The League of Legends is a new tournament for 2008 where eight of the top players from yesteryear will battle it out to see who is the greatest Legend of Darts.

Staged over eight Friday nights between May and August 2008, the competition will feature eight of the biggest and most popular names in darts - Bob Anderson, Eric Bristow, Keith Deller, Peter Evison, Bobby George, John Lowe, Cliff Lazarenko and Dave Whitcombe.

These eight players have between them won everything there is to win - many times over - and are still recognisable as household names to this day. Playing at their peak in the boom years of the 70's and 80's they were fixtures on our television sets at a time when big league darts was regularly on terrestrial tv.

With Setanta now involved, and the backing of BetFred, the League of Legends promises to be the start of something big and could well be a fixture in the darts calendar for many a year to come.

We at DartsMad are overjoyed that there is now something for the 'seniors' of the game to compete for - tennis, golf and many other sports have seniors tours and it's about time darts followed suit to enable us fans the chance to see these true legends playing competitively again...and, more importantly, against each other.

There have been classic encounters too numerous to mention between these stalwarts down the years. They have produced some unforgettable moments and given us some of the greatest sporting spectacles of the modern age. Let's hope the League of Legends can revive those halcyon days. None of the eight competitors have lost the hunger or will to win, and we could be in store for some titanic battles this summer that hark back to a time when flares were all the rage and players smoked and drank beer on stage!

We can't wait for it to begin, let the Battle of the Legends commence...