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.
Dude.
WCM has a 50 meter pool and a large diving well (8 lanes, 25m). They have a large program at a large facility.
You can't compare that to a team that uses 3+ pools w/ 6 lanes, sometimes less. I guarantee you that WCM has access to more lanes than some of these "regional" teams you're inventing.
A municipality is NOT a "region".
A bit of clarification:
The diving well at WC is a 6 lane 25 M Pool, have you forgotten already? The masters practices at WCM use 10 of the 20 lanes in the 50M pool, the rest of the pool is open for lap swimming all day
Dude.
WCM has a 50 meter pool and a large diving well (8 lanes, 25m). They have a large program at a large facility.
You can't compare that to a team that uses 3+ pools w/ 6 lanes, sometimes less. I guarantee you that WCM has access to more lanes than some of these "regional" teams you're inventing.
A municipality is NOT a "region".
A bit of clarification:
The diving well at WC is a 6 lane 25 M Pool, have you forgotten already? The masters practices at WCM use 10 of the 20 lanes in the 50M pool, the rest of the pool is open for lap swimming all day
