Hi Everyone,

I'll try my best to keep everyone up-to-date with what's happening over in Penang with my Blackberry. Unfortunately, my blackberry doesn't let me post directly to the forum so if some people can send me their emails to piranhas<at>gmail.com I will send you the results as I can send them.

They only thing I ask in return is that you repost the results on this thread.

Rob Chang
Piranhas DBC

Good luck to all Canadian teams in Penang!

Have fun racing each other in a warmer climate 18hrs from home. Support that IDBF. Can someone dontate $150 to them for me while you are there. I was looking for a charity this year to donate some money to. That $150 donation is probaly what you all are paying to go to the party that will run out of food and beer.

But have a good time.

Tx Rob

if you are interested, the ohdbc preemies have made themselves a blog:

http://ohdbcpremierwomens.blogspot.com/

I don't know what their plans are for posting results, but they seem to be posting updates at least.

Ugh...they're annoying

If you want to be taken seriously, stop calling yourselves preemies. ugh.

Anonymous 12:46 PM and 2:37 PM.

Why don't you tell that to their face when they get back from Penang? Otherwise - keep your stupid little comments to yourselves.

Hey Anonymous 12:46 PM and 2:37 PM, take off your Q Division medals and go practice so you can one day keep up with these ladies. Otherwise, STFU.

These ladies are bush league but thanks Mayfair groupies for your comments. Don't the outer harbour seniors beat the "preemie crew" on a regular basis? Forget about being serious competitors. Cute names are what db is all about

Try to show a little respect to the men and women who trained hard and spent a lot of money to represent their team and country. Don't go dragging teams through the mud just because you weren't good enough to compete.

You east coast posters are brutal.....let's get back to this thread...pls post any results via Penang...any word on the 2k results?

Ok, higher than thou west coaster. Let's make more blanket statements about others (are you tracking IP's or something and linking them back to people's geographic location) - or maybe let's just shut up and wait for results.

The Seniors used to beat the Preemies, back in 2003/2004 and 2005.
The crew essentially split then to the Senior National Crew and the Club crew, and
the Preemies now have the upper hand.

It is only 2:04am Penang time...guess need to wait a bit....2k starts at 10:00am I think.

Just a friendly reminder that Toronto is nowhere near the east coast.

This is a post from Rob's email

Hello
Thanks again for agreeing to helping me keep the world informed on how the CCWC's are going. I'll post as soon as I can

Today is 2000m. It will be two sets of 13 boats. For Premier Mixed (which goes at around 9:30 and 10:15 am), Mayfair will lead off for group A. They will be followed by:
Nanyang Tech Univ (sng)
Isokaze Aioi Peirob (jpn)
SMU (sng)
PNP patriots (phl)
Broadwater Dragons (aus)
Plentitude PSKM (mal)
Putrajaya Dragons (mal)
Bay Area Dragons (usa)
Team Pyros (phl)
Dubai Flying Dragons (uae)
PDRT fireblades (phl)
Singapore PC (sng)

Group B
Gorging Dragons (can)
Penang canoe association (mal)
Pacific west (mal)
Pacific dragons (aus)
PG Dragon Boat Assoc (mal)
Verdun Adrenaline (can)
Hong Kong Island Paddling Club (hkg)
Brisbane River Dragons (aus)
GRC Dragon Team (cze)
Piranhas DBC (can) !
Wasabi Paddling Club (usa)
Uckermark DBC (ger)
SCC sudbury chiro (can)

Things are shaping up to look quite fun. These boats are heavy relative to the North American BuKs but go fast once you get them going. They turn on a dime though.

Wish us luck! Go Canada!
Suchanh DCH

Good luck to our Singaporean friends from NTU.

So who took it?

Short 2000m Results
1) mayfair 9:48. 2) chiro 9:58. 3) gorging 9:59. 4)verdun 10:12

That's all the info I was given

Also, CSDC and GG took the Senior Mixed 2000m race

Great racing and a canadian sweep on the 2000m... lets see how the rest of the week goes.
GO CANADA GO

looks like a weak field over in malaysia compared to the last CCWC , Canadians should dominate easily

Great results but in all honesty last CCWC's were also a weak field.

Mayfair looks like they are on their way to some great results.Congrats to Chiros and Gorging. Speaking of results, why are there none posted on the website except some 2006 ones? Its ludicrious.

Was G&G first or second to CSDC and what were the times?

The updates here are appreciated.

