Looking at the results it looks like slots will go 12 to females, 28 to males (only 1 non AG winner female gets a slot)
Seems to benefit the M30-34 age the most with 7 or 8 getting slots. That being said 9th in the 30-34 AG was 15th overall!
M30-34 was on fire yesterday. Assuming everyone offered takes a slot, it would go to roughly 30th performance ranked. 17 slots in the performance pool, I think when I looked last night.
WHAT!!! 
M30-34 got 8 slots!!! 
The whole system needs to be redone!! This is a travesty of justice!! Their multiplier definitely has to be wrong. We can’t have this many slots going to one age group. The old system was better.
- Written sarcastically by a M55-59
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Interested to hear how far the Kona roll-downs went?
Was anyone there who could give an update?
…and 70.3 WC Nice…
Seemed like a very competitive event judging from my AG’s (m45-49) results. I guess the time in the Kona qualifying cycle brings out a lot of fast people.
So went to roll down
Of the 1st place slots
One male rolled to 2nd
One female to 2nd
One female to 3rd
All performance slots were taken with no roll - went to 32 on the list.
M30-34 got 7 slots - that last slot was me (overall slot 38/40)
I finished 7th in AG, 12th overall.
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Aloha!
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Wow, so no one in the performance pool let their slot roll down?
Guessing from your email that 35-39 got 3 slots as you were slot 38/40 and two slots lower was 3rd in 35 - 39.
So for the competitive male age groups you needed to be in the ~9:20 zone to get a spot?
Correct the last slot went to a 9:20:30 age graded time
There was one male 30-34 who went 9:20:31… To miss a slot by 1 sec
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The race conditions I think were ideal for racing. Temps around 60, wind wasn’t crazy. Around 175 people cracked 11 hours yesterday, while normally you can expect 40-60 to be under 11 hours for that race.
I wouldn’t take that 9:20 age graded time to be a normal thing at IMWI going forward.
Very interesting that nobody in the performance pool deferred though. Shows that those fast folks really showed up with a mission to get to Kona. Hopefully for me they all decided to race Wisconsin instead of trying out Maryland 
Wow, It seems there is a distinct difference between Kona demand in the US compared to outside. If this turns out to be true then I suspect that there are a number of factors behind it. Either way, it will be interesting to see whether this is happening or just a quirk of the early results.
I don’t think that IM will care very much - they will clearly be able to fill the Kona field and won’t care too much the individual ranking of each person accepting a spot. It is more a curiosity if such a big difference as between the Wisconsin and Copenhagen roll-downs continues.
Where do you see the results (coefficients applied)? I’m using the mobile app and I can’t find them…
Thx
On the Info page, sort of lower right Age Graded Times
Merci 
Congrats!!!
This doesn’t surprise me. Kona has always been in higher demand in the US. Just so difficult to get there from Europe (they just do Roth instead lol)
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Do I was talking to my buddy who went to the allocation yesterday. He was 2nd in M40-44, 11th in the AG scoring, so he got his slot. He said people were very upset they didn’t get slots, people who under the old system would have. Which I actually think is great. Make it hard. He’s on Roka Standard racing, the old EMJ squad so very fast dudes, and half their team didn’t make it either.
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I’m so confused. The ironman App list has the AG division winners in the top 40 but you’re saying it only goes to 32 on the list??
Not all AG winners are in the top 40 age graded times. There are some ranked lower but they still get offered slots before the performance pool.
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