Boards.ie Online Darts Software Tournament Sign-Up/Discussion

Kingp35

Ok lads so anyone interested in taking part in the tournament should sign-up in this thread.

Basically how it works is that we us www.ezchalk.com to track the cores of the games. It's a way to play against an opponent without having to be in the same room as them, you just throw your darts and enter your score on ezchalk and they do the same. Now there is a trust aspect to this, it is very easy to cheat by entering a higher score than you got but we are going to trust everyone to enter the correct score.

Depensing on how many players enter the tournament it will either be straight knockout or a league phase like the Premier League. For each match there will be a time limit of let's just say 3 days for the two people to play each other. It is up to the two opponents to agree a time that suits them but it must be played within the time slot. The score of that match will then be posted on boards by one of the players for all to see. If we get 8 or more we will do straight knockout, if we get less we will do a league.


If anyone has any suggestions or anything then post them up here. I hope I explained that well enough.

Ronan|Raven

Put me down thanks.

MBC

I only got broadband in the gaf last night..........will download this tonight and have a go.

So stick me down aswell.........although I am playing woeful at the mo :mad:

ratinakeg

Put me down for it please!

death1234567

Sign me up!

MBC wrote: »

will download this tonight and have a go.

No download needed

Evolution Enter

Sounds cool, count me in

MBC

death1234567 wrote: »

Sign me up!


No download needed

Okay just checked it out there...........not sure how does it work? anyone any advice?

Kingp35

MBC wrote: »

Okay just checked it out there...........not sure how does it work? anyone any advice?

All you have to do is sign-up to the site then you are good to go. It's like dartpro or anything where you can play on your own, the site is for playing against another person. You simply go to Two Internet Players and set-up the game. Your game will appear in the game list. someone then clicks on your game in the list and off you go. it's very simple to do.



By the way I'll leave this thread open until Sunday night to see how many players we get and we can kick it all off next week.

ratinakeg

Is that you on EZChalk now MBC?

MBC

Yep think that me:

Paul Kinsella
Boards Comp

Can you see me?

MBC

So is throw 1 = 1st Dart Score or 1st 3darts scrore?

Degag

Put me down for this. Hope my mobile broadband connection doesn't go down mid game!

Only problem i can see is the difference in quality between players... I usually average between 45 and 50 but am capable of lower and occasionally i can hit the mid to high 50's over a short game, but i know there are players here who will average around 70....

I guess its only a bit of fun i guess and even if some of us aren't as good, it's a good way to improve.

el_duderino

Count me In - I'm pretty rubbish but it could be a laugh.

the dude

Kingp35

MBC wrote: »

So is throw 1 = 1st Dart Score or 1st 3darts scrore?

Throw 1 is your first dart score, throw 2 your second etc

Degag wrote: »

Put me down for this. Hope my mobile broadband connection doesn't go down mid game!

Only problem i can see is the difference in quality between players... I usually average between 45 and 50 but am capable of lower and occasionally i can hit the mid to high 50's over a short game, but i know there are players here who will average around 70....

I guess its only a bit of fun i guess and even if some of us aren't as good, it's a good way to improve.

Well that's the same as myself, I'll usually average somewhere in the 50's and there will definitely be better players than me but it's only a laugh and it's all practice.


Oh a question lads, how long do you think the games should be? Best of three sets? Best of 9 legs?

Degag

Something like the PL would be cool.... 14 legs or something? mightn't be able to be done though.

death1234567

Kingp35 wrote: »

Oh a question lads, how long do you think the games should be? Best of three sets? Best of 9 legs?

Best of 9 legs is okay with me.

ratinakeg

Maybe if it's a knock out maybe have the first round best of 3 sets, semis best of 5 sets and the final best of 7 sets!

Evolution Enter

is it best of 5 or best of three in each set?? Best of three or five sets seems long

ratinakeg

Personally I'd like a longer format but I'd settle for best of 9 legs, once I'm playing I'm happy!:)

Evolution Enter

Why not early stages best of 9, then lengthen it as the tournament goes on??

MBC

Evolution Enter wrote: »

Why not early stages best of 9, then lengthen it as the tournament goes on??

Here here.........I agree with this.

ciarraibhoy

I'll give it a go

ratinakeg

Evolution Enter wrote: »

Why not early stages best of 9, then lengthen it as the tournament goes on??

I'd go along with that, maybe that is the best way.

Degag

Lol i just averaged 38, checked 1/22 and lost 8 legs to one.... Bottom of the league me thinks. Every dart i threw went into a 1 or a 5... couldn't buy a double. Then when i had a 120 checkout threw first 2 into the t20 bed:rolleyes:

Kingp35

Yeah sounds good to me. Best of 9 legs anyway at the start ad depending on whether it's a league or knockout we can decide on the length for the latter rounds.

So far the players signed up are:

Kingp35
Ronan|Raven
MBC
ratinakeg
death1234567
Evolution Enter
Degag
el_duderino
ciarraibhoy

I still think a League format is best because then we will all get a few games. If a few more signup we will have it as play each other once instead of twice. In fact play each other once is probably best anyway.

dionsiseire

lol another thread for the same thing

yeah count me in then. could be a laugh

passinginterest

I'll give it a go. Might be tricky getting people online at the same time and all that but sure why not.

