Masters Team Competition

I think there should be a Masters Team Competition out there - besides the team scoring at Nationals -- Here is an idea I grew up with in Germany -- they hold team championships every winter and it's a great event. It's based on a point system (FINA or USA swimming one could do) -- - the world record usually equals 1000 points and slower times are based on a calculation - for example a 50 Free in 30 sec is 348 points. - every team swims every event twice. 2 people enter the 50 Free, 2 for the 100 Free and so on -- there are 16 events (or 18 if you add the 100 IM and 800 Free) -- so that means 36 total swims. You could add a couple of relays and make it 44 swims - no team member can swim more than 4 or 5 times - so even small teams can compete -- larger teams could field multiple teams. - now for Masters, we would use a conversion factor for the times and age groups - I think Chris Stevenson could come up with something fair really quick. - the team with the biggest point total wins - no individual prizes. In Germany they have Men and Women (for Masters) on the same team - or you could keep it seperate.