At the end of the meet, I plan to have the referee authorize the split times from the printouts. Then, I can deal with the paperwork the next day. Does that sound like it will work?
It should work, as long as you have access to the raw data for the heat of the split requests. To truly verify a split time when there is some question about it (since you don't have buttons or manual watches to compare again) it is sometimes necessary to compare the splits to those of the rest of the heat.
For example, you can tell if a touchpad was incorrectly triggered if (say) lane 5 is ahead of lane 6 and widening the lead...and suddenly there is an odd outcome because s/he missed the pad or it was triggered by someone else (eg someone filling up his goggles).
I noticed at PR that there were LOTS of weird split results on some events. I don't envy Walt Reid having to go through those.
Of course, sometimes someone enters an event like 800 free but really wants a 100 time. That person may blast the first 100 and then take a LONG time to do the next 50-100 before resuming at cruise speed. On the printout the resulting splits might look a little wacky. I would think a meet referee would want to make note of this when it happens. (Allowing split requests after the fact makes this practice a little complicated.)
At the end of the meet, I plan to have the referee authorize the split times from the printouts. Then, I can deal with the paperwork the next day. Does that sound like it will work?
It should work, as long as you have access to the raw data for the heat of the split requests. To truly verify a split time when there is some question about it (since you don't have buttons or manual watches to compare again) it is sometimes necessary to compare the splits to those of the rest of the heat.
For example, you can tell if a touchpad was incorrectly triggered if (say) lane 5 is ahead of lane 6 and widening the lead...and suddenly there is an odd outcome because s/he missed the pad or it was triggered by someone else (eg someone filling up his goggles).
I noticed at PR that there were LOTS of weird split results on some events. I don't envy Walt Reid having to go through those.
Of course, sometimes someone enters an event like 800 free but really wants a 100 time. That person may blast the first 100 and then take a LONG time to do the next 50-100 before resuming at cruise speed. On the printout the resulting splits might look a little wacky. I would think a meet referee would want to make note of this when it happens. (Allowing split requests after the fact makes this practice a little complicated.)
