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[vicpaddler]

Amazing number of womens teams entered this year. Almost more than the mixed teams! Weather looks like it will be great. Should be another fun filled weekend!

http://www.nanaimodragonboat.com/pdf/2010racewelcome.pdf

[Illuminate]

"7:00-10:00 AM Shriner’s Pancake Breakfast"

3 hours of pancakes for 2 days 

[ditchddragon]

I think Puppy Love might be a dark horse tommorow.
Tides and wind made for an interesting saturday!
Dragonauts, Xtreme reach, Blu By U, Puppy Love are top boats today.

[nakedpaddler]

Great Showing PUPPY LOVE ~ way to represent "False Creek" (jokes)

[paddlemonkey]

And again Nanaimo brings the 'festive' to festival. woo hoo! 

Other festival organizers.. Please tear a page from that book!

[threesea]

Great festival as always.  Huge thanks to Blu-By-You for the first aid kit.  One point though for whomever;  Was it necessary, given the 42 mixed teams, to have two Platinum teams in the same heat?  In race 3 I think it was, Fluid Motion, last year's 6th placed team, found itself in lane 4 next to BBY in lane three.

[paddlemonkey]

You're welcome threesea...

soooo...

The qualifying process is what put fluid motion where they were.

At Nanaimo it is points based from your first two qualifiers. That is, a ranking based on points earned (based on heat placement) in your first two races. Once that ranking is established, teams tied on points are then ranked based on cumulative times for those same races.

now that being said, the first race you had with BBU was an exceptionally fast race, so the cumulative time for Fluid Motion pushed them up the rankings relative to teams with the same points. from there on the semis are predetermined based on ranking at that point.

clear as mud?

[threesea]

Excuse me but I wasn't clear on my post.  In Fluid Motion's first race on Saturday, they raced against Blu-By-You.  FM finished 6th overall (Platinum) in 2009.  Based on their 2009 result, I'd expect that FM would have been seeded in lane three this year in their first race on Saturday, non?  I understand that it all came out in the wash for Sunday, but it was a luck of the draw that FM did not race their second heat against one of the top 5 (Navy for example) which may have pushed them down into a lower division.  Make sense?

[paddlemonkey]

I see what you mean... Based on some of the other pairings on the initial race grid I would suspect that lane 3 was the only seeded lane. Under normal circumstances there are more teams to win both of their qualifiers than there are places in the platinum. Not this year however.

Thats OK tho... two races with FM = more time to flirt with gwen (or is it guen?) 

[threesea]

Guen

 

[paddlemonkey]

While we are on the spelling topic its - Blu By U 

[threesea]

...hard to read the name on their shirts when they are so far ahead.

[Lethal Weapon]

Great Showing PUPPY LOVE ~ way to represent "False Creek"  (jokes

Just to Clarify Puppy Love=Collection of Alcoholics with a Paddling Problem, no superstars or FCRCC paddlers. Mostly drunks and one homeless guy..!
Thanks to BBU for the great Care packages and hosting (the Sausage rolls were a nice attempt to fatten up the team and slow them down so I ate 1/2 of the bag myself (its all about team!))
Great Weather as usual (if only a week earlier for Nationals....sigh) and as always the best (albeit shorter than usual) beer garden (adjustments to compensate for more teams? Some of the women in the last race came off the water not being able to get a beer on Saturday ..Sacrilege!)

Hats off to Dragonauts for nipping our butts in the last 10 meters (I think we have to practice.. ) and to Navy for keeping us honest in the finals.

And talk about a fast tide....funny to see boats stuck on the sand bars....

I think next year we have to change our team name.....

[paddlemonkey]

Well Lethal, maybe if Blu eats less of those sausage rolls and you eat more, we might get those 2 seconds we needed. I'll get shannon to bake an extra large bag for next year!

[Lethal Weapon]

 

Some chicken Wings and yam fries would be nice as well
Beer is quite fattening as well...