A meet eligibility on swim team

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Anonymous wrote:I believe in B meets each team gets their own placements...so there would be 2 first places, 1 for each team.

At our B meets that’s not how it works but I have no idea how it works at other pools. When the results are sent out, I don’t see the other team’s times - only our team’s. But it also gives place and it can look like: 1, 3, 5, etc., so you see the gaps where the kids from the other team were. And, multiple kids can get 1st place even within the same stroke and age group, when there’s more than one heat.

Never heard of a team doing it this way, but I guess they do for privacy and also to make kids feel good if they win their heat?
Our results for B meets are done exactly the same way as for A meets except no points are assigned for getting in 1st, 2nd and 3rd and no team "wins" the meet.

PP here. Idk why our pool does it that way - it’s the only pool where my kids have done swim team so I have no comparison. I never talked to friends at other pools IRL about it, but I’m curious now. Does your team give ribbons to all B meet competitors? Ours does, and we have some very large age groups. So, we keep using ribbons for places 1-6 multiple times - once for each heat, instead of ribbons for places 1-20 (which could realistically happen if everyone in that age group / stroke was straight ranked by time swam rather than by heat). We couldn’t do it just like an A meet because at A meets there is only one heat per event and at B meets we have multiple heats per event.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe in B meets each team gets their own placements...so there would be 2 first places, 1 for each team.

At our B meets that’s not how it works but I have no idea how it works at other pools. When the results are sent out, I don’t see the other team’s times - only our team’s. But it also gives place and it can look like: 1, 3, 5, etc., so you see the gaps where the kids from the other team were. And, multiple kids can get 1st place even within the same stroke and age group, when there’s more than one heat.

Never heard of a team doing it this way, but I guess they do for privacy and also to make kids feel good if they win their heat?
Our results for B meets are done exactly the same way as for A meets except no points are assigned for getting in 1st, 2nd and 3rd and no team "wins" the meet.

PP here. Idk why our pool does it that way - it’s the only pool where my kids have done swim team so I have no comparison. I never talked to friends at other pools IRL about it, but I’m curious now. Does your team give ribbons to all B meet competitors? Ours does, and we have some very large age groups. So, we keep using ribbons for places 1-6 multiple times - once for each heat, instead of ribbons for places 1-20 (which could realistically happen if everyone in that age group / stroke was straight ranked by time swam rather than by heat). We couldn’t do it just like an A meet because at A meets there is only one heat per event and at B meets we have multiple heats per event.

Only top six get them, even if 30 kids swim. Yours is not normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe in B meets each team gets their own placements...so there would be 2 first places, 1 for each team.

At our B meets that’s not how it works but I have no idea how it works at other pools. When the results are sent out, I don’t see the other team’s times - only our team’s. But it also gives place and it can look like: 1, 3, 5, etc., so you see the gaps where the kids from the other team were. And, multiple kids can get 1st place even within the same stroke and age group, when there’s more than one heat.

Never heard of a team doing it this way, but I guess they do for privacy and also to make kids feel good if they win their heat?
Our results for B meets are done exactly the same way as for A meets except no points are assigned for getting in 1st, 2nd and 3rd and no team "wins" the meet.

PP here. Idk why our pool does it that way - it’s the only pool where my kids have done swim team so I have no comparison. I never talked to friends at other pools IRL about it, but I’m curious now. Does your team give ribbons to all B meet competitors? Ours does, and we have some very large age groups. So, we keep using ribbons for places 1-6 multiple times - once for each heat, instead of ribbons for places 1-20 (which could realistically happen if everyone in that age group / stroke was straight ranked by time swam rather than by heat). We couldn’t do it just like an A meet because at A meets there is only one heat per event and at B meets we have multiple heats per event.

Never heard of that. IME heat winners typically get ribbons that say “heat winner” at B meets, but only top times (minus exhibition swimmers) get place ribbons. All swimmers who don’t get a place ribbon get a competitor ribbon with their time and other meet info printed on the back.

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For B meets the hosting team makes the rules. That is why there is so much variation in how ribbons are awarded or if they are awarded. so it can and does vary a bit from pool to pool.

[Anonymous]

Our pool has B meets with 4 other pools and they all do it the same way. Ribbons for only the top 6, no heat ribbons.