For any USMS Nationals I have seen, final times are published regardless of NQT achieved or not. You are correct about Worlds 06. I believe they put "NS" if you didn't make it. I guess USMS reserves the right to do the same should they so choose.
No one checks the times, except for when the occasional sandbagger gets called out. I think for the most part, people are pretty honest about it, and for those who are on the fence and fudge a bit to swim one extra event, its not going to kill anyone. The more the merrier!
Yeah..... Totally disagree about fudging a bit.... if it's a matter of 10th's of a sec that's one thing, but anything more..... no way.. If I missed an opportunity to swim my sixth event because someone put an event down who didn't make the qualifying time I wouldn't be happy about it. Last year I was 10ths of a second away from the qualifying time in 50 fly. I fudged my entry but by the time I made it to Nats I swam under the QT.
Nationals is a huge meet and if a lot of people start entering a lot of events that they don't qualify for it can lead to a meet that just drags on and on. As is I have to take a red eye back to NYC from Austin because it's possible the meet could run to 5:00 on the last day. I wish in the future that Nationals had more events on Saturday so we could get earlier flights out on Sunday.
Does anyone know if they have cut the 6th event for anyone in the past? I'm wondering if that has ever happened.
I can't remember for sure if the Savannah LCM meet in '04 dropped the sixth event or not.
I am pretty sure they did. I only swam 5 events, and looking through the results, looks like most everyone else did too.
Good thing they did, as day 2 would have been a lot longer with the tornado makeup events from that morning.
