Chief Finish Judge Clinic

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Chief Finish Judge Clinic
Sept 2004
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Today

• Equipment Supplies Required
• Role Location
• Performance of the Position
• Before the Meet
• During the Meet
• Automated Equipment
• Timing Factors
• Disqualifications
• Manual Times Manual Placing
• Failure of Automatic Judging and/or Timing System
• Determining Placing
• The Official Time
• After the Meet
• Questionnaires Answers

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Meet the Officials
Marshalling Area
Referee
Assistant Chief Timer

Timers
False Start Rope

Timers
Strokes And Turns

Timers

Timers
Backstroke Flags
Backstroke Flags

Timers

Timers
Clerk of Course
Starter
Chief Timer

• Chief Finish Judge

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Equipment Supplies Required

• Calculator
• Elastic Bands
• Stapler and staples
• Sharp pencils
• Rule Book for Reference
• Ensure that extra finish cards or blank paper
  are on hand

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Role

• SW 2.9.1 The chief finish judge shall assign each
  finish judge his position and the placing to be
  determined
• This FINA rule applies to those federations where
  Finish Judges are still used. In Canada, this
  position has been eliminated for all sanctioned
  meets (CSW 1.2.4.1)
• SW 2.9.2 After the race, the chief finish judge
  shall collect signed result sheets from each
  finish judge and establish the result and placing
  which will be sent directly to the referee.
• The Chief Finish Judges primary role
  responsibility is the determination of the
  official placing and results of a race.
• SW 2.9.3 Where Automatic Officiating Equipment is
  used to judge the finish of a race, the chief
  finish judge must report the order of finish
  recorded by the Equipment after each race.

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Location

• Usually in a room to the side of the deck or an
  area free of excess traffic, noise, or air
  turbulence (you dont need cards or papers flying
  around) with easy access from the deck for
  receipt of cards, Timekeeper sheets, or
  electronic tapes.
• Accessible to the Referee for resolution of
  time/place discrepancies.
• If possible, there should also be easy access to
  Chief Judge Electronics and Chief
  Recorder/Scorer-Meet Office.

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Before the Meet

• Pre-Meet Briefing With The Referee.
• Ask how the Referee wishes time/place
  discrepancies to be handled (RD)
• Would he like you to solve them according to the
  rules, and then advise him of the decision for
  his approval?
• How does the Referee want to handle the signing
  of each events results? (SW 2.9.2)
• Introduce yourself to the other Key officials.
• Your responsibilities require you to interact
  with the Clerk of Course Chief Timekeeper-Recorder
  /Scorer (Desk Control) Chief Judge Electronics.
• How will combined events be indicated on the
  cards, sheets?
• Ensure the Chief Timekeeper briefs his
  Timekeepers where on the cards the splits and
  times are to be recorded (Chief Timekeeper and/or
  Referee will brief the timers) .

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Before the Meet

• How will you receive your electronic tapes?
• How will the Chief Judge Electronics notify you
  of any problems?
• Are there Runners in place, if needed? (If
  pre-seeded event sheets are being used, often an
  assistant Chief Finish Judge can be assigned to
  collect these)
• Any special requirements for the Recorder/Scorer
  or office?
• How and when would the office like to receive the
  time cards or sheets? (i.e.. distance events).
• Check out your working space and equipment
  required.

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During the Meet

• Monitor the performance of Assistant Finish
  Judges and address any problems.
• If the Timekeepers are putting the times in the
  wrong places on the time cards, advise the Chief
  Timekeeper of the lane and the problem that is
  occurring. The Chief Timekeeper looks after his
  Timekeepers.

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Automatic Officiating Equipment

• SW 11.1 The operation of Automatic Officiating
  Equipment shall be under the supervision of
  appointed officials. Times recorded by Automatic
  Equipment shall be used to determine the winner,
  all placing and the time applicable to each lane.
  The placing and times so determined shall have
  precedence over the decisions of timekeepers. In
  the event that a break-down of the Automatic
  Equipment occurs or that it is clearly indicated
  that there has been a failure of the Equipment,
  or that a swimmer has failed to activate the
  equipment, the decisions of the recordings of the
  timekeepers shall be official. See SW 13.3

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Automatic Judging and Timing System

• SW 2.9.3 Where Automatic Officiating Equipment is
  used to judge the finish of a race, the Chief
  Finish Judge must report the order of finish
  recorded by the equipment after each race.
• Automatic Officiating Equipment takes precedence
  over manual times, at times when it is deemed to
  be operating correctly.

