first of all, congrats to the meet directors and all the volunteers on a job well done. so organized and efficient!! very impressive. the only thing i wish someone could explain to me is why the usms champ. committee changed the team scoring from large, medium and small team to clumping everyone in the same category. seems extremely unfair to have what i call "real teams" competing against state mega teams. there is no possibility for "real teams" to ever come close to competing against them. if you are going to give team awards at the end of the meet, is there any way you can do it fairly? our team is extremely proud to have gotten as many team members as we did to go to natls. (most of them for the first time), but unfortunately they were very disillusioned (as was i) with the idea that we would be competing against state teams. as one of the coaches i didn't have an explanation. even though we were very proud of our 7th place finish in men's division, and our 12th place in combined, we were only one of a few "real teams" in the top ten. would appreciate responses. maybe even someone from the champ.committee could explain how they felt this scoring system would be more fair to the majority of swimmers. then i can pass it along to my teammates.. i don't want them to be so disillusioned that they lose interest in attending any future natls. thanks
Yes, the S/M/L scoring system was done away with for those 2 reasons: (1) the arbitrary cutoffs left some teams feeling like they got the short end of the stick, and (2) it resulted in discouraging participation.
Regardless of how you divide the size categories you're going to have someone upset and the complaining will continue on this forum. (Complaining is probably not the right word but you get what I'm saying.)
Going with the Keep It Simple idea, that's why I think the straight Regional/Club method works best and everyone is enocuraged to attend and no one feels like their team was screwed.
I like the idea of electronic certificates to keep costs down if that's really an issue. If people don't like that, then I think we wouldn't have to go all the way from 1st to 10th since there are 2 categories.
Yes, the S/M/L scoring system was done away with for those 2 reasons: (1) the arbitrary cutoffs left some teams feeling like they got the short end of the stick, and (2) it resulted in discouraging participation.
Regardless of how you divide the size categories you're going to have someone upset and the complaining will continue on this forum. (Complaining is probably not the right word but you get what I'm saying.)
Going with the Keep It Simple idea, that's why I think the straight Regional/Club method works best and everyone is enocuraged to attend and no one feels like their team was screwed.
I like the idea of electronic certificates to keep costs down if that's really an issue. If people don't like that, then I think we wouldn't have to go all the way from 1st to 10th since there are 2 categories.
