chile QSOs, e.g. most points for contacts with Chile and local Chile-"Country/Region WPX" based multipliers.
Considering that our primary goal is most probably shared by most radio amateur organizations our goal is it to start with a Chile contest, and that is then something that could be duplicated/replicated by other interested "local" parties elsewhere later. Basically, what might be of general interest is to establish a path to actively attract and grow future World Wide contesters and DXers through a dedicated contest pipeline.