Run a Multi-Age Super Final

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A Multi-Age Super Final is a special way of seeding finals in a prelim/final multi-age group event. Assume the pool is 8 lanes and there is an event that has 13-14 and 15-18 age groups in it. The finals would have a top 8 heat of the fastest 8 regardless of age, a top 8 heat of the remaining 15-18 year olds and a top 8 heat of the remaining 13-14 year olds. MM 2.0 cannot seed an event this way, so the steps below outline what you have to do to create this type of seeding.

Complete Steps 1-4 before the meet.

1.

Set up the Prelim/Final event with the multi-age groups that you want broken out for Finals. As an example, let's use event 3 in an 8 lane pool with 13-14 and 15-18 as the age groups.

2.

Set up another Prelim/Final event just like event 3 in Step 1 and call it event 3A, except do not make event 3A Multi-Age Group.

3.

Set up a dummy swimmer in the Athlete screen with an age between 13 and 18.

4.

Deck seed the dummy swimmer into event 3A and enter a slow prelim result time from the Run Menu and List the results for this one swimmer to get the event status to say Done. This step is necessary in order to use the Run Menu's Combine feature in Step 6.

5.

Run the Prelims portion of event 3 so that it says Done.

6.

Use the Combine selection from the top of the Run Menu to copy the source event 3 to the target event 3A. Click the second radio button so that results in the source event 3 are not deleted.

7.

From the Seed Menu, select event 3A, click Scratch Back, and enter 8 to scratch all after 8. This leaves only the top 8 times to be seeded which is what we want for the Super Final.

8.

From the Seed Menu, select event 3, click Scratch Pad, click the Time column header to sort by time. Now click the SCR check box for the first 8 on the list. This leaves all but the fastest 8 qualifiers.

9.

Now you can seed both event 3 and 3A for Finals.

10.

After the meet is over, you can delete all the dummy athletes that were used in Step 3.