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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The question of SCM Nationals has come up on the forums before and members of the Championship Committee have weighed in then.
What I recall they've said is that 1) there aren't enough potential additional venues available, given that it's already difficult to find facilites willing and able to handle SCY and LC (which would mostly be the same venues that would host an SCM meet), and 2) organizing a three national meets a year would be unduly burdensome and costly. They have raised the possibility of occasionally holding the SC meet in a metric pool. (I hope I haven't misstated their answers.)
I was disappointed when I saw those answers, since I'd also like to see an SCM Nationals. I don't if the issue has ever been formally considered by USMS, though.
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The question of SCM Nationals has come up on the forums before and members of the Championship Committee have weighed in then.
What I recall they've said is that 1) there aren't enough potential additional venues available, given that it's already difficult to find facilites willing and able to handle SCY and LC (which would mostly be the same venues that would host an SCM meet), and 2) organizing a three national meets a year would be unduly burdensome and costly. They have raised the possibility of occasionally holding the SC meet in a metric pool. (I hope I haven't misstated their answers.)
I was disappointed when I saw those answers, since I'd also like to see an SCM Nationals. I don't if the issue has ever been formally considered by USMS, though.
