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[Colossus]

did people have fun?

yup!

[DBWTim]

Good racing everyone.

Offical results will be coming as soon as the Kelowna festival website has it up (I must say that I find it pretty funny that the banner graphic for the Kelowna Festival is an aerial photo of the Vancouver festival from several years ago.)


 But here's the unofficial Platinum A Final Results...

1st - Team Success
2nd - Pacific Reach
3rd - FCRCC Mixed
4th - Specialty Subaru Legacy
5th - Alpha Dragons Red
6th - Absolute Adrenaline

If someone could post some more unofficial results that would be great.

It was a good festival to closing out the season with some surprises in the results. Saturday morning was the closest thing to a nightmare. With the glare coming off the water in the morning and some not-so-flat water, some steerspeople had some problems staying in their lanes. I heard that there was something like three steerspeople that were pulled off the boats since they were not comfortable steering for the weekend. The racing was pretty good even with the usual odd aspects of the  Kelowna race course. Lots of wet bodies by the last race on Sunday. There were even some naked and pantless bodies...

The boats were all 6-16s this year so teams didn't need to re-adjust to different boats. I do have to question the age and conditions of the boats though.

My biggest complaint would be the race announcer who couldn't get the team names right most of the time. All in all.. great last race of the season.  Congrats to all teams involved.

[Colossus]

part of the Diamond A final results:

1. Just Dragon Fresh Along
2. Synergy J-Speed
3. Eye of the Dragon (i think?)
4. Roli (i think?)


all in all, a great weekend of racing and partying.  my only complaint was...   well, i wasn't affected during the festival, but the condition of at least two of the boats to my knowledge.  the green boat used for the odd # races in lane 4 on sunday as well as the army boat have HORRID seats in the middle (seats 4-6).  they are cupped and seperate from the side of the boat.  more than a few times during practices in the army boat, i've snagged and ripped chunks of my thigh and shorts on the broken seats, and the cupped seats are awful to paddle on.

[coach]

3. Eye of the Dragon (i think?) 4. Roli (i think?)

Eye of the Dragon was 3rd.

Subaru Outback was 4th.

Roli was in the Diamond B final.

[Colossus]

3. Eye of the Dragon (i think?) 4. Roli (i think?)

Eye of the Dragon was 3rd.

Subaru Outback was 4th.

Roli was in the Diamond B final.

oops.  yeah, thats right.  i can't remember who else was in the A-final.

[Heather]

I was paddling with the Navy team for this weekend (I guess I am now officially a paddle slut!), but some of us left too quickly to catch the ferry, so I don't know what the outcome was for Platinum B final.  Any clues?

[turtle_turtle]

Congrats to ALL teams that competed this weekend.   Some teams just blew me away!  Especially Eye of The Dragon, placing 3rd in Diamond A, with 50% blind paddlers.  

aaaaand...

I'm going to make a prediction!  Team SUCCESS is gonna beat out FCRCC Mixed!  

I was right!!  Congrats SUCCESS!  Damn... I shoulda bet money on this one.

[kid]

Who is VIPIDI?

[Heather]

VIPIDI is a combination of Dragonauts, The New PI (formerly Precision Impossible) and the GRPC United Team.

[Colossus]

Congrats to ALL teams that competed this weekend.   Some teams just blew me away!  Especially Eye of The Dragon, placing 3rd in Diamond A, with 50% blind paddlers.  

i coiuldn't agree more!  they were simply amazing.  they kept right up with JDFA for most of the race, but then J-speed and JDFA were able to surge ahead at the end (very close race)

[Senna]

Congrats to ALL teams that competed this weekend.   Some teams just blew me away!  Especially Eye of The Dragon, placing 3rd in Diamond A, with 50% blind paddlers.  

Congrats to Eye of the Dragon, I've always been impressed by their timing and power.

Senna

[Swordfish]

Team Success' finish was amazing!  It looked like they were hanging around 4th at the 3/4 mark but they really turned it at the end.  Here's Success at the finish.  

[Why Me]

I heard Success won by riding False Creeks wash which shot them ahead near the finish, smart move appears it paid off .Success had been behind False creek & PR by at least 3 seconds and PR beat Success in the semi but in racing anything can happen as they say and it did .

 The question that came up during a protest was ...did Success finish in the correct lane ?

[tiger]

The question that came up during a protest was ...did Success finish in the correct lane ?

Swordfish's picture proves that they did finish in their lane.  See 2 buoys on the left of Success which means they were lane 2.  First buoy is the outside of the course, next one delineates where lane 1 and 2 are and you don't see a third buoy which means they were in lane 2.

No question there.

[Keen Man]

So glad this "upset victory" came out of lane 2 and not lane 6.

I couldn't have handled reading about the so called "express lane" anymore.