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From: etxmarr@eos.ericsson.se (Marek Repinski)
Subject: THE EMBASSY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - FINAL !!
Followup-To: alt.sport.darts
Reply-To: Marek.Repinski@eos.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:29:59 GMT

Last news from the finest and greatest tournament
among DART professionals:

                     THE EMBASSY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
                (News I dug up on BBCfax Saturday the 10th)

Veteran John Lowe held off a spirited fightback by Alan Warriner to
win a tense final 6-3 and claim his third Embassy title.
The 47-year-old was not at his best early on but still established
a 5-1 lead with a nervous Warriner struggling badly on his doubles.
But the male nurse from Lancaster suddenly found his touch and
clawed his way back to within two sets.
Lowe was now under pressure but in true style he regained his
composure to take the 30.000 punds prize (about 50.000 $).

Veteran John Lowe was looking forward to traveling home with his
third World title.
"It will be nice to drive up the M1 as world champion again", he said.
"People might say I'm too old to win the title but I didn't  start
playing the game until I was 21. I started late in life and I think
I'm reaping the rewards now."
"Alan was very nervous because it was his first final. I threw the
darts that really mattered and Alan missed a lot doubles", he added.

Alan Warriner was disappointed after seeing the chance of his first
World title slip from his grasp at Frimley.
"I played awful. I was very nervous during the match",he said.
"I felt great last night and was very confident but I couldn't hit it."
"I played much better in the second half", he added. "But I was 5-1
down at the time!"


Saturday's final result:
(best of eleven sets)

A Warriner (5)         3-6   J Lowe (6)
(3-1 3-0 2-3 3-1 3-1 3-2 1-3 1-3 3-1)




Fin!


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/Marek


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Newsgroups: alt.sport.darts
From: cooper@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (Ralph 'Hairy' Moonen)
Subject: Re: Games to ..701?501?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:23:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.201450.7560@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, piz@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (G G ZIPFEL) writes:
> 
> 	I play mainly cricket, so if this seems like a dumb question,
> 	well it is. When the tourney results are posted here, and say stuff
> 	like "14 darts" or whatever, what is the game? Is it assumed to
> 	be 501? Do they play double in (I deduce that they never do,
> 	but I'm not 100% positive...)

They play 501, single in double out. first 2 rounds are best of 5 legs/set and
best of 5 sets to the game. Third round is still best of 5 for a set, but it
noq takes best of 7 sets to win.

> 	Anyway, what is a decent round of (oh, lets choose) 501?
> 	25 darts?

For amateur league, that is definately a decent round. 25 dart means that
including the checkout, every dart scores 20 points. 

> 	What are your (yes you!) average points/dart? Would 25 points/dart
> 	be decent? (thats a 20 dart 501...)

Over the total regional competition (Central Netherlands) this season, I 
have an average of 20.8 per dart. Actually this is quite good and I am
pleased with myself for this average, as it includes a couple of lost games
too. The average is calculated over lets see, 13 matches, best of 5.
So on the whole I'm not doing bad. 
The averages of the players at the Embassy right now are usually around
30. 


Any other Dutch Dart players on the net? (Come on, I know the guys from
Oracle play darts, and they should have net.access!)

--Ralph Moonen
Newsgroups: alt.sport.darts
From: piz@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (G G ZIPFEL)
Subject: Games to ..701?501?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:14:50 GMT


	I play mainly cricket, so if this seems like a dumb question,
	well it is. When the tourney results are posted here, and say stuff
	like "14 darts" or whatever, what is the game? Is it assumed to
	be 501? Do they play double in (I deduce that they never do,
	but I'm not 100% positive...)

	Anyway, what is a decent round of (oh, lets choose) 501?
	25 darts?

	What are your (yes you!) average points/dart? Would 25 points/dart
	be decent? (thats a 20 dart 501...)

	Lets get some chatter on this group for heavens sake!

	Later, I'll tell you about my last nights adventure helping
	a friend put up his bristle board in the basement...


