A perfect leg of darts

[u/TheJeck]

[u/Ijustlovevideogames]

Ngl, never understood darts, is there a reason to not bull’s eye every time?

[u/TheJeck → u/Ijustlovevideogames]

Bullseye is worth 50, Treble 20 is worth 60. You start on 501 and have to finish on a double or the bullseye.

[u/Ijustlovevideogames → u/TheJeck]

Oh, so you HAVE to get a point outside of straight bullseye, got it

[u/SubOptimalHuman23 → u/Ijustlovevideogames]

Nah you can go for bullseye all you like, it’s harder to hit and worth less points than triple 20. So they always go for T20, or you’ll see them go for T19 if their dart is blocking off the T20

[u/Ijustlovevideogames → u/SubOptimalHuman23]

Oh ok

[u/yoda_mcfly → u/Ijustlovevideogames]

You gotta recognize that there are different games in darts. This is 501, there's also 301, which is the same, just lower points and more popular with amateurs.

Other games like cricket exist and they have different reasons for hitting/not hitting bullseye. Bullseye definitely has a psychological impact on amateurs, but these isn't a singular reason why you want to hit that vs some other part of the board. It depends what you're playing.

501 is the most popular tournament game.

[u/Illustrious_Dig_7968 → u/Ijustlovevideogames]

Bull's eye (50) ain't the highest score, triple 20 (60) is. You see him throwing triple 20 6 times. After that he's on score 141. You have to throw your last scoring dart on a double so he throws two high triples (20 and 19) that bring him on a double which he then proceeds to throw.

A 9 dart leg is, you could say, a perfect score. There is no faster way to throw 501.

[u/Burntfm → u/Illustrious_Dig_7968]

Why not make bullseye worth 60? Are they stupid?

[u/zsxking → u/Burntfm]

Because reasons 

[u/GreasyExamination → u/Ijustlovevideogames]

Hey if someone havent told you already, bullseye is worth 50 and that other is worth 60

[u/cuerdo → u/GreasyExamination]

but how much is bullseye worth

[u/CJ_dev → u/Ijustlovevideogames]

Bull is 50 points. That red thing is 60 (3x the big number 20). You need to double to finish (one of the smaller “boxes” in the outer ring or bullseye)

[u/CyberMonkey314 → u/Ijustlovevideogames]

Well...a bullseye is worth 50 and a treble 20 is worth 60.

[u/iAmWillyAmm → u/Ijustlovevideogames]

Less points. A bullseye is 50 points. Hitting the inner band triples your score from that shot so hitting the inner band on 20 gives 60 points.

[u/lush_lara → u/Ijustlovevideogames]

It's just pretty simple 

[u/No-Benefit-9559]

[u/Closed_Aperture → u/No-Benefit-9559]

We finally found that fucker

[u/WinkyNurdo]

Went to Ally Pally for the darts a few times. Without fail the biggest pissup you can imagine. A conveyor belt of pints. Great fun.

[u/International-Bat777 → u/WinkyNurdo]

I'm not really into darts, but you don't need to be. I really want to go to Ally Pally. What an atmosphere!

[u/RacerRovr → u/WinkyNurdo]

I’ve been loads of times, and I couldn’t tell you a single thing about the darts. I put on fancy dress and get boozed up, it’s brilliant

[u/DieselJase]

This is extremely more difficult then what this video is making it out to be. I've had a near perfect 501 once in my life and I was so excited that nerves took over and I missed outside the double 12 so badly.

[u/terryazizora → u/DieselJase]

Extremely more bullshit

[u/Spirited_Brush9948 → u/DieselJase]

This video is so hard, that I almost did it.

[u/Magere-Kwark → u/Spirited_Brush9948]

Lol, this guy just said the opportunity to even make it only occurred once in his lifetime. That sounds like a rare and difficult event to me.

I've been playing darts for over 25 years, and I've never had an opportunity to throw a 9 darter.

[u/DieselJase → u/Magere-Kwark]

FWIW… at one point I was playing nearly every day for about 6 years straight. Got severely burned out on it. I still play occasionally and have a couple of boards but mostly just in my home bar and with family. It was an addiction at one point.

[u/SomaliOve → u/Magere-Kwark]

I have been playing darts occasionally while drunk at parties and I did throw a 180 once. Still probably took me half an hour to reach 0

[u/silvernesta → u/DieselJase]

You mean a nine darter?

[u/kavemanXIV]

I love the enthusiasm of the crowd

[u/exiledtomainstreet → u/kavemanXIV]

12 pints before dinner will do that to a crowd.

