From other threads it's seemed some people from small teams feel left out at Nationals because they don't have enough people for relays. How about not counting the relay points for the Small Team Awards and letting the small teams pool swimmers for relays. Pooled relays would not count for records or Top Ten but could win medals.
Paul:
I am not sure where you want to go with this.
But let me first respond to a couple of things that you said. I have no idea how most countries Masters club system works. I do not know if all the Masters for some countries belong so the same club (like CMS) or if there are many clubs with in a country.
When I was in Riccione, it looked like Great Britain had many clubs - they had different clubs had different sweat suits. I also saw some countries like Peru, Brazil and Chile all wearing the same model sweat suit. I only offer that as there may be only one club in those countries.
If you wanted to have international competition by country for Masters how would that be run? each country sends a national team? or that you only have national relays teams? or do you have a national relay team and club relay teams. If you did that who would choose the national team? What about those who always swam with a club and would want to continue to swim for that club?
The XI FINA World Masters Championships is the first championships in a long time that has had more than mixed relays. Why don't we see how it goes before making other plans. (I am sure that CMS can field a host of very fast relays teams- and being chairman of Pacific I can only dream of putting together relays teams made of Pacific Masters Swimmers - I think it would be a dream team - but nightmare putting it together.).
michael
Paul:
I am not sure where you want to go with this.
But let me first respond to a couple of things that you said. I have no idea how most countries Masters club system works. I do not know if all the Masters for some countries belong so the same club (like CMS) or if there are many clubs with in a country.
When I was in Riccione, it looked like Great Britain had many clubs - they had different clubs had different sweat suits. I also saw some countries like Peru, Brazil and Chile all wearing the same model sweat suit. I only offer that as there may be only one club in those countries.
If you wanted to have international competition by country for Masters how would that be run? each country sends a national team? or that you only have national relays teams? or do you have a national relay team and club relay teams. If you did that who would choose the national team? What about those who always swam with a club and would want to continue to swim for that club?
The XI FINA World Masters Championships is the first championships in a long time that has had more than mixed relays. Why don't we see how it goes before making other plans. (I am sure that CMS can field a host of very fast relays teams- and being chairman of Pacific I can only dream of putting together relays teams made of Pacific Masters Swimmers - I think it would be a dream team - but nightmare putting it together.).
michael
