as its just around the corner what say you(s)?

1) G & G
2) CSDB
3) Mayfair
4) Wongs
5) Scotia Rouge
6) Imps
7) Piranhas Beach
8) Chiros
9) BMO Montreal
10) Big Fish

Will state that have no idea if all these teams are going to Pickering but if they did this is how it would end up.

Hanalei?

Hammerheads, Telus, Verdun, Collingwood, Mofos, Shogun, Eat Trout....well?

I predict partial clouds with periods of light rain and a high of 18.

You can take that to the bank.

I predict that the guy who started this thread won't make it into the national spelling bee.

I don't know about Big Fish. Aren't they still recruiting? Again and again...

Pickering registration is now up, most of the above listed Toronto based teams are going, but no Montreal/Ottawa/Sudbury crews yet. So here goes:

1) G & G - their's to lose, returning champion with (rumour has it) a younger crew
2) CSDC - Will make it close with G&G
3) Mayfair - nipping at heels or should I say tails of their senior brethren
4) Scotia Rouge - 4th through 6th will be a crap shoot, lane positioning etc.
5) Imps - Strong practice turnouts can't put Imps out of the mix
6) Piranhas Beach - 4-6th will be fun to watch. Really 2 races happening here 1st - 3rd and 4th - 6th

7) Hanalei - lots of turnover but home water advantage
8) MOFOS - Braun and now a little technique
9) Collingwood - Will show T.O. that racing north of hwy 7 exists outside of Sudbury
10) RBC - slow fade from the past glory years
11) Hammerheads - rain aside turnover and coaching are an issue
12) Wahoos - CIBC lite? What Enron settlement affecting sponsorship?

Sport
G&G

Rec.
G&G

Beer drinking
G&G

1) G & G - If the rumors of a stronger team are true
2) Mayfair - Working hard and a tiny knotch above the Seniors
3) CSDC - It may be hard for them to find room to improve
4) Scotia Rouge - Usual spot
5) Imps - Imps will remain strong
6) Piranhas Beach - They are only going to get better

7) Hammerheads - falling from the ranks of the elite
7) Collingwood - only going to get better
8) Hanalei - weak showing at GWN, can they rebuild?
9) MOFOS - Too early in the season to have getten cardio up to speed
10) RBC - rebuilding

Seems like the Imps were the only team from last years A final to be screwed by lane positioning this year. Looks like Gary has pulled his weight yet again: G & G Senior Panasonic Lane 5 beside Scotia Rouge, G & G Sony Lane 6, G & G Mens Lane 5 sandwiched between PDBC Men and CSDB, the only G & G crew that didn't receive a preferential Lane placement is the defending Rec Champs, G & G Alumni; but I guess with the crew being somewhat stronger then every other Rec crew Lane positioning didn't matter. Nice to see that fairness and transparency in dragonboating has finally arrived!

Hey Scotty why don't you just hand them the trophy's??

Scotty doesn't know.

Long live G&G and Gary and friends. he has done nothing but good for this sport, and the beer tents!!

Most likely Verdun.

G&G are the defending champs they should get the best lane assignments.

"G&G are the defending champs they should get the best lane assignments."
Whatever.

Lane seeding guide on pdbc.ca
http://www.pdbc.ca/assets/downloads/(pdbc)_pdbchallenge11_appendix_B_lane_seeding_guide_v3_0.pdf

"All crews in all divisions are randomly seeded for their initial qualifying heat race"

Yeah, sure buddy.

I found out where the misunderstanding is. The line, "All crews in all divisions are randomly seeded for their initial qualifying heat race." should have read:

All favoured crews in all divisions are randomly seeded in lanes 4,5&6 for their initial qualifying race.

Hope that helps.

Who's on the G&G roster this season? Has anyone seen them out training or will it be a show up and see what they can do with as little team training as possible.

i wanna no!

Yes there triaing. Various destinations. The Alumni are out of PDBC. You will notice they did not get a great lane. Makes you wonder if it was random after all. You would think that if it wasn't the boat Gary actually paddles in would have got a good lane. So those people that have started to bitch about the regatta before it has taken place. STOP MAKING EXCUSES ON WHY YOUR NOT GOING TO WIN! I forgot in dragon boat there's no loosers just bad lanes, poor race oragainzers, crappy boats. Oh and a whole buch of ****ty paddlers that think because they practice a few times a week it entittles them to win every time. Suck it the F$#k up folks!!!

