Fall and Winter Seasons are 15 weeks long, plus playoffs. Summer Season is 12 weeks long, plus playoffs. Fall Season normally begins in August , Winter Season in January , and Summer Season in May . See the calendar for dates. Sponsors may sign up as many teams on each night as they have sanctioned dartboards .
Players pay only when they play at least one game .
Absent players do not pay. Playoff winners, MVP's in each division, and the winners of the Traveling Trophy Championship also receive individual trophies. Sponsors receive a plaque for any team which wins their playoff as well as a large permanent plaque on which are mounted brass plates for any teams in the top three in their division. The Traveling Trophy is retained by the winning Sponsor for one season and the Sponsor then hosts the Traveling Trophy Championship tournament for that division the following season. Any Sponsor who's teams win the same Traveling Trophy three consecutive times is then awarded the tropy permanently and the league begins a new Traveling Trophy for that division.