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[butter]

The Canada Dry Victoria Dragon Boat Festival is taking place August 13-15.  It's fast and furious in the office right now as we're heading into the home stretch for planning this year's event.

There are still a few spots available if there are any teams out there that want to battle it out in Victoria's Inner Harbour but have been undecided to this point.  The Gorging Dragons took until today to make up their mind, but they have decided to rejoin us again after a bit of a rest last year.  The finals should be exciting once again, so some great racing is expected.

We've expanded our Forbidden City food court this year to showcase a wider range of cultural foods from the Victoria area.  Choose from Caribbean, Mexican, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian and others!  Also look for Wannawafel serving up breakfast treats on Saturday and Sunday morning near the beer garden.

Did I mention beer?  Yes.  Vancouver Island Brewery will once again be providing the frosty suds in our aptly named "Gan-Bei" Beer Garden this year.  Wines, Ciders and Coolers will be available too, served up by the fine folks from Cascadia Liquor!

Friday night in the beer garden will be our "Sweet Sixteen" birthday party.  $20 gets you a burger with all the fixin's, salad, soft drink and a tasty cupcake! Tickets will be available all day Friday on site or reserve your tickets earlier by contacting the Festival office.  Live music by local favourites, the Midnights!

Saturday night in the beer garden will mark the return of the popular air band contest and paddler's dance, while Sunday will see awards and prizes given out throughout the afternoon.

Keep an eye on our website for more updates!  See you all in 21 days!

[wanker]

Vancouver Island Brewery will once again be providing the frosty suds in our aptly named "Gan-Bei" Beer Garden this year. 

Thank you.  Nanaimo's beer garden was so bad that all they had during portion of Sunday's post-race festivities was BUD LIGHT LIME!  Not that Keiths or Kokanee are huge steps up either.  Bleccchhhh! 

[vicpaddler]

I have to disagree about Nanaimo's beer gardens.. I had several Kokanee's on Sunday afternoon. (and I wasn't in the beer gardens till after the platinum final) Oh and I find Keith's and Kokanee much better beer than Vancouver Island Brewery. But thats just me.

Glad to see things are going well Butter!!! Here's hoping there are some good competitive teams in Victoria!!!

[pikachu]

What are the times of the beer garden Friday?  Opening and closing hours?  Really looking forward to it, it was such a blast last year.

[butter]

The beer gardens should be open starting around noon on Friday, going until 10:00PM.

Be sure to come by for dinner as well.  We'll be having the local Rotary Club flipping burgers for us starting at around 7:00 as part of our Sweet Sixteen birthday party.  Salads, soft drink and cupcake included, all for $20.  Spread the word...

Cheers.

[butter]

List of teams currently participating in the 2010 Canada Dry Victoria Dragon Boat Festival can be found here:
http://www.victoriadragonboat.com/EN/main/race_information/4157.html

Race grid should be out by this Sunday night or Monday at the latest.  Be sure to keep checking our website for updates.

See you all soon!

[Illuminate]

Several very strong teams in there; will be interesting to see Gorging Dragons

[rb]

Yeah, lots of good teams, here's some predictions

Dragon Hearts Magnum
Victoria Gorging Dragons
Dragon Hearts Ultimate

[rb]

Actually I'll make predictions like this

The Top 8 in order

Dragon Hearts Magnum
Victoria Gorging Dragons
Dragon Hearts Ultimate
Navy Dragon Anchors
Sudden Impact Black
Xtreme Reach
Anniemaniacs
Blu By U

The bottom of Platinum, top of Diamond (in no particular order)

Tao Ti Phat Phish Racing
VO2 Max
Team Lifescan
Eye of the Dragon
Save On Foods Dragonslayers
Dragonauts
Hot Sake
West Shore Warriors
RGL

The rest of Diamond, top of Jade (in no particular order)

Dog Paddlers
Fluid Motion
VCKC Grand Dragons
Amazing Greys

[vicpaddler]

Those predictions for Platinum look pretty close although I think Extreme Reach could be a bit higher up. I've seen the GD's out practicing and even though they look pretty strong, they seem to have a constantly changing roster and rarely have a full boat. They are definitely in a rebuilding phase and will be hard pressed to beat Magnum (depending on who Magnum actually brings of course) This weekend (Gorge Fest) should be a decent indicator of where they are in their training.

Either way its nice to see some good competition coming back to Victoria. Hopefully we can get more fast teams to make the trip in the future. I'm sure the locals would love to see top level dragonboating in the harbour again!!

[butter]

Don't know if this weekend's Gorge Fest will serve as a good gauge for the GDs at the Victoria Festival as I think they'll be losing a few paddlers to the Outrigger Nationals that same weekend so even more alumni and pick ups will be in the boat for the Vic Festival.  Still should be a competitive team though...

I only wish I wasn't so busy organizing the actual Festival so that I could hop back in the boat with them...it's been too long.

[Recoil]

Should be a very intense weekend of paddling, seeing as a lot of teams are racing each other for the first time this season. The predictions seem very accurate although I think they'll be some surprises as to which teams sneak into/out of Platinum + Diamond division.

[NFW]

Should be an interesting weekend! Hopefully the weather will be good to us!

Empress Hotel for the win lol

[butter]

Saturday morning race grid now up!
http://www.victoriadragonboat.com/EN/main/race_information/2009-race-schedule-results.html

[vicpaddler]

Edited... Figured it out on my own...