What are your thoughts about teams combining for out of LMSC meets (not nationals) and not competing as the same team within the LMSC.
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It seems to me that there are two issues being mixed up here, one is fairness, which I think most of us think of in terms of evenness of competition or avoidance of unfair advantage; the other is what is the purpose of team competition?
I don't think anyone has made a convincing argument that a superteam with members from all over a state has an unfair advantage over a club team with an equal number of swimmers. Different does not equal unfair if there is no advantage.
The question of why have team competition at all needs to be answered before one can consider the advantages or disadvantages of different systems.
It seems to me that there are two issues being mixed up here, one is fairness, which I think most of us think of in terms of evenness of competition or avoidance of unfair advantage; the other is what is the purpose of team competition?
I don't think anyone has made a convincing argument that a superteam with members from all over a state has an unfair advantage over a club team with an equal number of swimmers. Different does not equal unfair if there is no advantage.
The question of why have team competition at all needs to be answered before one can consider the advantages or disadvantages of different systems.
