How to Watch Match 3 of the 2020 International Swimming League Season

2020 International Swimming League – Match 3

• Saturday, October 24: 12 noon-2 PM Local Time (6 AM-8 AM U.S. Eastern, 7 PM-9 PM Japan)
• Sunday, October 25: 5 PM-7 PM Local Time (12 noon-2 PM U.S. Eastern, 1 AM-3 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: Aqua Centurions / LA Current / Tokyo Frog Kings / Toronto Titans

The third match of the 2020 International Swimming League season will run from Saturday, October 24 to Sunday, October 25. It will be the first time we see expansion teams Tokyo Frog Kings and Toronto Titans in action. In all, over 300 swimmers from nearly 50 countries make up the 10 teams of the ISL this season. All ten regular season matches, the semi-finals, and the Grand Final will take place at the Duna Arena in Budapest over a period of five weeks, with the Grand Final scheduled for November 22.

(Note: Daylight Saving Time ends in Hungary on Sunday, October 25, a week earlier than in the U.S. Japan does not observe Daylight Saving Time.)

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, Republica Dominicana, 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

Day 2 Events

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

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:

Regular Season Matches

MVP Bonus in Regular Season Matches

• 1st: 10,000 USD
• 2nd 6,000 USD
• 3rd 4,000 USD