on deck check in

Former Member
Former Member
Mission Viejo had very good facilities, great weather, superb organization, and the best hosts. Overall a great meet. However, as commented in another thread, there were lots of no shows. In four of five events I had an empty lane next to me. This is not the best racing environment, and it makes the meet last longer than necessary. I am not critical of the people that did not show up -- I was one of them on Thursday, as an emergency at work made me arrive a day late. On deck seeding would be a simple and easy solution. Evidently some people like to know a day or days in advance who will swim in their heat. However, the way it worked for me, I found out as I walked up to the block who would *not* be swimming. *That's* lots of opportunity to get psyched! (not) I don't think the way this meet was seeded (check in for distance events, advanced seeding for the other events) was a very good compromise. This was my first non-deck seeded masters meet, and I did not enjoy that aspect of it.
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  • One thing that was succesful for our age group meet this summer, and we stole the idea from a St Louis team, was to preseed the first two events each day. Then we did positive check in, which closed 45 minutes before the meet started each day. We also had rented a copier, and the minute I had heat sheets ready, they were copying, and I was printing using a laser printer. We were ready to start, and ready to sell heat sheets so everyone had them. Now that was only 400 swimmers, but the concept works for 1600, because that means the first two events are even bigger and more time is given. I was actually a naysayer of this method, because I hated the idea of empty lanes for the first two events, and yes there were some, but after that it was fine.
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  • One thing that was succesful for our age group meet this summer, and we stole the idea from a St Louis team, was to preseed the first two events each day. Then we did positive check in, which closed 45 minutes before the meet started each day. We also had rented a copier, and the minute I had heat sheets ready, they were copying, and I was printing using a laser printer. We were ready to start, and ready to sell heat sheets so everyone had them. Now that was only 400 swimmers, but the concept works for 1600, because that means the first two events are even bigger and more time is given. I was actually a naysayer of this method, because I hated the idea of empty lanes for the first two events, and yes there were some, but after that it was fine.
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