I've been watching and waiting for information regarding Long Course Nationals - particularly hotel information. I finally found a link on the Spire site to USMS hotels. As I began the process, I found this curious statement:
This is a "Stay to Play" tournament.
All teams are required to reserve a hotel room block through
Traveling Teams in order to participate in the tournament.
Does this mean that individuals are prohibited from booking their own rooms? Due to the lack of information, many of us have already booked rooms that meet our personal needs. Can someone clarify?
That's terrible to get notice of this at such a late date. I'm certainly glad I made my own reservation rather than going through Spire. Hope other promises are kept. Finding housing has probably been the worst part of this nationals experience so far.
Hi Stewart and Allen,
I apologize for this. The agency Traveling Teams had cancelled all reservations that were booked through them. SPIRE is no longer associated with this group as we have decided it was in the best interest of both parties to part ways. Please contact Mike Miller at mmiller@spireinstitute.org with the emails confirming your room and canceling your room and he will make sure you have a room to stay in for the event.
Best,
Josh Ptak
SPIRE Institute
That is terrible,did they have an explanation?
Congratulations to Marty Hendrick and Katie Uppfalt for winning the closest to seed time award in the 800 Free. Marty was 0.39 seconds off his seed time and Katie missed hers by 0.47. They have 30 minutes to find Rob Butcher to claim their new cars. :bliss:
Where is the link for results? I don't see it with the other links on the Nationals page like I usually do. :confused:
www.usms.org/.../nationals.php
Is there no live streaming this time?
These links have all been there in the "In This Section" block in the nationals area for a few days. I'll add text on the body of the page also.
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Thanks, Jim! :applaud:
I was looking at the psych sheets today and thought this seeding in the M45-49 800 free was interesting:
3 Rubacky, Mark S 46 NCMS 9:52.16
4 Rubocki, John S 45 SAWS 10:09.51
The big Rubacky vs. Rubocki duel! :)
