Make your predictions ,its time to stir up the pot .

We know Mayfair, the Beasts and FCRCC are in ,and its looking like 1 hell of a battle coming up . Central meets both coasts , the big 3 in the house

It should be interesting. Until I see otherwise my money is still on Mayfair. For entertainment sake I hope that every crew brings their A game!

My guess it will be a dog fight with Mayfair and False Creek.

According to the DBC website the teams in for Nationals are not out yet
but for the National team trials is as follows so far:
Junior
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Women:
PDBC, Fairport
Open:
PDBC, Fairport
MIxed:
PDBC and 2 Fairport teams

Premier
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Women:
National Dragon Boat Club
Open:
FRCC (East meets West),Rip the Fondue
Mixed:
FRCC, Mayfair

Senior
=======
Women:
OHDBC Sr Women, Hot Splashes, PDBC, TOHD, Sunwing Flyers
Open:
Eat Trout
Mixed:
Eat Trout

Mayfair and False Creek - rematch of 2006 CCWC

Mayfair will win this time.

The Beasts are battling out with Hydro, Chiro, etc. for third.

Do you mean FRCC and Mayfair are doing the team trials as well as the nationals. Wow!!!!

FCRCC will come to the party as they did before and will more than likely leave the same way they did last time ,they live for these chances

FC is still the team...

FCRCC is doing the National Team Trials and Mayfair is going to the Club Crews . A good portion of the FCRCC team are also competeing at the 2008 World Outrigger Sprint Championships in Sacramento ,California in Aug following the NTT's so they should be in very good form when they arrive and if they all stay for the Canadian Nationals after the NTT's

It will be all Beasts and Mayfair. Its a coin toss as to who wins. Both excellent teams w/ members from the 2007 Worlds. Too bad Events alive doesn't race but are the not just the Rideau Canoe Club?

The Beasts have some very good paddlers, but they don't have near the depth that False Creek and Mayfair have.
I think False Creek wins narrowly over Mayfair, the Beasts will be back a bit and may not even get third over some of the other very good crews like Hydro, etc.

The Beasts have more depth than you are aware of. Just sayin'.

The Dragon Beasts won both the Men's and Mixed Championships using a mixed crew at Lachine.

It's almost comical that the majority of this forum has no idea who the Beasts
are, and the pedigree they have in the boat.

"The Beasts have some very good paddlers, but they don't have near the depth that False Creek and Mayfair have."

I think the Beasts have more depth, but not as good Dragon Boat paddlers.

And I think it is going to rain this weekend. We shall see.

"It's almost comical that the majority of this forum has no idea who the Beasts
are, and the pedigree they have in the boat."

you can find more pedigree on the dog food shelf than in that boat

Okay, kudos to a good one liner. Don't agree, but it made me chuckle.

"The Dragon Beasts won both the Men's and Mixed Championships using a mixed crew at Lachine."

You seem to forget which of these mixed teams took second at the 2007 World Championships .Lachine is a cakewalk in comparision

Look at the times FCRCC mixed just posted in Alcan for example ,I suspect they will bring their game to us .The mixed A final was just prior to Open final and if you compare the times for their mixed crew its almost 3 seconds faster than the second and third place open crews in the mens final just minutes later . It's going to be very interesting to see how this ends up

It appears that some are confusing the NTT and the "nationals". What I read is that in the NTT only Mayfair and FCRCC are entered in the Premier mixed. the information on the dbcanada site is pretty old however.

Mayfair is not entered in the NTT's ,just FCRCC . Mayfair and FCRCC are both entered in the Canadian Nationals which follows the NTT's .The NTT's are on the Friday and Nationals are Sat & Sunday .Hope that clears things up for those confused

A large number of Mayfair paddlers will be racing in one of the mixed crews in the premier age group at NTTs, but it will not be an exclusively Mayfair crew. Of course, Mayfair will race their club crew at the Nationals.

You say Mayfair is not racing in the NTT, the below from dbcanada's site says otherwise. Who has the real scoop?

Premier
========
Women:
National Dragon Boat Club
Open:
FRCC (East meets West),Rip the Fondue
Mixed:
FRCC, Mayfair

probably just the mayfair name, but boosted with Halifax people.

