PDC Q School 2015 – Day 1
14th January 2015
The Redtooth qualifiers had a tough opening day at Q School in their bid to win PDC Tour Cards.
Brian Lewis and Lee Cusworth were eliminated in the first round both losing by a 5-2 scoreline to Craig Watkins and Richie Corner.
Jack Fuller also missed out in the first round going down to a 5-1 loss against Brandonn Monk.
Michael Power, after a convincing 5-2 win over David Edmunds in the first round, hit ‘double trouble’ when he lost in the second round by the same score to Jon Farmer.
Current Redtooth champion, Ryan Hoggarth won a nail-biting first round match against Jay Foreman when he held his nerve to clinch the deciding leg in a 5-4 win. In the second round he lost 5-2 to an impressive Ben Davies.
Best performance of the day was Mikey Groover who narrowly missed out on a place in the fourth round when he lost the deciding leg against Justin Groton in a 4-5 defeat in round three after an excellent 5-3 win over Dean Barry Stewart in round 2.
Former Redtooth champions Bob Fuller and Paul Amos had mixed fortunes, Bob lost in the fourth round by a margin of 5-1 against Eddie Dootson after victories over Steve Hartley (5-3) in round one, Dan Read (5-4) in round two and Luke Woodhouse (5-2) in round three.
Paul was on top form with a 5-0 win over Kelvin Hart in round two before losing to top Dutch player Mareno Michels by a score of 5-3 in round three.
The overall standard of play was extremely high with former BDO ace Alan ‘Chuck’ Norris registering a nine-dart leg on his way to the last four.
Further updates on the Redtooth players progress will be posted after each days tournament has been completed.

The Regional Final got underway at the new venue for Scotland (The Ball Room Edinburgh), with the pub winners being presented with their trophies. Then up to the oche..

Group 1
Paraffin Lamp Champion Wullie Fullerton was off to a strong start winning a close match putting first points on the board. Wullie was up again against an impressive George Brown winning a comfortable match.
Battle of the Brown’s was the last game in the group – son against father – George stands his ground and take the win over his son.

Group 2
Mixed Emotions for group 2 – Champion Jason Kirkland gaining first points on the board and winning 2 out of 3 games, but Jason loses out on leg difference.
Robert McBrearty enjoyed his first regional final despite only winning 1 leg.
David Daly, losing out on his first match which could have gone either way, did not give up winning his next 2 games to qualify.
Stuart Baird winning his first 2 matches in style, guaranteed his spot in the final 4
Stuart and David had a 1 leg play off to see who finished top of group and took top spot.

Knock-out stages were underway:

Match 1 George Brown Vs David Daly
Brown is quick of the mark with a white wash over the Ball Room qualifier David Daly, not David’s day but we will see more of him at the National Finals.

Match 2 Stuart Baird Vs Wullie Fullerton
Another white wash in the second semi-final with champion Wullie Fullerton going through 3-0.

Final:
G.Brown Vs W.Fullerton
Willie won the Bull but unfortunately struggled afterwards, throwing a few darts off the board. Brown showed no mercy with the best darts he threw all day.
Winning 4-0 with darts off 16,18,14,16

Well done George Scotland Regional Final Champion

16th November 2014

Riley’s in Leicester was the venue for the final and saw an afternoon of high class darts featuring high scores and 100+ combination finishes.
Following on from the group stages the semi-finalists were Richard Brown and Brian Randall from Warsop Ex-Servicemens Club, Shaun Wharton from Riley’s and Carl Newton from Round Oak, Brierley Hill.
Richard edged out Brian with a close fought 4-2 victory whilst Carl hit top form to defeat Shaun 4-0.
Richard, sporting a natty ‘Wreck It Rich’ shirt, hit top gear immediately racing into a 3-0 lead with several 180s and some top quality one dart finishes. Shaun mounted a brief comeback before eventually losing by 2-5.
Congratulations to all the players who qualified, on this form Richard will be ‘One to watch’ at the National Final in Sheffield on December 7th.

15th November 2014
Pilkey’s in Keighley was once again the venue for the last quarterly final before the National Final on 7th December.
After an exciting round of group matches Paul Howler, Gunner, North Shields, faced off against Paul Brittle, Wilton, Rotherham in one semi-final with Brian Lewis, Wilton, Rotherham against Mark Simes, Gunner, North Shields in the other. Paul and Brian progressed to the final with comfortable 4-0 victories.
In the final the scoring throughout was pretty even, however Brian hit top form on the doubles and romped to a 5-0 win picking up the top prize of £100.

The National Final invitation letters are going out today to all players that have qualified so far for the 2014 Redtooth Darts National Final that will be held on Sunday 7th December at the Platinum Suite, Sheffield United FC.

Good luck to all those that will be taking part.

Northern Regional Final 23rd August 2014

The Northern Regional Final took place at a new venue, Pilkeys in Keighley, with play getting underway promptly at 2.00pm.

Once again the overall standard was extremely good, in the group stages it was notable that first dart finishes secured victory on many occasions.

The semi-finals saw Frank Kirkwood (Three Horses) taking on Kenny Hoult (Wilton) and Ryan Hogarth (Three Horses) against Brian Lewis (Wilton), both games were real battles with Frank sealing a deciding leg victory to win 4-3. In the other match Brian and Ryan fought out an equally tough battle with Brian eventually winning 4-2.

In the final Brian raced into a 4-0 lead, including the highlight of the day, a 160 finish, Frank battled back reducing the deficit to 4-2 before Brian clinched the decisive fifth leg.

All four semi-finalists, along with Kristian Larkin, Billy Carter and Lee Slack are now looking forward to the National Final later in the year.

Scotland Regional Final – 17^th August 2014

The Scotland Regional Final for Season 2.3 of the Redtooth Darts League was held at Rileys, Edinburgh on 17th August 2014.
The players that attended battled it out in the initial round robin games to get down to the final 4 in the semi-finals.

Stuart Reilly (Rileys, Edinburgh)  v  Grant Robertson (Eagle Coaching Inn)

John Snodgrass (Paraffin Lamp) v  Brian Hargadon (Eagle Coaching Inn)

Some great darts and excellent finishing lead to the final match.
Final:     Stuart Reilly  v  Brian Hargadon

Congratulations to Stuart Reilly on becoming the Scotland Regional Final Winner for season 2.3