Add or Edit Events

Add or Edit Events

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Normally you would add events right after completing your meet set-up. To add events, click the Add icon

, click Add, or press the F3 key. To edit an existing event, click the Edit icon

, click Edit, or double click an event in the browser list. A sample of the Edit Event Menu is shown below.

Event #
Start with the event number and enter any alphanumeric number where the event number can range from 1 to 999, optionally followed by a single letter. Events 4, 12, 106, 8B, and 115C are example of event numbers. Note: If using a Timing Console Interface, some timers do not accept alphanumeric event numbers, so check this first before setting up event numbers.

Individual or Relay and Gender
Specify if the event is an Individual or Relay event and then select the Gender of the event. When adding events, if you want MM to automatically alternate the sex of the event, click on the Alt Sex check box. After you have entered all your data for the event, for example, for event 1 girls, then click OK, the girls event is added and the screen is re-displayed exactly as before except that the gender has been switched to boys. Simply click OK again and the boys event will be added. Setting up 60 events only requires setting up 30 events.

Division
If the meet is set-up as Divisions by Event, select from the Division pull-down list to assign a Division, such as JV to event. For this combo box to be active, the Meet Type in Meet Set-up would have to be Divisions by Event. If your divisions have special names that indicate the distance or you do not want to show the distance, you can suppress the distance from the event name.

Age Group and Distance
Enter the Age Group information by clicking on the appropriate age group radio button or click Custom and enter a special age group such as "12-18", "0-12" for 12 & under, or "13-109" for 13 & over. Click on a Distance selection from the list or click Custom and enter a distance. If the event is Open Water and you enter a custom distance from 1 to 9, MM will consider that to be Miles.

Stroke
Select one of the swimming Strokes or one of the diving events. For diving, you may specify 6 or 11 dives for each diving event. You can customize the event description by entering up to a 20 character event description under the Note selection on the Event menu under the stroke selection column. This event description will be printed with each event. You may also click on the Suppress Stroke Name check box and MM will not include the stroke when the event description is printed.

Rounds
Click one of the "Rounds" choices. If you select Timed Finals, then the lower right panel becomes disabled. If you pick Prelims/Finals or Prelims/Semis/Finals, the lower right panel will apply to the final round. If you pick Prelims/Semis/Finals rounds, then you will need to enter the number of heats desired for semi-finals and the lower left panel will apply to both prelims and semis. Relays are limited to two rounds and thus cannot have semi-finals. If a relay event is changed from Prelims/Finals to Finals Only after relay names have been entered, the option will be provided to move the relay names from the Prelims slots to the Finals slots.

Number of Lanes
Each event has its own setting for the number of lanes.

·	The lower left panel applies to prelims, semis, and timed finals.

·	The lower right panel only applies to the finals of a 2 or 3 round event.

Round 1 - Prelims or Timed Finals
The lower left panel contains the settings for prelims, semis, and timed finals.

Assign Lanes

·	Standard: Use the standard lane assignments that were set up in the Seeding Preferences' Standard Lane Assignments. This is the normal setting for most meets.

Un-Seeded: Directs MM to seed into one large flight either slow-fast or fast-slow. This is a great option when you want to manually seed the event and then sort the cards to pass to the computer operator to enter the results. In this case, all of the athletes in the event will be displayed in the Run as one giant heat.

·	2 per Lane: Requests that a particular event be seeded "2 to a Lane". This type of seeding is usually used for Long Distance events like the 800/1000 and is only available for Timed Final events.

·	2 per Choice: Athletes in this event can "choose" whether or not they wish to swim "2 to a Lane". This option is only available for Timed Final events. For more on 2 per lane, click here.

Heat Order
Note there is a separate Heat Order for both the initial rounds and the final round.

·	Slow to Fast means seed the event with the slowest entry time in Heat 1 and thus the fastest heat is the last heat.

·	Fast to Slow means seed the event with the fastest entry time in Heat 1 and thus the fastest heat is the first heat.

Special Settings

·	In a 10 lane pool, you might want to seed 10 lanes for all heats, but you want the fastest heat to be seeded in 8 lanes. To set this up, enter 10 for number of lanes, check the check box just under the number of lanes and enter 8 Lanes for Best 1 Heats.

·	For Timed Finals, you can specify to score the event like it was a second round A-B Final. This would mean the fastest heat would get the 1st thru 8th places, the second fastest heat would get 9th thru 16th and so on depending on the number of heats you specify.

If the event is multi-age group timed finals, you can also specify to seed it as a Multi-Age Group Super Seed where the fastest heat has the top entries for the highest age group, the second fastest heat has the top entries for the next age group, and so on. After the fastest heat for each age group has been seeded, the remainder are mixed by age and sorted by time as in normal timed final seeding.

Round 2 or Round 3 - Finals
The lower right panel contains the settings for the finals which follow prelims or semi-finals.

Heats in Finals
There may be 1 to 6 heats in finals. If A - Final, B - Final Style is checked, the fastest heat would be the A - Final, the second fastest heat would be the B - Final, ...the 6th fastest heat would be the F - Final. With the A-B Final Style, no one can move to a higher place than their heat which means in an 8 lane pool, the highest place that an entry in the B - Final can get is 9th event if the entry has the fastest finals time overall. If A-B Final Style is not checked, the finals are scored just like a timed final where the slowest qualifier can move up to first.

# Lanes Vary
This feature allows you to have different numbers of lanes for each heat in finals. For example a popular way to run Championship, Consolation, and Bonus finals is to seed them with a super final where the fastest heat comprises only four swimmers in the odd lanes and the other two final heats have the normal 8 swimmers. In this 8-8-4 case, the B - Final or Consolation final would get places 5th thru 12th and the C - Final or Bonus final would get places 13th thru 20th.

Score Prelims as Extended Final
If this check box is checked, points are awarded down into prelims if a 2 round event and down into semi-finals if a 3 round event. For example, suppose there are two finals of 8 each and you want to score down to 24th place. Set up the point system with points for 1st thru 24th and the entries from prelims (or semis) that were not in finals and got 17th thru 24th will get points.

Custom Finals Heat Order
This only applies if A - Final, B - Final Style is checked and allows you to alter the order of the finals. For example, if there are 3 finals, you may want the order to be B-C-A, so you enter BCA in the text box and the meet program will have B-Final heat first, then the C-Final heat, then the A-Final heat.

Center Bottom Panel
The center bottom panel contains some basic settings for the event such as whether to score it or not.

Score Event
Click on the Score Event check box if you want points assigned to each result based on the point system setup in the Scoring Setup.

Manual Seed
Click on Manual Seed to specify to the Seeding Menu that you do NOT want MM to automatically seed this event. If later you want to seed the event from the Seeding Menu, uncheck this box or uncheck it in the Seeding Menu where there is a column indicating manual or not.

Entry Fee
If there are Entry Fees, enter an amount and you can get a Entry Fee Report from the Teams Report Menu.

Event Type
You may also classify an event as a Time Trial, Swim-Off, Multi-Disability, or Open Water event. If Open Water is selected for the Event Type, you will be able to enter up to 99 for the number of positions (lanes) in each wave (heat) and can seed the event to fill the waves with that number. For each wave in the Run, you can enter an offset time for the amount of time the wave starts from the original start.

Pads at both ends
This is important for MM being able to know how many splits to expect for each event. If there are pads at both ends, there are twice as many splits.

Multi-Age Group
In the center bottom panel, click on the Multi-Age Group check box if you want different age groups and genders seeded together but broken out for results. Click here for examples to consider.