I think the success is getting to Rip the Fondue's heads. FCRCC is going to destroy them.

lol

The Mayfair crew registered for NTT's is not just usual Mayfair paddlers. There will be some Nova Scotians in the boat. I see this boat winning it all, FCRCC dissapointed in Australia.

False Creek will win nothing at NTT's or Nationals. Lets just face it, they are not good.

In all seriousness outside from the trash talk FCRCC is very very strong. I don't think they'll win the mixed sanction (Mayfair plus external help should be an insane crew), but they'll romp the open. RTF < FCRCC < (MCC+Friends)

Don't Mayfair have enough National paddlers already ??

FCRCC disappointed in Australia?

Where the F#$@ were you?
Oh! I know on your couch eating bonbons, posting on the forum wishing you were on a National team.

You people are such haters always jumping on the bandwagon trashing a team that is clearly better than yours.

Grow up and support your National teams.

What kills me here is how really stupid some of you are .Do you actually think that the team that was supposed to go to Australia (but jammed at the last minute) would of placed in the top 3 in the Open . You are idiots !

Both the first and second place teams (in open) set new World Record times with the Philipines doing it first and then the USA doing it in the final .I highly doubt the team Canada that was originally put together would of set any new world record .They barely beat FCRCC at the last NTT's but hey you all all allowed to dream

The "FCRCC (East meets West)" premier team at the NTT is a mix of paddlers from FCRCC, Ontario (Mayfair?), and the Beasts.

Then its not FRCC is it? That will be a very good team. Is that for Premier Open? RTF is going to get crushed.

Mayfair is awesome.They would crush FCRCC without whatever help they are getting. The help just makes it a bloodbath.

Enjoy your long flight back to Vancouver FCRCC and we will see you again in 2 years for another humiliating loss.

HaHaHa , they so love the mental game .Please keep humoring them !

Trust me, the comments are being made to help FC...the FC supporters could be from anywhere...

Hmmm last time False Creek went home from Toronto it was with a bunch of gold medals from the CC's. It would appear that it was the rest of the teams that were humiliated.....

Thank heavens that no one from any of the contending teams cares about this stuff...

NTTs aside, anybody seen a list of teams for Nationals?

June 28th :


" Enjoy your long flight back to Vancouver FCRCC and we will see you again in 2 years for another humiliating loss."

Comments like this make people laugh at dragon boating. Or quit the sport.

(Don't matter if it's intended to be funny (?), ironic , sarcastic or whatever)

to above. actually it does not. the comments on this forum represent a very small sub section of dragon boaters in general. it's usually the same people. respect amongst the teams is there, just not here.
Good luck to all teams that are trying to represent Canada at the worlds.

to further clearify my comments above...it does not make people quit the sport.

What kills me here is how really stupid some of you are .Do you actually think that the team that was supposed to go to Australia (but jammed at the last minute) would of placed in the top 3 in the Open . You are idiots !
_____________________________________________

Would HAVE, could HAVE, should HAVE.

Now who is the IDIOT?

yes I do think that and I am quitting the sport because of all the hurtful things said on this site.

1. Beasts (shocker! never trusted those right coast folk though.jk. There great!)
2. Mayfair ( being from the Central i want them to win I just duno. )
3. Faulse Creek ( Always fast)
4. Hydro's ( ya they are that good.)

Who else is going to the canadian championships?

Any final word on the team trials?
Did RTF pull out of the Premier Open men?
Just Mayfair and "East meets West" in Premier Mixed?
Anyone else step up to challenge Eat Trout in Senior Men?

RTF did pull out of the Premier Open. The entry goes to the False Creek / Mayfair crew... maybe with some Beasts thrown in as well.

Mayfair/Beasts are racing False Creek for Premier Mixed.

Eat Trout is racing Grand Master, not senior (the DBC website is wrong and shows the same entries for both senior and grand master). Stan M. has the entries for Mixed and Men's, and there is a raceoff for the Women's entry.

The Jim Farintosh/Albert MacDonald/Tim Schaus syndicates have the senior entries (Mixed, Mens, Womens) by acclamation.

Heard that PDBC and Fairport held their own raceoff for junior yesterday. Results?

