Swimming meet management software

A swimming programme is built from four strokes and the distances they are swum over. Freestyle runs from 50 metres to 1500 metres, while backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly are usually swum over 50, 100 and 200 metres. The individual medley combines all four strokes in one swim, in the order butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle.

Zeetius Tournaments lets an organiser build the programme event by event, for long course or short course pools. Each event has its own stroke, distance, gender, age group and round structure, so a club gala with a few sprint events and a state championship with the full programme are set up in the same way.

Meets are usually run in sessions, often a morning session of heats and an evening session of finals. The programme sets the order of events in each session, and the same programme drives the entry list, the start lists and the results, so nobody has to keep separate copies in step.

• Freestyle. From 50 metre sprints to 800 and 1500 metre distance events.
• Backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. Usually 50, 100 and 200 metre events for each stroke.
• Individual medley. Butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle in one swim, commonly over 200 and 400 metres.

Swimmers are seeded into heats by their entry times, with the fastest swimmers in the last heats and the fastest swimmer in each heat placed in a centre lane, the others spreading outwards by time. This keeps the fastest swimmers side by side and gives every heat an even shape. Zeetius builds seeded start lists from the confirmed entries and publishes them for each session.

Round structures differ by meet and by event. Many age-group meets swim timed finals, where the heats are the final and places come from the times across all heats. Larger meets swim heats and finals, and major championships add semi-finals in the shorter events. The rounds, the number of finalists and the qualification rule are configured per event.

Ties and withdrawals are part of every meet. Where two swimmers tie for the last place in a final, a swim-off may be needed, and where a finalist withdraws, the next swimmer moves up. These decisions are made by the referee, and the start lists can be updated and republished once they are confirmed.

• Seeding by entry time. Fastest swimmers in the last heats, with the fastest in each heat in a centre lane.
• Timed finals or heats and finals. The round structure and number of finalists set for each event.
• Session start lists. Heat and lane for every swimmer, published once the seeding is confirmed.

Results are published event by event as soon as the officials confirm them, so swimmers, coaches and parents can see times and places without waiting for the sheets on the wall. Every participant can receive a certificate generated in bulk from the results. Live scoring for your meet can be discussed with our team.

Over a season, swims become rankings. Zeetius Federation prepares rank lists from real results by event, age group and gender, which is how a federation builds its season rankings, selects state and national teams and identifies swimmers who have met qualifying times. Each ranking can be traced back to the meets that produced it.

Records matter at every level of swimming. Meet records, championship records and age-group records can be kept alongside the results that set them, with the swimmer, the meet, the pool length and the date, so when a record falls it is recorded once and stays correct.