Flyball: 2018 CanAm Classic divisions for Sunday’s racing

The Daytona 500 of dog sports, flyball’s CanAm Classic, enters its final day of competition for 2018.

After 98 clubs and well over 200 teams convened at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis for two days‘ worth of drag relay racing, the best of the best are moving on to Sunday’s by-invitation-only racing at the NAFA 2018 CanAm Flyball Classic.

185 races were held on Friday in Multibreed, Regular and Open classes, and 425 races across all three classes were held on Saturday. The fastest times posted during the weekend were used as their seed times to keep things fair.

There are two special-event classes for Sunday’s racing, with their own titles, the Classic and CanAm classes. These will be single-elimination format to determine the winning team.

In Classic 1, Rocket Relay A (current world’s fastest team) posted the fastest time of 17.76 seconds. At 14.86 was Instant Replay Gold, and Animal Inn’s Vimy also clocked under 15 seconds at 14.97. In fourth is Silent But Deadly from Skidmarkz at 15.10, followed by Tenacity Achieve at 15.21 and Fur Fun’s Formula Fun at 15.22. Qualifying seventh at 15.24 is Rocket Relay Black, and the eighth team is Synergetic Surge’s Recharge at 15.30 seconds. There is no breakout time set for this class.

In CanAm 1, Faux Fur (Fur Fun) was fastest at 15.78, followed by Rocket Relay Multi at 15.81, Ruff Enuff Stuff at 16.11 and Spring Loaded’s TNG (defending class champions) at 15.83. There is no breakout time set for this class.

For the normal classes, there are two groups (numbered sequentially from tournament beginning) in each division, and the same round-robin format applies. The two winners from each group will race for the division title.

Multibreed 1 has no breakout time, and features Mighty Mutts Multibreed (17.13), On the Flipside FLIPSIDE Multicultural (16.33), Mass Chaos Abyss (17.15), If You Give a Dog a Cookie from Go Dog Go (17.65) and Revolution Flyball’s Battalion (17.86) as Multibreed 10. Multibreed 11 features the Unorthodogs’ UnMatched (16.14), Black Ops (Revolution, 16.87), the Omaha Speedracers’ Tink! (17.39), the Spirit Catchers’ Oceans Away (17.74) and Fur Play (Fur Fun, 18.00).

In Multibreed 2 (17.42 breakout) features Crazy Train’s No More Tears (18.42), the Rockin Flyball Gang’s Born to be Wild (18.62), All Revd Up’s Burning Rubber (19.17) and Happily Ecfur After’s HEA The End (19.31) as Multi 20. Multi 21 contains Bring the Noise (Skidmarkz, 18.58), New River Rapids’ Dogs Overboard (18.63), Surf City Flyball’s Catch a Wave (19.28) and the Dixie Flyers’ WingNuts (19.32).

Going for the division championship in Multibreed 3 (18.57) are Extreme Chaos’ You Want What 4 How Much (19.57), the Pawmetto Pack’s Mixed Paws (19.65), Two-Lane Highway’s Multi-Car Pileup (19.78) and Fur in a Blur’s Jet Stream (19.91) as Multi 30. Racing as Multi 31 are Zoom! Multibreed (19.63), the Pacific Pups’ Mavericks (19.68), Outrun’s We Are Family (19.89) and Blue Ridge Blast’s Multi Platinum (20.06).

In Multibreed 4 (19.30) are 2 Fast For U’s ROC Flight (20.30), the Weston Whirlwinds’ Hurricanes (20.79), Beantown Blitz’s Wicked Pissah (21.21) and Crash Landing (Dixie, 21.25) as Multi 40. Multi 41 contains the Barkaholics’ All Stirred Up (20.71), On the Fly’s Superfly (20.99), Mixology from RUSH! (21.25), Alaska Dogs Gone Wild’s Running Wild (21.37) and Lunatic Fringe’s Freaks & Geeks (22.30).

The Open divisions are run as single round-robins to determine the division champions. In Open 1 (no breakout) are Prime Time Flyball’s No Holding Back (15.55), Double Dog Dare’s HIGH SPEED PURSUIT (15.80), Rocket Relay Open (16.50), Full Speed Ahead’s Talkin’ Spit (17.00) and the Bay Racers’ Road Trip (17.00).

