Championship League Darts Group 7, 8 & Winners Group
Posted on October 17th, 2011
Just a quick reminder that the darts action continues behind closed doors this week at Crondon Park, Essex. Championship League darts re-commences on Tuesday 18th and will be streamed online by the LivePDC.tv website here.
Live Broadcast Schedule
Tuesday 18th October- 10.30am – Group 7
Wednesday 19th October – 10.30am – Group 8
Thursday 20th October -10.30am – Winners Group
Championship League Darts is screened solely on the internet through LIVEPDC.TV and a series of 30 bookmakers’ websites worldwide, and offers a potential total prize fund of over £200,000, plus places in the Grand Slam of Darts for the eventual finalists. Read the rest of this entry »
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Championship League Darts – Whitlock Wins Group Six
Posted on October 14th, 2011
SIMON WHITLOCK won through to the Championship League Darts Winners Group at the sixth time of asking when he defeated Vincent van der Voort in a deciding leg in the Group Six final on Thursday.
Whitlock, who had hit a nine-darter in Wednesday’s Group Five, extended his ever-present record in the play-offs by winning six of his seven league games in Group Six of the internet-streamed event.
He then defeated Andy Smith 6-4 in the semi-finals to reach a fourth final of the tournament, and finally took victory against van der Voort.
The Dutchman gave as good as he goes during a tense final, coming from 2-1 down to lead 4-3 with a 100 finish and a brace of double eight checkouts.
Whitlock took the next two to edge ahead before van der Voort won leg ten on double 12 to force a tense decider. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Championship League Darts Results, Crondon, PDC, Simon Whitlock, Steve Beaton
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Championship League Darts Groups 4,5 & 6
Posted on October 10th, 2011
Just a quick reminder that the darts action continues behind closed doors this week at Crondon Park, Essex. Championship League darts re-commences on Tuesday 13th and will be streamed online by the LivePDC.tv website here.
Live Broadcast Schedule
Wednesday 14th October - 10.30am
Thursday 15th October -10.30am
Championship League Darts is screened solely on the internet through LIVEPDC.TV and a series of 30 bookmakers’ websites worldwide, and offers a potential total prize fund of over £200,000, plus places in the Grand Slam of Darts for the eventual finalists. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Championship League Darts, Crondon, PDC
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PartyPoker.com World Grand Prix – Night Four Round-Up
Posted on October 7th, 2011
PHIL TAYLOR brushed off the challenge of Paul Nicholson to sweep into the quarter-finals of the PartyPoker.com World Grand Prix on Thursday night, as Mark Webster, Mark Hylton and Richie Burnett also won through to the last eight.
World number one Taylor continued his bid for a tenth victory in the double-start format with a comfortable straight-sets victory over Nicholson, who failed to live up to the pre-match hype as he took on the Stoke great.
Taylor dropped just three legs in the game, and hit key finishes of 105, 120 and 147 in setting up a quarter-final with Mark Webster on Friday night.
“I’m really pleased with the win and it’s another indication that my game’s in good shape at the moment,” said Taylor. “Paul didn’t play as well as he can. He’s making a name for himself at the moment and he’s a very good player, but he’s not as consistent enough yet.”
Webster, who defeated Taylor in the quarter-finals of the World Championship in January, set up a repeat of that clash with a strong 3-1 defeat of Alan Tabern. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: darts, Dublin, Mark Hylton, Mark Webster, PartyPoker.net, Paul Nicholson, PDC, Phil Taylor, Results, World Grand Prix
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Pipes Hits Form Justin Time for WGP
Posted on October 2nd, 2011
JUSTIN PIPE won his first professional title with a 6-5 defeat of Phil Taylor in Sunday’s Players Championship at the New Citywest Convention Centre in Dublin.
The 39-year-old from Taunton continued his push to break into the world’s top 32 with a brilliant display to prepare in style for his PartyPoker.com World Grand Prix debut on Monday night with the £6,000 title.
He had already achieved one ‘first’ for the day when he reached his maiden PDC ProTour final, having reached the last four on three occasions already this year.
His run included 6-5 wins against Mark Dudbridge and Ronnie Baxter, a whitewash of Mick Todd and 6-4 victories in the quarter-finals against Steve Beaton and the semi-finals against Gary Anderson, Pipe’s regular practice partner. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: darts, Dublin Players Championship, Justin Pipe, PDC, Phil Taylor
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Part Wins Canadian Players Championship
Posted on August 28th, 2011
JOHN PART came out on top to record a superb home victory in Saturday’s London Ontario Players Championship to claim his third PDC Pro Tour title of 2011.
The three-time World Champion defeated the top seed, Wes Newton, 6-4 in the final to continue his superb resurgence of form over the last few months.
