How do you feel about copying the kid's swimming method of organizing Masters by time standards??
For example, there would be A, B and C times for all ages and both sexes. Local meets would be either A, A/B, B, B/C, C or OPEN.
There could be Championships for any of these categories at the LMSC level. To go to Regionals would require having made a new category, the Regional time. National entrantrants would come from the Regional pool or perhaps from the "A" pool.
I'm ambivalent on this as it seems too unwieldy at this early stage of our development but does answer the needs of folks who are looking for the mythical level playing field.
Emmett; we could still have the "Mediocre" Champs as an extra event (suggested in your earlier post). Since there are 26 letters in the alphabet, we could go an even larger number of categories with an ever declining number of swimmers. (Avoiding, of course, the politically incorrect "F" time standard.)
Heck, I can see a day when EVERYONE wins something !
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I think A, B & C times could be good thing. For those of us who are not a threat to make the Top Ten list, we have precious few objective measures of how "good" we are. If USMS can come up with some metric or formula that is widely accepted to generate meaningful time standards, and keep it updated (say annually), these times could be used for setting goals. (Or simply bragging points with which we can bore our family and friends.)
I would not be in favor of using them to set entry conditions (excepting, of course, the current system for USMS Nationals). There are simply too few meets, and too few people entering a given event in a given age group, to even think about breaking them up into "A", "B" or "C" events. (Of course, whatever the local organizing committeee and meet director want to do for their meet is none of my business.)
Matt
I think A, B & C times could be good thing. For those of us who are not a threat to make the Top Ten list, we have precious few objective measures of how "good" we are. If USMS can come up with some metric or formula that is widely accepted to generate meaningful time standards, and keep it updated (say annually), these times could be used for setting goals. (Or simply bragging points with which we can bore our family and friends.)
I would not be in favor of using them to set entry conditions (excepting, of course, the current system for USMS Nationals). There are simply too few meets, and too few people entering a given event in a given age group, to even think about breaking them up into "A", "B" or "C" events. (Of course, whatever the local organizing committeee and meet director want to do for their meet is none of my business.)
Matt
