Congratulations! You're decided to take the next step towards 21st century meet management. To ensure your success, we encourage you to set-up an individual training session or join one of our regular office hours.
If you have scheduled an individual training session, you will need to complete the following items. If not, your training session will need to be rescheduled.
At Least 24 Hours Before Scheduled Training
Build a meet with the following settings:
- Teams: Invite one team in addition to yours
- About/Rules:
- Date: Set the day of the meet to the day of your training
- Entry Limits: No restrictions
- Seeding: Four Lanes
- Seed Preferences: Lane Based
- Your Team: Odd Lanes
- Opposing Team: Even Lanes
- Events: Set up the following events
- Mixed 50 Free - Timed Finals
- Mixed 50 Back - Timed Finals
- Mixed 50 Breast - Timed Finals
- Mixed 50 Fly - Timed Finals
- Mixed 200 Free Relay - Timed Finals
Complete Your Entries:
- Enter your meet lineup with 3-4 swimmers in each event
- Email your Swimcloud trainer with a link to the meet so that they can enter swimmers for the opposing team. Your trainer will then enter a lineup for the opposing team.
Day of Scheduled Training
- Download & Install the latest version of Swimcloud Meet on your computer
- Open the meet that you created above
- Set up your timing system
- Plug backup buttons into lanes 1-4 (instead of touch pads). We recommend using a deck cable instead of in-deck wiring so you don't need to run back and forth.
- Connect your timing system to your computer via the USB to Serial Cable
- Connect your timing system to the scoreboard
- Test your internet connection
- Prepare of the easiest meet manager you've ever used