The Darts Referee

Jack Langston (born: ), better known online as The Darts Referee, is an English Entertainment and Sport YouTuber. He is known for his entertaining personality on his videos and known for his streams of his improvement while playing darts with his viewers or his watch alongs on Professional Darts Corporation tournaments. He has managed to gather around 32,000+ subscribers and 3 million views and becoming one of the quickest darts channels to gain mass subscribers.
==Career==
He had originally had a gaming YouTube channel under his original name, referencing what he done which was marking for the Professional Darts Corporation, 'JackLangston501', where he holds many memorable videos that his fans troll him with.
Jack Langston marked his first pro tour game in which Michael Barnard defeated Denis Ovens in a 6-5 victory on November 3, 2012.
Langston was seen doing the player championship tours and the UK Open Qualifiers where he was seen refereeing a game of darts for Billy Holmes and Joe Murnan in which the match is known for Holmes' unfortunate dartitis attack during their match.
Langston had started his channel 'The Darts Referee' on November 9, 2019 where he would start expressing stories during his time as a marker for the Professional Darts Corporation, the first being about 16x time world champion, Phil Taylor, and has other videos giving tips to those who would like to improve.
On May 5, 2021, during his birthday live-stream Langston had announced that he was making a television appearance sometime within the future. On May 11, 2021 where he fully announced on Twitter on Saturday, May 15, 2021, he would make his appearance on BT Sport 1 (including their YouTube channel) on their show called "It's a Numbers Game" - Episode 6.
On May 15, 2021 at 11am, Jack Langston had made his debut on television where he would answer a few questions about what his experiences being a marker for the Professional Darts Corporation further explaining that it was his job was get the players onto the boards at their correct times and to keep track of both players scores. Langston answered other questions including how does he calculate the scores so quickly. After his interview, Jack agreed to mark a game between the two hosts where he guided them with information onto where they should stand at the oche which then led with Langston marking scores of '23' and '33'. Moments later, Jack stood and watched as the four hosts kicked some Velcro footballs at a massive Velcro dartboard which ended up with Jack doing a VAR to whoever was closest to the bullseye where afterwards he would exit the show.
As of June 4, 2021, Jack Langston began streaming live on Twitch where he would attempt to receive Twitch Partner. On June 11, 2021, Ash Coleman, Jack's friend, was invited to play against subscribers where he becomes a daily appearance on streams. 
Jack Langston announced the creation of his first darts tournament named 'The Darts Referee Open' hosted inside Cedars Park Community Centre in Stowmarket on February 26, 2022 where anyone could enter a round robin style event with selective groups of five players playing on eight separated boards. The winner and runner-up of each group would be placed inside a knockout stage format. The venue opened doors at 11am before registration beginning at 12:30pm. The draw was announced by one of the events ambassadors at 1pm explaining the rules and terms before beginning the day where after the two groups would be assigned a board with a sheet of paper with all the list of matches able to played where the loser would have to chalk the following game listed on the sheet. Names of locals, random friends and recognisable fans of The Darts Referee were all assigned their boards. While the event progressed some highly recognised names would find themselves eliminated in the group stages such as 1983 BDO World Champion, Keith Deller. The only two PDC players that attended the event reached the final where Jack Main defeated Danny Baggish in a 5-0 whitewash to crown himself as the first trophy holder of the Darts Referee Open. 
==Personal life==
Langston lives in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England where he lives with his girlfriend, Bobbi Findlay (Bobs), and they have a black sprocker spaniel named Luna.
The Darts Referee use to work for the Professional Darts Corporation as a professional marker for the floor tours, for six years, before he left the Professional Darts Corporation where he works currently as a tree surgeon alongside YouTube which he does for entertainment for his audience and fans. Langston has been a fan of darts where he started with some Shaun Greatbatch darts before changing to his own branding. After his time with the Professional Darts Corporation, he has kept his relationship with some players such as Justin Pipe or even made new friends like Matthew Edgar.
Jack Langston is a proud ambassador of 'AutismAwarenessInDarts', which was formed June 2020, where it was created to bring awareness for those who have autism and play the sport of darts in which they aim to achieve equality for those who have autism and should not be discriminated against.
== Most watched stream watcher history==
During streams, his moderators, Austy TV and Lemonitez, created a championship for those who reached number one stream watcher called 'The Darts Referee: Most Watched Stream Watcher Championship' which later became discontinued through people botting watch time on Twitch.
No	Champion 	Reign	Date 	Days Held	Notes
1 	Jonas 	1 	January 9, 2020 	77 	Became the first The Darts Referee most watched viewer during a stream of Fortnite.
2 	Lemonitez 	1 	March 26, 2020 	203 	
– 	Vacant 	N/A 	December 15, 2020	N/A 	This was vacated as The Darts Referee was resetting the stream watching times meaning a fresh start.
