Results from last year:
http://www.lively-dragon.com/Resources/Documents/Milton%202011rdy.pdf

It can be a mixed bag of teams, but any ideas who is attending this year?

Last year's race was a qualifier for the Nationals. Seriously doubt that the field will be as strong this year.

Jetstart seems to be there every year. Their race to lose.

hahah "PHO KING Warriors"... awesome

I saw the posting for hanalei recruitment a while back. Are they dead? If not the order will be
1. jetstart
2. NC
3. Hanalei

Its OMG - Oh My God Ponies to take it all this year. They've been training hard and have some new stronger paddlers while losing some weaker ones.

OMG Ponies!!!!!

They shoot horses don't they?

A FINAL

1. NDRC
2. JETSTART
3. MOFOS
4. MOJOS
5. THE BLADES
6. BMO

Interesting to note that the MOFOS are now part of SPC (ex. NDC) and are being coached by Blake Hara. Maybe they will actually be competetive this year instead of the buffoonery they usually get up to.

WOW Mofo's plus Blake! damn Mofo's will be the surprise this year.

How will the USA team do? The one based out of Philly coached my Blundetto?
Never seen them in action and I didn't see the team on that link above

Looks like the DRAFT schedule is out http://www.lively-dragon.com/Default.aspx?pageId=1306687

Looks like NDRC university and Jetstart are the only real competition...

1st - Jetstart
2nd - NDRC New College

1. New Colleage
2. Jeststart
3. Mofos
4. Mojos
5. UC water dragons

Here's what happened tomorrow:

1) NDRC New Dragons
2) Jetstart
3) Mofos
4) Mojos
5) Warlocks
6) Blades

1. NDRC
2. MOFOS
3. JETSTART

Wow! Tons of love for NDRC.

This is NDRC New Dragons not NDRC Premier. I think the New Dragons will have a tough time with this field. 3rd Place is the best they can hope for.

They are just new kids.
The University team is NDRC New College, their premier team is NDRC Premier.

New College is no NDRC Premier but they are still near the top of this field. Based on having 4 teams and a strong showing last year I will go out on a limb and say the Ryerson A boat will be fast.

A Final
(1) Jetstart
(2) NDRC New College
(3) Ryerson
(4) Blades
(5) Mojos
(6) MOFOS

Sooo....Waterloo warriors came out of nowhere...3rd place overall and upset new dragons in the 2km (their B team also came top 10) jet start of course matched everyones predictions, 9:03 2km? With no one even close, I think mojo did 9:21 for second? Not a hugely competitive field but top teams were close by fractions of seconds. Any teams surprise you guys today? Also 450 meter course due to excessive weeds. Horrible.

Waterloo didn't come out of no where. Last year they did pretty well at Milton.

What were the final results?

Going by memory only:

A-Final
Jetstart
NDRC New College
Waterloo
MOFOS
Ryerson
MacMaster


B-Final
Blades

Is Blake losing his touch? I thought whatever team he touches turns into gold.

MOFOs might be a different story. I am sure Blake will have to break a few egos before he can actually teach them how to paddle.

Nothing gold can stay... - the outsiders

Wasn't the course only 450m? Which would sort of make the 2000m an 1800m race no?
It would be nice if their results page actually reflected that, instead of skewing all the results.

The course was 450m but I'm not sure how the results were skewed since the finish order would have been pretty much the same regardless of the missing 50m.

Milton final was a battle of the "old and experienced" vs "young and strong". In the end old and experienced won though the young and strong were close 2nd and 3rd. University teams are definitely getting stronger as the popularity of the sport grows.

ALL the teams in A and B handily broke the 2:00 mark. It's a new golden era of dragonboating!

Keep in mind that the course was shortened to 450m instead of 500m due to poor course conditions....thus the high number of sub 2 min times.

"ALL the teams in A and B handily broke the 2:00 mark. It's a new golden era of dragonboating!"

NOPE.

Difference in 2000m and 1800m can no doubt change a lot of placements. Much like 450m vs 500m.

Give Blake a few weeks and see what he can do

How is a couple of weeks going to help? He's going to whip out a magic wand?

You wrote: "ALL the teams in A and B handily broke the 2:00 mark. It's a new golden era of dragonboating!"

NOPE

He already did. But the fact that you pay so much attention to one specific team leads me to believe you're an undercover paparazzi for Perez Hilton. Looking forward to the June edition.