Tourney time this weekend. Yesterday was the SIDL singles tournament at Blue Frog. I had a bye in the first round, then faced Grant. He took me in ’01 (overcoming my T-35) and I was pretty merciless in the cricket leg, pointing like mad. I was up by well over 100 points, needed two bulls for the win, and could not connect. I probably average one bull per 3 darts. I threw at least 20 times at the MFer with nothing to show for it. So, I lost a game I should have won. I believe it was the most disgusted I have every been with myself after a dart game.

I took the next three matches in the losers bracket throwing pretty solid and actually getting what turned out being the high out for the tourney, a 78. Then I wound up facing Cuatro. In the first leg he schooled me in cricket (pointing me at every opportunity) and winning handily. I held on to win the ’01 leg, so it was back to cricket for the marbles. I put my schooling from the first leg to good use, and had a one point lead heading into bulls. And then I suffered the recurring nightmare of being completely unable to throw a GD bullseye. Arrgh. I hate to lose, but losing like that just makes me so aggravated.

The good news I guess is that I still managed a 6th place finish, good for W40,000. Plus, W10,000 for high out. And I was really pleased that Colin played so well yesterday, winding up in 4th place. I know he was jazzed about that.

Also played in the inaugural Dolce Vita Friday night tourney. Had a good partner, but we faced two other strong teams out of the box and just didn’t execute well enough to win either match, so suffered an early elimination. Still, Jim was happy that we had twenty players there, and I’m thinking YJ enjoyed a packed bar of hard drinking darts players. Craig and his partner Alistair won the tourney and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bigger grin than the one the Goat was wearing after that victory. Congrats again!

Someday I will post something here that doesn’t revolve around darts. But today is not that day.