From: bill@kean.ucs.mun.ca (Bill Garland)
Subject: Monday Morning News
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:25:22 GMT

Good Morning world. It's Monday am and I am beat out from playing
darts all weekend. We had our qualifying round robin for our division
for the provincial playdowns, with the top ten going on to the 
provincial finals, and the winners there going on to the Canadian
Open here in June. There were fifty-one participants, and I ended
up with 51 points, so I am happy, even though I missed enough 
double 16's for me to have qualified... "Maybe next year". 

The top player was Tommy Condon, with Pat Finlay and Keith English
not far behind. The competition was so tight that there were five
people tied for tenth position, the last spot. They were going to
have to back out the scores of the jerks who didn't show up for
Sunday's games to break the tie. Under our rules, people who quit
a tournament in mid-stream are banished for either 2 or 5 years -
the directors weren't sure which. It screws up the rounds and 
generally pisses people off.

Anyone who claims darts is not a sport should come watch one of
these events. Over a weekend, it becomes an endurance thing.
Those who drink too much don't last. Those like myself who are
not in shape don't last. I was losing it towards the end, dropping
15 of the last 18 games. They were some of the better players,
true, but I did beat many of the better players earlier in the 
day and on Saturday, so that was no excuse.

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Many thanks to Marek Rapinski for posting the Embassy results.
It's good to see the man with the golden darts on top of the
world again.  John Lowe is one of the game's best ambassadors.
He came to Newfoundland three or four years ago, and went to
a very small outport community called Plate Cove and played
in an exhibition. The whole region of Bonavista North had 
staged playdowns to see who got the privilege of playing against
the then 5-time world champion, and he played 20 matches in one
night. He won 19 of them. The guy who beat him says it was a
once in a lifetime thrill, and he still didn't know how he did it.

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The Monthly Posting/ FAQ was not done in December...I kept "not
getting a round tuit". Very busy time of year. I was going to do
something last weekend, but it was Friday morning when I read in
the paper that the tournament was on for this past weekend. I
should have known, of course, but didn't, and wasn't really 
prepared for it the way I will be next year...  These things can
cause divorces...  My wife had to work 10:30 Saturday night,
and then go back in again at 7:00 pm Sunday, so I had to arrange
babysitters and money and etc etc. And there are cash money 
tournaments on the go every Saturday for the next 6 weeks, so
I may as well hire a lawyer now...

Anyway, I hope to gather some more stuff together and make a
monthly faq posting later on in Jan. I did say originally that
it needs discipline to do a faq and that I need discipline to
get done all those things I want to do...
 
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