2020 International Swimming League
- Saturday, November 14: 12:00 PM-2:00 PM CET (6 AM-8 AM U.S. Eastern, 8 PM-10PM J+1 Japan)
- Sunday, November 15: 12:00 PM-2:00 PM CET (6 AM-8 AM U.S. Eastern, 8 PM-10PM 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: Energy Standard / London Roar / Tokyo Frog Kings / NY Breakers
- Omega Results
With their ten regular season matches behind them, the top eight teams of the 2020 International Swimming League are moving on to compete in the semifinals. Semifinal 1 will take place on Saturday and Sunday, November 14th and 15th, while Semifinal 2 will start on Sunday evening and continue through Monday, November 16th.
League Standings After Match 10
| Rank | Club | Code | Matches Played | M1 | M2 | M3 | M4 | M5 | M6 | M7 | M8 | M9 | M10 | Standings Points |
| 1 | Cali Condors | CAC | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 | ||||||
| 2 | Energy Standard | ENS | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 15 | ||||||
| 3 | London Roar | LON | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | ||||||
| 4 | LA Current | LAC | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | ||||||
| 5 | Iron | IRO | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | ||||||
| 6 | Tokyo Frog Kings | TOK | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | ||||||
| 7 | Toronto Titans | TOR | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | ||||||
| 8 | NY Breakers | NYB | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| 9 | DC Trident | DCT | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| 10 | Aqua Centurions | AQC | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
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
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 |
So help me Dean, if the meet isn’t streaming on the app when I wake up at 5am to watch it…
Yeah it’s not showing up on YouTube tv >_< Will just have to rely on the live stream link. Maybe this time it won’t just show two guys commentating. That commentating was very good though. Unbiased and very truthful
Who were they ( if you know)?
Idk
Might be worth muting 7plus and playing the commentary from YT if they’re not too out of sync.
BTW: Kaylee McKeown just went 58.11 in 100 back at the prep meet in QLD. I got excited and came to Swimswam to comment but there’s not really anywhere suitable to comment about it.
The semifinals… the second most important meet in this isl season is not showing up on cbs sports. College football talkshow on at 5 am. Very disappointed. Will need a link tmrw morning
However does the website link you gave us work? Or do you have to pay for it
I’m not clear on how to watch in the US. “CBS Sports” could mean a lot of things. Do you have to have cable or streaming, if streaming do you need “all access” or is it on main CBS, or is CBS Sports its own thing? If it is, what combo of streaming packages do you need? This stuff is complicated these days!
Do you have a VPN? If so, then you could tune into cbc.ca – Canadian Broadcast Corporation. They have a very nice stream all the time.