...won its individual event at relay carnival EXCEPT for events 49/50(175 graduated) and 3/4 (200 open medley) which are run at every A meet. For those events, the relay team that has ever posted the fastest time over the season (5 A meets + relay carnival) is the one that gets the invite to relay carnival.

For divisionals, your team will send 2 swimmers per event, and the meet will be like a typical dual meet, except every event will have 2 heats (6 teams x 2 swimmers). Same rules as an A meet in that a swimmer may only swim 3 events.

Individual all stars is top 16+2 alternates from across the entire league, except that a swimmer may only swim 2 events, so there is some movement up the list if you have someone who is top 16 in 3 or more events, then they will scratch from one, allowing people lower on the list to go to the event. Also, older swimmers may scratch completely as they've probably done it before when they were younger and may have other club meets to attend. All an "all star" time means that they can get ranked (#54 for example) instead of just lost in the sea of swimmers. Although nowadays there are sites like reachforthewall.org or swimstandards.com that can just ingest all the data and turn it back around any way you want.

Relay all stars, your relay team will just need to have won its individual event, and then they go to relay all stars. It is split into two halves, A-G and H-O or so, and then your relay team would compete against all the other teams from other divisions (in your half) that won their event.

Yes, if your kid isn’t on the all star list they have no chance of competing. Only those towards the top of the all star list get to compete. Last year our team only had 3 kids qualify for all stars.

Kids need to swim faster than the “all star times” that you may have heard announced at meets (or seen flagged on result print outs) to get on the list, but even then they have a low chance of getting to swim unless they are > top 30 or so. The list gets updated after every meet.

Divisionals is a meet for each division where the top 2 kids from each team in each stroke swim against each other and goes toward the team’s ranking in their division

Individual all stars is for the top 16 times in the entire country and can be from any pool. For individuals and no benefit to team.

All star relays takes all the winning relay from each event at each relay carnival and swims them against each other. The country is split into 2 back-to-back meets so the top divisions compete against each other in one meet and the bottom divisions in another.

OP here: thanks for that link. So if my kids name is not on there, she is not doing all stars is that correct? Are relays different from individual as far as that list?

92 ish teams

Divisionals are the top swimmers from your division. I believe top 2 from each event. All stars- based on this list, http://www.mcsl.org/AllStars.aspx

It’s the top 16 for each event in the entire MCSL league (92idh teams). Granted, many 13+ will scratch as there are club swimmers that have national meets that week. Also, some swimmers are top 16 for almost every event. They can only swim two events, and will need to scratch the others.

All star relays is the last Saturday of the month, individual all stars is the following Sunday.

Can someone explain the difference? We are in MCSL division N.
My kid is in divisionals next weekend, what is all stars though the following weekend?