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From: etxmarr@eos.ericsson.se (Marek Repinski)
Newsgroups: alt.sport.darts
Subject: Upraising against BDO
Date: 8 Jan 93 08:12:16 GMT
Reply-To: Marek.Repinski@eos.ericsson.se
Followup-To: alt.sport.darts
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB

News from BBCfax about the vendetta between BDO and WDC.

Six former world champions and 10 other leading players have
declared war on the governing body, the British Dart Organization.
The 16 rebels have threatened to boycott the world championships
next year unless the event is run by the World Dart Council.
The top players and the WDC are upset at the poor prize money and
lack of television coverage.
WPDA Chairman John Lowe said:
"The WDC has proved to be very effective in bringing publicity."

I can't say that they are wrong. This is the first year with no
games from EMBASSY on any satellite channel.


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/Marek


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From: tl@ray.fi (TonyK Lindstr"om)
Subject: Re: ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY !!!
Organization: Finnish Darts Organization
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:48:56 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.000436.4162@gmd.de> richard@capehorn.gmd.de (Richard Czech) writes:
>
>Hi Darters!
>
>I only want to tell you that I just hit the first 180 in my life!
>After two weeks of holiday I came home today and took my darts to
>test if I still can hit the board. The first round was D20 20 20, 
>the second one a clean 180. Wow, I never had a 180 before! 
>The darts are still sticking in the board... Maybe I should take
>a fotograph before I pull them out :-)


I have to admit that I used to take photos of my earlier 180:s, but
then it became too expensive.. :-)


Last night I was close to win one opponent with him having over 400
left (501), If my 105 finish would have succeeded, then ...
 
But after missing the bull (1, 54 9! :-( ) I later came up with double 8
and missed that evil red thing with 13 darts before I hit it. My 15-dartgame
became a lousy 31:er..
At least I won the leg... 

Well I DID come up with a 20-darter against the next opponent, but after
winning him I was totally demolished by the 10:th seeded player in Finland.
(Keijo "Keka" Valtonen)

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Newsgroups: alt.sport.darts
From: taylor@ccrs.emr.ca (Trevor Taylor)
Subject: Re: Games to ..701?501?
Organization: Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:24:21 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.201450.7560@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> piz@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (G G ZIPFEL) writes:
>
>	I play mainly cricket, so if this seems like a dumb question,
>	well it is. When the tourney results are posted here, and say stuff
>	like "14 darts" or whatever, what is the game? Is it assumed to
>	be 501? Do they play double in (I deduce that they never do,
>	but I'm not 100% positive...)
>
>	Anyway, what is a decent round of (oh, lets choose) 501?
>	25 darts?

Wow, a chance to brag about the best game of 501 double in double
out I have ever played !!! This occurred just last night

Here is a summary

160 (doubled in on 20)
140
59
82
20 X20 for the win

14 Darts !!!! (I usually take somewhere between 25 and 35 darts).

Now that I have got that out of my system, life can get back to 
normal. 

Trevor
From: etxmarr@eos.ericsson.se (Marek Repinski)
Newsgroups: alt.sport.darts
Subject: THE EMBASSY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - Tuesday
Date: 7 Jan 93 07:36:34 GMT
Reply-To: Marek.Repinski@eos.ericsson.se
Followup-To: alt.sport.darts
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB

More of the latest news from the finest and greatest tournament
among DART professionals:

                     THE EMBASSY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
               (News I dug up on BBCfax Tuesday the 5rd)

Defending champion Phil Taylor was sent crashing to a shock 3-1
defeat by the unseeded Kevin Spiolek. Spiolek, a left-hander from
Cambridge, turn in a five-star performance to race into a 2-0 lead.
Taylor was struggling badly with his doubles but kept his composure
to take the third set and the first two legs of the fourth.
  But his opponent refused to give in and pulled it back to 2-2
before snatching a famous victory on the nerve-wracking deciding leg.

