I’m throwing about the best darts of my “career” lately.  13-3 in singles league Sunday and another 7-2 in “A” division pub league action Monday night.

I had an amazing comeback in a cricket singles game on Monday.  My opponent, a hotshot Korean, opened with five 20’s.  I threw one 19 in response.  He then closed 19’s and I answered with one 18.  My adversary then hit a 9-mark (the best throw possible in cricket) consisting of three 18’s, three 17’s and three 19’s for points.

This gave him four numbers closed and 97 points, while I had two total marks.  The dart term for this situation is “being totally screwed”.  Nothing to do but fight on and hope for better results.  Which I achieved by pounding 16’s and 15’s to catch up on points and then closing the bullseye.   I had managed to close the 18’s with slop from missing the bull, but he still had 20, 19, and 17 to work with.  He took the point lead again, but then I managed a bull/triple 20/double 19 combo.  He only managed one 17 in response, and I took a bull for the points I needed, and a triple 17 for the win.

I was of course surprised to win and he was devastated to lose as evidenced by his complete collapse in the following two legs.  I guess that proves you are never really out of a game, but really what happened is my opponent used a soft-tip strategy in a steel-tip game (at least in Korea, whomever is up on points after 15 rounds on the machine wins the cricket game).  So, had he closed the 16’s and 15’s instead of trying to match my points he would have prevented any avenue to my winning the game.  And so it goes.

Speaking of Glory Days, here’s some videos from the past:

The Korea Darts Federation final between Alastair “All-Star” Tarbett (Scotland) and John “The Walrus” McCrarey (USA)

A video where Hitler learns his dart team has to face Itaewon’s Ride it In for the championship.

What Bruce said.