So the Nationals are this weekend, anyone have any idea when DBC plans on producing a schedule?

Later today, I've heard.

These things usually come out 1 week early.

Our captain just sent this out:

Grand Dragon Mixed
1 Eat Trout
2 Heat
3 White Heat

Junior Mixed
4 pdbc (U18)
5 St.Roberts Rampage Delta (U18)
6 Trout Fry (U16)

Premier Mixed
7 Aquaholics
8 Dragon Beasts
9 FCRCC
10 Hammerheads
11 Hanalei
12 Hydrophobic Dragons
13 Killer Koi
14 Mayfair Predators
15 MDBC Adrenaline
16 pdbc
17 Piranhas
18 SCC Sudbury Team Chiro
19 Stroke the Dragon
20 Team Chaos
21 Toba Dragon Boat
22 Verdun DBC Adrenaline
23 CSDC (Senior)

Premier Open
24 Heat (GD)
25 Adrenaline Men
26 Dragon Beasts
27 Mahjongg Men
28 Piranhas
29 Rip the Fondue
30 CSDC (Senior)

Grand Dragon Women
31 Eat Trout
32 Heat

Premier Women
33 MDBC Women
34 OHDBC Premier Women

Senior Women
35 CSDC
36 OHDBC

Is this for the NTT's?

Hardly anyone is competing except for premier mixed. Where are all the mens and womens teams?

READ THE MESSAGE TITLE!

These are the teams competing at the Canadian Championships on the weekend. NTT's will be held on the Friday.

That is the Canadians. NTT is as follows:

Grand Dragon Mixed
Eat Trout - Stan Machacek

Grand Dragon Open
Eat Trout - Stan Machachek

Grand Dragon Women
OHDBC Sr Women/Grand Master - Fred Heese
HEAT - Scott Murray
TOHD - Stephen Kwok
Sunwing Flyers - Nancy Jones

Junior Mixed
PDBC - Scott Murray
Fairport - Anina Sakaguchi

Junior Open
PDBC - Scott Murray
Fairport - Anina Sakaguchi

Junior Women
PDBC - Scott Murray
Fairport - Anina Sakaguchi

Premier Mixed
Western Mixed - Kamini Jain
Premier Mixed - Jim Farintosh

Premier Open
East Meets West - Kamini Jain

Premier Women
NDC Women - Gavin Maxwell

Senior Mixed
Dragon Boat East - Albert McDondald

Senior Open
Dragon Boat East - Albert McDondald

Senior Women
Dragon Boat East - Tim Schaus/Kirk Poulos

U23 Mixed
Fairport - Jonathon Hollins
PDBC - Scott Murray

U23 Open
Fairport - Jonathon Hollins
PDBC - Scott Murray

U23 Women
Fairport - Jonathon Hollins
PDBC - Scott Murray

That's a stellar collection of mixed teams.

This is gonna be an awesome weekend of racing.

Can't wait.
Let the predictions begin. PD I hope your scoring this one because this will be "the festival" in 2008!

Killer Koi = Big Fish

Toba Dragon Boat = a Manitoba team?

Who is Toba Dragon Boat?

I hope there will be a beer tent for this event. With so many outside the province teams coming, we should host a big party onsite to celebrate a weekend of racing & NTTs.

Grand Dragon Mixed
1 Eat Trout
2 Heat
3 White Heat

Junior Mixed
1) pdbc (U18)
2) St.Roberts Rampage Delta (U18)
3) Trout Fry (U16)

Premier Mixed
1) Mayfair Predators
2) FCRCC
3) Dragon Beasts
4) Hydrophobic Dragons
5) SCC Sudbury Team Chiro
6) CSDC (Senior)
7) Hanalei
8) Piranhas
9) MDBC Adrenaline
10) Team Chaos
11) Verdun DBC Adrenaline
11) Hammerheads
13) Killer Koi (Big Fish)
14) pdbc
15) Toba Dragon Boat
16) Stroke the Dragon
17) Aquaholics

Premier Open
1) Dragon Beasts
2) CSDC (Senior)
3) Rip the Fondue
4) Mahjongg Men
5) Adrenaline Men
6) Piranhas
7) Heat (GD)

Grand Dragon Women
1) Eat Trout
2) Heat

Premier Women
1) MDBC Women
2) OHDBC Premier Women

Senior Women
1) CSDC
2) OHDBC

Looks like they are running 4 boat finals. A lot of A-division stalwarts are going to not make it for the first time in years.

