As I have lamented in the past - the CQ WPX Award is dead and buried. It doesn't seem to have any chance of being revived in my opinion. Why the ARRL didn't "acquire" it when CQ Magazine folded is beyond me. LotW is already set up to verify confirmed prefixes. If they made it an LotW only award, the administrative overhead would be minor.
I do like the premise of the award as it is a never-ending pursuit. Same thing with grid squares, but with a lot more combinations. Fortunately, there are some reasonable replacement programs available to fill this need, at least on FTx modes. The FT4-Digital Mode Club and the FT8- Digital Mode Club both have WPX (and Grid Square) Awards that are tracked online and emailed certificates when you reach the threshold to get the specific award (like POTA does). Check them out - I have provided links to their main pages and links to the awards that I have achieved.
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