I was wondering if I was the only Master's swimmer who didn't know that there was a five event limit on all meets? As an Arizona swimmer, I signed up for the MV LCM meet a couple of weeks ago because there was no event limit on the meet flyer. I like to swim a lot of things (more bang for my buck, so to speak). I entered ten events on-line (not knowing I was being a criminal). Nobody refuted my entry. Imagine my sadness when a week after my swims I was informed that I was retroactively DQ'ed for events 6-10! These were some of my best times ever. I am really down about this. I even asked our LMSC Director the year before (after attending a MV meet and swimming 10 events) why Arizona couldn't allow more events per day and I was told it is up to the Meet Director as to how may events are to be permitted.
What are your thoughts? Am I being a baby or do I have a right to feel ripped off?
You're post didn't specify if this was a one-day or multiple-day meet. Nonetheless...
- The Rule Book specifies a five-event limit (for individual events) per day. Why five events? Those who have been around USMS long enough believe that this is a health and safety issue...that swimming more than five events in a day is a health risk. The daily five-event limit was never intended to be a tool to manage the length of a meet.
- The fact that this limit is in the rule book is something that you should know, so perhaps you are correct in that you are the only one who doesn't know this because everyone else knows what the rules are.
- In the case of the multiple-day meet, the total number of splashes you are allowed is governed by LMSC policy and the race director's discretion. This is something that must be published in the meet information. If it wasn't published, that is the fault of meet management.
- If you indeed signed up for the meet "on-line", there should have been a mechanism that prevented you from signing up for events beyond the limit imposed by the meet management/LMSC. Therefore, the meet management screwed up in this case.
- If this was a case of a one-day meet, the meet management should never have let you race more than five times...because of the daily five-event limit and what it is meant for. That would be plainly irresponsible on the meet management's part. Simply canceling or DQing your extra results is an administrative cover-up.
You're post didn't specify if this was a one-day or multiple-day meet. Nonetheless...
- The Rule Book specifies a five-event limit (for individual events) per day. Why five events? Those who have been around USMS long enough believe that this is a health and safety issue...that swimming more than five events in a day is a health risk. The daily five-event limit was never intended to be a tool to manage the length of a meet.
- The fact that this limit is in the rule book is something that you should know, so perhaps you are correct in that you are the only one who doesn't know this because everyone else knows what the rules are.
- In the case of the multiple-day meet, the total number of splashes you are allowed is governed by LMSC policy and the race director's discretion. This is something that must be published in the meet information. If it wasn't published, that is the fault of meet management.
- If you indeed signed up for the meet "on-line", there should have been a mechanism that prevented you from signing up for events beyond the limit imposed by the meet management/LMSC. Therefore, the meet management screwed up in this case.
- If this was a case of a one-day meet, the meet management should never have let you race more than five times...because of the daily five-event limit and what it is meant for. That would be plainly irresponsible on the meet management's part. Simply canceling or DQing your extra results is an administrative cover-up.
