As Ryan Petzar writes for Philly.com, darts aren’t really a thing you know about unless you’re super into them. That said, holy shit, when you are super into darts it SHOWS.
This is a clip from the PDC World Darts Championship, featuring Michael van Gerwen — a man who looks like Powder and may or may not possess his magical powers — throws an impressive darts combo known as the “nine dart leg.” I’m not going to pretend I know what that is. Anyway, the gist of the clip is that this guy is great at what he does, and the crowd is going ABSOLUTELY F**KING APE for EVERYTHING. You could watch a crowd react like that to a guy calmly drinking a glass of water and get goosebumps.
Check it out for yourself. If you know a lot about darts, feel free to educate us in our comments section below.
Wait, were the Muppets there? I need to get into darts.
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This is because the crowd is all drunk. That’s all darts is, drinking.
Darts isn’t darts until a drunk chick walks between the board and the dartist(?) and catches one hilt deep in the neck.
The guy basically threw a perfect game, and then followed that up by throwing a perfect game up till the last dart which he barely missed.
Its like bowling a 300, and then the next match getting all strikes up until the last ball you miss one pin, plus a drunk audience.
This.
Being someone who has played a LOT of darts in bars this was pretty fantastic to watch.
this is so metal for so many reasons, the first of which is that charlie brown is a fucking dynamo at darts.
Oh man – that’s good. Someone (or his sponsor) needs to get him the shirt – that’d be epic.
If you miss, YOU DRIIIIIINK!
To be fair, if you hit your mark YOU STIIIIILLLLL DRRIIIIIIINNNK!
There are 2 competing darts organisations – the PDC (which is this) and the rival BDO. The 2 have essentially a relationship like 90s WWF and WCW, including players “jumping” between organisations for more money. The then champion of the BDO even called the PDC “sports entertainment” to disparage it.
As you have probably guessed, I’m British. I went to the equivalent tournament a few years ago and it was an awesome night out.
The other funny thing is that he didn’t even win the tournament. He threw a perfect game to get to the finals, then went all Mets once he got there.
excellent.
I once signed my name on a piece of paper that said I was joining a darts team because they needed me to in order to have the minimum amount of players to enter the league but I only played one match. The team went undefeated and won a bunch of huge tournaments. I now have 5 trophies in my living room that are at least 4 feet tall and have my name engraved on them. Thus ends this book titled “Everything John knows about Darts”
♪WOH-OH-OH-OH-OH-OHH!♪
This was in England, right? They have the best crowds.
Truth. It is scientifically impossible to get any country in North America excited about darts.
I declare hooliganistic shenanigans!
I want to thank British Whale for preparing me emotionally for this level of darts action.
British crowds FTW!
British clouds FTW!
I said this over at the Facebooks but it bears repeating here: Darts championships are surprisingly taut and compelling television. It moves quickly, there’s lots of tension and most of those guys are so good it’s rare when they miss what they need to stay in the game. It’s like bowling only faster and way more rowdy (they have wrestling-style entrances).
11-12 second mark: guy walking in a captain america suite.
i shit you not.
“suit”
is lemme announcing?
I went to this tournament (didn’t see this match) and I can confirm the crowds are utterly bonkers, and surprisingly full of lots of attractive women. It’s held in a beautiful old heritage site overlooking London. People drink extraordinary amounts (of beer – I’m a whiskey drinker and may has well have been drinking magic fairy juice to the dudes there). Also, what AndyCandy said is true, darts is properly compelling – I put it on over Christmas, and once folk had grasped the rules, the whole family (even the non-northern working class ones who didn’t grow up with it around) were gripped.
Bonus: One of my favourite “chuckers” is Ted “The Count” Hankey, he comes to the ring wearing a cape, throwing rubber bats, and is known for going utterly mental at the crowd. Watch this video from about thirty seconds in if you want to see a great example of his heelish behaviour! :
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BAH GAWD! THAT’S THE COUNT’S MUSIC!
haha, and his music *is* amazingly awful! It begins with an electronic “Dalek”-type voice screaming “THIS IS MY TERRITORY… BE ON YOUR WAY!” and then awful techno beats. I’ve always wondered why he doesn’t use some spooky, generic horror-type stuff. Ted’s mind is an unknowable jigsaw puzzle.
Since you obviously have no idea what you are talking about, why bother writing about it? You just come across as both ignorant and stupid. Yes…it is impressive. But it happens often enough to not go crazy over. I’d say it is more frequent than a no hitter.
9 darter legs generally happen once in an entire tournament, if that. Once out of *hundreds* of legs. A successive 9 darter has never happened, *ever* in a tournament, and, the numerous interviews with various dart’s players afterwards illustrated how they never even get close in practice (unlike 9 darters, which by all accounts they hit quite regularly). If only one player hits a nine darter in the World Championships, the PDC pays them fifteen grand. Since 1990, only 7 people have hit 9 darters in the World Championship.
Yeah, I am fun at parties! But why let facts get in the way of being mean-spirited!?
People in glass houses, dude.
Yeah, GregoryGold is right. lakawak, you’re attacking ignorance but displaying it yourself. A 9 dart leg is very significant. You wrote “it happens often enough to not go crazy over”, actually, when a 9 darter is hit it is pretty much obligatory for the crowd to go absolutely wild. If a 9 darter is hit in any tournament the crowd goes nuts. Even if a player gets close to hitting one, the tension in the audience is palpable.
You will never see a 9 darter in a major televised tournament that is not fervently and loudly celebrated by the crowd
What are they going to show next, Golden Tee Golf?
Phil Taylor…..that is all