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Darts
Darts has developed from a popular UK pub game to an active league and championship sport at both amateur level, with leagues established across most countries and at Professional level, popularised through television. At its basics, Darts involves throwing/projecting a set of 3 'darts' at a circular board marked with sectors numbered 1 to 20 and with narrow circular segments defining areas where the score is doubled or trebled, and a central segment with two small circles defining the 'Inner and Outer Bull', which can take different values depending on the game. The objective is to reach a set score - usually 501 or 301 - before the opponent, with the final dart being a double. The maximum score with 3 darts is 180 (three 20's all trebled). It is possible to reach 501 in 9 darts
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The Global Game
All about Darts
What is Darts
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Darts
FromWikipedia - explanations, rules, and resources
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recroom-products.com
How to Play Darts - an introduction with some different games.
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CyberDarts
The Basics, including rules and tips for throwing
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Dartworld.com
A useful introduction to the game, scoring, equipment ..
The History of Darts
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Origins/ history of Darts
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Traditional Games
Darts History
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Darts in England
"The origins of the game of darts in England can never be firmly established, but it dates back to at least the Middle Ages. It seems that bored soldiers took to hurling arrows at the upturned covers of wine barrels, perhaps seeing who could come closest to the cork bung." ...read on
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Pro Darts 2005
New York Times 2005
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Nice Darts
A brief history of Darts; "The popular belief is that darts was created as a result of the boredom of being a warrior in medieval times..."
Darts Rules
Darts Equipment
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Darts Brackets
You can use for you local dart tournaments; double and single elimination
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The Dart Thrower
Covers equipment (All you need to know about barrels, flights and shafts. Useful tips for buying and tuning darts.) as well as technique amd the mental game
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Differences in Darts
Construction, weight, points, styles
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Learnaboutdarts.com
The dart - the terminology and construction
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Nice Darts
Tips on how to hang a dartboard - choose the best area, get adequate light ......
Darts Technique and Training
Support to improve Darts Technique through tips, practice, ways out, coaching, mechanics ...
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Dart throwing technique
from Nice Darts; the stance, gripping the dart, throwing variations, aiming, practice guidelines
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DartBase
All you need to know about Darts - darts reviews, darts technique, practising etc
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Darts performance tips
from Nice Darts; improve your darts technique in a game through consistency, getting in the zone, minimising nerves, knowing your outs ....
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Darts Technique
From Darts Thrower, including the mental game...
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Learnaboutdarts.com
How to become a darts pro.
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Mechanical Basics of Darts
The throw, grip, stance......; the mental game
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Nice Darts
Dart techniques and strategies to improve your game. Darts games to maintain interest in practicing.
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Strategies
from Nice Darts; dart game strategies for 801, 501, 301. Some tips that can help you improve your chances of winning.
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TalkDarts
Darts training Tips and Techniques for the darts beginner
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The Dart Thrower
Covers equipment (All you need to know about barrels, flights and shafts. Useful tips for buying and tuning darts.) as well as darts technique amd the mental game
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Tips and tricks
improve your darts technique and skills with The Passionate Darter, updated regularly
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U-Tube video
Perfect Dart Throw; 180's and technique
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Crows Darts
Recommended practice routines. Practicing by yourself just isn't as much fun as head-to-head competition. Keep a record of your progress to see what parts of your game needs work.
Play/Watch Darts
Darts Organisational bodies
International Organisations
There are two organisations arranging tournaments at the highest level, the World Darts Federation and the Professional Darts Corporation. but the British Darts Organisation also organises a World Porfessional Championship.
PDC Professional Darts Corporation. Established 1992 after a split from the BDO. It runs a large number of top, televised tournaments of which the World Championship is the most presigious. The other tournamants are The Premier League, Las Vegas Desert Classic, UK Open, World Grand Prix, World Matchplay, the US Open, the Grand Slam of Darts and the Players Championship . More events are planned. For more detail, see Wikipedia.
WDF World Darts Federation was formed in 1976, by representatives of fifteen (15) nations. Membership is open to the official National organizing body for Darts in all nations. The WDF encourages the promotion of the Sport of Darts among and between those bodies, in an effort to gain international recognition for Darts as a major Sport. Tournaments are organised within individual countries, but the BDF run the following: World Cup, Asia/Pacific Cup, Americas Cup and the Europe Cup. More information from Wikipedia.
BDO British Darts Organisation, is the British amateur darts organisation, but organised the World Professional Darts Championship in 1978 and still runs the competition annually at Lakeside, UK, even after the split leading to the formation of the PDC. See Wikipediafor more detail.
