Online entries for the Colonies Zone SCY Championships opened today. The meet will be April 19-21, 2013 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Entry Form, Timeline and Team Roster are available at:
www.patriotmasters.org/ColoniesZone2013.htm
Thats what I meant with an earlier post in regards to a meet fee as opposed to a meet/event fee. This would help ensure that distance swimmers help cover the cost of the meet as opposed to the sat/sun meet entrants subsidizing people who only sign up for the more expensive distance day. We all know pool time is not cheap. Its important we keep these good meets financially viable.
If I were a meet director I would be concerned of the impact, financially, if I were near a group that could potentially mob a distance day and not support the rest of the meet.
To your last sentence - here's an entirely different view if you look at it from a pure financial standpoint and don't care about fairness:
Let's say all of these distance people don't swim any events on Sat-Sun and now all of the "regular masters swimmers" who are swimming on Sat and Sun are shut out on Friday. The meet host now gains surcharge fees from all of these Friday only swimmers. Basically the host collects the same amount of "splash" fees but gains surcharge fees because there are more individual swimmers. It doesn't address my comment about covering costs for a distance only meet day but addresses your last comment about the financial concern to a host (except it won't get any money from people like Mr. Patterson who would swim all three days but only if they can swim Friday).
Thats what I meant with an earlier post in regards to a meet fee as opposed to a meet/event fee. This would help ensure that distance swimmers help cover the cost of the meet as opposed to the sat/sun meet entrants subsidizing people who only sign up for the more expensive distance day. We all know pool time is not cheap. Its important we keep these good meets financially viable.
If I were a meet director I would be concerned of the impact, financially, if I were near a group that could potentially mob a distance day and not support the rest of the meet.
To your last sentence - here's an entirely different view if you look at it from a pure financial standpoint and don't care about fairness:
Let's say all of these distance people don't swim any events on Sat-Sun and now all of the "regular masters swimmers" who are swimming on Sat and Sun are shut out on Friday. The meet host now gains surcharge fees from all of these Friday only swimmers. Basically the host collects the same amount of "splash" fees but gains surcharge fees because there are more individual swimmers. It doesn't address my comment about covering costs for a distance only meet day but addresses your last comment about the financial concern to a host (except it won't get any money from people like Mr. Patterson who would swim all three days but only if they can swim Friday).
