Only 5 months and this is how things are shaping up so far:

1. SNP
2. G&G Dra'gg'ons -
3. Mayfair Predators
4. Scotia Rouge
5. Piranhas-BEACH
6. Big Fish Interactive
7. Hanalei
8. Wongs Dragonslayers
9. Verdun Adrenaline
10. Imperial Dragons
11. Mofos
12. GM Driving Force

Let me be the first to say, WTF?

(apologies to guy who goes by "WTF?" as his handle)

How can you make predictions based on...what, winter training? Have you been to each teams winter training workouts and watched them?

You must be logging a lot of klicks on the auto.

LOL

It's a little early for predictions, but you gotta love the enthusiasm =)

I agree with the first poster, how can you possibly make these predictions?

Harold is clearly correct.

Where is Pickering? is that near the Thames?

you are an IDIOT

Glimmer Twins: The poster is referring to Pickering, Ontario, which is near Toronto, Canada
http://www.pdbc.ca Sometimes we forget that people all over the world read this forum.


As far as the thread goes, what is wrong with having some FUN making predictions outlandishly early.

BTW. Clearly the MOFO's will take first this year. They are training really really hard ...LOL

A little bit early don't cha think?








btw, you're totally wrong. I expect to see Shogun & RipTide kickin some ass this year.

Riptide this..Riptide that..

I've-a heard way-a too-a much of this shit before.

CRUCIFY ME for making predictions..but talk about how Shogun and Riptide aren't listed, but NO ONE mentioned that I left the Hammerheads off.

Who's the idiot? Really?

Maybe I know something you'a don't-a know!

Harold buddy, you need to relax. My little btw comment was intended to be a little sarcastic joke.



And so basically your initial post was to allude to the fact that you know that the Hammerheads aren't going to be in Pickering??? oooooooooooohhhhhhh....that's big news!

Also, I don't think Big Fish was in Pickering last year, but you've got them ranked....does that mean they're going to be there? Do you again know something that we don't??? oooooooooooohhhhhhh....that's more big news!

WTF, you're an idiot and typical dragonboater.

How can you think someone is taking YOU seriously when they reply to you with:

"I know-a something-a you-a don't-a know-a"

Harold,
Why would you fall for the ploy of a hater?
Are you stupid?

sounds more like Harold is bitter....maybe riptide actually beat his team?

I agree w/WTF that Shogun will do some damage in Pickering. Great showing at Ontario Place (2-3 marathoners do not make a dragon boat team).

With club crews in '06, expect mayfair, scotia and g&g to be head and shoulders above everyone else, 'cept the seniors.

1. SNP
2. G&G Dra'gg'ons -
3. Mayfair Predators
4. Scotia Rouge
5. Wongs
6. Imperial Dragons
7. Piranhas-Beach (they're going to be tough in '06)
8. Verdun Adrenaline
9. hanalei (too old, too early in season, etc...)
10. shogun
11. mofos
12. GM Driving Force

*if hammers and fish decide to go, I'd put them somewhere in 6-10

I predict that we will wait at least 5 hours between races (and be bored cause the races are too far away to watch)

Wait, heres another one ... I predict that the closest lanes to shore will come last - doesnt matter whos in them

another prediction; why not, but this one will be bang on like the last two... I predict that more maroons like me will go anonymous and make absurd predictions based on little or no intelligence just to piss off as many people as possible.

an of corse use crapy gramer an speling. with no punctuashun an stuf eh

You mean Riptide has actually beaten anyone of consequence.

OH YEAH TEMPEST.

they "BEAT" tempest..


roflmaosmic

Yes, Riptide did beat Tempest....that was 2005

This year, if Tempest was still around, Riptide would likely beat them again. Lets be reasonable, its a long season with a lots of racing. There will be times when a teams not at full strength or not at their best (not an excuse, but a fact). I don't know when, but Im willing to bet that Riptide will beat shogun, mofo and maybe an A finalist every now & then.

are you talking about the waterloo thing again?

please grow up.