1. G&G Sony
2. OHDBC - Mayfair Predators
3. Canadian Senior Dragonboat Club
4. G&G Senior Panasonic
5. Scotia Rouge
6. Imperial Dragons

7. Piranha's Beach
8. Collingwood Sidelaunchers
9. WRCC A
10. Hanalei
11. Montreal Dragon Boat Club
12. OHDBC - Hammerheads

13. MOFOS
14. Phoenix ETS
15. Mojo's Reloaded
16. U of T - New College New Dragons
17. RBC Royal Dragons
18. University College Water Dragons

19. BMO Financial Group First Dragons
20. Wahoos (formerly Team CIBC)
21. St. Robert Alumi - Clintar Wave Cutters
22. The Blades
23. WRCC B

Wow! Great predictions.

1) I'd expect BMO to place higher, GWN was not a fluke and rumor has it these guys have worked hard through the off season.

2) Second G&G team that close to the top? I might pick Scotia to take them.

3) TO university teams might rank a little higher and are probably more comperable with ETS if the end of last year was any indication.

4) I have no idea what the Montreal Dragon Boat Club is - so that's a crap shoot?

Other than that, I think these are well educated predictions. Good luck to all crews.

BMO was not at GWN last year. Don't confuse the BMO first dragons with BMO Montreal.

The Montreal DBC team is a throw together of the Montreal Women and Men's teams. They were coming over to kick some ass and would have made it to the top 3 without a doubt. Too bad they bailed at the last minute.

Sorry, just saw BMO and responded too quickly.

You are fully correct.

No worries north man.

"The Montreal DBC team is a throw together of the Montreal Women and Men's teams. They were coming over to kick some ass and would have made it to the top 3 without a doubt. Too bad they bailed at the last minute."

Too funny.

It's like that kid who swears he's going to beat you up after school, but then he hears his mom calling.

They wanted to chew some bubblegum and kick some ass, but they were all out of bubblegum?

No kick either. That would make them just ass.

1. G&G
2. CSDBC
3. Scotia Rouge
4. OHDBC-Mayfair
5. Imperial Dragons
6. Collingwood

7. OHDBC-Hammerrheads
8. Hanalei
9. WRCC A
10. MOFOs
11. Montreal Dragon Boat Club
12. Piranhas

I think Hammerheads in light of this past weekend are ranked to high and I don't think Collingwood has done anything to vault ahead of many teams listed. Piranhas are likely too low. Do you know something that we don't?

This is my guess:

1. G&G
2. CSDBC
3. OHDBC-Mayfair
4. Scotia Rouge
5. Imperial Dragons
6. Piranhas

7. MOFOs
8. Hanalei
9. WRCC A
10. OHDBC-Hammerrheads
11. Montreal Dragon Boat Club
12. Collingwood

What's a battle?

If you're putting OHDBC in there put in the other 'clubs' as wel1.

1. Pickering G&G
2. TSCC CSDBC
3. Rouge Scotia Rouge
4. OHDBC-Mayfair
5. TSCC Imperial Dragons
6. Collingwood-Collingwood

7. OHDBC-Hammerrheads
8. Pickering- Hanalei
9. Rouge WRCC- A
10. NDC- MOFOs
11. Montreal-Montreal Dragon Boat Club
12. Balmy- Piranhas

Since when were the Mofos a part of the National Dragonboat Club?

Looks like many high level teams (2/3 of the top 30 ranked) this weekend, hopefully the weather will be better than last year.

maybe it's No Dragonboat Club

The poster put OHDBC because he/she is on that team.

Whos going to own the community and high school this year?
Im tired of reading about saturday cups and still no decent response.

11:35 AM is the best prediction so far.

Maybe I missed someone posting this...but the race schedule is obviously seeded.

Lane 6 teams: G&G, Mayfair, CSDB & Scotia Rouge

That's everyone's top 4. What's with all this bull**** of random lane assignments? Do you know what the probability of this combination of Lane 6 occupants is? It's 1:255,024

1. G&G Sony
2. Canadian Senior Dragonboat Club
3. OHDBC - Mayfair Predators
4. Scotia Rouge
5. Piranhas Beach
6. Imperial Dragons

7. Montreal Dragon Boat Club
8. MOFOS
9. WRCC A
10. Hanalei
11. Collingwood Sidelaunchers
12. G&G Panasonic

13. Hammerheads
14. University College Water Dragons
15. U of T - New College New Dragons
16. Phoenix ETS
17. Mojo's Reloaded
18. St. Robert Alumi - Clintar Wave Cutters

I'd put Mayfair ahead of the CSDB team, and maybe, depending on who shows up for G&G, ahead of G&G. Mayfair has had some turnover, but I think they'll be stronger, rather than weaker than last year, when they beat G&G at the world championships.

G&G is also a hecuva lot stronger this year too.

Wow! Only one prediction of Mayfair getting at least second. It seems like the predictions always underestimate these guys.

A lot will depend on the lanes but I would expect Mayfair to be the faster team than CSDC and definetly Scotia Rouge. They were faster than the seniors last year, and have gotten better - if scouting reports are too be believed.

