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[quote=Anonymous]winter classic and NCI's are just fundamentally different styles of meets.  NCI has qualifying times- if you have a qualifying time, and your team is going- you can attend.  You only swim the qualifying time events (plus maybe bonus events).  
Winter Classic is a team competition scored meet.  Each team is only allowed to bring 80 swimmers.  Because of this, I would imagine that virtually every swimmer swims 7 events (I know for our team, a condition of being allowed to swim in Winter Classic is that you agree to swim 7 events.)   The team gets to select which swimmers get to attend winter classic.  B/c of the scoring, I think it has more of a team feel and a fundamentally different vibe.  I tend to see more cheering at winter classic than in general at PVS meets.   
And to the first poster who asserted their team was told they could bring more swimmers- I seriously question that.  The 80 swimmer limit is in the meet announcement.  The meet is scored, which means that allowing some teams to bring more swimmers would make the scoring unfair.  I know our team went out with a first round of invitations to swim in winter classic last week, then waited to fill all the spots both until some of the first round kids said if they could come or not, and to see the results of swims at this past weekend's meet.  They sent out second round invitations last night.  I guess that could look to someone like the team was allowed to bring more swimmers- but really they just hadn't filled all the spots yet- the roster is still 80.  [/quote]

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