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.
Originally posted by mbmg3282
If an efficient meet is what we are after, we should seed only by time.
:D :D :D
And I understand your analysis of the announcer thing. I have not been to a long course nationals so I didn't know how it was conducted.
It seems we might be at an impasse. Our wise Mark Gill has shown us that it really doesn't cut down the time. And I guess some of us will have to deal with it. I don't want to have frazzled administrators who work 16-hour days in the heat of an outdoor meet to make the meet end the next day 20 minutes earlier (though anyone who was in Tempe on Saturday night in 2003 knows that 20 minutes would have gotten us out of there before sunset).
I defer to the administrators of the meets to make the best choices. I'll just show up and promise to be in my lane when my heat is called.
Originally posted by mbmg3282
If an efficient meet is what we are after, we should seed only by time.
:D :D :D
And I understand your analysis of the announcer thing. I have not been to a long course nationals so I didn't know how it was conducted.
It seems we might be at an impasse. Our wise Mark Gill has shown us that it really doesn't cut down the time. And I guess some of us will have to deal with it. I don't want to have frazzled administrators who work 16-hour days in the heat of an outdoor meet to make the meet end the next day 20 minutes earlier (though anyone who was in Tempe on Saturday night in 2003 knows that 20 minutes would have gotten us out of there before sunset).
I defer to the administrators of the meets to make the best choices. I'll just show up and promise to be in my lane when my heat is called.
