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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  • I am fine with the scoring as it is.For some reason our team.OREG doesn't travel well.When the meet is here or close we get a huge turn out(I think we had over 300 swimmers at our LCM last year),but there are just a few of us who go to LCM Nats regularly.We were 11th at both Indy and Fresno,If we had been 10th we definitely would have picked up our award.Even though we are spread over the state and don't travel well we are still an amazingly close team.
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  • I am fine with the scoring as it is.For some reason our team.OREG doesn't travel well.When the meet is here or close we get a huge turn out(I think we had over 300 swimmers at our LCM last year),but there are just a few of us who go to LCM Nats regularly.We were 11th at both Indy and Fresno,If we had been 10th we definitely would have picked up our award.Even though we are spread over the state and don't travel well we are still an amazingly close team.
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