Even if people decide to cheat it makes no difference, it's still the same as the computer generating a random score on n01 or whatever. Can't see anyone being bothered cheating anyway.

Looks to me like you can only chose best of 7 unless you play more than one set. Maybe make it best of 3 sets, best of 5 legs each set

Kingp35

passinginterest wrote: »

Looks to me like you can only chose best of 7 unless you play more than one set. Maybe make it best of 3 sets, best of 5 legs each set

I think that's too long a game, especially if we are having a league phase. Sure if it only goes to best of seven then you can just keep score yourself, play the best of seven and then start another game until someone wins the 5 legs required. Actually if we are doing a League phase we should make it best of ten legs so that the game can end in a draw.

Good numbers so far, should be a good tournament. Let's say entrance is closed at 5pm on Sunday then I can do up all the fixtures etc on Sunday night and sort it all out.

Carrickman

Signed up there so count me in as well.

scunner

Sign me up. Havnt played much lately but willing to give it a go.

ratinakeg

17 players now!
Anyway here the is updated list of players;

Kingp35
Ronan|Raven
MBC
ratinakeg
death1234567
Evolution Enter
Degag
el_duderino
ciarraibhoy
dionsiseire
passinginterest
Carrickman
scunner
mr.jingle
nhughes100
Jay.cymru
pad180



Anybody else?

Evolution Enter

Anyone who cheats at this really is cheating themselves. Bit of crack, but sending yourself through with made up scores, why bother throwing at all!!

ratinakeg

Evolution Enter wrote: »

Anyone who cheats at this really is cheating themselves. Bit of crack, but sending yourself through with made up scores, why bother throwing at all!!

Exactly! What is the point in cheating, it will not improve your game.

ratinakeg

Just thinking if we can get 16 entrants, could we have 2 leagues of 8, with maybe the top 4 from each qualifying for a play-off. Home and away matches in each league. For me the more matches the merrier!:)

death1234567

ratinakeg wrote: »

Just thinking if we can get 16 entrants, could we have 2 leagues of 8, with maybe the top 4 from each qualifying for a play-off. Home and away matches in each league. For me the more matches the merrier!:)

I think it would be better to do 4 groups of 4 (3 matches p/p). Doing 2 groups of 8 (7 matches p/p) might take a long time. Better off have a quick tournament for the first one and then we can see how it goes or start a new one.

EDIT: I'll see if my brother wants to play, meeting him for Portar & Darts & Portar tonight

mr.jingle

Count me in!

Ronan|Raven

When I enter 180,180, 141 it will be pure honesty

Kingp35

death1234567 wrote: »

I think it would be better to do 4 groups of 4 (3 matches p/p). Doing 2 groups of 8 (7 matches p/p) might take a long time. Better off have a quick tournament for the first one and then we can see how it goes or start a new one.

EDIT: I'll see if my brother wants to play, meeting him for Portar & Darts & Portar tonight

Yep if we can get 16 players (we have 14 now) we will do 4 groups of 4. this first tournament is just to see how we get on and 7 matches might be a little too much.

nhughes100

Count me in as number 15.

MBC

Me mate will go in as the 16th he is registered as Jaycymru

pad180

just wondering can i still enter this kingp or are use full .could be a bit of crack

Kingp35

pad180 wrote: »

just wondering can i still enter this kingp or are use full .could be a bit of crack

You can still enter, anyone can enter before Sunday at 5pm. The format will then be decided on depending on numbers.

pad180

Kingp35 wrote: »

You can still enter, anyone can enter before Sunday at 5pm. The format will then be decided on depending on numbers.

thats great , count me in ..:D

Chucky the tree

er, I'll give this a bash if that's okay. I wont be great at all though.

Kingp35

Chucky the tree wrote: »

er, I'll give this a bash if that's okay. I wont be great at all though.

Doesn't matter how good you are, it's just a laugh. More players we have the better!

ratinakeg

1 Kingp35
2 Ronan|Raven
3 MBC
4 ratinakeg
5 death1234567
6 Evolution Enter
7 Degag
8 el_duderino
9 ciarraibhoy
10 dionsiseire
11 passinginterest
12 Carrickman
13 scunner
14 mr.jingle
15 nhughes100
16 Jay.cymru
17 pad180
18 Chucky the tree
19 padr81
20 iseethelight
21 coyle
22 patrickincork

Can we extend the deadline until we get 24 players or just leave it?

padr81

stick me down too lads. didn't even know there was a darts section here.

iseethelight

sounds good i'll have a go even though doubt i'll get far

passinginterest

If it stays at 20 we could have 4 groups of 5. Play each person once, say best of 7 legs. Top 2 from each group into 1/4 finals where it's best of 11 legs, best of 13 for the semis and 17 for the final?

Jeanious

apologies about the lateness, and upsettin the nice round number of 20, but id like a piece of this!

padr81

theres a problem with sets on ezchalk lads. If player a is playing player b in sets and the first set goes.

Player A 3-1 Player B

Player B's game carries over to set 2, so he starts with a 1-0 lead. So Player B gets an unfair advantage in the second set. The way it works is you get a set for three games. Legs carry over from one set to the next.