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Timing Factors

• SW 11.2 When Automatic Equipment is used, the
  results shall be recorded only to 1/100. When
  timing to 1/1000 is available, the third digit
  shall not be recorded or used to determine time
  or placement. In the event of equal times, all
  swimmers who have recorded the same time at 1/100
  shall be accorded the same placing. Times
  displayed on the electronic scoreboard shall show
  only to 1/100 of a second.

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Disqualifications

• SW 11.4 Should a swimmer be disqualified during
  or following an event, such disqualification
  should be recorded in the official results, but
  no time or place shall be recorded or announced.
• This rule is for meets where official results are
  announced immediately after the race.
• At most meets you will leave the official time
  empty and place the card at the end of the event.
  Ensure the DQ is clearly marked for the Recorder/
  Scorer.
• SW 11.5 in the case of a relay disqualification,
  legal splits up to the time of the
  disqualification shall be recorded in the
  official result
• This is for the Recorder/Scorer at most meets.
•  SW 11.6 All 50 meter and 100 meter splits shall
  be recorded for lead-off swimmers during relays
  and published in the official results.
• This is for the Recorder/Scorer at most meets.

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Manual Times Manual PlacingDetermine the
official times of the heat. (SW 11 Timing)

• FINA does not have meets that use manual times or
  manual finish judges who determine the official
  times of the heat(s).
•  SW 11.3 Any timing device that is terminated by
  an official shall be considered a watch. Such
  manual times must be taken by three Timekeepers
  appointed or approved by the Member in the
  country concerned. All watches shall be certified
  as accurate to the satisfaction of the governing
  body concerned. Manual timing shall he registered
  to 1/100 of a second. Where no Automatic
  Equipment is used, official manual time shall be
  determined as follows.
• When three watches are being used
• In the event that all three watches agree, then
  thats the time.

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Official Manual Times

• SW 11.3.1 If two of the three watches record the
  same time and the third disagrees, then the two
  identical times shall be the official time.
• 102.66, 102.76, 102.66 The official time is
  102.66
• SW 11.3.2 If all three watches disagree, the
  watch recording - the intermediate time shall be
  the official time.
•  102.60, 102.76, 102.94 The official time is
  102.76
• CSW 11.3.2.1 If only TWO watches are being used,
  the arithmetic average to the slowest hundredth
  shall be the official time.
• 102.65, 102.76 The official time is (.6576)
  / 2 0.705, (rounded up becomes 0.71), O.T. of
  102.71
• This is where a calculator can be very handy.
  Complete the official time on the bottom of the
  card. Finish Judges do not enter into this
  decision. If three times are recorded on the time
  card, use the official time as calculated above.
• Place the time cards in a sequence of official
  times (fastest to slowest).
• Compare the time cards to the official Chief
  Finish Judges report.
• If the time sequence is not the same as the
  official placing, follow the procedure
  established with the Referee during the pre-meet
  briefing.

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Finish Judge(Other than Canada)

• CSW 1.2.4.1 Use of Finish Judges has been
  eliminated in all Canadian sanctioned meets.
  However, a Chief Finish Judge is required.
• SW 2.10.1 Finish Judges shall be positioned in
  elevated stands in line with the finish where
  they have at all times a clear view of the course
  and the finish line, unless they operate an
  Automatic Officiating device in their respective
  assigned lanes by depressing the push button
  at the completion of the race.
•  SW 2.10.2 After each event the Finish Judges
  shall decide and report the placing of the
  swimmers according to the assignments given to
  them. Finish Judges other than push-button
  operators shall not act as Timekeepers in the
  same event.
• SW 2.12 Officials shall make their decision
  autonomously and independently of each other
  unless otherwise provided in the Swimming Rules.