I'm going to quote the great Smuthe:
"Nothing matters except head to head racing"

Might I add "on a fair course" to that.

You didn't beat Tempest.

You beat their time...in the preliminaries.

If Russia finished ahead of Canada in the standings during the preliminary rounds at the World Junior championships and never played Canada..did Russia "BEAT" Canada?

People like Riptide are a constant reminder that this isn't a sport..at least as practiced amongst the majority of Canadian participants. It's not the activity's fault, it's its participants that don't make it a sport.

I guess what makes the waterloo incident a "sour" one was that:

If the organizers simply said "The winner of the tournament would be the team with the best time of the HEATS" before the race began, then that would have given stronger teams the opportunity to try harder at the heats. Its the fact that this "decission" was introduced after it was too late for these stronger teams to prove themselves, that make it a miserable experience.

Having said that, given the sudden circumstances (bad weather) it was not really possible to satisfy any of the above. Too bad RipTide actually claim they won fairly (Granted, it was fair to them since they didn't set the above "decission" rule... but its silly to actually believe they are better than many other teams because of the outcome of this rule...)

Interesting that the PDBC is not racing in this regatta, it is shaping up as a great race between all the club crew qualifiers!

SNP is essentially a national team which should give them the edge over the Premier Club Crews.

Mayfair and Scotia at 500M is always a great race.

G&G - who the hell knows who's in there crew for this race????

Come on, we all know who will be in there. Pretending otherwise insults all of our collective intelligence.

Anybody know who is with SNP this year ? Mac got any of his spinters or marathoners back?

Word is that there's a new group of sprinters, marathoners and other serious athletes - they just turned 40 - the best people from last year's crew are continuing and some of the people who left in 2005 are back for a shot at Australia. Gotta hand it to the guy, he knows how to get the best.

These are the only teams that matter!

1. G&G
2. SNP
3. Scotia
4. PDBC
5. Mayfair

good sportsmanship at its finest.

I have heard from memebers on these variuos teams and don't beleive that they are all coming to Pickering this year. Some are thinking of not coming as last year's unorganized and unfare event.

ther'es a new format this year.

sport and rec divisions.

How was pickering unsafe? You gotta back thses statements up. unorganized. well what regatta isn't. The lanes are where they are for good reason so little bitches shut the hell up! Well that didn't work i guess. oh and i had a team win out of lane 2 last year explain that! Lane one came second. i spoke with gwn who sets up the corse and the said the difference between lane 6 and one was less then two feet. so those of you who hold your teams in high regard but don't place like you THINK you should. Suck it up and fucking practice harder. No one likes a sore looser. It's just too bad those people make up this forum.

Appologies, how is it unfare?

What is "unfare"? Last years Pickering regatta was well run. There may have been problems in previous years, but you could try being honest about last years event. Honest as opposed to being a little bitch.

A team actually won out of lane two did it? I bet it was E division or lower. A statistical assessment of placement by lane would have a huge weighting in favor of lanes 5 and 6 compared to their seeding in the heats.

Anyone who was there knows this. Even G&G got smoked in lane 2 or 3 and missed the finals.

Oh, and PDBC historically does not do this event as they volunteer in the running of it. It's a fundraiser at least in part for the club they all belong to. So go ahead contribute to their program and hope for lane 5 or 6.

PDBC historically does take part in the regatta. Last year was the first time they didn't take part and that was because they were volunteering to ensure a well run regatta. If you don't like Pickering don't go, but everyone else can do without your "historical" facts. Attending 4 out of 5 years would give a "historical" record of attending the festival.

Slayers will win it this year

Not to draw your attention to the bottom of the original list but forget GM they are done. Most of the team is looking for a new ride.

Atention Please (Hey, where is everybody going) Gooooooo!

Fine, Riptide didn't beat Tempest head to head but Riptide still won the regatta and what happened to Tempest? That couldn't have been good for their morale. In some ways Riptide is responsible for retiring Tempest.