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World Darts Federation
WDF darts calendar, rules and regulations, playing rules, Major competitions (Lakeside World Pro, Winmau World Masters), Tables, the 4 WDF sanctioned tournaments.
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PDC Professional Darts Corporation
PDC darts tournaments, calendar, order of merit, players, regulations, images, watch live, live scoreboard
International Darts Championships
BDO World Darts Championships Lakeside
Made very popular by Television coverage, this event at Lakeside, Frimley Green, Surrey, organised by the British Darts Organisation runs in the second week of January. There are Men's and Women's events.
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LakesideWorldDarts
Official BDO Darts World Championship, Lakeside site. News, schedule and results, TV coverage
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Wikipedia Overview
of the BDO World Darts Championship Lakeside; highlights, current champions, sponsors, venues, TV coverahe, results and stats, records, Women's Championship
PDC Grand Slam of Darts
The PDC Grand Slam of Darts is the first regular of its kind to be held in the United Kingdom where the best performing players from its rival, the British Darts Organisation, participate. Initiated in 2007, it is held over 9 days during Novemberat the Wolverhampton Civic.
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PDC.tv coverage
offical news and results of the PDC Grand Slam of Darts.
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Wikipedia overview
of the PDC Grand Slam of Darts tournament; results, other BDP/PDC tournaments, regular participents, TV coverage
PDC US Open darts Tournament
The PDC US Open darts tournament, first introduced in 2007, is held currently at Atlanta, Georgia in May. The format of the tournament is the same as all of the Players Championship events on the PDC Pro Tour - from the first round to the final each game is best of 5 sets and best of 3 legs to a set.Qualification: The tournament is open to both PDPA members and non-members resident in North America, giving the top US and Canadian-based stars the chance to take on the top PDC players
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Planet Darts
Official information on the US Open darts tournament
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Wikipedia overview
of the PDC US Open darts Tournament; format, TV coverage, results
PDC World Matchplay
World Matchplay, introduced by the Professional Darts Corporation in 1994, is a very popular darts tournament, played in a legs format, a margin of two clear legs being required to win. The tournament is held in the Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool in mid July. Qualifiers are: Top 16 in Order of Merit and Top 16 in Players Championship Order of Merit not otherwise qualified.
Las Vegas Desert Classic
The Las Vegas Desert Classic (PDC) held annually, at Madalay Bay Resort. The tournament is played live on Sky TV in the UK so it has to be played in the morning in the USA with recordings later in the day with Fox Sports.
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Planet Darts
PDC, official site for the Las Vegas Desert Classic darts championship; news and results as they happen
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Wikipedia overview
on the Las Vegas Desert Classic darts tournament; the background and past winners; archive results
PDC World Grand Prix
The World Grand Prix (a PDC tournament) is an annual event held in Dublin in October. The initial rounds are 3 set only and than move to best of 5 set. See Wikipedia for full details.
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Planet Darts
official news and results of the World Grand Prix, from PDC
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Wikipedia overview
of the PDC darts World Grand Prix; format, results, world pairs, media coverage.
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Donegal Darts
World Grand Prix nes and resulkts, archived back to 1998.
UK Open
UK Open darts, run by the PDC, nicknamed the "FA Cup of darts" allows the minnows to match up to the professionals, through qualifying heats throught the UK. There is no seeding and names are 'drawn out of a hat' to make the pairings at each round. In the final stages a tournament bracket is used. The finals are held at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton.
Premier League Darts
Premier League Darts was introduced by the Professional Darts Corporation in 2005 and is shown on Sky sports. Involving just the top 8 PDC professional darts players, in a doubleround-robin format, with matches held across the country at different venues, the league runs from February to May. For more details see Wikipedia.
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PDC Planet Darts
official site for Premier League Darts; information and news of the series and accounts of each match
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PDC.tv coverage
of Premier League Darts; video of matches, but only for subscribers
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The Oche
Premier League review.
WDF World Cup
held biennually at different venues
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Wikipedia coverage
WDF World Cup darts; winners, team, singles and pairs champions, venues
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WDF 2009 results
WDF Darts World Cup, Charlotte, USA, from the official site. Other archive years available
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World Cup XV 2005
WDF darts World Cup, Perth, Challenge Stadium, Western Australia Sept/Oct; schedule. history, players.
PDC World Darts Championship
Qualifiers (2009): Top 32 in Order of Merit; Top 16 in Players Championship Order of Merit not otherwise qualified; Top 4 in European Order of Merit not otherwise qualified; Top 3 in North American Order of Merit not otherwise qualified; Up to 15 further international invitations at the PDCs discretion. Bulls Eye News.
