Darts Darts Darts

Jutter · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:39 am Post subject: Darts Darts Darts

Since a couple of months I've taken up the game of darts (european steel tip; nobody plays softtip where I'm from). Any other dartplayers on this board? Gerard? Perhaps Rickyroma does, because it's also hugely popular in english pubs. Maybe there are also a few american soft-tip players around. It would be interresting to find out if there are differences in rules to soft-tip darts. I recall seeing soft-tip on TV years ago, and people were aiming for the bullseye rather than the tripple twenty (which is the highest scoring field with european steeltip darts).

My favorite professional darter is Raymond (Barney) van Barneveld, because he broke the Brittish dominance by winning the Embasy worldchampionship several times, and thus put the Netherlands on the map as a darts-country. He's the current no.2 ranking player worldwide (Phill Taylor being the no.1)

I throw with relatively light (21 grams) oldfashioned brass hand-me-downs, but with modern style rotating shafts ('cause they're more durable). The board I have hanging at home is a brandnew Winmau diamond (because staplefree bladeboards sadly enough don't always age gracefully). At my current level I'm happy if I manage to finish in approx. thirty darts. I've only thrown 180 four times sofar, but scores of 100, 120, or 140 are less rare. I hope to be playing in the local league with my dartbuddies (who coincidently are also karaoke buddies) later on this year, but that depends on finding extra teammembers. I tend to be a bit of a comeback kid, giving my opponents the lead at first, because I hadn't quite warmed up yet, but crushing them later on in the game.

My funniest dart-anecdote sofar is winning the leg with a heavier tungsten-alloy dart I borrowed from my opponent for giggles. ("Can I hold one of yours for a moment?" POK! Right in the double ten.) Twisted Evil

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BarkAtTheMoon · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:53 am Post subject:

I play every now and then. We had a board in the house I lived in at college and played all the time then. The vast majority of times I've ever played darts has been playing cricket.
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Jutter · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:16 am Post subject:

kmisho · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:39 am Post subject:

I used to play league team darts but it's been more than a decade. I played my fair share of cricket, 301, 501, 1001. If you didn't know, 1001 is sometimes used as sudden-death in team play where all 4 players on each team participate.
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Noggin · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:14 pm Post subject:

My wife and I play darts quite a bit.

Horse-hair board and 3 sets of varying weight darts. Mine are, if I remember correctly, 26grams tungstens. She likes the lighter, 22gram darts. I have a set of spinning shafts, but I don't like 'em much, so stick with the fixed shafts.

We have a soft-tip electronic board and darts, but I think we've played it maybe twice, it's on a shelf collecting dust now. Smile

Cricket, cricket, cricket ... that's about all I play.

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BarkAtTheMoon · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:18 pm Post subject:

CET · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject:

I like playing a random version of cricket. Not 15-20, but a random set of 6 numbers, plus the bullseye. Always going 15-20 is boring.
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FlatEarth1024 · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:35 pm Post subject:

Hammerheads, baby! I like 'em both with springs and without, but I find the recoil of the springs actually causes occasional bounce-out. Man, I haven't played in a long, long time. Might be time to hang up the horsehair!

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Sal1981 · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:37 pm Post subject:

I only play pool and chess when I'm at the local bar, sometimes backgammon.
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CET · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject:

FlatEarth1024 · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject:

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Played for years. Haven't had the board up since the kids were little. I've always wondered how many red, black and green pigs you need to make a dart board

PJS · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject:

I played for about ten years, mostly Cricket, some 301. Enjoyable game. I used to try visualization before each toss. It seemed to help- until about the fifth beer.
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Jutter · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:54 am Post subject:

Update: as it turns out enough of a team was ultimately assembled (we call ourslves "The Dart Vaders"), so I'm going to be playing in the local competition. The participating teams are all linked to a local dartcompetition-suitable bar/pub, and divided into what I'll just call a minor and a major legue. I'm still at entry level so my team wil be playing minor league.

Hmmm. Could've responded to this sooner, but I might as well do it now.

CET · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:51 pm Post subject:

Drunken people hurling pointy weapons about . . . whoever thought of that one had a BRILLIANT idea!
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