The Trials

One Week. There is only one week till the qualifying round at The Trials. For those of you who didn't know the competition format at the trials is a little different. At The Trials there is a qualifying round followed the next day by the trail and finals rounds. On Friday next week they take the whole field of shot putters 24-30 guys, and cut it to 12 by giving everyone 3 puts and taking the top 12. There is also an auto mark in the qualifying round where if you throw x distance, say 20.50m, then your automatically into Saturdays trials round and you can stop throwing, so really you could only take 1 throw on Friday to make it back on Saturday. Then on Saturday it's a brand new competition, none of the marks from Friday's competition count, with the basic meet format. You get 3 throws to make the top 9 and then the top 9 get and additional 3 throws. Top 3 make The Games. There are only few meets that have this format, The Olympics, The Trials, World Championships, and The NCAA Championships.