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No match this week, but some good news anyway! Looking at the standings from last week and comparing them to this week’s, I notice that T E R D beat Casey’s RBs by an 8-5 score. That puts us two games back of first place, and we get our crack at Casey’s at our place on Tuesday. They beat us in the first match, but only 7-6 and they had the home field advantage. This is our chance to make a move.
Sorry I’m behind on these updates—this will catch us up, because we had a bye this past Tuesday.
It was a different line-up this time around against T E R D, and by a coincidence I knew one of the players from years ago (Maggie’s brother Matt, for anyone who cares to know), so it was a very friendly match. Contributing to that atmosphere was the fact that there were a couple of Red Sox fans on the other team, so I had someone to talk baseball to while watching the Yankees play the Angels in the ALCS. (My guys are Yankee-lovers.)
Just like last match against them, it was a close one. We won this one though, most likely simply due to the home-field advantage.
Final result: a 7-6 win.
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Even though the results showed only a one-game improvement over our last match, Team Versus was miles better. For one thing, they had four players—all of whom finished the match. But seriously, every game was much tighter than the first time we played them. They were hitting their numbers much more consistently. I think somebody’s been practicing…
Even better, their strategy had improved a bit. They still don’t immediately recognize when they have an out in 501, and they tend to follow a little too much in cricket, but those kinds of things will come to them more and more naturally as they gain experience.
And best of all is their attitude. They’re there to have fun, and don’t sulk about losing a lot of games. Everyone loses a lot of games their first couple of times playing in the league, and they get that. Hope they stick around a while.
Final score: an 11-2 win.
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Our first home match of the season! I wish we had made more of it, but we did finally win the last game of the match, so there’s that.
For a team that had three—count ‘em!—members sporting Yankee caps, they weren’t obnoxious at all. They had one guy who was incredible at cricket, but fortunately we were able to snag the two games he didn’t play. We were evenly matched on 501 as well, as the final score showed.
Not much else to report, except that Red’s new girlfriend came to the match about halfway through and he started playing much better after that. She’s not allowed to be late in the future.
Final score: a 7-6 win.
Stats updated above, click to see them. Also, an important update to the schedule. Next week’s open tournament is being held on the upper level at Bradford’s, not at Tiernan’s.
No match next week, so an update will come in a fortnight.
A very good team, this one. Two of their players are excellent, so when they were matched up together they were very difficult to beat—-although we did, once. One average player and one slightly below average. We’ll have to do a better job of winning what games we can against those two.
Things got oddly out of hand over a dispute over game rules. In all my years of playing darts I’ve never been involved in this heated an argument, which seemed to come out of nowhere. We smoothed things over in the end and I don’t think there are any hard feelings (at least on our part).
In the end, we lost 7-6. (Losing the final game again!) It’ll be good to finally get home to Tiernan’s next week.
Stats updated above. Click to see them.
No update last week, because the team we were scheduled to play, the June Bugs, dropped out of the league. Would have been nice if anybody had told us, but we were able to practice for a while so the night wasn’t a complete waste.
Of course, this also means that we won’t have our first home match until a month into the season. On the bright side, we’ll be at home every week after that until the final match.
A fairly new team—they started in the spring—but they were very good at the bullseyes. That’s pretty typical of new teams, because in this league we play eight games of 501 and one of 701, and only four games of Cricket. You just tend to get a lot better at the bulls because you’re shooting at them the majority of the time.
501 was a struggle for us this week. Luckily for us, they weren’t as practiced at hitting their Cricket numbers, so we were able to hold our own and tie the game up at 6 after being down 3-1. For the second week in a row we lost the final 701 game, which is always disappointing.
Final score, a 7-6 loss. We head home to Tiernan’s next week for our home opener. We started the season with two road matches, but we get repaid for that later when we have three straight home matches (with one week off for the league dart tournament.)
Home sweet home awaits!
These were a good group of guys—if two guys constitute a “group.” They had some difficulty getting four players, and since we didn’t want to win by forfeit or play against ringers, I made a deal.
They could play two people who weren’t on their roster, with one condition. If either of the non-roster players had a game where they were the best shooter, the next game they shot they’d have to play with their off-hand.
That ended up not happening. They really were beginners, all of them. I helped them out by explaining the freeze rule and warning them when it applied. I gave them some advice on proper Cricket strategy, too. This wasn’t really altruistic—I wanted them to play better against the other teams in the league.
I tried to buck them up after the match by telling them about our first season, when we lost 13-0 in our second outing. I told them not to get discouraged but to keep trying. Again, not altruistic—if they quit the league, everyone gets 13-0 forfeits against them. Except we won 12-1, so we’d lose a game on everyone else.
In the last game, their two subs quit. We let them play just the two of them, which hurt our chances because they were shooting every other round, while we were all shooting every fourth round. It makes a surprising difference. Can’t complain, though.