The Canadian star had overcome Shawn Brennerman and Mareno MIchels by 6-4 scorelines in his opening two matches before ending the challenge of Kevin Painter to reach the Quarter-Finals.
Part then defeated Peter Wright by a 6-4 scoreline to reach the last four where he defeated Jamie Caven, which included an 11-dart-finish to seal a spot in the final after Caven had missed a dart at bullseye to force a deciding-leg.
Newton, who has enjoyed a superb 2011 so far, led the final 3-1 before Part hit-back by winning three legs on the trot to take a 4-3 advantage.
Newton won the eighth leg to level at four apiece before Part recorded a 76 finish to lead again and move one leg away from victory.
A 180 in the tenth leg proved decisive for Part and he hit the winning double to take the £6,000 first prize.
Newton’s run to his fourth final of the year started with victories against John Patterson, Magnus Caris and Bruce Davey. Read the rest of this entry »
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Blood on Muswell Hill
Posted on August 8th, 2011
Oliver Albert Croft OBE formed the British Darts Organisation on January 7th 1973. During the next four decades he ruled British darts from Muswell Hill with an iron fist. Uncompromising, pioneering, and despotic, it is worth remembering that the BDO itself was a breakaway from the National Darts Association of Great Britain. Olly was once a rebel himself.
On August 7th 2011, precisely 38 years and 7 months after the inception of the BDO, Olly Croft was booted off the board he founded in a ruthless but long-overdue coup by his member counties. A man who once said “I don’t owe any darts player a living” now finds himself out of work.
One side of the tungsten curtain holds Olly Croft up as a standard bearer for darts, rightly stating that the sport would not be where it is today were it not for Olly’s efforts over four decades. He helped drag darts out of the pubs and onto prime time television, turning working men who throw arrers into household names.
The other side of the curtain readily grant this indisputable fact but counter that darts would now be in a much healthier condition if Olly Croft had relinquished his grip some years ago.
Given the parlous state of relations with the BBC, and the dwindling attraction of BDO darts as a sporting spectacle, this point is also difficult to refute. The world has changed, the landscape of darts has changed, but Olly and his friends have not.
Tags: BDO, Darts Split, Martin Adams, Olly Croft, PDC
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2011 Grand Slam of Darts Invitations
Posted on August 4th, 2011
GRAND SLAM OF DARTS INVITATIONS CONFIRMED
THE qualification criteria for the 2011 Grand Slam of Darts has been confirmed, with John Part, Ted Hankey (who said he wouldn’t return last year – DartsMad Ed.), Co Stompe and Barrie Bates invited to compete in Wolverhampton in November.
One of DartsMad’s contributors has his own thoughts on how the criteria should be drawn up, click here to see the ‘Race2Wolves’! The PDC statement continues below….
The £400,000 tournament, to be held from November 12-20 at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, features the finalists from major darts tournaments over a two-year period.
Won last year by Scott Waites, who succeeded three-time winner Phil Taylor, the event will be screened live on Sky Sports this November across nine days. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: BDO, Grandslam of Darts 2011, PDC, Scott Waites, Ted Hankey, Wolverhampton
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What Makes a Good Darts Player?
Posted on July 20th, 2011
“Are you any good?” ARGH! The dreaded question that comes to anyone seen in close proximity to tungsten… How do you respond to that? Rather than get philosophical, I’d prefer to just say no, or a semi-desperate; “I try!”
So what makes a good darts player?
I asked my followers on Twitter this question a couple of months ago and had varied responses from many different people.
Some people keep count of their 180’s. Yes, scoring a maximum is something to be proud of, but unless you score them frequently is it luck or skill? A good way of monitoring your skill may be to keep track of your averages, but then what constitutes a good average? The only way would be to compare, but who would you compare with? No one is going to want to judge their averages on Taylor’s 118 are they?!
Tags: PDC, Phil Taylor, Wayne Mardle
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Cullen Bags 2nd Youth Tour
Posted on June 18th, 2011
JOE CULLEN won his second PDC Unicorn Youth Tour event of 2011 with a 4-2 defeat of Holland’s Gino Vos in Saturday’s final in Nuland.
Cullen followed up last month’s victory in Austria with another Continental triumph as he took the €660 first prize at the Van Der Valk Hotel.
He had whitewashed Jimmy van Schie in his opening game, and edged past Jamie Landon and Wouter Vaes before picking up a 3-0 quarter-final victory against Holland’s Ryan de Vreede.
Cullen then defeated last week’s Youth Tour winner Reece Robinson 4-2 in the semi-finals, and produced a classy display in the decider against Vos.
Cullen hit double top and double eight to break in two of the opening three legs, with Vos hitting back with a 58 finish in the second after a missed double 18 from his opponent. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Gino Vos, Joe Cullen, Nuland, PDC, Results, youth tour
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