Colonies Zone SCY Championships - Fairfax VA

Muppet, I am disappointed to hear you say we have to learn to live with the situation. When these two events fill up in 2 hours a full 2.5 months before the event, something is not right. I wonder if each individual swimmer signed his/her self up or did a coach sign up everyone? I'll probably never know. Anyway, if I approach the meet as not having any distance events (at least available to me), it is no longer worth the drive and 2 nights in a hotel. I think it will affect others also. I love this meet and want to see it continue to be successful. To sign up for the online entries...each person has to do it themselves. They have to enter their own name, USMS #, birthdate, etc, etc. Lots of personal info. If any of it doesn't match up with the USMS database, then you can't continue anyway. Then a credit card entry needs to be inputed for each separate entry. Even if one person (a coach as you state) could do this...it would be a heck of a lot of work to be done, and surely wouldn't have been able to get his/her whole team in the 2 hour window like that. I'm sure their team probably talked about it, and everyone stayed up till after midnight on the date the registration was opened up, and got themselves signed up! If that's what it takes to get into an event, I guess being proactive works. We have a meet the first week of March in our LMSC with a cap of 18 swimmers for the 1500 SCM Free. Info is on the website listed below, and the location is within 20 minutes of Spokane, WA if you'd like to fly in for a 1500. :) So far there are only 3 entries. Will it actually fill up?? Probably not, but the host team knows how much time/space they can handle and set it at 3 heats worth of swims.

Muppet, I am disappointed to hear you say we have to learn to live with the situation. When these two events fill up in 2 hours a full 2.5 months before the event, something is not right. I wonder if each individual swimmer signed his/her self up or did a coach sign up everyone? I'll probably never know. Anyway, if I approach the meet as not having any distance events (at least available to me), it is no longer worth the drive and 2 nights in a hotel. I think it will affect others also. I love this meet and want to see it continue to be successful. To sign up for the online entries...each person has to do it themselves. They have to enter their own name, USMS #, birthdate, etc, etc. Lots of personal info. If any of it doesn't match up with the USMS database, then you can't continue anyway. Then a credit card entry needs to be inputed for each separate entry. Even if one person (a coach as you state) could do this...it would be a heck of a lot of work to be done, and surely wouldn't have been able to get his/her whole team in the 2 hour window like that. I'm sure their team probably talked about it, and everyone stayed up till after midnight on the date the registration was opened up, and got themselves signed up! If that's what it takes to get into an event, I guess being proactive works. We have a meet the first week of March in our LMSC with a cap of 18 swimmers for the 1500 SCM Free. Info is on the website listed below, and the location is within 20 minutes of Spokane, WA if you'd like to fly in for a 1500. :) So far there are only 3 entries. Will it actually fill up?? Probably not, but the host team knows how much time/space they can handle and set it at 3 heats worth of swims.