Attention all regional championship meet directors! This message comes from the capital of master racing--New England. Here in the upper right hand of the U.S. our members participate in competitons at rate of close to 50%. This year, we are putting out a challenge to all other parts of the country for this year's SCM season. We propose to score our 2002 New England Short Course Meters Competition, scheduled for December 14-15th against all other regional SCM competitions to determine regional bragging rights for SCM Regional Team Championship. SPMA has already accepted the challenge and will go head-to-head against New England.
Here's how it works: We will take results file from all participating regional USMS sanctioned SCM championship meets held from October 1st through December 31st of this year. We will treat ever participant in that meet as a member of one "regional team" and score to the 16th place by age group (relays score twice the number of points and will also be scored to the 16th place). We will include all individual events through the 1500 m and all realys through the 800m. We will present results in two different ways: 1) Virtual SCM Championship and 2) Bilateral Regional meets (NE vs SPMA, for example).
Here's how you can participate: Send me an email "registering" your regional championship in this contest. We plan to score this meet using Hy Tek so we ask that people provide appropriate Hy Tek file.
Why are we doing this?
Over the years, we've learned that getting people to participate in competition keeps them swimming masters longer. New England's membership really took off when we created large regional championship meets with LOTS OF RELAYS. This made the meet fun for everyone and first-time competitors find relays the least intimidating way of getting into the racing spirit. We believe the regional championships are the key to getting USMS membership growth up to 25% range and getting our membership retention rate over 80%- that has been our four year average rate in both categories here in New England.
More information on the New England meet can be found at:
www.greatbaymasters.org/02scmchamp.html
How can you help?
I need a good list of regional SCM championship meets (I do have the list from the USMS calendar but it's not complete) and also need the email contacts for people, other than meet directors, who can help promote this in their region
Bob Seltzer
NEM Championship Meet Coordinator
Ok Bob
We are not a regional meet, and there is NO time to get people really involved as Pacific Masters began last weekend - (the 1500 was last week) and the remainder of the events will be this weekend, but I will send you the results in an SDIF file. This will allow your swimmers to know what times they have to shoot for. :cool:
When planning this, how many events can the swimmers enter? Pacific will only allow seven events per contestant, eight if they swam the 1500 last weekend. The results of the 1500 are already posted.
Capital of Masters racing I see in total membership Pacific and New Englad share the same most significant number "1". Pacific just crossed the 10,000 member milestone. We look forward to New England having the same number of total swimmers in their LMSC as Pacific had competing last year- about 2,000:cool:
have good meet - BTW when are you going to have 2003 short course yards championships?
have a good meet
michael moore, chairman
Pacific Masters Swimming
...and I hope that the both of you will also forward your SDIF files to me to post in the USMS database. We had a GREAT LCM season. If we can get responses from the big meets such as the two of yours represent, we can also have a GREAT SCM season of results.
Thanks in advance....
Mel Dyck
Rumor has it that the newly slimmed down, fast swimming Bill is actually "swimer4rent" from this forum. My guess is you guys are going to need to bid on this one!
Mel
†hanks for pointing it out. The sdif formate is pretty arcane and I am glad you are up on it.
I have emailed the person who did the computer work to ask if he made a mistake saying it was a SCY meet instead of a SCM meet. Or it could be a problem with the program. I dont know which problem it is.
In looking at the pattern, it looks like there is a time followed by "y" should be changed to time followed by s (d:dd.ddy -> d:dd.dds). If there is a grep guru out there who can give is the grep pattern match (Rich are you out there?), we can make the change.
sorry for the inconvience.
michael
Ok the results of the 2002 Pacific Masters Championships have been posted on the Pacific Masters web site:
www.pacificmasters.org/.../results.shtml
At the web site you can download the sdif file as well downing loading the results in a more readable format.
About 300 Pacific Masters swam at the championships (about 3% of Pacific's swimming population - but would be 20% of New Englands). There were 15 world records broken (Margery Meyer 6, Laura Val 5, Aldo Da Rosa 2 and Margery Sharpe 2), 24 National Records broken and 65 Pacific records broken. Looking forward to seeing the dual meet results.
michael
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A grep pattern would be difficult to come up with conclusively... because in the SDIF file, you need to check the course for the pool, and also make sure that all of the times are flagged "Y" for all of the various times (such as trials and finals, etc.).
With perl, you could probably do something like:
perl -pie 's/(:\.)Y/$1S/g'
That would probably get you close. But as I say, there are I think codes in the meet info header that say what course the pool was, etc.
It may be easier to just get the original Hy-Tek file, and change the meet setup and the events from SCY to SCM, and just re-score each of the events. That would certainly be "safer" I think.
-Rick
Rick:
Thanks for the grep expression. I brought the file into BBEdit modified the basic expression (I was not using PERL) and made the change. I also made a change in the header.
Mel, review this file, then I would back up your file then import this file and see if it works.
As the file was not generated by Hy-Tek, I could not bring it into Hy-Tek to make the corrections. I have notified the person who ran the program of the problem. I dont know if the problem was in not setting up the meet correctly or if it is a program problem.
Again Rick thanks for the basic expression.
michael