3 	Karl Nufc 	1 	January 4, 2021 	121 	The last person which was first after the World Championship watch-along streams was crowned new champion.
4 	Matt Dean 	1 	May 5, 2021 	33 	This was during The Dart Referee's 28th birthday livestream.
– 	Vacant 	N/A 	June 7, 2021 	N/A 	The Darts Referee started to stream on Twitch which meant that the title had to be relinquished.
5 	Austy TV 	1 	June 7, 2021 	3 	
– 	Discontinued	N/A 	June 10, 2021 	N/A 	This became discontinued as people started botting watch time.
===Combined reigns===
Rank	Viewer 	No. ofreigns	Combineddays
1 	Lemonitez	1 	203
2 	Karl Nufc	1 	121
3 	Jonas 	1 	77
4 	Matt Dean	1 	33
5 	Austy TV 	1 	3
==Discord versus champions history==
The versus championship was introduced on July 16, 2021, the day after the camera rule was implemented due to alleged cheating previously. @Aaron19005 (Aaron19) defeated @Angry Angry Middle Aged Man (JetKnightman) to become the first ever champion. The 'versus championship' was simply added to make versus more fun for the community.
No	Champion 	Reign	Date 	Days Held	Defences
1 	Aaron19 	1 	July 16, 2021 	189 	8
2 	OwenSamuel25	1 	January 21, 2022 	30 	1
3 	Aaron19 	2 	February 20, 2022	103+ 	5+
==List of tournament winners==
===Real life===
====The Darts Referee Open====
The TDR Open was the first tournament that was ran by Jack Langston, a round robin type event with selective groups of five players playing on eight separated boards. The winner and runner-up of each group would be placed inside a knockout stage format.
Year	Champion 	Score	Runner-up 	Venue
2022	Jack Main	5–0 	Danny Baggish	Cedars Park Community Centre, Stowmarket, England
===Discord===
A formal note that these tournaments are not created by Jack Langston and are created by the members of the TheDartsReferee discord within their discord server. These tournaments are hosted inside The Darts Referee discord server under the categorised section, versus, where people are allowed to play their fellow Darts Ref Squad members in online matches and tournaments. These tournaments don't have any payment to enter as they are for fun but they do successfully gain a versus championship title shot which is a digital title not a real one. 
The information in the tables below are founded within the discord server and the names of the champions and runners-up are by their Lidarts username -- just in case they don't want their names publicised. All the tournaments below are in order of when they was introduced into the TDR discord. Top meaning the first and bottom meaning the latest.
====Summer Darts Open====
Year	Champion (ave.) 	Score 	Runner-up (ave.)	Venue 	 	 	 	
2021	OwenSamuel25 (55.40)	6–4 	Aaron19 (58.98) 	TheDartsReferee Discord Server, Online	 	 	 	
2022	Cancelled 	Cancelled	Cancelled 	Cancelled 	Cancelled	Cancelled	Cancelled	Cancelled
==== Halloween Darts Open====
Year	Champion (ave.) 	Score	Runner-up (ave.) 	Venue
2021	Ollyallenby (56.71)	8–7 	Aaron19 (55.58) 	TheDartsReferee Discord Server, Online
2022	Ollyallenby (57.47)	8–2 	Owensamuel25 (53.83)	TheDartsReferee Discord Server, Online
====Christmas Darts League====
Year	Champion (ave.)	Score	Runner-up (ave.) 	Venue
2021	Aaron19 (65.76)	7–0 	AidanHunter19 (55.31)	TheDartsReferee Discord Server, Online
====TDR World Championship====
Year	Champion (ave.) 	Score 	Runner-up (ave.) 	Venue
2022	OwenSamuel25 (61.00)	5–4 (s)	Aaron19 (63.89) 	TheDartsReferee Discord Server, Online
2023	Aaron19 (67.11) 	4–3 (s)	Ollyallenby (64.32)	TheDartsReferee Discord Server, Online
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
*25,000 subscribers: February 4, 2021
*30,000 subscribers: March 9, 2021
===Video view milestones===
*2 million views: July 20, 2020
*3 million views: January 19, 2021
*4 million views: July 29, 2021
==Trivia==
*Jack Langston has a girlfriend who is named 'Bobbi Findlay' or nicknamed 'Bobs'.
*He and his girlfriend have a sprocker dog named 'Luna'.
*Jack Langston works as a tree surgeon.
*He was a former darts referee for the 'Professional Darts Corporation'.
*Jack's favourite dart player is Adrian Lewis.
*This page was created by his moderator Lemonitez.
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