Why only three attempts in field events at Regionals?

dumbchange wrote:

But there are two round of most running events. So dumb.

running events you only get one attempt. foul and you're done. have an off run and you're done.

quit whining. field events already have the advantage with three.

Does seem a bit strange.

But if you consider it a prelim to get the finals then it makes sense.

In a championship everyone gets only 3 attempts to get into the top 8.

They were only trying to determine who moves on and not so much concerned with order of those people.

Like a prelim on the track. Doesn't matter what place you run in your heat as long as you make it through.

Regionals are prelims.

three is more than two wrote:

dumbchange wrote:

But there are two round of most running events. So dumb.

running events you only get one attempt. foul and you're done. have an off run and you're done.

quit whining. field events already have the advantage with three.

Field events have an advantage over track events??? sounds like a former prima donna, er i mean sprinter. (nows the part where you tell me you were a jumper or a distance runner).....Same damn thing. Sprints have never gotten interrupted because of the national anthem....mid race. Sprints don't have an official step into the ring unannounced because they think you cant concentrate over the sound of a starter shell. Sprinting events aren't constantly being put up as a sacrificial lamb to the gods of a more "watchable meet". Whining? thats what a sprinter does when they're "held in the blocks to long"

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When you have a small cast, like 4 people, it:

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b) eventually I'll be doing daily shows and about 10 people is the right number to have a good amount on content in a day.

Have you ever run the long jump even at a high school dual meet? It takes forever!

Try 96 entries... You gotta get through the meet.

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There are a lot of ways to take it. One laugh at a time.

In addition to the time demands--running 48 athletes through an event at a Regional meet!--that someone mentioned above, there's also a philosophical motive.

At the Big Dance itself, you get three attempts to qualify for the final rounds. What you want to find at Regionals are the athletes who can produce in just three rounds, not the sixth-round-comeback drama queens.

Sure, we see a lot of later-round drama at conference meets: people who make so-so attempts in the first three rounds, barely qualify for the final three, and then pull out great marks once they've made the finals. But at Nationals, those "so-so" preliminary efforts aren't going to yield the *opportunity* for later-round drama. Better to weed out those folks at the Regional meets.

as stated above, these Re-liminaries are not real track meets and the goal isn't to win, but simply to advance.

If you can't get through in 3 jumps, you fail to advance to the next round. Same in any meet.

In the vertical jumps, they stop the competition when advancement is determined, so an athlete having the day of their life doesn't get a chance to PR. It's just the way it is. I think it is way better simply looking down a decending order list for a qualifier, but kind of sad that it isn't a real track meet. It can be challenging to think of it as a prelim vs a regional though...are the prelim qualifiers considered NCAA Championship qualifying athletes? Not really, but they are a part of the process.

First off, whomever said field event athletes have an advantage in any possible way, shape or form has absolutely no clue about the field events or is in complete denial....

Second, in case you've missed it the Regional Meet is the qualifying rounds for the NCAA Championships not a championship in and of itselfI. All big major championships with more than 24 competitors have a qualifying round. The way that works is that they have 2-4 flights which are randomized and there is an auto qualifying mark. You get three attempts. If you surpass the auto mark you advance and you don't take all the attempts, the rest of the finalists are then selected from the highest non autos. For the vertical jumps you jump until the are 12 remaining with no ties. It seems that the NCAA is moving in that direction.

Want to clarify that i meant to type that a regional setup is way better *THAN going down the performance list. qualifying based on competition is always better than qualifying based simply on numbers.

Bring Back the 880 wrote:

In the vertical jumps, they stop the competition when advancement is determined, so an athlete having the day of their life doesn't get a chance to PR.

I didn't realize that either.

Makes sense when looked at as just a qualifier.

But most qualifying situations aren't a week before the final. So it wastes a week of either training having a real competition.