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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The lasting impact is because this is a sport where the smallest margins matter.  Having a lower seed, outside lane, slower heat, makes a huge difference when the competition comes down to .01
In addition to that, this was a week where most things were cancelled.  My son isn't an elite club swimmer, but is a very good high school swimmer.  He didn't have practice all week. He made didn't make regionals cut time - but will be in due to being in the top.  He was very close though and knowing him, given an extra day and the knowledge of needing the extra push, he would have gotten it done.[/quote]
Saying it makes a “huge” difference is a bit of an exaggeration.[/quote]

It's not an exaggeration, it's relative.  Is .01 a huge difference, no?  Is it a huge difference for a top tier swimmer seeded 1-4th, not really.  Does it start to matter more as you go down the seed, yes.  Is it a huge difference to the kid who came in 11th at districts and didn't get a second shot, YES.[/quote]
But that’s relative to other swimmers in their district, how other district meets were run is irrelevant on that point. If you came in 11th at districts a second swim was not going to vault you to a top time such that not only would you have made regionals, but your seeding at regionals would be that much different. Certainly having a second swim is helpful, but all swimmers in that district were in the same position, and it doesn’t impact the fairness of the regional meet itself. [/quote]

Liberty parent just stop. You’re trying to justify the advantage that your swimmers received.

Tell my swimmer about how he was treated the same as everyone else in their district when he was .03 sec off a state cut. A finals swim would definitely have been beneficial for him. Meanwhile his friends in other districts made their cuts.[/quote]
I’m actually not a Liberty parent, my kid swims in an exurban district. What you’re describing is different than saying a regional meet is going to be inherently unfair because of how the different districts ran their district meets. What happened sucks for your kid individually, but it has nothing to do with whether the regional meet will be fair. All the swimmers at regionals will be swimming that meet under the same conditions, and seedings would not have changed appreciably if there had been prelims/finals in all district meets. [/quote]

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