Open 2 (16.50) holds UnOpened (Unorthodogs, 17.50), Mad Skills (Prime Time, 18.40), the Land Sharks’ CrazyJaws and Cyclone (Blur) both at 18.50 and Quick Silver Dan’s Fans and Clean Break’s Clean Sweep both at 18.70.

Open 3 (17.80) contains Without a Paddle (NRR, 18.80), and at 19.00 are Xceleration (RUSH!), Syracuse Power Play, SWAT’s Speed With Attitude and Mighty Mutts Open.

Open 4 (18.00) has UnVetted (Unorthodogs, 19.00), Good2Go Flyball’s Leeroy Jenkins! (19.20), the Canine Dirt Diggers’ Quicksand (19.30) and Rabid Fire’s Hydrophobiacs and Kinetic’s Energy at 19.50 each.

Open 5 (18.50) has the K9 Wrecking Ballz’s Rubble, HEA Furry Tales and Zirocco (Blur) all at 19.50, with Shot in the Dark (Crazy Train) at 19.80 and Shenanigans Unleashed Open at 20.00.

Open 6 (19.00) features Mutter Chaos’ Disarray, Syracuse’s Orange Crush, and the Rocket City Racers’ Luna Rovers all at 20.00, with Swamped (NRR) at 20.30 and Afterburner (Revd) at 20.50.

In Open 7 (19.50) are Ruff Position’s Victory Lane and New River Express’s Dysfunction Junction (20.50). the Ball Driven Bandits’ Outlaws and the Obsessed k-9’s Fanatics at 20.60, and Wide Open (Pawmetto) at 20.80.

Open 8 (19.80) contains Turbo Paws’ Downforce, Hang Loose (Surf City), Wet N Wild (Skidmarkz), Open Fur Business (Fur Fun), and No Speed Limit’s Speed Ticket, all seeded at 21.00.

Open 9 (20.10) has On the Road Again (Outrun, 21.10), Flash Freeze (ADGW, 21.20), the Lone Star Ruffnecks’ Wildcatters (21.50), Hairer Jump Jets’ Bravo Sierra (21.70) and Weim Crmes (Mutter Chaos, )21.80).

In Open 10 (21.00) are Chattanooga Chomp’s Full Steam (22.00), the RUFF Mountain Trekkers (22.30), Bad Company’s Packing Heat (22.50), and the BarnStormers (Dixie) and Heads or Tails’ Heads Up! both at 22.80.

In the final Open division, Open 11 (21.80), are Haulin’ Ass (Two-Lane) and the BC Boomerangs’ NO WORRIES both at 22.80, Extreme Insanity’s 2nd Gear at 23.00, One Pup Two Pup (Go Dog Go) at 23.90 and the Frenzyed Flyers’ Stealh at 24.00.

The Regular class also was broken into two groups for each division, with each group winner after round-robin facing off in a winner-take-all championship race.

Regular 1 (no breakout) featured Instant Replay Blue (15.25), Mighty Mutts Regular (15.59), A-Nonnie-Moose (Lone Star, 15.85), DogGoneFast’s Rubber Room Rockets (16.07) and AM2G (Sprng Loaded, 16.23) as R10, while R11 was the Northern Power Paws’ Power Pack (15.46), Squared (Mass Chaos 15.77), Mingle (Omaha 15.93), Ruff Enuff Gold (16.08) and Animall Inn Icon (16.30).

Competing in Regular 2 (15.31) are WYD 2.0 (Spring Loaded 16.31), Topsoil (Diggers 16.36), Team America (Revolution 16.55), Disorderly Conduct’s Steel (16.81) and Yappy Hour (17.11) as R20, with Up the Creek (NRR 16.32), UnAvoidable (Unorthodogs 16.39), Fee Fi Fo Fun (Fur Fun 16.60), Gale Force (Blue 17.04) and Turbo Shot (2 Fast 17.13) as R21.