Bobby George continued his amazing run to reach the quarter-finals
with a straight sets win over Welshman Martin Phillips.
  George, playing competitively for the first time in six years, hit
a magnificent five maximum 180's on his way to another famous victory.
  He now plays new favorite and the number two seed Mike Gregory,
who beat Dane Jann Hoffmann 3-1.

John Lowe scraped through 3-2 after opponent Raymond Barneveld pulled
off a brilliant maximum 170 finish.


Tuesday's 1/8 matches:

M Gregory  (2)          3-1  J Hoffmann
M Phillips  (7)         0-3  B George
J Lowe  (6)             3-2  R Barneveld
P Taylor  (3)           1-3  K Spiolek


Ehh..
I missed Mondays matches. So if some one hav'em, please post'em.


-- 


/Marek

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From: etxmarr@eos.ericsson.se (Marek Repinski)
Newsgroups: alt.sport.darts
Subject: THE EMBASSY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - Wednesday
Date: 7 Jan 93 07:41:47 GMT
Reply-To: Marek.Repinski@eos.ericsson.se
Followup-To: alt.sport.darts
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB

More of the latest news from the finest and greatest tournament
among DART professionals:

                     THE EMBASSY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
               (News I dug up on BBCfax Wednesday the 6d)

Steve Beaton produced yet another sparkling performance as he brushed
aside eight seed Bob Anderson 4-1 to reach the semi-finals.
Beaton, who beat Dennis Priestley in the second round, fired five
180 maximums and was always in control against the 1988 champion.
The first two sets were shared before Beaton took six leg on the
trot to go into a 3-1 set lead.
Anderson mounted a comeback in the fifth but the Warwickshire player
ended with a flourish to seal it.
Unseeded Steve Beaton booked his place in the semi-finals and then
modestly admitted: "I'm happy with the way I played."
The Warwickshire player, who turned professional only nine months
ago, has now beaten two former champions on his way into the last
four.
"I felt I had a lot more pressure on me tonight", he added.
"The crowd were expecting me to go out but I backed up the win
against Dennis (Priestley) with this."

Fifth seed Alan Warriner reached the semi-finals for the first
time with a comfortable 4-1 victory over Wayne Weening.
The male nurse from Lancaster opened up with a 13-dart leg in
the first set and never looked back.
Weening, bidding to become the first Australian to reach the
last four at the Embassy, battled back to take a tense fourth
set and made Warriner struggle in the fifth.
But Warriner stood firm and went out on 81 to seal the victory.
Male nurse Alan Warriner moved safely into the last four and
then admitted he had to overcome a bout of nerves against
Wayne Weening.
The fifth seed completed a 4-1 win and later said:
"I felt confident I would win but even at 3-0 up my hands
were shaking."
"I was dripping with sweat and I had to wipe my hand with a
towel in between every throw."
"I'll probably relax a bit more mow", added the man who now
faces in-form Steve Beaton on Friday.



Wednesday's quarter-final results:
(best of seven sets)

A Warriner (5)          4-1  W Weening
(3-0 3-2 3-1 2-3 3-1)

S Beaton                4-1  B Anderson (8)
(3-1 0-3 3-0 3-0 3-2)


Thursday's quarter-final matches:

M Gregory (2)            v   B George
J Lowe  (6)              v   K Spiolek

Start at 7.00pm GMT



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/Marek


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From: etxmarr@eos.ericsson.se (Marek Repinski)
Subject: THE EMBASSY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - semifinals
Followup-To: alt.sport.darts
Reply-To: Marek.Repinski@eos.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:23:35 GMT

More of the latest news from the finest and greatest tournament
among DART professionals:

                     THE EMBASSY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
                (News I dug up on BBCfax Friday the 8th)

John Lowe ended Bobby George's run with a 5-3 victory to reach his
eight World final and now faces fifth seed Alan Warriner.
Twice champion Lowe saw off a spirited fightback by the dazzling
George who has been back on-form.
But the ice-cool sixth seed from Chesterfield was always just a
shade better.
Lowe led 4-3 and although he lost the first leg of the eighth set
he took three legs funning and never gave his rival a shot at the
double.

