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[island girl]

The draw looks good to BrewCrew, but thanks for acknowleding our hard work this year! 

We are looking forward to a great weekend of racing and good times with our peers in the paddling community.

Paddles up everybody......

[stinkytofu]

Predictions on the top finishing women's team?

[Backward Rowing]

Predictions on the top finishing women's team?

I didn't know there was a women's division in Victoria.  I thought it was just mixed/women and master mixed/women, no open (aka men's) nor junior divisions.

Chicks with Stix and Island Breaststrokers are the only women's teams I know of.  Stinkytofu, do you know which teams are women's teams, and where do you think they will place.  I really don't expect either team to ranked in the top 10.  Of course, I've been wrong before.

[sterles]

I think there are quite a few women's teams registered (ours being one of them) and I know this year there was a checkbox for us on our registration form to indicate whether we were eligible for a "Specialty Award" in a women's division. I think we just race everyone else and then they compare results for those kinds of awards. I know, as a women's team, we really enjoy seeing how well we can do against the mixed teams. We made it all the way up to Bronze-A last year and are challenging ourselves to do even better this year.

See you all this weekend!

[James Cole]

I think the following are all women's teams...

Snapdragons,
Survivorship,
Chix with Stix,
Despirit Housewives,
Hope Afloat,
Wasabi Team Huge,
OWLS,
Island Breaststrokers,
Dragonflies.

[Anyrock]

Red Tied is a womens team - and yes, it is meant to be spelled that way.

[fortlangleydragonboat]

SunDragons are a new women's team from Fort Langley who are paddling in Victoria too. 

[Backward Rowing]

I wonder what the minimum number of crews are needed to create a new division for the Victoria Dragon Boat Festival?  So far, it looks like 11 women's team are going to Victoria.

[sterles]

I would hate to see them change the format of the Victoria race. It's fun to beat the boys.

[Backward Rowing]

I would hate to see them change the format of the Victoria race. It's fun to beat the boys.

I wasn't thinking about the central region where you pay full rate per division, rather like Alcan where most crews (except men's) goes into the regular mixed/women races, but they pay a "small" addition to cover the other races: open, women, masters, juniors, "corporate", "unions", "charity", "breast cancer survivors", etc.

Unfortunately, it would make for long days.

[Kai Paddler]

Here's a prediction!

EOTD Vs Kai.

Every year since 2002, If Kai and Eye were in the festival, then they raced.  I'm betting this year is a repeat.

Looks like you got your wish in the first round   See you in the first round.  Good luck and race well!

[rb]

In the past GO hasn't always done a great job of seeding. In my opinion they did a pretty good job here but still missed some.

Looking at the teams Eye of the Dragon should be seeded (unless it's a rule that they have to race Kai). I'm not sure who is seeded in Heat 13, it looks like Team Phoenix but they are probably a Jade or Gold-level team. I’m guessing that 1st and 2nd place teams from Heat 13 will end up in a division too high and will be nowhere near medal contention. Some others will be in a division too low.

The seeding could have been better in a few places.

[chilipepper]

I agree that some of the seeding is a little off, but it's not GO who's doing it.  I know some people who work for GO, and GO only rents the Victoria Festival the boats, they don't seed the teams or run the race or what have you.  If you check the Vancouver Island Races from last weekend, you'll notice some inconsistencies in the seeding from that festival to the Victoria festival.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be a GO apologist, but I think blame should go where it's actually warranted.  I don't know who seeded the races, and maybe that's the problem.   

[Dumber]

Looks like you got your wish in the first round   See you in the first round.  Good luck and race well!

Not my wish but seems to be a pattern.  See ya at the start line in the beer garden

Seriously, best of luck!