Articles & Features

Since DW signed off on our previous issue there has been a plethora of action from every corner of the darting globe, each code and all levels...

The  2019 World Matchplay Championship was taking place at it’s traditional venue of the beautiful Winter Gardens in Blackpool and it coincided with the 50th Anniversary of that momentous day ,which had so captured my young imagination, when “humans dared to go where no humans had been before”.

...this is a fantastic game that have many levels of gamification that will make it last and continue to be fun and challenging for many players.

WDF - Not their first appearance in this list to be sure. The cancellation of the World Masters is a retrograde step by any measure....

...those articles comparing the prices of footballing season tickets and even the pies and pints on offer! Darts World wondered how elite darts would match up to a similar comparison:

“Starting from a very young age, whether it is under or over arm throwing, or throwing for velocity, the boys are always better than girls..."

A few years ago, the Belgian star Kim Huybrechts sent me a list of the games he’d been playing the past 10-15 years or so...

Perhaps another 20-month hiatus would work for the World Masters as well. Skipping this year entirely and holding the next one in June 2024 would give the WDF a full 12 months of build up and planning from now...?

Alan Warriner-Little became the one and only player to do a celebratory “Walk-off”...