Alan Warriner reached the final for the first time with a 5-2
victory over Steve Beaton at Frimley.
Beaton had defeated two former world champions, Dennis Priestley
and Bob Anderson, on his way to the semi-finals but his usual
magic finishing deserted him.
The Midlander missed 50 doubles in 63 attempts as Warriner took
the first two sets and then led 2-1 at the interval.
Beaton took took the sixth set but Warriner clinched a comfortable
win.


Friday's semi-final results:
(best of nine sets)

S Beaton                2-5  A Warriner (5)

B George                3-5  J Lowe (6)


Saturday's final:
(best of eleven sets)

A Warriner (5)           v   J Lowe (6)




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/Marek

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From: thall@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Tom Hall)
Subject: Re: Thanks/Question 
Organization: TI Semiconductor Process and Design Center
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:15:57 GMT

	Amigo's

	I'd like to start off this note by thanking Marek Repinski
	for posting the results of the Embassy World Championships
	for us!  Thanks buddy, you're great!

	I'm also wondering if anyone taped the Embassy matches on 
	their VCR?  If you did, would you be interested in selling 
	me a copy?

	When opportunity provides, I'll write up a short bio. on 
	John Lowe.  Ol' Stoneface is a very famous dude and much 
	has been written on him over the years!

	(Remember; he's the guy that threw the first ever perfect
	 game on T.V.!) 

	Gotta go now, cold beer and warm women await me at the bar!

        T.
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Newsgroups: alt.sport.darts
From: cmorgan@comet.lrmsc.loral.com (Craig Morgan 5606)
Subject: Re: THE EMBASSY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - FINAL !!
Organization: Loral Rolm Mil-Spec Computers
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:08:48 GMT

Many thanks to Marek for his Embassy postings.

Now, for those of us fairly new to the world of darts, do we have any
volunteers to post a few paragraphs of biography on the champion and
his challenger? (Where they are from, other titles, etc)  Thanks.

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From: mcsbc2msd@dct.ac.uk (El thicko)
Newsgroups: alt.sport.lasertag
Subject: Past couple of weeks.
Date: 6 Jan 93 10:36:38 GMT
Organization: on some remote unknown terminal...



	Can anybody tell me what's been happening over the past 3 weeks?
	I've no posts since the 14th of December 92 coz I've been on holiday.
	If there were any technical articles posted, could somebody *please*
	send them on to me????? Thanx in advance peeps.

		Mike D.

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From: D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk (D.C. Halliday)
Newsgroups: alt.sport.lasertag
Subject: Re: Quasar
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:20:14 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

I have recently moved to the US from the UK and am looking for a Quasar 
place in the SF bay area? Anyone know if such a thing exists?

I know about the Action Zone indoor paint ball but somehow I prefer
running arround black smoke filled corridors running into walls

Dave Halliday.

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From: henryc@panix.com (Henry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.sport.lasertag
Subject: Re: Quasar
Date: 9 Jan 93 17:10:07 GMT
Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC

In article <1iliv7INN51u@umbc7.umbc.edu> banz@umbc3.umbc.edu (Rob Banz) writes:
>I know some of you out there have played quasar?  Tell me, what do you
>think of it?
>
>Thanks...
>(post or email, either is fine)
>(banz@umbc3.umbc.edu)
>
>Rob Banz
>
>


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space cow invading St. Canard -Dark Wing Duck

HenryC@Panix.Com
Newsgroups: alt.sport.lasertag
From: wb9omc@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick)
Subject: Re: Past couple of weeks.
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date:  8 Jan 93 19:35:40 GMT

mcsbc2msd@dct.ac.uk (El thicko) writes:

>	Can anybody tell me what's been happening over the past 3 weeks?
>	I've no posts since the 14th of December 92 coz I've been on holiday.
>	If there were any technical articles posted, could somebody *please*
>	send them on to me????? Thanx in advance peeps.

