IBCPC Participatory Dragon Boat Festival
IBCPC Participatory Dragon Boat Festival
28 March - 3 April 2022
Frequently Asked Questions
IBCPC Participatory Dragon Boat Festival
You need to check with your own country but below is some information that will be helpful.
From 01 October 2019: Most travellers arriving in New Zealand who previously travelled under the Visa Waiver scheme, will require a NZeTA (Electronic Travel Authority) and a IVL (International Visitor Levy). For full details, please click on the following link:
www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/apply-for-a-visa/about-visa/nzeta
PLEASE NOTE:
There have been requests from teams and paddlers to wear their own semi-rigid devices that they are used to wearing and currently wear. Considering this, the Health & Safety Director has also recently reviewed the PFD policy, and as an outcome we have agreed that if you wish to bring these devices with you that you may, however these are used at your own risk. We will be providing the inflatable horseshoe style life jackets for general use at the festival. It is a requirement that all persons on the water must wear a PFD.
In setting the registration fee we have tried to stay in alignment with the 2014 and 2018 festival registration fees, while predicting what the future costs may be.
Trying to predict exchange rates is also problematic. The registration fee is in line with the 2018 costs for Florence.
We have also increased the levy payable to IBCPC and this is included in the registration fee.
As soon as you have registered and paid your deposit and have your unique identifier, then you will be able to check the accommodation options.
There are various types of accommodation on offer: hotel, motel, lodge, campervan. Our travel partner will provide all information regarding types and if and when deposits are payable.
Yes, you can register a second team, but you must obtain a unique identifier # to register that second team. You can do this by advising us of that second team and we will provide the unique number. Your second team will need a name that differs from the first team.
Yes, you can register that second team later on. Entry is subject to full registration being completed and also that there are enough accommodation options available.
Yes, there is, but this is limited and will be restricted firstly to the festival transportation buses and then mini-vans (carrying multiple passengers, ie a team). Further parking availability will be determined once these needs have been met. If you would like to stay in a camper van or tent on site, please visit www.lakekarapiro.co.nz for availability and booking.
• IBCPC Congress will be held at Novotel Tainui, Hamilton
• Street Parade: Cambridge Town Centre
• Opening Ceremony: Village Green, Cambridge
• Festival Launch Event venue: Claudelands Event Centre, Hamilton
• Closing Ceremony at Lake Karapiro.
Further venue or event information will be posted in the bulletins and on the website.
Buses will be available to provide transport for registered participants (festival ID required for all transport) from event affiliated accommodation.
Event affiliated accommodation is accommodation that is booked through Orbit World Travel. Should you book your accommodation through another provider or independently then you can still access the transport but will have to make your own way to a central pick up point that is on the bus transport route.
This transport will be available for participants travelling to and from training, the festival launch event, the opening ceremony parade, and the race days.
Footwear is not specified and an open toe option is absolutely fine; it doesn’t need to be closed toe. Many New Zealand paddlers also opt for barefoot, or wetsuit booties as options as well, and there won’t be anything strictly enforced 😊. Boat loading and unloading is from a pontoon and the walkway to the pontoon is asphalt (paved), so soft footwear is perfect.
All teams will race in the first heat.
The first heat is just a random selection as we have no idea where teams rank globally.
The second heat is based on the times from the first heat so you start to filter up, which means that you start to see where crews rank.
Obviously fastest times will be starting to show through. So it will be a true fastest boat final.
The finals are ranked slowest to fastest based on the combined times of both heats, with seeded lane allocation:
Lanes 1 - 8 seeded as 7-5-3-1-2-4-6-8.