With the continued growth in USMS membership, I would submit that it's time to eliminate the regional teams at Nationals. Case in point: NCMS sent a "team" of 123 swimmers to Atlanta, enough to enter A, B, C, and D relays in many events (e.g. the mens 35+ 200 free relay in which our club team placed 13th behind eight regional teams). It's been argued that the formation of regional teams allows more swimmers to participate in relays, yet local clubs from North Carolina sent as many as thirty or more athletes and could have entered relays on their own as our club (with eight swimmers) did. Swim with the guys you actually train with.
i don't know of any team/club/lmsc/workout group within USMS that takes team competition that seriously..... maybe i'm wrong.I'm with you chaos.
...And I've arrived at my conclusion. I JUST DON'T CARE. I don't know which team won at Atlanta. I don't know how my regional team did score-wise. Was the meet even scored this year? I don't know. There were many amazing swims, that's what's interesting to me. When someone gets really worked up about Nationals scoring (which in fairness, doesn't seem to be the case in this thread), even if I don't respond, rest assured that I'm laughing. Come over to the dark side, we have cookies :DI'll bring the wine (or milk or non-harmful protein drink) to go with the cookies.
Sadly, when we had Small, Medium and Large categories there were isolated incidents of teams asking their slower swimmers to stay home. Similarly, some asked for their slower swimmers to switch to Unattached status for the meet so they wouldn't count against the number of swimmers (in case it helped them stay in a smaller category for scoring).I will never ever worry about me taking this sport too seriously as long as there are people out there like that. :D
i don't know of any team/club/lmsc/workout group within USMS that takes team competition that seriously..... maybe i'm wrong.I'm with you chaos.
...And I've arrived at my conclusion. I JUST DON'T CARE. I don't know which team won at Atlanta. I don't know how my regional team did score-wise. Was the meet even scored this year? I don't know. There were many amazing swims, that's what's interesting to me. When someone gets really worked up about Nationals scoring (which in fairness, doesn't seem to be the case in this thread), even if I don't respond, rest assured that I'm laughing. Come over to the dark side, we have cookies :DI'll bring the wine (or milk or non-harmful protein drink) to go with the cookies.
Sadly, when we had Small, Medium and Large categories there were isolated incidents of teams asking their slower swimmers to stay home. Similarly, some asked for their slower swimmers to switch to Unattached status for the meet so they wouldn't count against the number of swimmers (in case it helped them stay in a smaller category for scoring).I will never ever worry about me taking this sport too seriously as long as there are people out there like that. :D
