Seeding

How to build heats and lanes at the desk: heats and timed finals, semifinals and finals, ties, fast heats, scratches and late entries. This chapter is for the results operator.

Open the seeding toolEvents already swum show Swum and are skipped.

Methods and heatsUnder Method, choose how swimmers are placed:

Seeding optionsWhen seeding by entry time, swimmers fall into three blocks: no-time entries (NT) first, then times swum in a different pool, then times from the…

Apply, re-seed and clearClear seeding deletes all heats and lanes of the ticked events, after a confirmation.

Semifinals and finalsOn the Semifinals and Finals tabs, qualifiers come from the previous round, ordered by result time. Only swimmers still in contention advance: DNF,…

Ties and swim-offsWhen there is a tie at the cut line, the tool shows Tie — decide by swim-off, draw or manually, with three choices:

Fast heatWhen an event's fastest heat swims apart from the slow heats, it gets its own round, Fast Heat (FAST badge):

Scratches and late entriesTo scratch a swimmer, open the lane's status menu and pick from the lower group, Entry: