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Darts is a competitive sport in which two or more players bare-handedly throw small sharp-pointed projectiles known as darts at a round target known as a dartboard. [2]Points can be scored by hitting specific marked areas of the board, though unlike in sports such as archery, these areas are distributed all across the board and do not follow a principle of points increasing toward the board's ...
A dart, (often a T20) that "redeems" two previous poor efforts. Right church, wrong pew (or right house, wrong bed) Term for hitting a double or triple, but the wrong number. Also known as daddy's bed. Robin Hood Throwing a dart into the shaft of another making it stick, sometimes splitting the flight.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs). [4] [5] It was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through its transfer of momentum when hitting the asteroid head-on. [6]
Arguably the most difficult nine-dart finish would be 180 (3×T20), 171 (3×T19), and 150 (3×bullseye) – owing to the difficulty of getting all three darts in the bullseye: it is the smallest double on the board. A nine-dart finish is also attainable in games which require a double to start scoring (a double-in; such games are thus termed ...
The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) is a professional darts organisation in the United Kingdom, established in 1992 when a group of leading players split from the British Darts Organisation (BDO) to form what was initially called the World Darts Council (WDC). Sports promoter Eddie Hearn is the PDC chairman.
This is the only "double in" tournament on the PDC circuit, and along with the PDC World Darts Championship the only tournament which uses the set format. [5] On 25 April, it was announced that the semi-finals and final had been extended to best of 9 and best of 11 sets respectively. [6]
"double in, double out" The BoyleSports World Grand Prix is a PDC darts tournament traditionally held in Dublin , Ireland every October, but has taken place in Leicester , England since 2021. Its original venue was the Casino Rooms in Rochester, Kent in 1998 and 1999 , and then for one year only in 2000 at the Crosbie Cedars Hotel in Rosslare ...
He also qualified for the 2011 BDO World Darts Championship. He defeated 15th seed Scott Mitchell 3–0 in the first round, and 2nd seed Stuart Kellett 4–1 in the second round. He then beat tenth seed Garry Thompson 5–4 in the quarter-finals, having trailed 3–0 and 4–2 and seeing Thompson miss nine darts at doubles to win the match ...