Archive for the ‘Darts’ Category
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Darts competitions
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Professional competitions The major tournament within both the PDC and BDO organisations are the World Championships which take place at the start of each year. The BDO tournament has been running since 1978, the PDC tournament since 1994 and in 2006 the first prize offered and total prize fund of the PDC World Championship was [...]
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Professional organizations for darts
Sunday, February 14th, 2010
The badges worn by WDC players at the 1993 World Championship Of the two professional organisations, the British Darts Organisation (BDO), founded 1973, is the older. Its tournaments are often shown on the BBC in the UK, and on SBS6 in the Netherlands. The BDO is a member of the World Darts Federation (WDF) (founded [...]
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Playing darts
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
A game, or “leg”, of darts is usually contested between two players who take turns in throwing up to three darts. Starting from a set score, usually 501 or 301, a player wins by reducing his score to zero. The last dart in the leg must hit either a double or the inner portion of [...]
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Soft tip boards and darts
Friday, April 24th, 2009
A selection of soft tip darts and components; included are brass, nickel/silver and nickel/tungsten bodies, various tips, and different shafts and flights. A relatively new type of board is the soft tip board, which is made of plastic and cast with small holes (about .08 inches, or 2 mm) in the face. The soft tip [...]
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Darts scoring
Saturday, April 11th, 2009
A double bullseye. The standard dartboard is divided into twenty numbered sections, scoring from one to 20 points, by wires running from the small central circle to the outer circular wire. Circular wires within the outer wire divide each section into single, double and triple areas. Various quite different games can be played (and still [...]
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Dart boards
Saturday, March 21st, 2009
Dart boards are usually made of sisal fibers and each section is lined with thin metal wire. The numbers indicating the various scoring sections of the board are normally made of wire, especially on tournament-quality boards, but may be printed directly on the board instead. Height and distance In the standard game, the dart board [...]
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Darts
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Darts in a dartboard Darts is a game, or rather a variety of related games, in which darts are thrown at a circular target (dart board) hung on a wall. Though various different boards and games have been used in the past, the term ‘darts’ usually now refers to a standardized game involving a specific [...]
