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[Hans]

Hi All, 

Haven't been too active on the posting front for a few seasons but thought that I'd zip out a quick thanks for all of the support the DB community has given (and in particular the West Coast DB community) to the San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival.   

I was quite surprised during these rougher economic times to see strong than ever demand for teams coming to SF.  We sold out early even after expanding the slots for visiting crews.  We now have a record 36 visiting crews that will be joining 30 local crews in the Rec/Comp division for what looks to be a great weekend of racing!   Adding the Rec/Comp to our Novice/Corporate and High School divisions and we have a fun but portly race grid that is bulging at the seems along with the secondary race divisions (Gender, Masters, and visiting team).

We'll try to get some results up as soon as possible so you can track how your favorite crews are doing.   Despite the race in Shanghai, the Canadian contingent coming down looks solid and set to  try to extend the tradition of singing O'Canada at the awards ceremony.   Certainly the local and other visiting crews will try to cast their vote against that outcome !  But it should be fun regardless and thanks again for your support. 

Best,

Hans
www.SFDragonboat.com
www.CDBA.org


VISITING CREWS:
Arizona Gila Dragons   Arizona
Austin Coolers   Austin, TX
Dragnum   Calgary
Topmade Fusion   Calgary
EDBRC - Got Pho?   Edmonton
Edmonton River Rats   Edmonton
Raising Hull   Edmonton
Wahine Kei Waka   Edmonton
Houston Heat   Houston, TX
KDBC Spirit   Kelowna, BC
Electric Dragons   Los Angeles
Killer Guppies   Los Angeles
LARD Black   Los Angeles
LARD Red   Los Angeles
Rogue Thunder   Los Angeles
Space Dragons Blue   Los Angeles
Space Dragons Red   Los Angeles
Space Dragons White   Los Angeles
Team DPW I   Los Angeles
Team DPW II   Los Angeles
KLM Blue Dragons   Netherlands
Despirit Housewives   Penticton, BC
Anniemaniacs   Portland
Portland Fire Dragons   Portland
Portland Golden Dragons   Portland
Wasabi Mixed   Portland, OR
Wasabi Women   Portland, OR
CentraCoast SurviveOars   San Luis Obispo / Morro Bay
Morro Dragons   San Luis Obispo / Morro Bay
Hot Sake   Seattle
Jetstart   Toronto
TD Lightning   Vancouver
Team LifeScan   Vancouver
The Eh Team   Vancouver
Vancity Thunder Dragons   Vancouver
Dragon Hearts Magnum   Vancouver, BC

LOCAL SF BAY AREA CREWS:

Absolute Straight Up
Absolute On the Rocks
Alameda Dragon Flyers - Posey
Alameda Dragon Flyers - Webster
BAD Dragons 1
BAD Dragons 1
BAD Dragons 3
Cal Paddling Bears
Davis Racing Dragons (DRD)
DieselFish I
DieselFish II
Dragon Healers Gold
Dragon Healers Red
Dragon Healers
Dragon Warriors 1
Dragon Warriors 2
Dragon Warriors 3
DragonMax I
DragonMax II
KP Dragons - Blueberry
KP Dragons - Broccoli
Lightwave
Paddle Past Cancer
Renegades
Ripple Fast
Ripple Furious
San Francisco Rainbow Koi
Suen Feng Loong (SFL)
Suen Feng Loong College (SFL)
Team Evolution

[Mike]

Race grids are up 

http://www.sfdragonboat.com/documents/2009/2009_sfidbf_race_schedule.xls

[NFW]

15 different cities and 3 countries! The competitions looks to be exciting!

Thank you Hans and Dragon Warriors for the race organization and for hosting Magnum in SF!
We look forward to the upcoming weekend of fun.

[mappingguy]

Good luck to all the teams going to SF especially the canadian teams!    Kick some butt False Creek teams!   

[Danimal]

Counting on you Magnum to keep the Canadian winning streak going!  Best of luck to you and the other Canadian teams competing in San Francisco. 

[NFW]

Thanks! We will paddle our hearts out!



And perhaps now that our jersey just got an upgrade, we can win it to make it 4 years in a row lol

[Martini]

Go Canada Go!

We at Dragnum will do our most to keep the streak alive.

Good luck to all Canandian Teams, except Edmonton of course! (Kidding!)

[EWL]

Hahaha... what did Edmonton ever do? Hehehe...

[Special K]

Good luck Dragnum!
(& all other Canadian teams)

I was lucky enough to be on the crew that broke the curse and what an amazing race and time it was, apparently the audience went silent 3/4's through the race when they realized we were winning. I recall the local teams checking out our times throughout the day and noticing that we were seconds behind in other heats. Never worry about that, it's the head to head racing that counts.

Hopefully Puppy will be there to cheer you on and put a lucky loonie under your drum.

Paddle your hearts out!

Kelli

PS: It was great racing against you in Kelowna, we enjoyed the push to excel (even at our age  ) and to race like we were 20 again!

[StrokeItHard]

Refer to down there lol. Sorry, double post.

[StrokeItHard]

Good luck Dragnum!
(& all other Canadian teams)

I was lucky enough to be on the crew that broke the curse and what an amazing race and time it was, apparently the audience went silent 3/4's through the race when they realized we were winning. I recall the local teams checking out our times throughout the day and noticing that we were seconds behind in other heats. Never worry about that, it's the head to head racing that counts.

Hopefully Puppy will be there to cheer you on and put a lucky loonie under your drum.

Paddle your hearts out!

Kelli

PS: It was great racing against you in Kelowna, we enjoyed the push to excel (even at our age  ) and to race like we were 20 again!

Haha I think you're getting Dragon Hearts Magnum confused with Dragnum. Haha, if you meant us Magnum paddlers, it was great racing Masters this past weekend in the semis and finals! You guys definitely pushed us to our limits! Hope both rosters stay strong, so we can continue to push each other next season!

[Special K]

See what age can do to a person  !

Thanks for clarifying, all those black uniforms gets me confused.

Have a great time regardless.

[BKS8]

Any results from the Canadian teams?

[IronGiant]

A few tweets out there ... canucks must be busy soaking up Cali wine ...

teamlard: LARD Black 1st place in second seeding race. #dragonboat http://yfrog.com/0rmc2yj
about 7 hours ago from Tweetie

teamlard:  LARD Black 1st place in their 1st seeding race, LARD Red 2nd place in their first seeding race. http://bit.ly/2NW8OM ... about 9 hours ago from Tweetie

teamlard: LARD Black 1st place in second seeding race. #dragonboat http://yfrog.com/0rmc2yj

dfipps: we just won 3rd place at the SF Dragon Boat Novice Div at SF Dragon Boat Festival ...about 3 hours ago from mobile web

Catbare:Am at SF Dragon Boat racing for the PG&E Power Dragons! We won the 1st of 3 races. Next race in about 30 min... about 8 hours ago from txt
Catbare: Came in 4th...but have a good chance of taking home some bling in our final race! about 5 hours ago from txt
Dang! 5th place... It was a great day though! ... about 4 hours ago from txt

UCB's United Commercial Dragons won bronze - yay! - SF Dragon Boat Festival - http://www.sfdragonboat.com/ ...about 1 hour ago from Tweetie

[IronGiant]

Another tweet ... whermel: San Fran International dragon boat festival: 2:22, 2:17 and 2:14 (men only) ... about 2 hours ago from mobile web [Assuming has to do with KLM as Wendy is from NLD]