Team Scoring at Nationals

It is obvious that the new team scoring rules for National Championships has not achieved the purposes for which it was designed. At 2009 LC Nationals, many relatively small teams were classified as "regional teams" because their LMSC is so small that they all compete together at Nationals (ie., MOVY with 25 members), and many huge teams were not classified as "regional" teams because there were multiple teams in their LMSC (ie., IndySwimfit with 125 members). If the intent of the new rule was to prevent large teams from overpowering small teams in team scoring, the current rule has produced a ridiculous result. I don't know why USMS abandoned the concept of Large Team/Small Team scoring years ago, but this concept would seem to work much more equitably. Some might argue that it is difficult to draw the line between large and small teams, but I think it becomes pretty obvious if you look at the Team Rosters from this year's meet. If the Championship Committee made this determination prior to each Nationals after the entries closed, which is the way they used to do it, if I remember correctly, we would minimize the potential problems with setting an arbitrary immutable limit for all Nationals.
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  • The Regional Clubs have no definitive leadership and no one really wants the team award, because there is no place to put the banner or plaque or whatever... Mel: I resent this statement and not just from by association with Michigan Masters. You managed to insult all these regional clubs such as North Carolina, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, PNA, Georgia, New England, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnestoa, SKY and any other Regional team that has competed at Nationals. The Michigan Masters website is NOT out of date, very fortunate and from this team picture that is linked here www.michiganmasters.com/ I would not say that these swimmer really don't care about the team performance and the team banner.
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  • The Regional Clubs have no definitive leadership and no one really wants the team award, because there is no place to put the banner or plaque or whatever... Mel: I resent this statement and not just from by association with Michigan Masters. You managed to insult all these regional clubs such as North Carolina, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, PNA, Georgia, New England, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnestoa, SKY and any other Regional team that has competed at Nationals. The Michigan Masters website is NOT out of date, very fortunate and from this team picture that is linked here www.michiganmasters.com/ I would not say that these swimmer really don't care about the team performance and the team banner.
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