The last ccwc was fairly strong ,you probably were not a part of it

Rob's email of results

Strong start for Canada!
Csdc and G&G go 1-2 in senior

Canadians sweep mixed podium and top 4 places. 5 in the top 10.

See below for results

Results
Senior mixed 2000m
Csdc 10:07.65 with 10 second tp
G&G 10.12.60
Elb meadow masters
Brisbane river dragons
Schwerin Uhus
Powerblades
Cascades
Pond scum
Adelaide sea dragons

Premier mixed
Mayfair 9:48.53. (Went all the way around before the last three boats started)
Chiros 9:58.60
Gorging 9:59.96
Verdun 10:15.38
Padang 10:16.25
Pacific Dragons 10:20.13
Broadwater Dragons 10:21.12
Brisbane Water dragons 10:21.69
Piranhas 10:25.09

Hong Kong Island Paddling Club

GRC Dragon Team
Uckermark DBC
Nanyang tech uni
PNP patriots
PDRT Fireblades
Isokaze Aioi Peiron
Dubai flying Dragons
Bay Area Dragons
Wasabi Paddling Club
Team Pyros
Singapore PC
Plentitude PSKM
Penang Canoe Association
Putrajaya Dragons
PG Dragon Boat assoc
SMU
Pacific West.

Great job by the Canadian Mixed Crews! World Class dominiation!

I have to wonder though about the sh!t job that the IDBF is doing getting the Brit's (and other European crews) to participate in the Club Crew Championships. Seems like his countrymen are more interested in a leisure paddle in Venice than actually competing in a real dragon boat race.

What's up, Mike? Why such a lousy showing from the English side?

Venice vs. Penang?? Let me see...include wife and family or girlfriend into decision...the decision is made already.

Not everyone aspire to paddle in IDBF events, especially if they've done it already. Look at the value you get for the dollar spent and to most who skip it, it makes logical sense.

e-mail from Rob:
1. China
2. Montreal Women
3. ???
4. OHDBC

Cascades was third.

Shouldn't it be instead

1. China
2. Montreal Women
3. ???
4. Profit

Outer Harbour Senior Women GOLD in the 2000m

That's a long way to go to race your own crews from your own country.
Hope the 200m and 500m serve up better competition.

Who are the losers who keep slagging the OH Premier Women?

Did one of them reject you? Or maybe they kicked your mixed teams ass head to head.

Either way - unless you have the guts to say any of this crap to their faces, why not just STFU.

...Pirahnas were 12th in the 2k at Nationals and 9th at Worlds.

Great work by all the Canadian crews. Keep it going!

rob's email


Memory bad cuz I'm tired but here is what I remember. Will fill in tomorrow after some sleep.

Premier open (32 crews)
1. Moravian Dragons (cze) ~9:40.
2. Nymark (cze)
3-9. Can't remember but Montreal men and Sudbury are here (and in that order)
10. Rip the fondue 10:16
11. Piranhas 10:20.

In response to the one poster. Nationals was very strong but I'll wait until the end of the event until I can tell whether nationals are easier or harder. The placement of the Piranhas won't be a good guage since we doubled up open and mixed with just our mixed crew over the 2 days and raced different lineups that included many non-malaysia piranhas. than the four day regatta we are at now.


From: "SUCHANH CHUNG" <suchanh@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:19:33 -0400
To: <robbychang@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: CCWC Results

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Evening Rob,
I just posted your results on network 54

Thank you how did rip the fondue do? I have serveral friends on that team
Suchanh

Here are some results that were posted on blog.

Senior Mixed
CSDC C&G Dragons 1st place
Sony G&G Dragons 2nd place
Cascades Seniors 7th place
Pond Scum 8th place

Premier Mixed
Mayfair Predators 1st place
SCC Sudbury 2nd place
Gorging Dragons 3rd place
Verdun Adrenaline 4th place
Piranhas 9th place

Junior Mixed
Rampage Delta St Rob 3rd place

Grand Dragons Mixed
Heat Mixed 1st place
Eat Trout G&G 3rd place
Pond Scum 4th place
Cascades Seniors 6th place
White Heat 7th place

Senior Open
Sony G&G Dragons 2nd place
Montreal Masters 7th place

Senior Women
Outer Harbour DBC 1st place
CSDC G&G Dragons DSQ

Premier Women
Montreal Women 2nd place
Jaymor Cascades 3rd place
Outer Harbour DBC 4th place
Wash Machine - 3R Ds 6th place

Grand Dragon Open
Eat Trout G&G Dragons 1st place
Heat Open 2nd place

Grand Dragon Women
Heat Women 1st place
Sunwing Flyers 2nd place
Eat Trout G&G Dragons 3rd place

Premier Open
Montreal Men 6th place
SCC Sudbury 8th place
Rip the Fondue 10th place
Piranahs 11th place

好运气，以中国体育健儿的竞争在槟城。同一个世界同一个梦想！

Are those results for the 2K?