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Finish Judges Placings

• SW 2.1.3 When using Finish Judges without 3
  digital watches, the Referee shall determine
  placing. Automatic Officiating Equipment, if
  available and operating, shall be consulted as
  stated in SW. 13. (i.e.. light touches).
• Any problems the Chief Finish Judge is unable to
  resolve are referred to the Referee.
• If the Official times are identical, the swimmers
  shall be TIED (TI).
• The Referee will be advised of the placings
  according to his directions during the pre-meet
  briefing.
• This may be when the Recorder/Scorer or Desk
  Control brings the result sheets to the Referee
  to review and sign.
• When the heats of an event are combined, the
  cards and slips are sent to the Recorder/Scorer
  or Desk Control, according to the Referees
  directions.

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Failure of Automatic Judging and/or Timing System
(SW13.1 SW13.2)

• SW 13.1 When Automatic Officiating Equipment (see
  FR 4) is used in any competition, the placing and
  times so determined and relay take-offs judged by
  such Equipment shall have precedence over the
  timekeepers.

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Determining Placing

• SW 13.2 When the Automatic Officiating Equipment
  fails to record the place and or time of one or
  more swimmers in a given race, then
• SW 13.2.1 Record all available Automatic
  Equipment times and places.
• SW 13.2.2 Record all human times and places.
• SW 13.2.3 The official place will be determined
  as follows
• Complete comparisons and ranking procedure of
  Automatic Equipment times and places.
•  The Chief Judge Electronics may indicate a
  malfunction or inactivation of the equipment
  (light touch) by a note on the computer print out
  paper.
•  In this case the Chief Finish Judge should use
  the manual times and mark the time card (MT)
  Manual Time.
• Should the Chief Finish Judge see a discrepancy
  of 0.30 seconds or greater between an automatic
  time and the manual time, it should be viewed as
  a possible malfunction of the electronics and
  reviewed by the Referee or dealt with as
  determined in the pre-meet briefing.

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Determining Placing

• SW 13.2 When the Automatic Officiating Equipment
  jails to record the place and or time of one or
  more swimmers in a given race, then
• SW 13.2.3.1 A swimmer with an Automatic Equipment
  time and place must retain his relative order
  when compared with the other swimmers having an
  Automatic Equipment time and place within that
  race.
• SW 13.2.3.2 A swimmer not having an Automatic
  Equipment place but having an Automatic Equipment
  time will establish his relative order by
  comparing his Automatic Equipment time with the
  Automatic Equipment time of other swimmers.
• SW 13.2.3.3 A swimmer having neither an Automatic
  Equipment place nor an Automatic Equipment time
  shall establish his relative order by the time
  recorded by the Semi Automatic Equipment or by
  three digital watches.
• If automatic equipment fails, the time from three
  digital watches is official.

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The Official Time

• SW 13.3 The official time will be determined as
  follows
• SW 13.3.1 The official time for all swimmers
  having an Automatic Equipment time will be that
  time.
• SW 13.3.2 The official time for all swimmers not
  having an Automatic Equipment time will be the
  three digital watches or the Semi-Automatic
  Equipment time.
• If there is no automatic equipment time use three
  human times (Finish Judges not needed in Canada)

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The Official Time

• SW 13.3 The official time will be determined as
  follows
• Note SW 3.2.3 In the event that swimmers from
  the same or different heats have equal times
  registered to 1/100 second for either the eight
  place or sixteenth place, there shall be a
  swim-off to determine which swimmer shall advance
  to the appropriate finals. Such swim-off shall
  take place not less than one hour after all
  involved swimmers have completed their heat.
  Another swim-off shall take place if equal times
  are registered again.
• Notify the Referee or Meet Manager, in the method
  determined during the pre-meet briefings.
• Record the placing within the event on each card.
  (when swimmers from different heats have the same
  official time, whether automatic, manual , or a
  Referees decision, they shall all be TIED in
  their relative order of finish.) Ties will take
  up the same number of placings as the number of
  swimmers involved in the tie.

