There is a Master's meet in Atlanta this Sunday which starts at 10 AM. I haven't been to one before so I was wondering how long they last and is there a certain order to the events.
This is always a problem. Stuff happens. In our meet, with 5000 entries, it's a real pain dealing with people wanting to update seed times. With nationals, it must be even worse.
One other problem we have is that we get bunches of people making strategic adjustments to seed times. Or wanting to. I don't have patience for that. People who want to drop 2 tenths so they drop down a heat. Or suddenly drop 0.1 seconds so they end up in the top-8. Bleah.
We don't publish a psych sheet until after the entry deadline has passed. We found that too many people were holding out their entries to see what other people entered with. So we stopped posting until the entry deadline had passed.
If I get seed time adjustment requests, I evaluate them one by one. If you wrote that you needed to slow down by 5-10 seconds because you just broke your wrist, I'd take that. That benefits everyone. If you had a brain-fart, and entered the 200 free at 2:05, but you're really a 3:05 swimmer, I'd take that. Especially if the rest of your seed times seem to match.
But if you entered the 200 free at 2:15, and email me to tell me that you just did a time trial in practice, and you were now a 2:14.35 person, sorry.
Of course, if I typoed your entry time, then I'll fix it. When you hand-type 5000 entry times, it's possible to make a typo or two. :-) (Fortunately, this year there were only around 2500 entry times to type in due to online entries... even less next year!)
-Rick
This is always a problem. Stuff happens. In our meet, with 5000 entries, it's a real pain dealing with people wanting to update seed times. With nationals, it must be even worse.
One other problem we have is that we get bunches of people making strategic adjustments to seed times. Or wanting to. I don't have patience for that. People who want to drop 2 tenths so they drop down a heat. Or suddenly drop 0.1 seconds so they end up in the top-8. Bleah.
We don't publish a psych sheet until after the entry deadline has passed. We found that too many people were holding out their entries to see what other people entered with. So we stopped posting until the entry deadline had passed.
If I get seed time adjustment requests, I evaluate them one by one. If you wrote that you needed to slow down by 5-10 seconds because you just broke your wrist, I'd take that. That benefits everyone. If you had a brain-fart, and entered the 200 free at 2:05, but you're really a 3:05 swimmer, I'd take that. Especially if the rest of your seed times seem to match.
But if you entered the 200 free at 2:15, and email me to tell me that you just did a time trial in practice, and you were now a 2:14.35 person, sorry.
Of course, if I typoed your entry time, then I'll fix it. When you hand-type 5000 entry times, it's possible to make a typo or two. :-) (Fortunately, this year there were only around 2500 entry times to type in due to online entries... even less next year!)
-Rick
