US Open/PanPac Trials

Originally posted by Dobbie If you're a high level meet director Rick, as you imply, then you need to hear this.I mean how many world records or US open records are there to be aware of? No, I have never been a meet director for a national championships. Just lots of local and regional championship meets. You asked the question if you were being too critical. I gave you my opinion. Yes. Now you're saying my opinion is incorrect. Why did you ask in the first place if you didn't want to hear a response? To answer your other question -- that meet has 192 records and time standards entered. That's a fair number. Rather than considering the world records as just one of the many details you need to worry about you should push it up your priority list. You're right. I'll keep that in mind at my next meet. I can see some announcements that I might make. "Folks, sorry that we don't have any timers on deck, but at least the records are listed correctly in the program." "I know you were expecting to have a concession stand and a hospitality area, but at least the records are listed correctly in the program." "I know the copier broke, and we don't have any programs to sell to you. But if we did have programs, the records would be correct." Rick.have you ever held a world record or won a world championship? Do you know how it feels to not have your record recognized when it was given to the officials to list in the first place? To my knowledge, I don't think I've ever held a world record. I have held a national record or two I think. If it were missed in the preliminary psych sheet, I think I would consider the helpful move of notifying the meet staff, so they could correct the mistake. Did you attempt to notify the meet staff in this case to make them aware of the mistake? Or did you assume that someone else did, and just complain about their incompetence? I am in the process of completing all of the paperwork necessary for three world records set at my meet a couple of weeks ago. -Rick

Originally posted by Dobbie If you're a high level meet director Rick, as you imply, then you need to hear this.I mean how many world records or US open records are there to be aware of? No, I have never been a meet director for a national championships. Just lots of local and regional championship meets. You asked the question if you were being too critical. I gave you my opinion. Yes. Now you're saying my opinion is incorrect. Why did you ask in the first place if you didn't want to hear a response? To answer your other question -- that meet has 192 records and time standards entered. That's a fair number. Rather than considering the world records as just one of the many details you need to worry about you should push it up your priority list. You're right. I'll keep that in mind at my next meet. I can see some announcements that I might make. "Folks, sorry that we don't have any timers on deck, but at least the records are listed correctly in the program." "I know you were expecting to have a concession stand and a hospitality area, but at least the records are listed correctly in the program." "I know the copier broke, and we don't have any programs to sell to you. But if we did have programs, the records would be correct." Rick.have you ever held a world record or won a world championship? Do you know how it feels to not have your record recognized when it was given to the officials to list in the first place? To my knowledge, I don't think I've ever held a world record. I have held a national record or two I think. If it were missed in the preliminary psych sheet, I think I would consider the helpful move of notifying the meet staff, so they could correct the mistake. Did you attempt to notify the meet staff in this case to make them aware of the mistake? Or did you assume that someone else did, and just complain about their incompetence? I am in the process of completing all of the paperwork necessary for three world records set at my meet a couple of weeks ago. -Rick