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Ties Exceptions

• Placing Official Time
•   1 100.01
• 2 100.12
• 2                    100.12
• 4                    102.43
•                
• While entering the placings, ensure that the
  markers are also indicated Exhibition Swims
  (EX), Official Splits (OS), and
  Disqualifications (DQ).
• Placing these at the bottom of your cards,
  results sheets and or electronic tapes.
• Bundle all the cards,lanesheets for the event
  (time cards, finish sheets and electronic tapes)
  together and forward as directed by the Referee.
  (usually to the Recorder/Scorer or Desk Control
  in the Meet Office)

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Refer to Official Placings SW 13.2.3

• If the electronics is working for all lanes in a
  race, use the electronics for the official times
  and placing.
• If the Chief Judge Electronics or a Timekeeper
  marks a lane on a tape or time card as a light
  touch, Failure of Automatic Judging and/or Timing
  System .

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After the Meet

• Ensure the Referee will be available for the time
  required to complete the results, in the event
  you require his approval or decision to resolve a
  problem.
• Check with the Referee, Recorder/Scorer, and/or
  Office for any out-standing problems.
• Return all meet materials, pens, staplers, etc.

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CHIEF FINISH JUDGE - QUESTIONAIRE
Questions before we begin?
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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 1. The Chief Finish Judge has the authority to

• disqualify swimmers
• appoint an Assistant Chief Finish Judge to assist
  him
• establish the results and order of finish which
  is sent directly to
• the referee
• d. resolve all decisions relating to the place
  and time of swimmers
• e. schedule Swim-Offs and inform the Referee and
  Coaches.

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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 2. An indication that the results from an
  automatic judging and timing system may be
  invalid is

• a difference of greater than 0.30 seconds between
  manual and automatic times
• an annotation of "light touch" on the automatic
  time-slip
• a manual time from the Chief Timer recorded on
  the time card
• a report from the turn inspector that the final
  touch-out was illegal
• an annotation of "light touch" on the time card
  by the Head Lane Timer
• three manual backup times which are identical to
  100ths of a second.

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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 3. Two or more swimmers with good automatic times
  that are identical to 100ths of a second (in the
  same or different heats) shall

• be declared tied
• be placed according to their 1000th times (if
  available)
• be placed according to their manual backup times

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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 4. Determine the official times and places for
  Heat 5 and record the times.

SWIMMER HEAT TIMER 1 TIMER 2 TIMER
3   A 5 111.45 111.40 111.47 B
5 111.48 -
111.43 C 5 111.62
111.69 -   OFFICIAL TIME A -
, B - , C-
.  
1ST 111.45 2ND 111.46 3RD
111.66
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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 5. Determine the official places and times for
  Heat 4.

SWIMMER HEAT TIMER 1 TIMER 2 TIMER
3   A 4 - 106.19 106.39 B 4 106.31
106.30 106.26 C 4 106.79 106.85 -   OFFIC
IAL TIME A - , B -
, C- .
1ST 106.29 2ND 106.30 3RD
106.82
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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 6. Determine the official times and places for
  Heat 2 and record the times.

SWIMMER HEAT TIMER 1 TIMER 2 TIMER
3   A 2 405.75 405.58 - B 2 405.70 4
05.86 405.69 C 2 405.93 405.79
-   OFFICIAL TIME A - , B -
, C- .
1ST 405.67 2ND 405.70 3RD 405.86
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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 7. Determine the official times and places for
  Heat 3 and record the times.

SWIMMER HEAT TIMER 1 TIMER 2 TIMER
3   A 3 121.40 121.43 121.53 B 3 121.30
121.39 121.36 C 3 121.87
- 121.80   OFFICIAL TIME B -
, A - , C-
.
1ST 121.36 2ND 121.43 3RD
121.84
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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 8. Determine the official times and places for
  the event.

SWIMMER HEAT TIMER 1 TIMER 2 TIMER
3   A 4 101.49 101.43 101.43 B 5 101.37
101.56 101.43 C 6 101.43 101.58 101.43  
OFFICIAL TIME A , B -
, C- .
1ST 101.43 1ST 101.43 1ST 101.43
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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 9. Determine the official times and places for
  the event.

