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[quote=Anonymous][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]

NP.  0.01 is huge.  Ask my swimmer who missed the State cut by that amount.  Or the boy trying for the school record who also missed it by that much.  If you are a swimmer or understand swimming, you understand the issue.[/quote]
I get it, my swimmer is currently .1 off of a sectional cut. This argument is being conflated because originally people were arguing that the way districts were run will make the regional meet unfair and I am just not seeing it. I completely agree that individual kids that missed state cuts by tenths or hundredths were disadvantaged if they only swam timed finals, but that is an individual disadvantage not something that is making the regional meet inherently unfair. [/quote]

If a swimmer is top seeded they get an inner lane in one of the last three heats.  So there is always an advantage.  Circle seeding helps the slower swimmers to push for time drops.  I love how multiple people have tried to explain to you seed time and you are the only person that is like, "nah, bro, I just don't see it."

You are hilarious.

Seed time is impacted greatly if swimmers get second opportunities.  This creates the issue.  By allowing half of the region to get an advantage is not fair to the half did not.  It does not impact all swimmers and maybe your swimmer swims their best during prelims - so that second chance is not a huge deal.  I have a swimmer that 98% of the time drops major time in finals.  And generally significant drops.  They just can fix the prelim race and make it better at finals.  So not to have that opportunity means a major seeding error at regionals.  They are now put in a slower heat when they would have made a faster one.  That is the disadvantage.  How can you not understand that?[/quote]
The heats are circle seeded at regionals so most of this evens out. I’m just not buying a kid who swam only prelims was going to go from the 20th seed to a top 5 seed in the region such that there would be a huge discrepancy in their lane placement in prelims at regionals. [/quote][/quote]

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