How to Watch 2020 International Swimming League Match 4

2020 International Swimming League – Match 4

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

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

 

 

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CRD
3 years ago

People from the netherland can watcht the american broadcast via this link: https://ustvgo.tv/cbs-sports-network/

Zanna
3 years ago

Any word on why Nick Fink is not swimming for Cali?

SNY
3 years ago

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?

Last edited 3 years ago by SNY
Harvey Bullock
Reply to  SNY
3 years ago

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.

Gen D
Reply to  SNY
3 years ago

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?

CACrushers
Reply to  Gen D
3 years ago

Coaches 25?

Rafael
Reply to  Gen D
3 years ago

I would go with 1-2-7-8 and 3-4-5-6

Admin
Reply to  Rafael
3 years ago

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 »

Troyy
Reply to  Gen D
3 years ago

Randomise each pair (1&2, 3&4, etc) into a semi.

SAMUEL HUNTINGTON
3 years ago

I was just looking at the season schedule again and, omg, November is going to be non-stop swimming action!

Swimfish87
3 years ago

I want to know how to get some La current swag!

khachaturian
3 years ago

I am predicting the victor will be the Condors

Troyy
3 years ago

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

Troyy
Reply to  Troyy
3 years ago

You also need to update the teams competing section of the article.

Joel
Reply to  Troyy
3 years ago

Thanks !

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