Seems like a pretty nice spot to race.

Please continue to post any more results...too exciting!! Any early results for the 200m??

THANK YOU

those are 2K results

Thanks for posting the results. Congrats to all crews!

Keep an eye on those Czechs! Moravian Open is strong. (Like many of the club crews in North America, these folks work ordinary day jobs and are not a bunch of ex-canoe paddlers.) Nymburk is also very good. Right now in Europe the Czechs have taken over the lead from the Russians and the Germans.

Premier Mixed: Gold - Mayfair 45.03, Silver - Chiro 45.53 Bronze - Gorging 46:??, 4th Piranhas (don't know the time)

got anybody the results for the juniors?
Cheers

Another 1,2.3.4 for Canada in the premier mixed 200m. The above times are correct. Gorging was 46.76. The 500m is tomorrow afternoon here in Penang. Way to tired to figure out what time that is in Central Canada!!

these folks work ordinary day jobs and are not a bunch of ex-canoe paddlers



And your point is?

It's a little embarrassing actually. Imagine if FCRCC also made the trip?

What about the men and women and seniors in the 200m

Got an email from one of the Senior Canadian women and there's no racing for them today. I guess tomorrow?

What about sr. mixed?

Imagine 43 Canadian Teams and they have to go 1/2 way around the world, spend thousands of dollars and race each other. Look at the Premier Division and you will see what I mean. Kudos to the medal winners but its a sad reflection on the overall participation from other crews around the World. And why/how does Canada get so many entries? Is it like 5 per division?

Wow, this IS very exciting but I agree, it seems a little odd how the Canadian crews are more-or-less crushing the competition.

Whatever! Go Canada!

Malaysia appears to have been a waste of money ,they paid all that money to race canadian teams .They should have stayed home and all raced here and bought their own medals . $2-3000 is alot to pay for a $10 medal

The only division that seems tough is the open which for most countries is the premier event anyway .Mixed really doesn't hold the same value in asia as the open and womens

No country places the emphasis on mixed that Canada does. In many countries it is an afterthought if considered at all. Two of the top men's teams in Sydney did not participate in mixed. The British men, despite having a very strong women's team, and the Phillipine men did not do the mixed. The Slovaks did not bring a mixed. With the Brits who knows why it's possible the women did not want to dilute their chances in "their" races as they have been toe to toe with Canada in recent years or maybe the men felt the same way. China puts all 8 women in the stern, some kind of statement there? Certainly if you want to win the nations cup you have to enter it.

I am so sick of the lame-brains that keep saying that it was a waste for our teams to go to Malaysia just to race our own country. Why can't you be proud of the fact that we have some terrific paddlers in this country! Many countries are being represented..but Canada just seems to be dominating...so far! Your jealousy and envy is spewing out of all your posts!!!! Go Canada!!

The Mens and Womens 200m finals are on Sat Morning. The Mixed 500m is Sat afternoon with the Mens and Womans 500m taking place on Sunday.
On another note, I have to admit to being a bit embarassed by some of the comments in this thread. These paddlers worked their asses off, spent alot of their own hard earned money to go and represent Canada, they are kicking some serious ass and all some of you *******s can do is lip off about what a waste of time it is. Maybe you should all go back to your rec teams and shut your mouths.

I agree... I am proud of all the teams who have trained hard and are representing our country right now...

Those people are bitter because they couldn't make any of those teams.

Go CANADA!!!

so what if they paid money to race our own??? what's better than having all the Canadian teams on top of the world?

Have you ever been to a world championship? have ever traded uniforms? have you ever stood on a podium in a different country when they played the Canadian National Anthem?

Obviously not? you never deserved to be there! Stop being a bitter a$$hole. Pick up a flag and cheer like the rest of us or don't post.

Any 500m results yet?

Best of luck to everyone, especially the Quebec crews... wish I was there.

Thanks for the results.

Mixed Premier mayfair-chiros 1-2
Mixed Senior G&G-CSDC 1-2

Riptide copped a bronze in the open 200.

