Later today I'm off to the Colorado State Masters Swim Championships and will be swimming the 1650. Positive check is at 12:30 pm, meets starts at 1 pm, the pool will be set up for 10 lanes of competition, however in the standard masters slow to fast seeding, I'll be lucky to be racing by 3:30 pm. Colorado doesn't allow No Time entries, although we have no rules for fibbing your seed time. Anyway the poll question is for championship format masters swim meets should seeding be slow to fast or fast to slow for 1000/1650 races?
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I think in a championship format that is a single-session timed finals, it should swim slow-to-fast. It's frankly better for the competitive environment. If you go fast-to-slow, then by the end of the session, it's, bluntly, just the slow people left. Not terribly exciting. If the fast people swim last, then you've still got some excitement at the end of the session.
-Rick
Generally the only spectators left at the last heat of the 1650 are the counters and timers, regardless of the speed of swimmers in that last heat.
I think in a championship format that is a single-session timed finals, it should swim slow-to-fast. It's frankly better for the competitive environment. If you go fast-to-slow, then by the end of the session, it's, bluntly, just the slow people left. Not terribly exciting. If the fast people swim last, then you've still got some excitement at the end of the session.
-Rick
Generally the only spectators left at the last heat of the 1650 are the counters and timers, regardless of the speed of swimmers in that last heat.
