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.
I swam in that diving well once! But I stand corrected.
WC has something like 6 workouts/day. Try getting that many lanes (50? 60?) in one pool in a large urban area. One club = one pool simply doesn't work for every club.
Actually it's: 5:45, 6:45, 10:30 AM, Noon, 7PM. (no PM on Friday, no regular Saturday or Sunday)
For sure I know what you're saying, you know our situation, but we're making it work!
FWIW, I liked the old system of nat's scoring, your team was who came to the meet for combined, men and women lg, med and small. You always knew that the home team had a big advantage for team honors, but only in one size category.
I swam in that diving well once! But I stand corrected.
WC has something like 6 workouts/day. Try getting that many lanes (50? 60?) in one pool in a large urban area. One club = one pool simply doesn't work for every club.
Actually it's: 5:45, 6:45, 10:30 AM, Noon, 7PM. (no PM on Friday, no regular Saturday or Sunday)
For sure I know what you're saying, you know our situation, but we're making it work!
FWIW, I liked the old system of nat's scoring, your team was who came to the meet for combined, men and women lg, med and small. You always knew that the home team had a big advantage for team honors, but only in one size category.