Fantasitc racing. Great event. Best I've been too i think. A lot of teams participating in the Asian DB champs. Iran, Indian, indonesia, phillipines, china, japan, russia, germany all here. Fantastic. Beautiful site.

The 500m was another Canadian 1,2,3,4 sweep with the order changed a bit. This time it was Mayfair, Gorging, Sudbury, Verdun. A great race with an incredible finish by Gorging who were making up ground on Mayfair each stroke at the end. But alas it is a 500m race not a 550!! LOL A good time had by all and great sportsmanship with all 4 Canadian teams sharing the medals stage at one point.

P.S. Thanks to Gorging for the beer!!!!!

In Premier Mixed 500, 1st for Mayfair, 2nd for Gorging, 3rd for Chiro.

Rip The Fondue won Bronze in the Premier Open 200m.

CSDC/GG senior women won the 200m gold.
ODHBC Senior women won bronze in 200m

Montreal Premier Women finished second in the 200m to the Chinese team
3rd was Cascades
OHDBC Premiers finished 4th

Montreal Senior men came in 4th.

Mayfair won the 200m and the 500m gold today in the Premier Mixed.
Verdun came in 4th

imagine if dragon boat was in olympic.
it would be canadian sweep!

Ah, not quite. This is a competition for clubs not national teams. They don't even allow the playing of the national anthems of the winning clubs' country.
And even if dragon boat was in the Olympics (not likely) it would be men and women racing separately. If we were to dream in technicolor then last year's women would have come home with Olympic gold medals. Not the Canadian men though. Plus you've got to figure that if an Olympic medal were on the line you'd see much more competitive teams coming out of Europe and Asia. Even Canada would end up fielding a better team.

Given what I've seen here I think DBC needs to send the IDBF a letter stating that they will advise their clubs not to register for the 2010 CCWC until a quota of teams from other continents have committed. The reality is that Canada, and to an extent the USA, is floating this championship and it's just too expensive to continue this practice unless the clubs from Europe step up. It would be much more affordable and less time in the air to support a NACCC type event here in North America. If Euro teams want to come, no problem!

If you really want international competition then the simple solution is to field a men's or women's team. That's just what other countries care about. If that isn't your style, then stick to Canadian nationals, where the focus is on the mixed. Yes Canada sweeps the mixed at CCWC's this year but have they won men's? women's? The czech's could be saying the same thing on their silly online forums. "Why are we paying 2000 czech dollars to race Nymark and Morovian Dragons" I'm not saying Canada couldn't field a top men's team as they have proven to in 2006 in TO and the women's teams out of Canada are always top notch, but the fact is the international competition lies outside of mixed races.

GD Women - 500M Final - 8 Crews
1 - HEAT Women - CAN
2 - Adelaide Sea Dragons - AUS
3 - Wasabi Paddling Club - USA

GD Open - 500M Final - 4 Crews
1 - HEAT Open - CAN
2 - Eat Trout G&G Dragons - CAN
3 - Pond Scum - CAN

Final Medal Count GD
6 - Gold
3 - Silver

Hi all you forum nice people and trolls too. Since i don't have a blog or a facebook i'll just post here for now!

This being my 3rd CCWC and 5th race in Asia, I can tell you all with sincerity and conviction that I would not have missed it, and that I've already got my money out of the trip (going to HK and more tomorrow!!!)

The comraderie of the Canadians teams is second to none. To hear your team called to the marshalling area and then as you're walking out of your tent to hear the uproar of whistles, applause, and shouts of encouragement from your countrymen and women, most whom you don't know and live thousands of miles away is something that everyone on here should experience.

And it doesn't stop there. Teams from Japan, Australia, Singapore, Iran, all congratulation one another after the final races. The Czechs who came 1st and 2nd in the 200m ushering RIP up to the stage so that all 3 teams could be in a photo. Trading jerseys and telling stories, warming up by playing a deranged game of walking football with a mini-soccer ball, dancing at the party, and ya puking your guts out becuase you ate some bad pasta. That's what the event is about more than the times or the medals.

It was an honour to steer RIP the FONDUE, to watch these 23 guys gut it out in the heat and humidity and smog, to the point of collapsing after the race is done. Start saving your pennies for Macau 2010.

