Pick-Up Relay Teams at USMS Meets?

As a swimmer from a backwater LMSC that virtually never has enough people at USMS meets to field even the slowest of relay teams, I would like to see team orphans like myself be allowed to aggregate with others of my ilk to form a rag-tag band of misfit style "Pick Up" relay teams at masters meets. I personally believe this would foster camaraderie and new friendships as people like me, who practice in Amish mudholes, would be able to swim on a relay team with, say, Cayjuns from Baton Rouge, who swim in oil-slickened bayous littered with oxygen-starved crawdads. I would furthermore and personally like such relays to "count" for Top 10 consideration, provided they were made up exclusively of unattached swimmers--or people who are the sole representatives of their "teams"--i.e., bona fide hardship cases, like me, who truly have no other options for swimming relays at most meets. What say ye? Please take my simple poll; USMS bigwigs, please take note of my simple poll, especially if it comes back (as I hope) with a resounding and enthusiastic endorsement of the hopes and aspirations of mud-and-oil-coated misfits throughout the nation!
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  • at one of our yearly Masters meets in southern sweden, I've seen a few pick up relay teams. two guys from one team, and the other two from two other teams. the addition of the extra relay didn't add time to the meet, there was no extra heat, and every was able to enjoy the relay portion of the meet. and their time was posted last on the results list as an extra race.
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  • at one of our yearly Masters meets in southern sweden, I've seen a few pick up relay teams. two guys from one team, and the other two from two other teams. the addition of the extra relay didn't add time to the meet, there was no extra heat, and every was able to enjoy the relay portion of the meet. and their time was posted last on the results list as an extra race.
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