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Wikipedia overview
PDC World Darts Championship; origins, sponsors, venues, results and stats, TV coverage, records
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PDC
official coverage of the PDC darts World Championship; daily reports and articles from the championship, images.
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LiveStreamingDarts
coverage of the PDC darts World Championship
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U-Tube video
2009 Final Taylor v Barneveld final leg of the PDC World Darts Championship
Darts Competitions
Darts Rankings
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Darts Database
PDC official darts player rankings, used in all PDC competition and events.
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Darts Mad
Darts Player Rankings. There are various ranking systems employed by the diferent organising bodies The PDC now employ an order of merit system in January 2007 based on winnings. The BDO/WDF have various systems in place based on points won in certain tournaments with different cut off dates depending on the tournament
Darts News
Latest news and results on the sport and its competitions
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The Oche
The most frequently updated dart news site on the planet. Automatically updated from dart news sources all around the internet
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Bulls Eye News
US based, covering the National and International scene; news, events results,
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Cyberdarts
24-Hour Online Information about Darts Activities Around the World, but focusses mainly of the USA scene
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Pdc.tv Darts News
Planet Darts. Latest news from all worlds of PDC Professional Darts plus selected darts news stories from around the world; Faq on live content
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Darts 501
World rankings, news and reviews, darts resources
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Superstars of Darts
Interactive forums. Includes "Off The Oche" general darts discussion plus forums featuring top players from the world circuits, tournament reviews, player form guide
Darts Players
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Dart Links
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Superstars of Darts,
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Interactiva
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John Lowe
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Lionel Sams
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Phil Taylor
Phil the Power; news, history, tournaments, exhibitions, links
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Robbie Kong Green
Watch out for the gorilla!
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Wayne Mardle
Everyone's favourite player now based in Essex, UK - "Hawaii 501"
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Steve Coote
PDC dart player; news , biography, articles , pictures, forum etc
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Bobby George
A comprehensive coverage of 'King of Bling' including That's the Way to do it, Bobby's witty column in Darts World Magazine
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Kingdom of Bobby George
From BBC Sport; join the fun
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Bio
As Celebrity in the Fit Club
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Bobby George
From Wikipedia; a useful summary of the player and his life.
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Unicorn Darts
Team Unicorn, news, links
Darts Portals
Darts Forums
Darts in Asia
Darts in Thailand
All about Darts in Thailand
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Thailand Darts Association
Welcome to the land of smiling darters. TDA presents all different league results & standings, upcoming tournaments & events, photo gallery, places to play and contact details for the different leagues & venues, darts shop, all to promote the sport of darts in the Kingdom of Thailand.
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Darts Thailand
Dedicated to promoting darts in Thailand
Play/Watch Darts in Thailand
Darts Competitions in Thailand
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The LSDL Premier League - Bangkok, Thailand
One of the largest organized Darts Leagues in Thailand - Information about The LSDL Premier Darts League, It's Teams, Venues and all the latest results and statistics from Bangkok, Thailand
Amateur Darts in Thailand
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The LSDL Fun Darts League - Bangkok, Thailand
One of the largest organized Darts Leagues in Thailand - Information about The LSDL Fun Darts League, It's Teams, Venues and all the latest results and statistics from the Lower Sukhumvit Darts League - Bangkok, Thailand
Darts in Europe
Play/Watch Darts in Europe
Darts Competitions in Europe
Professional Darts in Europe
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Wikipedia overview
of the PDC Pro-tour, in Europe; players champinships, regional finals, other tournaments.
Darts in France
All about Darts in France
Darts in Germany
All about Darts in Germany
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Alles Dart
(in German) A lot about history, rules, materials and so on.
Play/Watch Darts in Germany
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Darts1
(in German) Darts practice, interviews, mental, history and much more.
Darts in Ireland
All about Darts in Ireland
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Darts In Ireland
Run by Michael O'Sullivan; news, calendar, District darts( Cork, Tramore) , 'Focus on Youth', good Pub darts, links
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Galway Darts League
Currently run 2 leagues; history, fixtures, tables, winners, County Darts Panel, tips, links
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Sligo Weekender
Play/Watch Darts in Ireland
Darts Organisational bodies in Ireland
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South West Donegal Darts League
Pp to date local, national, international darts news and more; not affiliated to any darts organization and cover all aspects of darts, welcoming all darts news submitted.
