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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not designed to help the slower swimmers. It is not really designed to help the fastest 3 swimmers, either. It is designed to help the top group (approximately seeds 9-24) advance to finals by having them swim in fast heats against faster swimmers. The top 3 seeds would probably prefer more competition in their heats.

It is also designed to create some suspense between prelims and finals. [/quote]

Adding that it’s also designed to confuse the hell out of newer swimmers/parents. Many a swimmer has missed their heat because after mistakenly relying on the assumption that they would be in a later heat than their slower teammate.

Kidding aside, circle seeding works best when there is a tight group of the first 24 (or 27 or 30) swimmers, which also occurs more often with older swimmers, and when there are at least 5+ heats. It does not work well when there is a wide range of times among the fastest 3 heats, or when there are just a few heats. It also makes the meet longer because the slowest 3 swimmers of the top 24 are distributed among the 3 heats. [/quote]

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