A Viewer’s Guide To the International Swimming League’s London Stop

2019 International Swimming League – European Derby

  • Saturday, November 23 – Sunday, November 24, 2019
  • 5:00-7:00 PM Local Time (12:00 noon – 2:00 PM, U.S. Eastern Time)
  • London Aquatics Centre – London, England
  • Short Course Meters (SCM) format
  • European franchises: Aqua Centurions, Energy Standard, Iron, London Roar

With two undefeated teams (Energy Standard and London Roar) and an Iron team that beat the American derby champs in a group match, the European Derby could arguably be as strong a meet as the upcoming league championship. Here’s all the links you need to keep up:

LINKS

WHERE TO WATCH BY REGION

  • United States: ESPN3
  • Europe and Asia-Pacific: Eurosport
  • Australia: 7plus
  • New Zealand: Spark
  • Canada: CBC
  • Latin America: Claro Sport
  • Brazil: TV Globo
  • Caribbean: FlowSports
  • Israel: Sports 1
  • Middle East/North Africa: Bein Sport

TEAMS COMPETING

This weekend will feature all four European franchises – two from Group A and two from Group B. We’ll update below as meet rosters become available.

EVENT LINEUP

Here’s a look at this weekend’s event schedule. Each session is broken into three blocks, each of which ends in a relay event, which is then followed by a break, though the exact length of the breaks has not been specified.

WOMEN’S EVENT # DAY 1 MEN’S EVENT #
1 100 Fly 2
3 50 Breast 4
5 400 IM 6
7
4×100 Free Relay
—Break—
9 200 Back 8
11 50 Free 10
4×100 Medley Relay 12
—Break—
13 200 Free 14
15 50 Back 16
17 200 Breast 18
4×100 Free Relay 19

 

WOMEN’S EVENT # DAY 2 MEN’S EVENT #
20 100 Free 21
22 100 Breast 23
24 400 Free 25
26
4×100 Medley Relay
—Break—
28 200 IM 27
30 50 Fly 29
32 100 Back 31
33 4×100 Mixed Free Relay 33
—Break—
34 200 Fly 35
36 50 Free Skins 37
38 4×50 Mixed Medley (if tiebreak needed) 38

SCORING & POINTS BREAKDOWN

Scoring for each event will be as follows:

INDIVIDUAL EVENT RELAY EVENT SKINS RACE
1st 9 18 27
2nd 7 14 21
3rd 6 12 12
4th 5 10 10
5th 4 8 4
6th 3 6 3
7th 2 4 2
8th 1 2 1

Relays count for double, and skins races effectively triple if you make it to the third round; if eliminated in the second round, an athlete earns double points, but if knocked out in the first round, the point totals are the same as a normal race.

PRIZE MONEY FORMAT

Athletes and relays earn money for top-4 finishes under the following system, which we’ve simplified based on the ISL ‘money point’ system:

Regular season:

INDIVIDUAL EVENT RELAY SKINS
1st $1,800 $900 $5,400
2nd $1,200 $600 $3,600
3rd $600 $300 $1,800
4th $300 $150 $900

Current prize money lists

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Paul
4 years ago

BBC are streaming this live in the UK as well 🙂

BBC haven’t – as far as I can tell – advertised this anywhere on their website 🙁

Paul
Reply to  Paul
4 years ago
hi:)
4 years ago

I have to say, I did enjoy the little videos in the 10 min breaks like the memory lane. It was a nice touch to be able to see a bit of what the swimmers are like outside of swimming.

hi:)
4 years ago

hope energy standard put Seebohm in the 50 breast.

BairnOwl
Reply to  hi:)
4 years ago

Any particular reason?

hi:)
Reply to  BairnOwl
4 years ago

It wasn’t a strong event for them and Seebohm can swim it and win medals in it at world cup level so maybe she will have a better chance of getting more points.

moddiddle
Reply to  hi:)
4 years ago

In Jinan WC, Australia put Seebohm after Larkin in Mixed medley.. so awkward

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