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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Originally posted by Glenn
Just read Ken's post again...Would an SCM Nationals be possible and/or easier to organize every other year?
First of all, just to be clear, that post isn't my own opinion and I'm not in any way involved in the process -- I was just recounting what members of the championship committee have said on the forums, in the past. (My only formal involvement in USMS governance was two fun-filled years on my LMSC's board.) But it seems to me we won't know until it's been tried. Maybe USMS could schedule a December SCM Nationals once, as a test, to see what the response is and if the difficulties really are insurmountable. Then, based on that experience, they can decide whether to make annual or biannual -- or never do it again.
Originally posted by Glenn
Just read Ken's post again...Would an SCM Nationals be possible and/or easier to organize every other year?
First of all, just to be clear, that post isn't my own opinion and I'm not in any way involved in the process -- I was just recounting what members of the championship committee have said on the forums, in the past. (My only formal involvement in USMS governance was two fun-filled years on my LMSC's board.) But it seems to me we won't know until it's been tried. Maybe USMS could schedule a December SCM Nationals once, as a test, to see what the response is and if the difficulties really are insurmountable. Then, based on that experience, they can decide whether to make annual or biannual -- or never do it again.
