Bay Area Dart Enthusiast: DARTS-Nine/Six Dart Club

Darts: a game where participants compete with one another by throwing small arrow like devices at a target that is round and has numbers and sections and an inner bull with an outer bull and so on. Darts now refer to the standard game with a specific bristle board design and a set of rules. Rules that are general to the game and rules that govern games like, “501,” “301,” and “Cricket.”

Darts is a traditional pub game that was and is commonly played in the United Kingdom as well as other places in Europe and across the pond here in the America’s.

Wikipedia tells hits history in a terse form, i.e., “The dartboard may have its origins in the cross-section of a tree. An old name for a dartboard is "butt"; the word comes from the French word but, meaning "target". In particular, the Yorkshire and Manchester Log End boards differ from the standard board in that they have no treble, only double and bullseye, the Manchester board being of a smaller diameter, with a playing area of only 25 cm across with double and bull areas measuring just 4 mm. The London Fives board is another variation. This has only 12 equal segments numbered 20, 5, 15, 10, 20, 5, 15, 10, 20, 5, 15, 10 with the doubles and triples being a quarter of an inch wide.”

There have been a variety of darts created over the years but the most common today is the tungsten dart. There are electronic darts but for this blog and for my efforts in tossing darts I remain a steel dart fan and enthusiast. I am recommending a book for novice darters but only because it appealed to me and my studies and rest assured most of the dart books out there are outstanding. In short, find one if this one does not fit your needs and get it. I can tell you when I started to play over twenty years ago, before I laid down my darts in 96, I tossed darts for several years without knowing some very important and critical mechanics, etc., of the dart game. As I take up once again my steel darts I have found a fountain of information to help make the game both enjoyable and competitive. Enjoy, diddle for the middle and let the darts fly!

Friday, July 21, 2017

DARTS-Nine/Six Dart Club

Dart Arts Article/Post Caveat (Read First Please: Click the Link)

Highlights in the dart arts at not long ago time were hitting T80 or T71 or Hat Trick (three darts in the double bull) but those feats are common now in the high end tournaments such as Europe’s PDC. Now, the two most difficult highlights are the Six Dart and Nine Dart feats when performed put dart’ists into the exclusive club named the same.

Nine dart club: Playing single-in/double-out 501.

Six dart club: Playing double-in/double-out 301.

The Nine dart game: T80; T80; Trip-20, Trip-19, Dbl-12.

The Six dart game: T80; Trip-19, Trip-20, Dbl-2

Of course there are other combinations in both types of games and dart’ists tend to pick the one they prefer, especially as to the final out because if they miss the last dart they always want to leave a single dart out in case their opponent fails to get out.

In the local venue’s hitting above 100 in points is considered a highlight. Hitting a T80 or T71 is also a local highlight warranting a club like membership because at most local levels hitting those highlights are still a huge challenge for dart’ists.

Add in the American game of Cricket where hitting an open number with all three darts and one of the three being a tripe gives you a highlight called, “C-5.” C-5, 6, 7, 8 & 9,” are the type of highlights for that game.

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