Back from Vegas
We made it back in one piece late Monday afternoon from Las Vegas after competing this weekend in the International Team Dart Championships from the Riviera Casino and Hotel.
It was a quick weekend trip but a successful one for myself and my wife, Teresa.
I finished seventh in my 501 singles division and Teresa and I finished ninth in our cricket doubles division. Approximately 7,000 soft-tip dart players from all over the world are competing in this annual week-long event. We competed in singles and doubles, with the four-man team events beginning on Monday.
The tournament extended a streak of placing at least in one event in every tournament that I have competed in (since 2002, minus 2007), so I am happy about that. The players who beat me finished second and third respectively and both matches went down to the final dart or so. What I am especially proud of is that Teresa was able to place at Team Dart for the first time (her second tournament). It was a fun and tiring experience. On Saturday, we played 501 doubles (didn't place, but played well) in the morning and early afternoon and came back for doubles cricket and played from 5 p.m.-1 a.m. If we would have not been eliminated (double elimination), we would have likely played until 3 a.m. or so (and then catch a morning flight back to Laramie). To still be playing then, however, would have been worth it.
The only real disappointment was the fact that we didn't place a little higher in the doubles event. In both losses, we just missed out in the deciding game by a dart or two. In fact, the second loss, I needed a bullseye to win and hit a dart that was already in the bull area. Many times when that happens, it will register as a bull hit but it did not this time and bounced off to hit another part of the board.
That's darts -- sometimes the breaks fall your way, sometimes they don't.
All in all, it was another good experience.
P.S. -- If anyone would like to play in the Laramie dart league (regardless of experience), give me a ring (760-8397) or an email (rnanderson55@hotmail.com). The local league has fallen in numbers in the past few years despite regionally and nationally being as strong as ever. This has been a good league in the past and it can be again. We just need more participation.
It was a quick weekend trip but a successful one for myself and my wife, Teresa.
I finished seventh in my 501 singles division and Teresa and I finished ninth in our cricket doubles division. Approximately 7,000 soft-tip dart players from all over the world are competing in this annual week-long event. We competed in singles and doubles, with the four-man team events beginning on Monday.
The tournament extended a streak of placing at least in one event in every tournament that I have competed in (since 2002, minus 2007), so I am happy about that. The players who beat me finished second and third respectively and both matches went down to the final dart or so. What I am especially proud of is that Teresa was able to place at Team Dart for the first time (her second tournament). It was a fun and tiring experience. On Saturday, we played 501 doubles (didn't place, but played well) in the morning and early afternoon and came back for doubles cricket and played from 5 p.m.-1 a.m. If we would have not been eliminated (double elimination), we would have likely played until 3 a.m. or so (and then catch a morning flight back to Laramie). To still be playing then, however, would have been worth it.
The only real disappointment was the fact that we didn't place a little higher in the doubles event. In both losses, we just missed out in the deciding game by a dart or two. In fact, the second loss, I needed a bullseye to win and hit a dart that was already in the bull area. Many times when that happens, it will register as a bull hit but it did not this time and bounced off to hit another part of the board.
That's darts -- sometimes the breaks fall your way, sometimes they don't.
All in all, it was another good experience.
P.S. -- If anyone would like to play in the Laramie dart league (regardless of experience), give me a ring (760-8397) or an email (rnanderson55@hotmail.com). The local league has fallen in numbers in the past few years despite regionally and nationally being as strong as ever. This has been a good league in the past and it can be again. We just need more participation.
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