2020 International Swimming League – Match 5
- Friday, October 30th: 3-5pm CET/9-11am U.S. Central
- Saturday, October 30th: 12-2pm CET/6-8am U.S. Central
- Duna Arena – Budapest, Hungary
- Short Course Meters (SCM) format
- ISL Technical Handbook
- 2020 ISL Scoring Format
- 2020 ISL Prize Money and Bonuses
- How To Watch
- Teams: London Roar/DC Trident/LA Current/Tokyo Frog Kings
Links
- United States – CBS Sports
- Canada – CBC Online & limited CBC Television
- France, Turkey, Middle East, Asia Pacific – beIN Sports
- UK – BBC (London Roar meets, at least, with TBD on other meets)
- Season Schedule
Where To Watch By Region
Africa
- Algeria, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Tunisia: beIN Sports
- Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe: SuperSport
Americas
- USA: CBS
- Canada: CBC
- Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Republica Dominicana, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela: Claro Sports
- Brazil: TV Globo
- Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Navassa Island, Puerto Rico, Saba, San Andrés, Providencia, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & The Grenadine, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Island and United States Virgin: ESPN
Asia
- Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, East Timor, and Singapore: beIN Sports
- Japan: TV Asahi
- India: Eurosport India
Europe
- France, French Overseas Territories, Monaco, Andorra, and Turkey: beIN Sports
- Italia: Sky
- UK: BBC, Eurosport
- Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark: Eurosport
- Russia: Match TV
- Belarus: Belarus TV and Radio Company, Sport 1
- Hungary: M4
- Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Estonia: SPORT 1
- Lithuania: Sport 1
- Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia: Sportklub
Middle East
- Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, the Palestinian territories, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen: beIN Sports
- Israel: Sport 1
Oceania
- Australia: Seven, beIN Sports
- New Zealand: ESPN
Teams Competing
Match 5 will feature 2 American teams and 2 International teams. For London Roar and Tokyo Frog Kings, this is their second match and for the others, their third.
Event Lineup
Here’s a look at the event schedule. Each session is broken into three blocks, which ends in a relay event, followed by a 6-minute break.
DAY 1 EVENTS
WOMEN’S EVENT # | DAY 1 | MEN’S EVENT # |
1 | 100 Fly | 2 |
3 | 200 Back | 4 |
5 | 200 Breast | 6 |
7 | 4×100 Free Relay | |
—Break— | ||
9 | 50 Free | 8 |
11 | 200 IM | 10 |
13 | 50 Breast | 12 |
4×100 Free Relay | 14 | |
—Break— | ||
15 | 50 Back | 16 |
17 | 400 Free | 18 |
19 | 4×100 Medley Relay | 20 |
DAY 2 EVENTS
WOMEN’S EVENT # | DAY 2 | MEN’S EVENT # |
21 | 100 Free | 22 |
23 | 200 Fly | 24 |
25 | 100 Back | 26 |
27 | 100 IM | 28 |
—Break— | ||
29 | 200 Free | 30 |
31 | 50 Fly | 32 |
33 | 100 Breast | 34 |
35 | 4×100 Mixed Free Relay | 35 |
—Break— | ||
36 | 400 IM | 37 |
38 | 50 Skins, stroke TBD | 39 |
40 | 4×50 Mixed Medley (if tiebreak needed) | 40 |
Point Scoring Formats
Each ISL match includes 39 events, divided by several point-scoring formats. Swimmers earn points for their teams according to the following table:
RACE SCORING
INDIV. EVENT | RELAY EVENT | SKINS ROUND 1 | SKINS ROUND 2 | SKINS ROUND 3 | |
1st place | 9 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 14 |
2nd place | 7 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
3rd place | 6 | 12 | 6 | 6 | |
4th place | 5 | 10 | 5 | 5 | |
5th place | 4 | 8 | 4 | ||
6th place | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
7th place | 2 | 4 | 2 | ||
8th place | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
DNS | -4 | -8 | -4 | -8 | -12 |
DNF | -2 | -4 | -2 | -4 | -6 |
DSQ | -2 | -4 | -2 | -4 | -6 |
Jackpot Points
A swimmer who wins by a wide margin can steal points from the bottom-end finishers in the event. If a swimmer beats any other swimmers by the jackpot time margins, the winning swimmer steals the finish points of the other athlete. Teams also steal jackpot points if another team takes a DQ, a DNS, or a DNF in a race.
Cut-off Time Penalties
In addition, the league will continue to use cut-off times, meaning athletes will lose points if they swim slower than a set time. A swimmer failing to meet these times will have a one-point penalty, while a relay will have a two-point penalty. These penalties are assessed after finish points are determined – so a swimmer taking 8th but missing the cutoff time will earn one point for the 8th-place finish, then take the one-point penalty for a total of zero points.
If a swimmer misses the cutoff time and gets their points stolen by jackpot, the cutoff penalty remains, but the finish points get stolen. So an athlete taking 8th, missing the cutoff time and falling outside the jackpot margin would incur -1 point for their team, taking the cutoff penalty, but having their 8th-place finish point stolen by the jackpot swim.
Prize Money Format
Athletes and relays earn money for top-4 finishes under the following system, which we’ve simplified below:
1ST PLACE | 2ND PLACE | 3RD PLACE | 4TH PLACE | |
Individual events | 6 points | 4 points | 2 points | 1 point |
Relay events (points will be distributed equally between the team members) | 12 points | 8 points | 4 points | 2 points |
Skins race round 1 | 6 points | 4 points | 2 points | 1 point |
Skins race round 2 | 6 points | 4 points | 2 points | 1 point |
Skins race round 3 | 12 points | 4 points |
Regular Season Matches
1ST PLACE | 2ND PLACE | 3RD PLACE | 4TH PLACE | |
Individual | 2400 USD | 1600 USD | 800 USD | 400 USD |
Full Relay | 4800 USD | 3200 USD | 1600 USD | 800 USD |
Skins Round 1 | 2400 USD | 1600 USD | 800 USD | 400 USD |
Skins Round 2 | 2400 USD | 1600 USD | 800 USD | 400 USD |
Skins Round 3 | 4800 USD | 1600 USD |
MVP Bonus in Regular Season Matches
- 1st: 10,000 USD
- 2nd 6,000 USD
- 3rd 4,000 USD
To make it easy – for those of us with FIOS, its channel 594 at 10:00 am Eastern time.
Super excited for the match today!! let’s gooooo