Everything is a matter of degrees. for example, we ran European meets in a grouping, so the short period between meets weould be less than required over a long period, so the group of meets because one big stimulus fron which a supercompensation could be achieved. you can see the description of this in Ben’s 1987 prep for Rome (5 meets in 13 days followed by 10day taper) A longer period of comp would have been too much to bounce back from.