Darts – A Bulltastic Evening!

Tuesday rolled around again and four bad boys rolled up for a serious head to head evening. The warriors hefting the mini spears were: Pedro, Eon, Mike Casa-Belcher and a first season outing for ‘Jelly Arm Davies’.

It was an AB-FAB evening of darts with some stunning play by all (more of this in notable events) and some incredibly close matches with the odd runaway success. I think that all the players would agree that almost up to the last game the night’s outcome was debatable, if you wanted to see some seriously competitive darts then last night the hut was the place to be!

Firstly I would like to say what a pleasure it was to see Mike-D (AKA –JA) in ‘da’ hut! First time this year and I was very happy to be partnering him.

Actually it was almost a foregone conclusion that I would be partnering him! You want to know why? Because both Ian and Belcher prepared their darts for practice and then they both scored double eleven with their first dart. They were like some freaky blood brother voodoo thing; thank god ‘JA’ and I were teamed to represent the high moral ground by getting fuck all in practice! The ‘flipometers’ had mystically done their work once again.

The first game got off to a good start and was claimed by JA and Pete, mighty happy we were to. The second was a close affair but pipped by JAP. The honours for games three through to six went to the missile team (ICBM).... Ian, Casablanca (Belcher) Mike. The JAP’s managed to take the seventh game but the burpers repeated on the eighth. Making the final score line:

JAP127 / 34568 ICBM

I can say (hand on my heart) that the result could have gone either way it was a brilliant evening, the competition was incredibly close. Out of the eight games played two of them only had a one point difference in the score, one game didn’t even have that, the scores were drawn and the finish was either a complete draw (our first?) or ICBM would win, whoever got the next semi, ICBM triumphed. Both teams had a runaway success each.

So, stunningly close, however I don’t want to take away the glory from ICBM they definitely deserved to win but it was one hell of a fight!

Notable Events:

Despite the belching top honours must go to Casablanca Mike who I believe is the second (correct me if I am wrong) Bad Boy to achieve a ‘triple treble’ (not to be confused with three semis!), his chosen number was sixteen, freakily one under the first ‘triple treble’ of seventeen scored by Steve Morgan. Who will be third? Who will be first to take the highest possible accolade of three red bulls?

CM is awarded MOTM for a cooly executed TT.

Several players (possibly all except me) managed a Shang-Hi

A couple of players (one from each team I think) managed two semis in a turn.

I think it is also fair to say that we had the most stunning end to a game that I can remember since we started Bad Boys. In this particular game it had been nip and tuck and Ian took to the oche on behalf of ICBM and planted a bull and semi, putting his team in the driving seat, by the time Pedro’s turn came around for JAP the only possibility of winning the game was to emulate Ian and plant another bull and semi.

Mike-D and Pete joked about zen-ning up and then, yet again it was proved that on occasion the game is as much psychological as physical when Pete seriously zoned and managed to get a semi, followed by a bull to take the game... Dave, I know you will appreciate that!

Bull Wars: Wahoa! CM 4, Peter 4, Ian 3, JA 2.

Pretty good I reckon, not that I have counted (although the data is on the blog) but 13 is pretty good for one evening!

Chart Changes:

John remains top of the pile; this of course might well change on his next visit. Ian drops a place to third which puts Papa in second place. This puts Peter and CM level pegging in equal fourth place at 50%.

Mike-D has had his first showing which immediately pushes him up to sixth place 37.5% ahead of Dave, Doddy, Steve and Malc.

I guess this means that the number one spot this year is shaping up to be anyone’s and that in turn must means for every other position it is GAME ON!

Peds x