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celt262 wrote: »

Yes definitely but once I get there it's not far to the stage where thinks start going downhill.

Played a lad there this evening, he threw a 180 in the first leg
Good darts says I
It's the cans says he

Sultan of Bling wrote: »

Hope norris gets one after the awful time he's been through.

100% - if there's a player that deserves his tour card back, it's him

thebronze14 wrote: »

No!

worth 1 euro lol

SketchyPrince wrote: »

The thoughts of Barney getting back on the tour again irks me.

Should've bowed out like he originally did after the Premier League in Rotterdam, instead decided to keep going and got embarrassed against Darin Young.

Now he's going to Q-School, I can't see any good result from this.
If he doesn't get a card he ruins his legacy even more.
If he does get his tour card I think it's a more drawn out way of embarrassing himself once again. He's down at the very, very bottom of the order of merit and is going to have to graft it out on the Pro Tours to move up the rankings and have any change of qualifying for majors.

How could you have any faith in him actually sticking at it and not throwing his toys out of the pram after what we've most recently seen of him in the PDC?

He was so, so poor on his final year on the tour. I can't imagine it'll be any better after being away for 12 months.

He doesn't have the grittiness or the fight to grind his way back in my opinion. He might get a card but the head shaking will start within a few weeks if things don't go his way.

My prediction is he'll quietly fade back into retirement within a year.

US2 wrote: »

He's the 10th premier league player, They're just waiting for him to get his card. If he fails then it's down to Fallon Sherrock

No to both there would be uproar.

US2 wrote: »

He's the 10th premier league player, They're just waiting for him to get his card. If he fails then it's down to Fallon Sherrock

no chance she will get it, has to be awarded on merit, and quite simply she doesn't merit it - she's not even a tour card holder

US2 wrote: »

Fran is a decent player, had a good run in the BDO and was ranked in top 10 for a while. Aaron beeney won a card last year with a tournament average of 70.

He ended up getting two wins over the course of the 3 days. Won't have been too happy with his performances. A couple of glimpses of what he's capable of though

Played 301 and won against the computer. PDC I'm coming for you haha

Horrendous throwing by me ha

Kingp35 wrote: »

Keep practising. I averages in the 30's for a couple of years before I finally started to get better. It's all about practice in darts bar the odd natural.

Yep Practice is the whole thing many moons ago i had loads of time on my hands and used to throw darts for 6/7 hours a day and went from been the lad who would throw last on the team to the first thrower.

Averages weren't recorded as such then but i was regularly throwing between 15 and 20 dart legs. When i was practicing my aim was to always throw under 20 darts and my best was 20 legs in a row under 20 darts.

Then the less i played the worse i got and would be happy with a 60 avg now. If i had time i would throw darts all day. I would be lucky to get 20 minutes a day now.

Kingp35 wrote: »

Keep practising. I averages in the 30's for a couple of years before I finally started to get better. It's all about practice in darts bar the odd natural.

I find the online darts great for this
No more throwing aimlessly at the board, nothing like a bit of competition to focus the mind
A game or two in the evening, or a tournament or league, there are so many players and leagues and tournaments for all levels of player , it's easy enough to get a game
In the last week I've played a 2501 down tournament (great for scoring practice) a best of 11, 170 tournament (great for checkout prcatice) etc...as well as a load of regular 501 best of 9 games
Not sure I'm getting better quick, but it's a great way to while away a few hours

Kingp35 wrote: »

Where can you find upcoming tournaments boomdocker? I've only played a few games on Nakka.

I'm playing on WDA, so they have tournaments most nights see the link here
https://www.webcamdarts.com/wda-games/tournament-schedule
These are open draw tournaments, usually with 100+ players, so you can draw anyone from a 30's ave to 80's ave
But you need to have your 'gold star' to enter - all that means is that you have to have played at least 10 games (more like 15 in reality) against other players with a gold star , to have your camera approved
Sounds like a faff, but it's not really and ensures everyone has a good camera setup

As well as that there are many facebook groups - for eg I'm in one for players with ave 55 and under and the good folks there organise a league and tournaments - good fun - the tournaments are varied - classic 501. DI/DO, 701, 170 etc..etc..
These are also mostly using WDA but I do see a group which has Nakka tournaments - search 'Tornado's Darts Tournaments' on facebook


Here's a good explainer on how to get setup on WDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLCA97QNJYY

I have a 10yr old logitech c120 sitting on a camera tripod
Doesn;t need to be fancy as it's only sitting a foot away from the board

The one I see most recommended is the Logitech C270
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-Widescreen-Noise-Reducing-Automatic-Correction/dp/B01BGBJ8Y0/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=logitech+c270&qid=1613486492&sr=8-2

few small tips here to add to the practice routine. Sticking mostly to the Calendar one

I'm a terrible man for changing elements of everything I'm doing once I hit a bad patch of throwing. Need to stop haha can't get any consistency