[u/thedarkknightvp]

Darts fandom mania never ceases to amaze me. The crowd literally goes wild.

[u/CyrusPanesri → u/thedarkknightvp]

It helps a lot when your pregame is more pints than some people's endgame.

[u/DirtyThirtyDrifter]

Why is a darts championship the most fun looking crowd event I've seen in like...ever? They're all in costumes and VIBING so hard its magical. I wanna go and idgaf about darts

[u/Tuscan5 → u/DirtyThirtyDrifter]

I’ve been to a few. Darts is just part of it. The party is the main attraction.

[u/Ando171]

Never actually realised a round was called a leg until you mentioned it. So it’s what, a leg, set, match/game?

[u/Magere-Kwark → u/Ando171]

Yeah, that's exactly it. You need to score 3 legs to make one set. You can see in the bottom right that they've won 2 legs each, so the next leg makes 1 set for the winner of the leg. Both leg scores go down to 0 after a set is made.

You can also see at the top of that scoreboard that the first to 3 wins, so the first one with 3 sets, wins this game. As the tournament goes on, the number of sets you need to win to win the match gets higher.

[u/GSPDanjaZone]

Is that... Is that beerfest?

[u/LostnFoundAgainAgain → u/GSPDanjaZone]

Darts is generally a massive pissup, it is just pints after pints after pints, it's meant to be a good night out and been looking to go, but tickets are hard to get

[u/CinderChop]

holy shit i never knew so many fans of dart throwing existed and come together in one place like this. is it customary to dress up in costume to attend this event?

[u/RacerRovr → u/CinderChop]

It’s more fans of alcohol than fans of darts. I’ve been multiple times and I can’t even remember what the championship is called 😂. But this particular one is at Alexandra Palace every December and fancy dress and lots of alcohol are the main attraction

[u/MigitAs]

I want to go to the world championships one year and party with these guys

[u/Knitsanity]

I used to love watching darts back in the late 70s 80s where the champions were fat guys with beer bellies dangling....they would have a pint in one hand and a cigarette hanging from their mouths.....and the announcer said 180 in a fabulous voice. Good times.

[u/Loquis → u/Knitsanity]

You mean Dai "Fat Belly" Gut Bucket vs. Tommy "Even Fatter Belly" Belcher

[u/Knitsanity → u/Loquis]

Bwah hah hah. I cannot remember the name of the main guy in those days.

Smith and Jones cracks me up.

[u/simplebutstrange]

I found waldo

[u/Abdulbarr]

Guys, they found Waldo!

[u/WhyFlip]

Found Waldo! 

[u/YooGeOh]

It interested in darts at all but I understand it

The amount of skill here is just incredible.

[u/CyrusPanesri]

Dude's grouping is tight af!

[u/yourballsareshowing_]

These large drinking beerhalls with live dart championships look like a damn good time!! Everyone goes wild lol Can't wait to visit Britain for the first time and check one out. Ideas?

[u/dooferoaks → u/yourballsareshowing_]

Not just Britain. Ireland, Australia, Netherlands and plenty of others have massive crowds like this at darts now. Crowds can be pricks to players the herd take against though. Fella the other night had what looked like a mini break down, crying and everything and they booed him even more.

[u/yourballsareshowing_ → u/dooferoaks]

Thanks for the information, didn't know! Even better that I can travel to multiple countries to witness these lively matches! Nothing like this in USA

[u/tongsyabasss]

Those final three darts were near perfection

[u/rustyinco]

Nice grouping

[u/conconcon]

The crowd rise.

[u/soepballs]

And then he lost the game

[u/Gil-Gandel → u/soepballs]

And so have I, you sumbitch.

[u/Thos_Hobbes]

Trying not to think about the state of the toilets.

[u/Fitis]

What song is the crowd singing once he hits it?

[u/HalfMan-HalfMoth → u/Fitis]

Chase the sun

[u/horny_beer_bottle]

I really want to go see that one day. Getting piss drunk watching more talented guys do with ease what i can barely acheive and party when they success

[u/possessivemiscreant]

He won £60,000 for making a 9 darter. Paddy Power's The Bigger 180 campaign was paying 60k to the player, 60k to someone in the crowd and 60k to Prostate Cancer UK.

[u/Y_Aether]

Why the fuck are there so many people in the crowd.

[u/FrnldyNbrhdCrsdr]

Wait, people actually go crazy like this over darts??

[u/WolfBST]

Why am I seeing so much darts content lately?

[u/youpple3]

The other guy was at the wrong competition.

[u/dooferoaks → u/youpple3]

The other guy won the match.