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Why is the qualifying period with IMX so easy?  It is basically two years and you don't have to qualify for the age you have to swim (you can qualify at the lower age).  So if you are 12 and qualify and swim IMX.  You can swim the following year on the same swims you swam at 12 but swim as a 13 (even though it is different events).

That is the craziest thing.  Almost every other meet you have to qualify at the time for the age you will be swimming.[/quote]

I thought you did have to qualify as a 13 year old if you turn 13 before the first day of the meet. I asked the question here and was told that you have to qualify at the age on the first day of the meet: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1238517.page[/quote]

IMX is the exception. It’s not qualifying times, it’s a power point total across a specific set of events.[/quote]
I get that. But does that mean a 13 year old could be competing against a 12 year old? Or, are you saying that a 13 year old that got an age 12 IMX score at 12 could compete but would have to swim the 13 year old events against other 13 year olds? (I thought neither were true. I thought you had to get the point total for age at meet) [/quote]

https://www.pvswim.org/2324meet/24-52-ma.pdf

I stand corrected. OP is correct that you are eligible to swim if you got the power point total for your previous age but would swim new age if age up before, even if you don’t have the points for that slate of events.  Curious if this is always true, or [b]IMX meet specific rules[/b]. 
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It's an IMX meet thing. I only know of this specific meet, but a meet host could do a meet with these qualifying standards if they wanted to, but it would be very atypical. I have seen meets scored with power points instead of times, but that is very rare too.

Meets generally are open (no time standards) or have qualifying times. Those with QTs are always (in my experience) aligned with age at meet. For example, NCSA age group cuts are single age standards with bottom of the age group 9/11/13 being lower standard than top of age group. There are some funny instances where a cut is slower for an older kid at the bottom of their age group than a younger kid at the top of their age group. For example, at 12, my daughter had the 13y cut for an event, but not the 12y cut. She did not qualify and didn't swim the meet.  This was several years ago, not sure if there are still any of these cases. [/quote]
Sorry, that wasn’t my question. What I was asking is, is this the case for ALL IMX meets? Or is it unique to the PVS IMX meet that you can qualify with prior age point total and still swim. [/quote]

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