At risk of "beating a dead horse"....at least in respect to broaching this topic again! I had a number of conversations at convention with people who would like to see USMS move to a 3rd Championship meet in the fall for short course meters.
There are some great Zone meets going on...when you have 600+ going to Long Beach or New England why not up the ante a bit?
Thoughts?
I can believe that, but to me there's not much of a difference between being a LMSC champ or a Zone champ in an event. If I have the chance to be a National champ, that's more enticing. I think there's going to be more high level competition if a meet has the Nationals label.
The Zone label had no cache at NE Champs because it was announced at the very last minute. I'm not sure the word Zones even appeared on the meet program or that many participants realized it was a Zones meet.
Agree with Greg about the Nationals label being more compelling. I don't care too much about what a meet is called otherwise -- I'm just looking for a somewhat large geographical close meet for a taper.
I also think, at least around my parts, that people prefer SCY. Why? Because for so long everyone has competed and practiced almost exclusively in SCY and SCM seems foreign. If there were more SCM meets, everyone would get used to it soon enough. And I see no reason why Spring Nationals couldn't be SCM once in awhile. If this happened, maybe an eventual separate SCM Nationals championship wouldn't immediately die a slow death.
I can believe that, but to me there's not much of a difference between being a LMSC champ or a Zone champ in an event. If I have the chance to be a National champ, that's more enticing. I think there's going to be more high level competition if a meet has the Nationals label.
The Zone label had no cache at NE Champs because it was announced at the very last minute. I'm not sure the word Zones even appeared on the meet program or that many participants realized it was a Zones meet.
Agree with Greg about the Nationals label being more compelling. I don't care too much about what a meet is called otherwise -- I'm just looking for a somewhat large geographical close meet for a taper.
I also think, at least around my parts, that people prefer SCY. Why? Because for so long everyone has competed and practiced almost exclusively in SCY and SCM seems foreign. If there were more SCM meets, everyone would get used to it soon enough. And I see no reason why Spring Nationals couldn't be SCM once in awhile. If this happened, maybe an eventual separate SCM Nationals championship wouldn't immediately die a slow death.
