Location

Practices will take place on the Root River.

Schedule

1. As part of the registration fee, each team shall be granted two practice sessions during the evenings or weekends of the weeks immediately preceding the race.   Additional sessions may be available for a further fee, as scheduling and staffing may permit. Arrangements for scheduling practice sessions or extra practice sessions shall be made through The Great Midwest Dragon Boat Festival Team Training Coordinator or such persons as The Great Midwest Dragon Boat Festival shall otherwise designate.
2. All practices shall be one and one half hours long. They will include twenty minutes of land orientation/instruction and 50-minutes on the water. Teams shall assemble at their scheduled practice start time.
3. All practices shall be coordinated by The Great Midwest Dragon Boat Festival or such persons or organizations as it may designate, and team members and teams shall follow the directions given by The Great Midwest Dragon Boat Festival or such persons or organizations as it may designate.
4. By the completion of its final practice, each team's manager shall either inform The Great Midwest Dragon Boat Festival of which two members on its roster it have been qualified as Steers-persons by The Great Midwest Dragon Boat Festival, or shall make arrangements with The Great Midwest Dragon Boat Festival for The Great Midwest Dragon Boat Festival to provide a Steers-person for the race.
5. Teams assembling with less than sixteen Paddlers plus Drummer may forfeit their practice without right to rescheduling.
6. Teams having a majority of their members that have not practiced in the current year may be disqualified.