SWIMMER HEAT TIMER 1 TIMER 2 TIMER
3   A 7 107.45 107.49 - B 8 107.46 1
07.31 107.47 C 9 107.36 107.57
-   OFFICIAL TIME B , A -
, C- .
1ST 107.46 2ND 107.47 2ND
107.47
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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 10. Determine the official times and places for
  the event.

SWIMMER HEAT TIMER 1 TIMER 2 TIMER
3   A 7 - 109.46 109.20 B 7
109.37 109.41 109.41 C 8 109.37 109.39 1
09.31   OFFICIAL TIME A , C
- , A- .

1ST 109.33 2ND 109.37 3RD
109.41
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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 11. Determine the official times and places for
  Heat5.

SWIMMER HEAT TIMER 1 TIMER 2 TIMER 3
AUTOTIME   A 5 101.24 101.43
101.35 101.36 B 5 101.39 101.30
101.30 101.32 C 5 -
101.38 101.26 101.36   OFFICIAL TIME B
, A - ,
C- .
1ST 101.32 2ND 101.36 2ND
101.36
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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 12. Determine the official times and places for
  Heat 6.

SWIMMER HEAT TIMER 1 TIMER 2 TIMER 3
AUTOTIME   A 6 59.25
59.49 59.32 59.36 B 6 59.43
- 59.41 - C 6
59.48 59.45 -
59.49   OFFICIAL TIME A ,
B - , C-
.
1ST 059.36 2ND 059.42 3RD
059.49
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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 13. Determine the official times and places.

SWIMMER HEAT TIMER 1 TIMER 2 TIMER 3
AUTOTIME   A 2 130.60 130.71
130.64 130.73 B 2 130.72 130.71
130.80 130.72 C 3 130.69 130.83
130.71 130.73   OFFICIAL TIME B
, A - , C-
.
1ST 130.72 2ND 130.73 2ND
130.73
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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 14. Determine the official times and places.

SWIMMER HEAT TIMER 1 TIMER 2 TIMER 3
AUTOTIME   A 1 56.63
56.71 56.70 56.78 B 1 56.71
56.76 56.81 56.76 C 3
56.87 56.76 56.87 56.83   OFFIC
IAL TIME B , A -
, C- .
1ST 056.76 2ND 056.78 3RD
056.83
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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 15. Determine the official times and places for
  Heat 6.

SWIMMER HEAT TIMER 1 TIMER 2 TIMER 3
AUTOTIME   A 7 27.39
27.43 - 27.45 B 7
27.27 27.30
27.31 27.95 C 7 27.37
27.39 27.37 27.39   OFFICIAL TIME B
, C - , A-
.
1ST 027.30 2ND 027.39 3RD
027.45
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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 16. When melding time cards from different heats
  to determine the official order of finish of the
  event, the cards of disqualified Swimmers should
  be

• placed at the bottom of the stack
• placed according to time and place
• removed from the stack and submitted separately
• destroyed, since the times are not legal
• numbered but placed last.

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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 17. Indicate the correct responses

• Once the order of finish in an electronically
  operated event has been completed by the Chief
  Finish Judge, he shall be responsible for
  recording those placings in the appropriate box
  on the time card.
•  It is the responsibility of the Chief Finish
  Judge to notify the referee when there is a tie
  for last place or second alternate in a final or
  consolation final.

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Chief Finish Judge - Questionnaire

• 17. Indicate the correct responses

•  The Chief Finish Judge shall
• notify the recording room to delay publishing
  results when a problem such as a swim-off or a
  protest has occurred
• arrange swim-offs with coaches and swimmers and
  notify the referee
• Endeavour to record the order of finish in
  electronically timed meets
• ensure that all DQ's, Ties, and DNF's are
  appropriately flagged for the typist or computer
  operators
• before results are posted, sign the print out of
  the finish order of each event after ensuring
  that it is correct
• notify the Chief Timekeeper of the repeated
  discrepancies in times or recording of times in
  specific lanes.
• ensure that times achieved by swimmers who are
  subsequently disqualified are not published.

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• Thank you.

Approved by the Ontario Swimming Officials
Association Board Sept. 2004