Regular 3 (16.17) matched In Flight (On the Fly 17.17), Tailspin (Revd 17.39), Fire in the Hole (Skidmarkz 17.41), Riptide (Surf City 17.54) and the MVPs (Spring Loaded 17.57) as R30 with That’s What She Said (Extreme Chaos 17.39), Amped Up (Blue Ridge 17.40), Raze (Wrecking Ballz 17.53), Born to Run (Rockin 17.55) and Lithium Liftoff (DogGoneFast 17.70) as R31.

In Regular 4 (16.71) are Ballderdashers Regular (17.71), Acceleration (Kinetic 17.75), the Adrenaline Junkies (Lunatic Fringe 17.90), the K-9 Kamikazes’ Wingmutts (17.97) and HighFly (On the Fly 18.05) as R40, with You Know What This Is (17.74), Warped Speed’s Space Cadets (17.80), the Rockets (Frenzyed 19.73), the Smashville Speedsters’ Slapshot (17.98) and Believe (Tenacity 18.15) as R41.

Regular 5 (17.19) sees Not So Sweet (2 Fast 18.19), E-Z Goin’s ST Express (18.21), Born to be Wild (ADGW 18.39), Fast Break (Clean Break 18.59) and the FLIPSIDE Regulators (18.67) as R50, with Bark at the Moon (Crazy Train 18.20), Makin’ Trax’s All Aboard (18.34), the Rig Rats (Lone Star 18.48), Fast Blast (Spirit Catchers 18.55) and Unplugged (Blue Ridge 18.75) as R51.

Regular 6 (17.79) had Fire and Rain (Outrun 18.79), Gas Alley (Ruff Position 18.93), Bordering on Insanity Midwest Regular (19.02), the Barking Spiders (Skidmarkz 19.07) and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Hairer 19.20) as R60, with Zephyr (Blur 18.81), BASH (Boomerangs 18.99), the Shoe Smugglers (G2G 19.04), 1st Gear (Extreme Insanity 19.17) and Loco Motion (Rockin 19.42) as R61.

In Regular 7 (18.43) were The Plastics from That’s So Fetch (19.43), Curve! (Omaha 19.60), Butterfly Effect (Mass Chaos 19.74), the Blasters (Revd 19.83) and Pit Row (Ruff Position 19.91) as R70, with Sorry Not Sorry (Beantown 19.56), the Cosmic Strays (Rocket City 19.62), FlyBy (On the Fly 19.74), the Scallywags; Arr You Ready (19.85) and HOV Lane (Two-Lane 19.91) as R71.

Regular 8 (18.80) featured two of the Happy Hurdlers’ teams, Hop (19.92) and Jump (20.01) facing Animal Inn Hawk (20.13), the Baystate Bandits’ Lawless (20.23) and Powertrain (Turbo Paws 20.33) as R80 and Surf’s Up (Pacific Pups 20.01), the Music City Road Dogs’ Iron Man (20.10), Clean Streak (Clean Break 20.20), Big Orange Blast’s Orange Chaos (20.30) and the Tail Blazers (2 Fast 20.40) as R81.

Regular 9 (19.85) featured the Bandits (Ball Driven Bandits (20.85), A.R.F.F.’s Rats ‘n Collars (20.93) the Lunatics (Obsessed 20.96), Iron Butterfly (Music City 21.21) and Pawmetto Pride (21.3) as R90, and Mile High Velo-City’s Pure Energy (20.87), the Milwaukee Dogs’ Great Balls of Fur (20.93), the COBBERS (Boomerangs 21.15), Light Speed (Speed Limit 21.29) and the HEA Wicked Waggers (21.36) as R91.

Completing the class at Regular 10 (20.36) are Zoom! Regular (21.36), Texas Twisters EFS’ Finger of God (21.41), Lightning (Whirlwinds 21.69), the Alamo Racing Canines’ Don’t Mess With Texas (21.77) and the Counter Surfers (RUFF 23.77) as R100, and the Happy Hurdlers’ Skip (21.41), HEADRUSH (Double Dog Dare 21.51), Long Island Road Rage’s Nonstop (21.72), the Pyromanaics (Rabid Fire 22.19) and To the Boxes We Go (Go Dog Go 24.67) as R101.

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