Meet Events, including individual, relay, diving and individual/relay event groups can be imported or manually created, edited and deleted from within your Meet Templates or directly within the meet itself.
This is located under Manage Team > Schedule.
Covered in this Article:
- Creating Events - Meet Event File Import
- Creating Events - Manually
- Individual Events
- Relay Events
- Diving Events
- Individual and Relay Event Groups
- Editing/Deleting Events
Creating Events - Meet Event File Import
The most efficient way to get your meet events into your SwimTopia team site, is to import a Meet Event File from Meet Manager if you have one. Manual event creation is an option if you do not, or to create grouped events (described below).
From the Manage Team > Schedule page, click the green Add Swim Meet menu at the bottom of the page and then Import Meet Event File.
Upload the ZIP or EV3 file. This will create the meet, all the events, and any rules included in the Meet Events file. If your file includes qualifying times, these will be imported as well ➞ See our Qualifying Times article for more on this topic.
>>Time-saving Tip: Once you have uploaded your file, we suggest saving this as a Meet Template so you can apply this template to future meets created. To save this "meet" as a Meet Template go to the Meet Setup > Events, click on the Template menu then select Save As Template.
>>Note: As you can see from the screenshot, this is also where you would go when you've created a new meet and you want to apply a Meet Template you have saved.
Creating Events - Manually
As mentioned, manual event creation is an option if you do not have access to a meet event file, or if you want to add events, such as grouped events.
➧ Option 1: Create Events in a Meet Template
You can do this one time by creating a Meet Template with your events from the Schedule > Meet Templates area, and then apply this template to your meets ➞ See the Meet Templates article for additional details.
➧Option 2: Create Events in a Meet
You can create your events directly from within your meet - Schedule > Select Meet Name > Meet Setup > Events subtab.
>>Tip: If you choose this route, we highly suggest using the "Save As Template" option once complete so you can then "Apply Template" to additional meets to save you time.
>>Note: If your meet is linked to a Meet Template locked by your league, you will not be able to Add/Edit Events unless you are allowed to Unlink Template to do so. Check with your league before unlinking templates. Changing events can cause errors when merging entries and uploading results if teams do not have matching event lists.
Individual Events
Select Individual Event from the Add Event menu, make your selections and Save. Repeat for each event.
- Event Number - Based on the last event#, but you can assign another # as needed.
- Gender - Options are Girls/Women, Boys/Men, Mixed
- Age Range - Based on the Athlete Age Groups set up in your Settings > Athlete Age Groups, but will also allow for "Open" and "Custom" options.
- Distance - Includes the range of 25 - 1650 but also allows for a custom distance.
- Stroke - Freestyle, Backstroke, Breatstroke, Butterfly, Individual Medley
- Bonus Event - Do not count against meet/session entry limits
- Description - An additional description of the event can be appended to the stroke name, or optionally replace the stroke name
Relay Events
Select Relay Event from the Add Event menu, make your selections and Save. Repeat for each event.
The differences between the Individual and Relay Event menus is in the Distance and Stroke options:
- Distance - 100 (4x25), 200 (4x50), 400 (4x100), 800 (4x200), Custom
- Stroke - Freestyle Relay, Medley Relay, Backstroke Relay, Breastroke Relay, Butterfly Relay
Diving Events
Select Dive Event from the Add Event menu, make your selections and Save. Repeat for each event.
The differences between the Individual, Relay, and Dive Event menus is that Dive Events have Number of dives and Height options instead of Distance and Stroke:
- Number of dives - 3, 4, 5, 6, 11 or Custom
- Height - 1 Meter, 3 Meter, Platform
Individual and Relay Event Groups
Event Groups provide a way to reduce the time required to run a swim meet. With this feature you can combine multiple separate events of the same distance and stroke (e.g. 100 Individual Medley), but spanning multiple age-ranges and/or genders.
➧ Seeding-Place-Points
When events are grouped in this way, all swimmers from all events in the group are seeded together and race against each other, yet placing and points are still awarded as though the events were raced separately.
➧ Benefits
Grouping events can help fill empty lanes, thus reducing the number of heats in the meet. When the events are seeded based on time, Event Groups also help to minimize the duration of each heat. The result—fewer, faster heats—can shave precious minutes from the meet timeline.
➧ Event Grouping vs Combining Heats
Our "event grouping" feature is not the same as “combining heats” which usually occurs after the meet is seeded, when teams wish to reduce the number of heats in a meet by combining semi-full heats, and often only mixes ages and/or genders in the slowest heat.
Usually, event groups are defined as part of the standard schedule of events, often by league rule.
This Event Group feature is equivalent and compatible with the "Multi-Age Event" feature in HyTek Meet Manager.
➧ Creating Event Groups
An event group can be created from scratch via the Add Event menu.
Existing events can be grouped by selecting each one and then clicking the Group button, provided they are the same stroke and distance.
➧ Meet Maestro and Event Grouping
Meet Maestro can run and score meets where multiple age groups or genders swim the same event together. For example, some teams mix all their older girls or boys together to race, so swimmers of similar speeds swim next to each other, but they want the age groups broken out for place ribbons and scoring.
Meet Maestro smoothly handles this situation, allowing events to be swum as, for example, the 11-18 Girls 50 Free, but scored and placed for the 11-12s, the 13-14s, and the 15-18s.
>>Note: Even though "event grouping" is supported in Meet Maestro, you cannot create, edit or group events within Meet Maestro.
>>Note: The grouped event is an “event” that also needs a unique Event number. You can combine events with letter suffix, for example #12A and #12B into a new grouped event #12, but you cannot group events #12 and #13 into a new event group #12, because #12 is already taken. You must either renumber the existing event (we recommend adding an ‘A’ suffix), or you need to choose a new unique event number for the group. You will not be able to include letters when creating the grouped event.
Editing/Deleting Events
Use the pencil icon to edit a meet event, or trash can if you need to delete one.
An existing event group can be split into separate events by clicking the pencil icon and then the Ungroup button.
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