1. OHDBC - Mayfair Predators
2. Canadian Senior Dragonboat Club
3. G&G Sony
4. Scotia Rouge
5. Imperial Dragons
6. Hammerheads

7. Piranhas Beach
8. MOFOS
9. Montreal Dragon Boat Club
10. WRCC A
11. Hanalei
12. Collingwood Sidelaunchers

13. G&G Panasonic
14. U of T - New College New Dragons
15. Mojo's Reloaded
16. University College Water Dragons
17. Phoenix ETS
18. St. Robert Alumi - Clintar Wave Cutters

A lot of people have WRCC A listed in 9th. They have some good bodies in that boat, I wouldn't be surprised if they came higher then 9th and beat the likes of Montreal, Collingwood and Hanalei

Let's try something new (sorta). For Pickering who will be:

Biggest Surprise?

Biggest Disappointment?

Will one team dominate the field?

Re: Pickering Perdictions... June 1 2007, 2:32 PM


Let's try something new (sorta). For Pickering who will be:

Biggest Surprise? Montreal Women beat Toronto Women

Biggest Disappointment? Hammerheads fail to make Top 12

Will one team dominate the field? No

wow. Good call. I totally agree.

...except the Hammerheads thing. There you are way off.

Well let the HHeads prove me wrong then. Same coach for 5+ years, turnover from last year, missing paddlers for this regatta and last weeknds regatta, lousy performance last week. Lets see them step it up.

Some have HHeads as high as 6 and others as low is 13th. It'll be interesting. Are they short people for Pickering too? Anyone know who else is short?

PDBC website now has its rules up. Not sure if its in reaction to another thread here but look at the specialty cup details:

university cup
a. Only students currently enrolled in the school which they are representing, may participate in the University Cup or University Cup qualifying races.
b. University Cup participants MUST provide student photo id during roster checks in order to be eligible to race.

bank cup
a. Eligibility for the Bank Cup consists of a recognized financial institution as the primary sponsoring entity of the crew. All athletes do not have to be employees of the institution to be eligible.

womens cup / breast cancer cup
a. All athletes competing in this competition and qualifying races for this competition must be female.
b. Steerspersons and drummers do not have to be female.

health care professionals cup
a. Eligibility for the Health Care Cup consists of a recognized health care professional organization as the primary sponsoring entity of the crew. All athletes do not have to be employees of the institution to be eligible.

So overall, it looks like University and Women are being policed. In particular, it specifically states that for the first race, university teams have to race their University-legit lineups.

Prelim races for women must also be all women. But we haven't seen an instance of this type of cheating (yet).

What kind of boats do Pickering use - are they more comparable to the new BuKs or the SRS boats. I can't remember...

One of these

The forecast is calling for rain and possible thundershowers tomorrow.


Let's hope the Hammerheads come prepared this year!

Pickering predictions:
A Final:
1)G&G Sonay
2)CSDC
3)Mayfair
4)Scotia Rouge
5)Imps
6)Piranhas

A Consol:
1)WRCC
2)Hammerheads
3)MOFOS
4)UofT New College
5)Collingwood
6)Phoenix ETS

B Final:
1)The Blades
2)MOJO's Reloaded
3)UC Water Dragons
4)G&G Panasonic
5)Hanalei
6)Clintar Wave Cutters

B Consol:
1)BMO First Dragons
2)Wahoos
3)West Rouge
4)MOWAT
5)RBC

I called it, WRCC A came in 6th, beat out teams with much bigger paddlers who have paddled together for way longer. Like Imps, Collingwood, Hanalei etc..
Let's go Rouge.
And the boat had 8 juniors who are going to Australia this year for worlds in it.

You called nothing. G & G did NOT win. They lost in the real final, then won in the bogus re-race where every other team refused to re-race except one.

the re-race deal was in the open final.

mayfair won the mixed.

The only team that refused to rerace was Mac's. 2 other teams (3&4) were DQed.
G&G was ahead , was interfered with when lane 4 entered their lane and they lost ground avoiding colision ,droped to 2nd, finshed second.
Interference obviously may have affected results.
Protest filled , judges decided to run rerace after DQing 3 & 4 , who collided.
Mac declined to race ( afraid of getting beat ? ), made BIG production of coming over to G&G area (why ?) to anounce his intention not to rerace.
That left 2 teams to rerace.
Next race Mac hit G&G boat in 200m. Hard to believe he did it on purpose. Extreemly bad judgement , trying to ride wash in 200 when you have very good crew and not stopping paddlers when collision was unavoidable ( Mac & bad judgement ? Gig surprise ?).
Of course , latter , G&G was DQed for running into Mac (did stop paddling well before contact) in what was a low impact but avoidable (as it apeared from shore ) brush.

g&g was not ahead @ any time during that open race. I have no argument that they were interfered with. Get your facts straight