Dragon Boat West

Get Ready for another round of Knockouts this coming weekend!

Registration is now closed. The race grid is being finalized and will be posted soon.

Here is a list of teams registered:

• Abreast Deas Divas
• Abreast in Richmond
• Abreast in Rocky Point
• Abreast Up the Creek
• Abreast with Fortitude
• Ares
• CIBC Imperial Dragons
• Creakside Masters
• Dogwood Nothin Dragons Red Team
• Dragon Hearts Beat
• Dragon Hearts Breaker
• Dragon Hybrids
• Dragon Ladies
• Eye of the Dragon
• False Creek Grandragons
• False Creek Grandragons Too
• FCRCC HP
• FCRCC Sr A Team
• FCRCC Sr A/B Team
• FCRCC Sr B Team
• FCRCC Sr C Gold Mixed
• FCRCC Women
• FLCC Fast & Furious
• FLCC Fortifide
• Gorging Dragons
• North Shore Dragon Busters
• One West
• Puppy Love
• QF Blu By U
• Raise a Little Swell
• Saggin Dragons
• Skinny Fish Paddling Club
• Splash Test Dragons
• Sudden Impact Black
• Sudden Impact Blue
• Sudden Impact Storm
• Swordfish
• Team Momentum
• Team Vortex
• The Eh Team
• Thunder Strokers
• UBC Thunderdragons
• Ultimate Bananarama Time
• Ultimate Papaya Party
• wRECking Crew

Oops..Sorry. Have added them now.

To get the ball rolling, here are my top 5 predictions;

1) CIBC Imperial Dragons  If I'm watching the correct team Saturday mornings, they look good.  Don't say I didn't warn you.
2) One West  It's probably against my better judgement but I'm putting them in second position for a 200m race.
3) Gorging Dragons I'm sorry you had to wake up so early to catch the ferry to come in third spot..but i hope the weather's was nice.  :P
4) FCRCC HP  New crop of elite paddlers.  They will need more time to gel.
Correction:
5) FCRCC Senior A  I think I had a brain freeze, not sure how I forgot about this team. J-Web has been working this team hard.
5)  Dragonheart Beat (This spots up for grabs)  If they didn't dilute themselves too much, one of their teams will take fifth spot/ Sorry Beat...too much power and experience on the FCRCC Senior A team.  

Here are my other possible fifth place finishers;

Ares: They are a fast sprint team.  
Masters of DZone: There was a lot of joking around about this "old" team but you can't replace experience down the stretch. Much respect.  Also, angrygirl will keep them all in check if they start complaining about their sore backs and achy muscles from racing the previous weekend.
Sudden Impact Black Haven't seen them this year but I heard they are working hard towards nationals.
 
To all, have a great day of racing and go prove me wrong.   The knockout is a fun race format.

Also a quick note to all out of town teams..California, Arizona, Portland, etc...you guyz better bring it this year...the Creek is full of paddlers training for this year's nationals and worlds.  Bring your best...it's not going to be easy at the big show in June.  The top three five teams could all be from the creek this year.

I think beat was entered twice by accident....going to check on that.

I can confirm that DH Beat will only be entering one team.

Thanks. We've updated the grid to reflect only one team's registration.

Race info package and race grid are available on fcrcc.com (http://www.fcrcc.com/news/spring-knockout-race-info)

Wow are there really 40 open teams? I've never seen that many Open boats out west before. Great sign. At the worlds the Open final is always the premier event. Perhaps we are starting to go that way in Canada??

In this instance, Open is just Mixed... I think 99% of the teams named are all Mixed.

Women's is Women.

It would be a very quick regatta if there were 40 open teams  :shock:

My predictions for Final A

1) One West

2/3) CIBC Imperial Dragons / FCRCC (Godly crew vs Godly coach + semi-experienced crew... hmm)

4) Gorging Dragons

5/6)  DHB / SIB (haven't seen SIB this year, but I have seen DHB paddle and they are damn speedy!)

7) Creakside Masters (can never write off the old folks... experience speaks volumes)

I just found out FCRCC senior A is not racing in the knockout.

My original predictions stands....the beat will take fifth spot.

Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's Knockout! We had quite a few nail biter races especially when we moved into the knockout rounds. All results have now been posted.

http://fcrcc.com/assets/files/Spring%20Regatta/FCRCC%20Spring%20Sprint%202013%20Final%20Results.pdf (http://fcrcc.com/assets/files/Spring%20Regatta/FCRCC%20Spring%20Sprint%202013%20Final%20Results.pdf)

Congratulations to all the winning teams! See you next year!

I want to give props to the Senior A/B/C teams who made this Knockout regatta the best organized FCRCC regatta in all my years of paddling in it. Everything was perfectly on time, all the volunteers were super helpful and friendly, and it was an enjoyable experience for my team.

It's even more awesome that most of the volunteer crew does not have any previous experience organizing a regatta!

So thanks Sr teams for the weekend! 8))