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Author Topic: 2009 San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival, Sept 26 & 27  (Read 29129 times)
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« Reply #15 on: September 27, 2009, 01:14:48 AM »
Update from one local team, Dragonhearts Magnum (borrowing a couple of Masters of D'Zone and some Sudden Impact Blacks):  

Nice venue with really really good vendors.

1) Magnum won both their mixed heats (one with a time of 2:03 and I don't recall the second time but it was a little slower), have the fastest time overall. (YEY!!)

2) Ladies (combined with Air Canada Jetstart women iirc) won their heat by 7 seconds and are second overall so far for the womens'.

3) Gents (also combined with jetstart) came second in their heat by one second and are third overall. Magnum have 4 more races. Womens' Finals at 0800 and Mens' Finals at 0812. Visitors' cup at 1030 and semi-final at 1230. The final should be at 1600.

I'll add more updates as I get them. Good luck Magnum (and of course masters and SIBers)!
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« Reply #16 on: September 27, 2009, 10:27:03 AM »
Got an update from Treasure Island!!

Womens Race': Magnum, SIB & Jetstart got SILVER!
Mens' Race: Magnum, SIB, Masters and Jetstart: GOLD!!
Masters Race: GOLD!!
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« Reply #17 on: September 27, 2009, 02:50:37 PM »
Magnum got silver in the visitor's cup with air canada jetstart taking the gold by 0.5 of a second.

Magnum got first in their semi-final. Jetstart are out of the final so it's down to Magnum to keep up the curse.
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« Reply #18 on: September 27, 2009, 04:43:45 PM »
Magnum got second in Comp A, no other details sent.
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« Reply #19 on: September 27, 2009, 04:57:27 PM »
Edbrc Got Pho? Got gold in comp B
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« Reply #20 on: September 27, 2009, 07:21:50 PM »
Unofficial Comp A medal placings:
1st LA Racing Dragons
2nd Dragonhearts Magnum (+0.44)
3rd A Portland team (go easy on me, I wasn't told who! Smile )

Congrats to LARD on their win.
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« Reply #21 on: September 27, 2009, 09:03:39 PM »
Sigh......The Curse is back...Good Job Magnum (and EDBRC...) U represented well!
Next year.....Play the US national Anthem....They haven't heard it for a while
I hope u are happy Hans... Mad
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« Reply #22 on: September 27, 2009, 09:14:46 PM »
Quote from: Lethal Weapon on September 27, 2009, 09:03:39 PM
Next year.....Play the US national Anthem....They haven't heard it for a while


looks like they did

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« Reply #23 on: September 28, 2009, 01:41:07 PM »
That Portland team that took bronze in Comp. A is the Portland Fire Dragons.
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« Reply #24 on: September 28, 2009, 03:52:44 PM »
FYI - LARD's win wasn't 100%American.  Our caller is Canadian.  Wink
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« Reply #25 on: September 29, 2009, 06:46:11 AM »
Here's a link to Phil's Video of the Comp A Mixed Finals (both vimeo & youtube)

http://readyandreach.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/in-boat-video-09-sf-treasure-island-dragonboat-tournament-comp-a-mixed-final-teamlard-1st-place/
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« Reply #26 on: September 29, 2009, 07:47:04 AM »
Congrats to all teams that made it to the Comp A finals. Those video cameras are just awesome!
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« Reply #27 on: September 29, 2009, 08:00:13 AM »
Quote from: LARDCore on September 29, 2009, 06:46:11 AM
Here's a link to Phil's Video of the Comp A Mixed Finals (both vimeo & youtube)

http://readyandreach.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/in-boat-video-09-sf-treasure-island-dragonboat-tournament-comp-a-mixed-final-teamlard-1st-place/



Needs a good background song like last year's
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« Reply #28 on: September 29, 2009, 08:16:01 AM »
The music from last year was the melodramatic music that the tournament plays and not added in by Phil.

Great racing and video!
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« Reply #29 on: September 29, 2009, 04:33:04 PM »
Hi All,

It was an outstanding weekend of racing with spectacular hot weather throughout (though the more traditional breeze returned on Sunday afternoon). The racing was fierce and the festival bigger than ever.  My thanks to all of the teams for their support of our event...many have come for many years in a row now.

A big congrats to LARD for taking top honors and my personal thanks to them for sparing me from having to hear the Canadian anthem again (though our northern friends snuck it in a few times earlier in the awards ceremony anyway... very tacky ha ha!).  It was certainly a pleasure to have puppy up on stage with me at the end to hear the Star-Spangled Banner ! 

We already have some thoughts on what we can improve on for next year and will follow up with the team captains for more, but if you have any additional thoughts on what you liked, impressions, things to be improved upon, I'd love to hear them. 

As always, it is the broader DB community that helps to make this sport so special. 

Cheers!


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