USMS Virtual National Champion

Pacific is PC (OK no snarky observations about appropriateness), and Southern Pacific is SP, maybe SPM as you observed. Those of us who swim on club teams, like Clemmons, register for nationals with their home team and not their LMSC. If you wanted to score Pacific you'd have to know all of our 110 team abbreviations. These are some of the teams that scored in our SCMs in October: WCM, BAY, MAM, RHMS, TCAM, SRM, SMMM, TAM, TOC, STAN, DAM, TVM, USF, MVM, RINC, LVTC, BAM, TEME, MELO, AAM, WACM, SAC, FGST, PCAM, LNM, you get my point. That's the problem with a mythical National SCM Championship, you can't score a third of the competitors with a top ten scoring system. Why not use the meet results from the zone championships? SPM must be St Pete Masters since they are from Florida. I see a number of the clubs you mention in the results -- WCM, TOC, STAN, TAM, MVN -- they just didn't all crack the top ten teams. I uploaded a PDF file with the complete results for anyone who wants to look up their team. (Note: I didn't remove the "UNAT" team from these results.) Why not use the zones? I can't speak for others, but for me: simply because it would be more work. I already had the TT data in Excel (and doing that is a little tedious since you have to download it in 8 "pieces," one for each zone. Adding relays doubles that). It took me maybe 20 minutes to get the scores, and that was the first time, just figuring out the best way to do it. Now that I've done it, once I get the data into Excel, it takes about 2 minutes. But (a) collecting the MM files (b) checking them for errors (c) importing them into Excel (probably via Team Manager) then (d) sorting the results and scoring them? That would probably take a good chunk of time and all because some people essentially swim for two different clubs. I am content to treat the TT teams as the "official" team. Anyone who wants to get more detailed, have at it. :)

Pacific is PC (OK no snarky observations about appropriateness), and Southern Pacific is SP, maybe SPM as you observed. Those of us who swim on club teams, like Clemmons, register for nationals with their home team and not their LMSC. If you wanted to score Pacific you'd have to know all of our 110 team abbreviations. These are some of the teams that scored in our SCMs in October: WCM, BAY, MAM, RHMS, TCAM, SRM, SMMM, TAM, TOC, STAN, DAM, TVM, USF, MVM, RINC, LVTC, BAM, TEME, MELO, AAM, WACM, SAC, FGST, PCAM, LNM, you get my point. That's the problem with a mythical National SCM Championship, you can't score a third of the competitors with a top ten scoring system. Why not use the meet results from the zone championships? SPM must be St Pete Masters since they are from Florida. I see a number of the clubs you mention in the results -- WCM, TOC, STAN, TAM, MVN -- they just didn't all crack the top ten teams. I uploaded a PDF file with the complete results for anyone who wants to look up their team. (Note: I didn't remove the "UNAT" team from these results.) Why not use the zones? I can't speak for others, but for me: simply because it would be more work. I already had the TT data in Excel (and doing that is a little tedious since you have to download it in 8 "pieces," one for each zone. Adding relays doubles that). It took me maybe 20 minutes to get the scores, and that was the first time, just figuring out the best way to do it. Now that I've done it, once I get the data into Excel, it takes about 2 minutes. But (a) collecting the MM files (b) checking them for errors (c) importing them into Excel (probably via Team Manager) then (d) sorting the results and scoring them? That would probably take a good chunk of time and all because some people essentially swim for two different clubs. I am content to treat the TT teams as the "official" team. Anyone who wants to get more detailed, have at it. :)