The 2022 U.S. International Team Trials (AKA World Championship Trials) are fast approaching, and the Official SwimSwam Pick ‘Em Contest is now live!
The prizes for this contest will be provided by Speedo USA.
CLICK HERE TO ENTER
Need help making picks? Check out the SwimSwam official preview index here.
SCORING SYSTEM
Correctly picking a swimmer to place:
- 1st – 7 points
- 2nd – 6 points
- 3rd – 5 points
- 4th – 4 point
Correctly picking a swimmer to place in the top 4 but putting them in the wrong spot, will earn you 2 points.
Picks will close at 8:00 am Eastern Time on Tuesday, April 26, and at that time, we will post everyone’s picks for them to see.
You CAN go in and edit your responses up until 8:00 am on Tuesday. You can also use this “edit responses” ability to go in and print or save your answers.
The tie-breaker for prizes, if necessary, will be the most correctly-picked winners in the relevant time period, then 2nd-place finishers, then 3rd-place finishers, etc. in the relevant time period.
OFFICIAL RULES
Anybody is eligible to play, but only certain people are eligible for prizes (which are still being determined). For starters, only one entry per person is allowed. If we discover that you have made multiple entries, we may disqualify all of your entries.
To win prizes, entrant must:
- Be 18 or older
- Accept responsibility for any and all taxes
- Accept responsibility for any impact on high school or college eligibility
- Be a legal resident of the United States or Canada (prizes will only be mailed to these countries)
- Must enter contest using their real name
- No purchase is required for entry
- Agree to allow SwimSwam to provide their personal information to a sponsor in order to distribute prizes
PRIZES
The Pick ‘Em has always been about bragging rights, but we all do love prizes. Many, many thanks to the prize sponsor, Speedo USA.
THE TOP SCORER OF EACH DAY RECEIVES:
Speedo Socket 2.0 mirrored goggle
Speedo logo Sweatshirt
Teamster 2.0 backpack
THE GRAND PRIZE WINNER, WITH THE MOST OVERALL POINTS, RECEIVES:
All of the above, plus the Speedo Fastskin suit
Sad I’m not from the US or Canada, a free Fastskin would be real nice LMAO
I’m not eligible for prizes. Please post the results!
is it wrong to pick Urlando for second in the 100 back?
I mean, his 100 back SCY AR was 60 meters underwater, so LCM might set him back a little.
Depends if you’re extrapolating his SCY time from Ryan Murphy or from Coleman Stewart.
Don’t forget to scroll down to the yards entrees! Almost missed some key players.
What kind of entrees are you serving? Chicken or Fish?
Haha – whoops!
Like who?
Kate Douglass 200 Breast
It’d be good if you DIDN’T.
She may not get second but will def be 3/4. She swam 2:24 TIME TRIAL IN PRACTICE. 4 seconds off of her old PB. She can probably go 2:22/23 and could challenge King/Lazor
not a tretch to see her in the top 4 which is what this pick ’em contest is centered around.
Would be nice if swimswam authors could attatch the link to the pickem in all future preview articles 🙏
It’s on the sidebar, so it will be there on all articles about World Championships (or at the end of the article if you’re on mobile)
Full riding the casas wave and hoping for the best
This is harder than I thought. Really had some tough time picking #4 finishers in events like men’s distance freestyle, 200 breast, 200 fly etc.
To pick MA in 2 IM or to not pick… worried he’ll scratch.
Picked him 4th because I feel like that’s just relatively safe to not screw up other points if he swims it or not. Also he’s not focusing on it so he might not beat Kalisz or foster if he does decide to swim it
Did the exact same thing and cuz there’s always the chance of a 31. last 50 after all that sprinting in the preceding days! 🙂
He seemed pretty confident that he would scratch in interviews.