WAEDC- Contesting: European style
With my XYL and daughter both busy this afternoon, I spent a couple hours playing in the WAEDC SSB contest (that’s the Worked All Europe DX Contest) sponsored by the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC).
The idea behind this unique contest is for non-Europeans to contact European stations. Multipliers for non-Europeans are the European DXCC entities. Europeans use DXCC entities and call districts of the large countries (like the US). Then throw in a country multiplier bonus depending on the band 
(4*number of countries worked on 80 meters, 3*# of countries worked on 40 meters, 2*# countries worked on 20/15/10 meters).
As if that wasn’t confusing enough, they introduce the concept of QTCs. What are QTCs? A report of a previous QSO back to a European station (up to 10) which then counts towards the number of QSOs.
You can see in my scoring example, that I had 3,422 points in the WAE contest - and gave out 19 “QTC” points. Mostly search and pounce effort for me this afternoon.