When I get busy at work, I usually fall a bit behind the latest news going on in the dart world. Here is a good chance to catch up. The American Dart Organization website is much more up to date lately, and reports that Darin Young and Paula Murphy are the respective U.S. Men's and Women's Cricket Champions. You can see how the brackets played out by clicking on this. I checked for local players at the competition and saw where Jim Widmayer made it through the round robins to the knockout round, finishing in the top 8, and Phildelphia's Joyce Hamilton finished top 8 on the Women's side. Congratulations!
Final ADO point lists for 2007 were issued, showing Darin at the top for the men, and Stacy Bromberg for the women. Looking for local players on the men's list, I see Jim Widmayer at #2, Bill Davis #9, Bill Bell #14, Tim O'Gorman #23, and Tom Waterman #50. On the women's list, some local standouts include Joyce Hamilton #8, Doreen Berry #12, Jen Benetazzo #14, Marcia Loche #15, Nikki Passenti #17, and MaryJo Chesney #21. Congratulations to everyone on a good year and best of luck for 2008.
Bullseye News updated its dart calendar, which is one of the best sources for tournament information on the American circuit. As mentioned in my previous posts, Bullseye News is also a great source for information on this year's PDC events in the U.S.
Dartoid had a recent article on a man named Justin Irwin, who took a year off his job to play darts. Irwin wrote a book about his experience. Have any of you regular working guys like me ever wondered how good you could get if you took a year off to do nothing but play and practice darts? Interesting!
The PDC has focused a lot of attention on its Premier League, in which several of the top players in the world play against each other over the course of many weeks. Perennial favorite Phil Taylor has struggled a bit after changing his darts and it looks to be a good battle this year with newcomer James Wade shaking things up a bit.
As a reminder, on March 29, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. at Joker's Bar in Philadelphia the QCEDL is having it's big charity luck of the draw event. See my previous dart calendar entry for more information, or check on Philly Darts. This was a fantastic event last year, raising appx. $13,000.00 for the charity Crossing the Finish Line. Until next time, good darts!
Sunday, March 02, 2008
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The article about Justin Irwin was a good read. He definitely received awful press at the time he started out, so this gives the other side.
I can see how some of the hard working pros who play for a living bristled a little. They did not want people to think that just anybody could attain their skill level by practicing a mere few months. On the other hand, it appears like the guy just wanted to chase his dream. I can't fault him for that.
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