Darts - Cricket, 501, 301 etc

One of my housemates brought one back to our house last week at the beginning of the semester and it's all we've been playing

Played a lot of crickett in college, originally only at the bar. Roommates bought one for the house and we used the shit out of it. Due to the combination of inexperienced guests and alcohol we used the shit out of the surrounding wall too.

Love darts! My friends and I play money games every weekend. We usually play cricket until some one gets too drunk...then we play team cricket and stick the drunks on a team and collect money.

Been in a team league(soft tip) out of my local drinking hole for about two years now. Winter season actually started last night(12-3 win over a scrub team). I'm not actually very good though, low end B leaguer. ~16ppd average and ~1.8mpr.

Be really curious to see what your friend's top secret product is though.

Unrelated to that: Wold Cup starts this weekend I believe. Two man team format tournament with the top 2 PDC order of merit guys from each country. Anyone wanting to watch should check the "Where to watch" sticky, there's usually multiple Justin.tv channels showing PDC events. I'll post specific channels here closer to start time. It's a very cool event to watch with the different format, and the England and Dutch rivalry should be amazing this year with Barnie/MVG on the Dutch team.

Grimmlokk_sl said:

Be really curious to see what your friend's top secret product is though.

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Same here

Also play Cricket at the bars mostly. Have wanted to buy aboard for some time, just never have gotten around to it. Always enjoy playing.

Played seriously for 10+ yrs. Steel tip only, {electric darts are for faggots}. Own 3 sets of good darts, an old set of hvy big barrel Hammerheads are my bread and butter. Was in a league way back when. Used to hustle drinks at the local pub nightly. I'd throw 200 darts to warn up before leaving the house. Played a bit in Japan, there you let the other guy win if you want free drinks, but you have to make it a challenge or they lose interest. I'd play anything, all the variations of the Oh-ones, Cricket, Tic-tac-toe, Golf.

Haven't played in 6-7 years since I quit drinking heavily / nightly, I should dust off the board and see if I still have any chops.

I have a board, I used to play all the time when I lived with cool roommates, now I think the fucking thing is collecting dust. Shame really, I'm probably better off drinking and playing darts by myself than drinking and surfing the web or playing some computer game.

We used to play cricket mostly, but it was that funky reverse one or whatever. I had bought an electronic score board for my old bar that would let you play any one of about 50 games. Only like 20$ too. After many years I got to be "above average"(in normal dude terms not pro-dart folks)....no idea what my skill level is now.

This is Michael VanGerwen missing back to back 9 darters by about a half an inch on the 18th dart at the World Championships last month. Phil Taylor himself said he's never gone back to back even in practice. Taylor, by far the greatest player ever, called him the best player he's ever seen when he's on. He's only 23, most of his competitors are 15-20+ years his senior.


As for the cricket scoreboard, wouldn't be much use there sorry. Electronic boards etc.

They actually have electronic bristle boards now, but I haven't read great reviews on them yet. Still, that seems like the future. Steel tip darts and automatic scoring.

World Cup.

http://www.justin.tv/timmyc_sportingzone23

Austria/Japan right now. Japanese team has two of the top soft tip players in the world there, doing way better than expected so far.

Grimmlokk_sl said:

This is Michael VanGerwen missing back to back 9 darters by about a half an inch on the 18th dart at the World Championships last month. Phil Taylor himself said he's never gone back to back even in practice. Taylor, by far the greatest player ever, called him the best player he's ever seen when he's on. He's only 23, most of his competitors are 15-20+ years his senior.


As for the cricket scoreboard, wouldn't be much use there sorry. Electronic boards etc.

They actually have electronic bristle boards now, but I haven't read great reviews on them yet. Still, that seems like the future. Steel tip darts and automatic scoring.

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LOL that dude's swagger.

Grimmlokk_sl said:

World Cup.

http://www.justin.tv/timmyc_sportingzone23

Austria/Japan right now. Japanese team has two of the top soft tip players in the world there, doing way better than expected so far.

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thanks for that, England v Japan atm. Taylor is on it as always

Another feed, great quality.

http://shadowsports.pwnz.org/flash3.html

Jesus, slaughterhouse out there tonight. 5 of the 8 seeded nations knocked out, including 2-4. England barely made it by South Africa and their one eyed dart master. With the US and Canada both out now I'm squarely in the corner of Japan. It would be interesting to see Germany win at home, but I can only cheer for so many Axis teams.

Realistically all these knockouts probably just cleared the road for England to steamroll.

edit: Aw shit, Katsumi beat Lewis to force the Japan/England rematch in to the doubles legs.