Saturday July 19, 2008
8:00 am – 2:30pm 500m All Classes
2:00 pm 2000m Open and Women

Sunday July 20, 2008
8:00am – 2:00pm 200m All Classes
1:00pm 2000m Mixed

Maurice I think you may have your "Adrenalines" mixed up.

Toba Dragons are the River City Dragons from Winnipeg. They came in 4th in the Minor Final (10th overall) at the Penang race off in Calgary last year. Although it looks like they have pulled a 2:01 in a regatta this year (doesn't mean much without context).

Ouch, looks like it's going to be a dogfight just to make the 'C' Division.

Go roughriders!

anyone know how/when they do the lane draw?

Final draw is due out wednesday.

wow, the list of teams are amazing! can't wait to watch and race this weekend!
i agree with the previous post, it's going to be extremely hard to make it into A Final. most of the top teams from Center island race would end up in B or C division with this level competition.

1) Mayfair Predators
2) FCRCC
3) Dragon Beasts
4) Hydrophobic Dragons
5) SCC Sudbury Team Chiro
6) CSDC (Senior)

can we assume top 3 spots are locked for mayfair, fcrcc and Beast?
Hydro did extremely well over the years and have shown everyone they are the real deal.

even with such improvement, i think it's going to be a close call between csdc, chiro and hydro

any input?

It's gonna be hard for anybody to make the A final in the premier mixed. Except for maybe False Creek and Mayfair. Most of the races are going to be four lanes. Does this mean the lanes will be wider. Can we say less susceptible to wash riding?

Well, maybe not. But pretty close.

Looks like only a few players are missing, including Scotia Rouge, G&G, Wong's Dragonslayers, and...Mojo's Reloaded?!?! (How the f#ck did they get into the top 10 anyhow?)

So a few missing crews but otherwise a very, very competitive field.

Someone up there had it right, Mayfair, FCRCC and Beasts as Top 3 contenders, Hydro, Seniors and Chiro fighting for the 4th spot in the A Final. But as usual watch out for Hanalei to try to slide in there.

After that I think you have to take Piranhas seriously either as 4th in A or first in B, being challenged by the Adrenalines of Montreal.

Hammerheads and Chaos will be out to prove they're above the rest of the pack, with Big Fish also trying to mount a charge to stay out of the basement division.

Fun stuff. It's going to be nervous times at the results board!

A Division:

Agreed - FCRCC - Mayfair and The Beasts are a lock. This is going to be a great, great race.

I think Hydro will be the 4th team in.

B Division:

CSDC Seniors, Chiro, Hanalei and Piranhas make this division - and finish in that order.

C Division:

This is going to be a great dog fight indeed. Too tough to call!

Verdun should top this group, with Big Fish - Hammerheads, Chaos and PDBC battling hard.

The rest:
TOBA - complete wildcard. Could factor in C maybe? Would be surprised if they finished any higher than that.

Montreal Adrenaline - much better then Stroke the Dragon, and Aquaholics - but not as good as Verdun, hammerheads etc...

Jetstart gave Chiro a good wake up call over the weekend, i intend to see them push that much harder this coming weekend

4 lanes per race which means the lanes could potentially be wider? does that mean hanalei can't wash ride?

GEEZ enough with wash riding and how they always ride it

who cares, it's old news,

i don't think any top team will ride wash in this event. this is the biggest and most competitive events for yrs,

any top tier teams out there who wants to prove themselve to be superior won't be thinking of riding wash....

"any top tier teams out there who wants to prove themselve to be superior won't be thinking of riding wash.... "

Damn, nearly coughed up coffee through my nose reading that!

You serious? "Superior" teams understand wash riding, both how to do it and to best avoid being victimized by it.

As for lanes, standard IDBF width will be fine, thanks. Just keep the course out in the deep water.

Don't underestimate the Aquaholics.

JJ will take them to victory.

DYN-O-MITE!!

who and where Aquaholics from?

Mayfair are in tough here...

Maybe but they will still pull it out