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First Woman to Beat a Man at World Darts Overwhelmed by Response
- Jupe 7y agoImpressive. She hit six 180s. A 180 (or "Ton-80") is three darts in the treble ring of the 20 "slice" of the board. (The top slice, above the bulls-eye). So, she placed 18 darts (3-at-a-time) in the treble ring. While larger than the bulls-eye, the triple 20 is worth more (60 points) than the 50 points of a bullseye. The world record for Ton-80s is 22 in a single match. I've gotten ONE triple-sixty years ago, and was quite proud at the time. The biggest challenges for me were "bounce-back" when hitting the wire and "dart-splitting" (Robin-hood style).
- chasd00 7y agoyeah, skill shines through luck in consistency and performance under pressure. I'm rooting for her, I hope she stays focused and goes all the way. I use to play golf and was pretty good at it but it was just never a passion. I could hit amazing shots every now and then but it was the people who hit above average shots every.single.time that won.
- sambe 7y agoAt one point I played a lot and also got a single 180. Probably several dozen bounce-backs from the wire but not a single split dart. Always found it strange that people say this happens often.
- lonelappde 7y agoSplit dart happens when the board is higher quality than the dart.
- Jupe 7y agoInteresting... I never thought about that. I guess if the bristles board were very tight packed, the force of the incoming dart wouldn't be enough to move the dart out of the way? I had a good bristle board, but I recall spending much more on darts (weighted, various shaft materials, and an uncountable number of flights, etc.)
- Jupe 7y agoIt happened often enough that I had to purchase new back shafts (the part that holds the flights). The aluminum proved to be the best, as I could bend them back into place and still get some use out of them. My first few were plastic, and were effectively useless afterwards. The valley created by the two fins of the flight basically made a path right to the join point. Of course, maybe it was my throwing style that caused it to happen more to me than others? Only had a few that actually stayed stuck into the already landed dart, but it was quite funny when it happened the first few times. After that it was just a bother. Probably happened ~10-15 times IIRC. (It was ~30 years ago).
- big_chungus 7y agoI keep hearing about this, and must be missing something. Why is a woman beating a man of such significance? Isn't it just one talented player beating another? No one was interested in darts before; why ought the sex of the winner to change that?
- jonnypotty 7y agoCome on my man, you can see why it's a big deal. Maybe one day it won't be, but today it is.
- big_chungus 7y agoNo, I don't, and I believe there's a site guideline about assuming good faith. The best rationale I've heard is from your sibling comment by simion314, but he himself qualified that specific cases are useless with respect to averages.
- somehnguy 7y agoBecause it hasn't happened before. This isn't exactly rocket science difficulty levels of understanding.
- jmull 7y agoHm... your first inclination was to think you "must be missing something". Why not follow up on that thread? What you're missing is all of the context around this, both historical and current, which advance the idea that women ought not to even have the opportunity to compete in darts with men. More generally, women have very often been denied opportunities afforded to men across the board, based simply on their gender. (Personally, I don't have a special interest in women's issues, but I do have an interest in fairness and justice and basic human rights. From that perspective, breaking down a bullshit barrier keeping a group down based on superficial traits is awesome.)
- antisthenes 7y ago
- meddlin 7y agoThat's just awesome. Glad to see it.
- newnewpdro 7y agoTIL this had never been won by a woman before, surprising.