>		Mike D.

	Well, I haven't posted anything or seen anything because I was
in the hospital and then at home recovering from sinus surgery, a.k.a.
roto-rooter of the nose.  :-)

Duane
From: alvin@tron.gun.de (Andreas Neus)
Newsgroups: alt.sport.lasertag
Subject: Re: Quasar
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neuss, Germany
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:20:00 +0100

> >I like it! It's good fun to fire off a few shots and then wonder why
> >mthere's a metallic voice saying "Return to base..." or something similar.
"Return to energizer", me thinks.

[good stuff deleted (especially the vibes:)]

> >| Steve Langstaff - Ericsson CAMTEC |
>
>
> 	I have never heard of this game before. Is it a pay-to-play setup
>    like Photon, or can you buy the equipment on your own? If it is the
> former, (as I suspect it is), where do you play it? How much does it cost to
>    play? Just curious.

Yes, it is "pay-to-play", and, from what I hear, rather like Photon;
though I'm not sure if Photon features laser-shots (nice to watch:)
You can play it near Piccadilly Circus, London, Turnpike Lane
(I think), London, and Bristol, (among others) all of the former: U.K.,
which, judging from your Origin is not really a convenient location
for you.


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From: banz@umbc3.umbc.edu (Rob Banz)
Newsgroups: alt.sport.lasertag
Subject: Quasar
Date: 8 Jan 1993 23:05:59 -0500
Organization: Who says we're organized?
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: umbc7.umbc.edu
Summary: Quasar, technical

I know some of you out there have played quasar?  Tell me, what do you
think of it?

Thanks...
(post or email, either is fine)
(banz@umbc3.umbc.edu)

Rob Banz


Newsgroups: alt.sport.lasertag
From: dmyers@oak.cis.ohio-state.edu (david e myers)
Subject: Re: Quasar
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:00:47 GMT

In article <985@quirm.terminus.ericsson.se> srl@terminus.ericsson.se writes:
>In article 1iliv7INN51u@umbc7.umbc.edu, banz@umbc3.umbc.edu (Rob Banz) writes:
>|> I know some of you out there have played quasar?  Tell me, what do you
>|> think of it?
>[snip]
>|> Rob Banz
>
>I like it! It's good fun to fire off a few shots and then wonder why there's a
>metallic voice saying "Return to base..." or something similar.
>
>I like the "shock" you get when hit, that's a nice touch (one person I know
>wanted to strap the pack on round his groin - good vibes I suppose!)
>
>Mind you, I don't think that you need to be too accurate with shots, which is
>a pain.
>
>---
>
>| Steve Langstaff - Ericsson CAMTEC |


	I have never heard of this game before. Is it a pay-to-play setup
   like Photon, or can you buy the equipment on your own? If it is the former,
   (as I suspect it is), where do you play it? How much does it cost to
   play? Just curious.

						Dave Myers
From: srl@terminus.ericsson.se (Steve Langstaff)
Newsgroups: alt.sport.lasertag
Subject: Re: Quasar
Date: 11 Jan 93 09:56:35 GMT
Reply-To: srl@terminus.ericsson.se
Distribution: world
Organization: Camtec Electronics (Ericsson), Leicester, England

In article 1iliv7INN51u@umbc7.umbc.edu, banz@umbc3.umbc.edu (Rob Banz) writes:
|> I know some of you out there have played quasar?  Tell me, what do you
|> think of it?
[snip]
|> Rob Banz

I like it! It's good fun to fire off a few shots and then wonder why there's a
metallic voice saying "Return to base..." or something similar.

I like the "shock" you get when hit, that's a nice touch (one person I know
wanted to strap the pack on round his groin - good vibes I suppose!)

Mind you, I don't think that you need to be too accurate with shots, which is
a pain.

---

| Steve Langstaff - Ericsson CAMTEC |