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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]- a kid who got a great time at a single meet but can’t ever do that again will still beat your son in a spot even if you son is faster than this kid in every subsequent meet. A single time faster than your kid’s fastest time will boot you kid out of an a meet.[/quote]

This is the situation that is frustrating when it happens. I've been a volunteer timer, and while timers try there best, sometimes mistakes happen. When a child can never get close to a fast time again, but another child is very close to that time and also faster than the other child's more recent times, you can't help but think that it is possible that the timers made a mistake that one time.

We've seen this happen on our neighborhood team and, unfortunately, there is nothing you can do about it. 
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Our league has 3 timers per lane and I think this is a pretty good way to avoid a situation like mentioned above.  Of the 3, the middle time is the one that's taken.  I believe if there is a malfunction with 1 timer, 1) you can raise your hand and get the lead ref to finish timing in your lane, or 2) if the lead ref is not an option (because you didn't realize the malfunction until the end, for example), I am not 100% sure, but I believe they might take the average of the other two times.[/quote]

The bigger issue is when kids get a really fast time trials time because they should have been DQed but the stroke and turn judges often are new or rusty at time trials.  Then the kid gets in A meets all season on that time trials time even though his actual legal time is slower.[/quote]

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