team scoring

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Former Member
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
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  • Swim, Someone PMd me and told me that they knew of one time when a team scratched a swimmer out of Nationals because they saw they would be in the medium division instead of the large. It was a host club of a Nationals and had insider information... Other than that, I haven't heard of this being done, so I don't really think that my idea for DQing the team would ever really happen? However, at least all swimmers would have an avenue for recourse, IF it did happen. And swimmers would have to know about the rule. I, for one, am not totally savvy with USMS rules... Rob, Can we use smileys to write the code? :lmao: It's been my experience,since 1993, that the "home teams" have the advantage at Nationals. It's a geographic reality. I don't mind this. It's just the way it is. Perhaps teams that are really interested in winning Nationals will bid to have them?
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  • Swim, Someone PMd me and told me that they knew of one time when a team scratched a swimmer out of Nationals because they saw they would be in the medium division instead of the large. It was a host club of a Nationals and had insider information... Other than that, I haven't heard of this being done, so I don't really think that my idea for DQing the team would ever really happen? However, at least all swimmers would have an avenue for recourse, IF it did happen. And swimmers would have to know about the rule. I, for one, am not totally savvy with USMS rules... Rob, Can we use smileys to write the code? :lmao: It's been my experience,since 1993, that the "home teams" have the advantage at Nationals. It's a geographic reality. I don't mind this. It's just the way it is. Perhaps teams that are really interested in winning Nationals will bid to have them?
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