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Showing posts with label Atomic Darts. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 6, 2018

AtomicDarts.com Present: Van Gerwen v Cross [SF] 2018 World Championship Darts and Dart Board Games

 The most common dart board design is that of a clock which is circular in shape, has a circle inscribed on it with twenty segments with the numbers one to twenty mentioned on them in a random fashion which actually has an underlying pattern. The bull’s eye is the small black circle in the centre.


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The two most common games are 501 and 301.In 501 a player starts with 501 points and has to reduce it to zero. Each player has to throw three darts and whatever he scores is deducted from the initial 501 points. The bull’s eye fetches 50 points, the outer rings 25 each etc. The player who first achieves the zero point is the winner. However the game can end only with a throw that lands in the double or bulls eye.301 is also played in the same way except that it starts with 301 points instead of 501.Another popular dart game is "Around the Clock". Here, each player throws 3 darts and has to throw a dart in every segment beginning right from 1 to 20 and has to finish with the 25 and bull’s-eye. Players must start with 1 and cannot move to the next number till such time a dart has been thrown at the next target .The first player who hits all the targets and finally reaches the bull’s-eye wins the game.

Another common game is the cricket where two players toss a coin to see who would bat and who would be bowling. The batting player starts and tries at all turns scoring as many points as possible. The standard 501 scoring system is used. When the batting player scores more than 40 points in one go, the number of points more than 40 is added to the player's score. Less than 40 the batting player scores nothing. The opposing player is considered to be the bowler and this player only aims the bull’s-eye. The bowler gets 2 wickets if he hits the bull’s-eye and 1 wicket for the 25 scorer ring. Players take turns until the bowling player throws a dart that scores the 10th wicket. After that the roles are interchanged and the other player has an innings of batting to do. This game ends when both players have played two innings each and the player with the higher score wins the match.

Dramatic Final Sets


Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Atomic Darts Presents: Lewis v Taylor [SF] 2018 World Championship Darts

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Sunday, December 31, 2017

Atomic Darts Presents: Taylor v Anderson [QF] 2018 World Championship Darts

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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Atomic Darts Presents: Dobromyslova vs de Graaf Darts Ladies World Trophy 2017 Final and The milestones of the Dart Board

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(Above) Darts BDO Ladies World Trophy 2017 Final - Dobromyslova v de Graaf



The milestones of the Dart Board

Who invented the dart board? I guess we will never know, it was probably some archer in the middle ages who converted the bottom of a barrel or tree slice into the first dart board and threw his arrows at it. Dart boards were made of wood for many years mostly from elm and had to be soaked in water overnight to stop the board from splitting. However we do know who invented the first Bristle board, that was Nodor in the 1930's, they were approached by an inventor who had an idea to make a dart board from rope! It must have sounded crazy at the time, but it worked. They took some rope strands all the same length and compressed them tightly together and hey presto the first "Bristle" board was born. This was a huge advance on the traditional wooden board. For a start no more soaking and the board was self healing and long lived. It was an instant success.Nodor got a patent for the design and so were the only manufacturer for 25 years or so for the life of the patent. After the patent expired other manufacturers entered the arena most notably Winmau . And you thought Nodor was a funny name. Apparently the name Winmau was made up from the first three letters of the two names of the wife of the company director "Winifred Maud" hence Winmau.
Winmau and Nodor fought for supremacy in the dart board market for many years until Nodor eventually took over the Winmau brand. During this time Winmau came up with their famous Blade board with ultra thin wire separators and Nodor came up with the first staple free bulls eye dart board.
The bristle boards were used in all the big tournaments that started in the 70's and are still used today in the prestigious tournaments like the Las Vegas classic and the British Lakeside tournament.
Then came Electronics, the electronic dart board came on the scene and changed the game overnight. The odd thing about electronic boards is they are covered in hundreds of small holes for the special soft tip darts to enter. At first glance you think how can the dart get into those holes so exactly? The holes are centered at the base of a dimple like the dimples of a golf ball, guiding the soft tip darts to the holes in the board. And it works very well with nowhere near the amount of bounce outs you might expect. There are sensors beneath the holes which trigger the electronics to record the score and deducts or adds the score to the previous one automatically, depending on the game. This was a great boon to darters as they no longer had to keep score and the boards could be networked to collect all the scores from the boards on a computer, great for tournaments.
The difference with the electronic dart board are that you have to use soft tip darts, and the tips are made of plastic so as not to damage the board. (Never use normal steel tip darts on an electronic board) Also the maximum weight of dart allowed on most electronic dart boards is 20 grams.
You can now have the best of both the steel tip and soft tip game now with the introduction of the new BristleTech boards which have bristle type fibres that can take the steel tips as well as the soft tipped darts and still work with the electronics. The Bristletech technology is set to dominate the dart board market in the future.
So there you have it, we have come a long way from the elm wooden dart boards and I'm sure there will be even more developments to comeArticle Search, especially with the combination Bristle type boards and electronics. Electronic darts is very popular on both sides of the Atlantic now and maybe even the professional game will embrace it before long.





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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Atomic Darts Presents: Dutch Darts Masters 2017 Final - Michael van Gerwen v Steve Beaton

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Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen took on Steve Beaton in the final in Maastricht.

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Atomic Darts Presents: Dave Chisnall v Richard North - 2017 Players Championship 18 Final




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Dave Chisnall plays Richard North in the final of 2017 Players Championship 18 at the Barnsley Metrodome.

Saturday, December 2, 2017

Atomic Darts Present: Happybet German Darts Open 2017 HD - Quarter Final [1of4]: Michael van Gerwen vs Ian White




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MVG and Ian White feature in the first of tonights Quarter-Finals. All content owned by the Professional Darts Corporation. Still to come: Quarter-Final 2) Rob Cross v Benito van de Pas 3) Peter Wright v Gerwyn Price 4) Jelle Klaasen v Mensur Suljovic

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Atomic Darts Presents: Wright v Hine (R1) 2017 Players Championship Finals Darts on US Sports Net






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Monday, November 27, 2017

Atomic Darts Presents: PDC Featuring-MEET THE PLAYER! An emotional Kyle Anderson reflects on the sacrifices he has made







Kyle Anderson reflects on leaving his family and surviving a house fire in his pursuit of success on the Oche.