Darts in United Kingdom
All about Darts in the United Kingdom
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Darts Calendar
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British Darts Orgnisation
Rules, Inter County Matches results, tables, international appearances, links to County sites, players, youth
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BDO World Rankings
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Toe The Oche
UK premier Darts site covering Skol, Embassy, Inter-counties, Roadshow, PDO, PDC, WDF and IDPA darts; player rankings events
Play/Watch Darts in the United Kingdom
Darts Competitions in the United Kingdom
Professional Darts in the United Kingdom
Premier League Darts in the UK
Darts Portals in the United Kingdom
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Darts blog
from the dartshop.co.uk - contains articles about top players, darts practice and tournaments.
Darts in England
Play/Watch Darts in England
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Essex Darts.com
Darts Around Essex - Sheila Handley gives details of darts around Essex and covers competitions and tournaments in counties, national and international events for dart players.
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Harrogate District
Covers the local leagues and the Dales County
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Harlow and District
Tables, fixtures, results 180's finishes
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Isle of Wight County Darts Association
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Lancashire Darts
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The Warwickshire Darts Union
News; local league information by town and contact for questions
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Warwickshire Darts Organisation
News, competitions, representative squads, results, superleague, youth, forum, links
Darts Organisational bodies in England
Darts in Scotland
Play/Watch Darts in Scotland
Darts Organisational bodies in Scotland
Darts in Wales
Play/Watch Darts in Wales
Darts in North America
Darts in Canada
All about Darts in Canada
Play/Watch Darts in Canada
Darts Organisational bodies in Canada
Darts in Oceania
Darts in Australia
Play/Watch Darts in Australia
Darts in Australia
Darts in Australia is controlled by the Darts Federation Australia. Each of the Australian States has a body that reports to DFA so that the sport is well organised and controlled, with uniform standards. There are abundant competitions for playersof State and Nationallevels and the Junior Development Programme is strong. It is estimated that there are in excess of 175,00 people that play darts on a weekly basis. In 2007, Australia had a number of World Ranked Players - Simon Whitlock (WR12), Tony David (WR14) and Ian Brown (WR26).
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Darts status
( pdf file) as a sport in Australia in 2000)
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Australia Darts Federation
States news, calendar, championship masters games, player profiles....
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Australian Darts Championship
Darts Federation of Australia has details of all the tournaments
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Dart Players Australia
Comprehensive coverage of the Australian and World scene, at all levels.
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The Oceanic masters rules
OfAustralia's most prestigious Darts event; Group round robin system winner and runners up go through to final 16. Winner to receive wild card entry and return flight to the Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship, London, England
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Simon Whitlock
The Wizard.
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Australian Legends
The Legends over 45's for players over the age of 45 years, was formed in 1997 when the World Cup was held in Western Australia. Don Reynolds and Patrick Fletcher were the ones that set about to form the Legends by getting past players together from each state and they played after the Australian Championships in Perth. Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales were the states that kept the idea going.
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Carol Forwood
Very successful international player; achievements
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Links to Darts Australia
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Broken Hill Darts Club
Broken Hill is a very active Darts club near the border of NSW, VIC and SA. There is at least 1000 miles of almost nothing (about 3 times as large as the UK) around the towns. Darts is very big here, maybe 'cause there aint much else! This site is updated constantly and is very informative for the local area. The site contains information on news, rules, Town darts, players, tournaments, including the Inland Darts Championship
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Armidale and District
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Sydney Western Suburbs Darts League
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Illawarra District NSW
A site packed with information about the local scene
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Queensland Darts Association
Contacts, news, calendar links, legends
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Beenleigh Darts.
Calendar, fixtures, history, representative players, message board..etc
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Austarlia Darts Affiliate sites
From Darts Australia
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West Darts
Official website of the Western Australian Darts Council; Associations, juniors, archives, events, results and reports, ladies and men's rankings
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Darling Range Darts Association
Western Australia; - a ground roots site. This site has plenty of local content for this vast area, providing the premiership ladder, fixtures and handicaps, results and highlights
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South Suburban Darts Association
Provides helpful resources for local players and teams. It includes a useful page on setting up a darts board.
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Freemantle
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South Australia Darts Council
Results and reports, rankings, calendar, State teams, Superleague, player profiles, coaching, affiliate associations. Northern Districts.
Darts Organisational bodies in Australia
Queensland Darts Associations
Queensland has about 160 associations in 10 zones, with huge distances (eg 1000km) involved for open matches within zones Google Map Darts in Queensland
Darts in New Zealand
All about Darts in New Zealand
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New Zealand Darts Council
Oversee the sport in NZ; a member of the World Darts Federation; useful resources, calendar, results, where to play,
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