With no Nationals this year, USMS said they will have virtual events. I'm not sure how this will work. VR headsets are expensive enough, how much is a VR tech suit? Do they have them at Swimoutlet?
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the ugly: I found entering the virtual meet anything but intuitive. I had perviously enrolled in swim.com and integrated it with MY USMS. This did nothing as I had to down load the app to my phone, integrate it with USMS 2 more times(why did it take 2 more times, turns out if you exit swim.com to go to USMS and don't click "remember me" it doesn't. Once that was done it was only an hour and a half of getting into one endless loop after another before I finally could enter my times. Times to the second, by the way, not to the .01 sec. The placings are listed by time, not by gender and age, just by time.
...One has to scratch their head and wonder why USMS would not use an existing platform. Hello, swimphone anyone? What about what we always use to enter Nationals meets?
I was going to go through the rigmarole to enter this for one of the OW distances this weekend, but am thinking twice. There are so many great virtual open water events already out there, so I'm not sure what this faux Nationals really offers.
Heck, there's not even a forum thread about this event ... but I don't imagine USMS leadership would know that since they apparently don't want social engagement from their membership online.
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the ugly: I found entering the virtual meet anything but intuitive. I had perviously enrolled in swim.com and integrated it with MY USMS. This did nothing as I had to down load the app to my phone, integrate it with USMS 2 more times(why did it take 2 more times, turns out if you exit swim.com to go to USMS and don't click "remember me" it doesn't. Once that was done it was only an hour and a half of getting into one endless loop after another before I finally could enter my times. Times to the second, by the way, not to the .01 sec. The placings are listed by time, not by gender and age, just by time.
...One has to scratch their head and wonder why USMS would not use an existing platform. Hello, swimphone anyone? What about what we always use to enter Nationals meets?
I was going to go through the rigmarole to enter this for one of the OW distances this weekend, but am thinking twice. There are so many great virtual open water events already out there, so I'm not sure what this faux Nationals really offers.
Heck, there's not even a forum thread about this event ... but I don't imagine USMS leadership would know that since they apparently don't want social engagement from their membership online.
