2020 International Swimming League – Match 4
- Monday, October 26: 3 PM-5 PM Local Time (10 AM-12 noon U.S. Eastern, 11 PM-1 AM J+1 Japan)
- Tuesday, October 27: 3 PM-5 PM Local Time (10 AM-12 noon U.S. Eastern, 11 PM-1 AM J+1 Japan)
- 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: Cali Condors / DC Trident / Iron / NY Breakers
The condensed, 5-week schedule of the 2020 International Swimming League season is moving at a quick pace and we are now getting ready for Match 4 which will take place on Monday and Tuesday, October 26th and 27th. Cali Condors, DC Trident, Iron, and NY Breakers will do battle in the Duna Arena, hoping to shake up the league standings.
League Standings After Match 3
| Rank | Club | Club Code | Matches Played | Match 1 | Match 2 | Match 3 | Standings Points |
| 1 | LA Current | LAC | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| =2 | Cali Condors | CAC | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||
| =2 | London Roar | LON | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||
| =4 | Energy Standard | ENS | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||
| =4 | Iron | IRO | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||
| =4 | Tokyo Frog Kings | TOK | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||
| =7 | DC Trident | DCT | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
| =7 | Toronto Titans | TOR | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
| =7 | Aqua Centurions | AQC | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| =10 | NY Breakers | NYB | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Cali Condors, who dominated in Match 1, are looking for another win, to move past LA Current into first place with 8 points. DC Trident and Iron are battling to stay in the middle of the pack and make the top 8 teams invited to the semi-finals. NY Breakers are hoping to move off the bottom of the standings and give Trident and Iron a run for top-8.
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, Dominican Republic, 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 3 will feature three International franchises and one North American franchise. We’ll update as meet rosters become available.
- Aqua Centurions
- LA Current
- Tokyo Frog Kings
- Toronto Titans
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 |
Jackpoint 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
People from the netherland can watcht the american broadcast via this link: https://ustvgo.tv/cbs-sports-network/
Any word on why Nick Fink is not swimming for Cali?
I have a question:
How will ISL devide 8 teams into 2 groups in the semifinal? Is it based on points earned in the prelim rounds or something else? Assuming CC, ES, LA and LD are all in the same group, does it mean only two of them will make it to the final, even if they are (arguably) the best 4 teams in the league?
I have been wondering that very same thing! Is it top-2 from each semi or is there some other formula they have for determining the best 4 out of the 8 in the semis.
I don’t think they’ve revealed that yet! Maybe they’ll go 1-3-5-7 and 2-4-6-8? Also, I wonder how they would manage a tie?
Coaches 25?
I would go with 1-2-7-8 and 3-4-5-6
It’s correct, they haven’t revealed it.
I can see the philosophy of a few different approaches.
I tend to like Rafael’s 1-2-7-8 and 3-4-5-6 approach, because we know Energy Standard and Cali Condors will make it, then it’s a pretty even match between LA Current, Tokyo, and London for the other 2 spots. So, I’d like to see those 3 actually duke it out for 2 spots.
But, doing so would be the league’s acknowledgement that the teams are wildly unbalanced. The 7-8 teams have virtually no chance of advancing to the final, nor do the 5-6 teams. Doing the 1-4-5-8, which is kind of the ‘snake draft’ way to do it, essentially guarantees the 3rd place team in as… Read more »
Randomise each pair (1&2, 3&4, etc) into a semi.
I was just looking at the season schedule again and, omg, November is going to be non-stop swimming action!
I want to know how to get some La current swag!
I am predicting the victor will be the Condors
This is the link for Australian live streams and replay if you want to include it in these articles:
https://7plus.com.au/international-swimming-league
You also need to update the teams competing section of the article.
Thanks !