County Prominence Point Front Runner List Rules
This page explains the rules for maintaining the list of county prominence point (coPP) front runners.
For the rules regarding coPP first ascents, click here.
Eligibility
Only the summits listed on this web site may be included in one's claims of climbing coPPs. If a person (climber or otherwise) believes that a summit not listed here as a coPP may in fact be a coPP, s/he may submit evidence to that effect to the list maintainer. The list maintainer will review the evidence, and if he believes that a possible new coPP has been identified, he will post an updated list. The new coPP is then eligible to be included in future claims.
The list is maintained by Edward Earl.
To submit your totals, you may contact him here.
Ties
Ties are resolved in favor of seniority. If two climbers claim the same number of coPPs in the same state, the one who achieved that number of coPPs first is listed first. Unless there is evidence to the contrary, the order in which they achieved their totals is presumed to be the order in which they submitted their claims.
List Truncation
In states with a complete coPP list, all claims of climbing more coPPs than one would automatically have as a completer of that state's county high points are listed. Additional claims may be added at the list maintainer's discretion, where states with few county high point completers are more likely to be extended below the high point completer level than states with many county high point completers.
In the future, there may be some states in which there would be an unmanageably large number of climbers exceeding the county high point completer threshold. In those cases, the listing may be reduced to include only the state's completers at the list maintainer's discretion.
At least the top 5 claims in each state are listed (if there are that many), except that in no case will a claim of climbing only one coPP in a state ever be listed.
Grandfathering
In general, grandfathering is not recognized for completers of a state's coPPs. If a new coPP (or possibility thereof) is discovered, completers of its home state are stripped of their completion status, unless the completer had previously climbed the newly discovered coPP. Otherwise, the new coPP must be climbed in order to regain completer status. In addition, all completion dates and noncompleter totals are appropriately adjusted to take account of the change.
States with large numbers of completers and well-established prominence lists (county and otherwise) may be grandfathered in the future. This will take place at the list maintainer's discretion. Currently only AZ has enough completers to be even considered for grandfathering; no other state comes close.
Granfathering may also be taken under advisement for the deceased and the infirm at the list maintainer's discretion. No current completer qualifies for grandfathering by these means, though Bob Martin's noncompleter totals may be grandfathered against errors discovered in the future.
All cases of grandfathering will be footnoted.