Colonies Zone SCY Championships - Fairfax VA

Team Z is in fact a triathlon team, Jim. I have a friend on Team Z and know that they were told to sign up ASAP to grab the slots. While first come first served seems like a superficially appealing policy, Zones is supposed to be a championship meet for the east coast. Team Z effectively subverted that intent and turned it into their personal distance meet. The problem is how to fix the situation without overburdening the meet director. One easy thing to do would be to ban Friday only entries. Though I guess someone could be a d*ck and enter events on other days that they had no intent to swim. Perhaps the Team Z coach could be prevailed upon to ensure this doesn't happen. That way, if Team Z really wants to swim "Zones," they can swim some other events over the weekend. A lottery? Obviously people are disappointed but I don't see how TeamZ did anything wrong. Not just in the legalistic sense but in an ethical sense. People on the team wanted to swim in the event. What were they supposed to do, refrain from entering because they were worried that others would be upset? I don't think banning Friday-only entries would work. I think event fees were $5, you could just enter another event and then not show up. That effectively tacks on a $5 surcharge to the distance event and ensures some empty lanes in the other sessions. I agree with the poster who said that starting at midnight would disadvantage some. Assuming it is possible on the Club Assistant side we'll open registration at 8am, probably on a Saturday, for LC Zones. (I don't expect the same run on distance events for LC zones since it is in the triathlon/OW season but you never know.) In terms of it being a championship, though, perhaps in the future for distance events we could save a certain number of spots for swimmers from LMSC outside of the host LMSC. If those spots don't fill up by a certain time, then they get opened up to anyone.

Team Z is in fact a triathlon team, Jim. I have a friend on Team Z and know that they were told to sign up ASAP to grab the slots. While first come first served seems like a superficially appealing policy, Zones is supposed to be a championship meet for the east coast. Team Z effectively subverted that intent and turned it into their personal distance meet. The problem is how to fix the situation without overburdening the meet director. One easy thing to do would be to ban Friday only entries. Though I guess someone could be a d*ck and enter events on other days that they had no intent to swim. Perhaps the Team Z coach could be prevailed upon to ensure this doesn't happen. That way, if Team Z really wants to swim "Zones," they can swim some other events over the weekend. A lottery? Obviously people are disappointed but I don't see how TeamZ did anything wrong. Not just in the legalistic sense but in an ethical sense. People on the team wanted to swim in the event. What were they supposed to do, refrain from entering because they were worried that others would be upset? I don't think banning Friday-only entries would work. I think event fees were $5, you could just enter another event and then not show up. That effectively tacks on a $5 surcharge to the distance event and ensures some empty lanes in the other sessions. I agree with the poster who said that starting at midnight would disadvantage some. Assuming it is possible on the Club Assistant side we'll open registration at 8am, probably on a Saturday, for LC Zones. (I don't expect the same run on distance events for LC zones since it is in the triathlon/OW season but you never know.) In terms of it being a championship, though, perhaps in the future for distance events we could save a certain number of spots for swimmers from LMSC outside of the host LMSC. If those spots don't fill up by a certain time, then they get opened up to anyone.