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?
Parents
Former Member
Will they now refund your $$ for the events that did not count??
My experience is mostly with USAS meets. In my area:
DQs are never refunded, and your time isn't an official time.
Meet hosts generally don't refund entry fees for whatever purpose - death in family, rainouts, illness, swine flu, pool closed, etc. If you get a credit or a refund that's pretty generous of the meet host.
Usually there is no limit on entries, just on how many you actually swim. So any entries system (online or manual) can't prevent you from over-entering but it would be nice if there was a warning.
As far as Meet Management software being able to report, it is kind of a nuisance as it will cheerfully report how many entries a swimmer made but not how many were swum, so it's hard to keep up with status as the meet progresses. Many of the Masters meets I've been at run a skeleton meet operations/officiating crew so this can fall through the cracks.
Will they now refund your $$ for the events that did not count??
My experience is mostly with USAS meets. In my area:
DQs are never refunded, and your time isn't an official time.
Meet hosts generally don't refund entry fees for whatever purpose - death in family, rainouts, illness, swine flu, pool closed, etc. If you get a credit or a refund that's pretty generous of the meet host.
Usually there is no limit on entries, just on how many you actually swim. So any entries system (online or manual) can't prevent you from over-entering but it would be nice if there was a warning.
As far as Meet Management software being able to report, it is kind of a nuisance as it will cheerfully report how many entries a swimmer made but not how many were swum, so it's hard to keep up with status as the meet progresses. Many of the Masters meets I've been at run a skeleton meet operations/officiating crew so this can fall through the cracks.