Thursday 2k races:

Senior Mixed:
1rst CSDC G&G Dragons 10.07.76 (9.57.65 + 10sec penalty)
2nd Sony G&G Dragons 10.12.l60
7th Cascades Seniors 10.36.66
8th Pond scum 10.39.59

Premier mixed:
1rst Mayfair Predators 9.48.53
2nd SCC Sudbury 9.58.60
3 Gorging Dragons 9.59.96
4 Verdun Adrenaline 10.13.58
9 Pirahnas 10.25.09

Junior Mixed
3rd Rampage Delta St Rob 11.10.95

Grand Dragons Mixed
1rst Heat Mixed PDBC 10.34.75
3rd Eat Trout G&G Dragons 10.46.78
4th Pond Scum 10.47.22
6th Cascade Seniors 11.18.50
7th White Heat - PDBC 11.18.95 (11.13.95 + 5 sec penalty)

Senior Open
2nd Sony G&G Dragons 10.25.22
7th Mtl Masters 12.11.81

Senior Women
1rst Outer Harbour 12.04.34
CSDC G&G Dragons DNF

Premier Women
2nd Mtl Women 10.44.91
3rd Jaymore Cascades 11.07.38
4th Outer Harbour Premiers 11.40.72
6th Wash Machine 3R 11.54.28

Grand Dragons Open
1rst Eat Trout G&G 10.04.35
2nd Heat Open PDBC 10.29.72

Grand Women Dragons
1rst Heat Women PDBC 11.52.22
2nd Sunwing Flyers 11.52.75 (11.47.75 + 5 sec penalty)
4th Eat Trout G&G 12.15.25

Premier Open
7th Montreal Men 10.09.90
9th SCC Sudbury 10.11.84
11th Rip the Fondue 10.16.87
12th Piranhas 10.20.56

Friday results 200m

Senior Mixed
1rst Sony G&G 45.89
3rd CSDC G&G 46.87
6th Pond scum 49.05

Premier Mixed
1rst Mayfair 45.03
2nd SCC Sudbury 45.53
3rd Gorging Dragons 46.75
4th Piranhas 47.43

Grand Dragons Open - Combined results
1rst Eat Trout G&G 47.34
2nd heat open PDBC 48.47

Grand Dragon Women
1rst Heat WOmen PDBC 55.09
4th Eat Trout G&G 55.46

Saturday Result:

Senior Open 200m
2nd Sony G&G 44.94
6th Mtl Masters 48.57

Senior Women 200m
1rst CSDC G&G Dragons 50.44
3rd OHDBC 52.03

Premier Women 200
2nd Montreal Women 49.57
3rd Jaymore Cascades 50.88
4th Wash Machine 3R 51.39
5th Outer Harbour 51.51

Premier Open 200
3rd Rip the Fondue 44.66

Grand Dragon Mixed 500m
1rt Heat Mixed PDBC 2.04.71
4th Eat Trout G&G 2.09.00
5th Pond Scum 2.09.17

Junior Mixed 500
4th Rampage Delta St Roberts 2.11.83

Senior Mixed 500
1rst Pond Scum 2.09.07
3rd Cascades Seniors 2.10.51

Senior Mixed 500
1rst Sony G&G 2.02.37
2nd CSDC G&G 2.04.95

Premier Mixed 500
1rst Mayfair 1.58.87
2nd Gorging Dragons 2.00.37
3rd SCC Sudbury 2.01.02
4th Verdun Adrenaline 2.01.71

Sorry we don't have Sunday ... From what we know:

Montreal Men finished 5th or 6th in the 500
Senior Men came in 5th
Montreal Women came in 2nd
OHDBC Women came in 4th or 5th
OHDBC Senior women 3rd
CSDC G&G Senior Women came 1st

Senior Men came in 2nd in 500m

Montreal Senior Men came in 2nd in 500m?

The CCWC were the best CCWC for Canada, and not the racing or the medals, but the ongoing support by fellow Canadians, that cheered each other Canadian team. This CCWC seemed(I could be wrong) that Canada was one team, whether you represented Canada North, South, East or West, it didn't matter. We all had respect for each other and encouraged each other to "Go for it, and compete hard" I would like to thank all of those who cheered Canada on, and I hope we can bring the same attitude and respect in any event or competition, locally or internationally. To all Canadians who went to the CCWC, thanks for your support and encouragement, we really showed the rest of the world who Canadians are . . . PFD

We all cheered Canada on....except we were racing as Clubs ??
But, we also brought back some nice shiny medals.

sir,

i am a member o the PNP (Philippine National Police ) dragon boat team
may i request for a copy of the race results in penang races
i will re post it so others can download it as well