Midlands Regional Final – 17/8/14

The Midland Regional Final for Season 2.3 of the Redtooth Darts League was held at Rileys, Leicester on 17th August 2014.
As usual the event started with the group round robin games – best of 5 legs.  Some great darts were played to get down to the last eight players, who would then battle it out in the knock-out phase, and who also secured their places at the National Finals in December.

The quarter final games were very close, with good darts being thrown by all players.  Then came the semi-finals.  Carl Newton and Craig Ingram upped their game to make sure they reached the Final.
Excellent darts played in the Final, with some great finishing, but eventually Craig took the lead to become the Midlands Regional Champion.
The knock-out stage results were as follows;

 Quarter Finals:
Paul Siddle (Warsop Ex Servicemens)   3 – 4 Shaun Whartson (Rileys, Leicester)
Carl Newton (Round Oak, Brierley Hill) 4 – 2 Lee Siddle (Warsop Ex Servicemens)
Craig Ingram (Warsop Ex Servicemens) 4 -3 Dave Newton (Round Oak, Brierley Hill)
Paul Moreton (Rileys, Leicester)           2 -4 Paul Deehan (Wild Wood, Stafford)

Semi-finals:
Shaurn Wharton 0 – 4 Carl Newton
Craig Ingram      4 –1 Paul Deehan

Final:

Carl Newton      3 – 5  Craig Ingram

Congratulations to Craig.

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Central Region Darts Final – 18th May 2014

Rileys, Leicester was the venue for the Season 2 Redtooth Darts Regional Final.
The afternoon began with a series of group games before reaching the last eight knock-out phase. The standard, as usual was extremely high, both scoring and finishing. Special mention must be given though to our youngest competitor, Josh Longden, from the Alpine, Rotherham, who recorded the highest check-out of the day with a 151 finish in the group stages.
With three of the final eight players having already qualified for the National Final in November, the five new qualifiers will be joined by the highest placed runners-up from the groups, they are Paul Turner, Wild Wood, Stafford, Wayne Ellams, Alpine, Rotherham and Baz Pearce, Gigmill, Stourbridge.
The knock-out stage results were as follows;

Quarter Finals:
Brian Lewis (Wilton, Rotherham) 4 – 0 Edward Heyward (Wild Wood, Stafford)
Lee Cusworth (Wilton, Rotherham) 4 – 1 Gary Wilson Jr (Rileys, Leicester)
Ash Cartwright (Gigmill, Stourbridge) 4 -3 Jono Poole (Hop Pole, Nottingham)
Gavin Roberts (New Inn, Worcester) 4 -1 Ray Taylor (Wild Wood, Stafford)
Semi-finals:
Lee Cusworth 4 – 2 Brian Lewis
Ash Cartwright 4 – 3 Gavin Roberts
Final:
Lee Cusworth 5 – 1 Ash Cartwright

Congratulations to Lee the new Central Region champion, who picked up £100 along with the title.

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Scotland Regional Final 2.2

After a small presentation Scotland’s Regional Final got underway.

A few hours went by and after the round robin stages the final 8 had emerged and the draw was looking very strong with a good field of players,

Best of 7 legs
Ralph Hirst 1v4 Malcolm McCaig
Colin Kelly 4v1 David Broadfoot
Jason Kirkland 4v2 Grant Robertson
Chris Kirkcaldy 4v1 Alec Harkin

Semi final matches were starting to heat up after some great darts thrown
Best of 7 legs
After a couple of missed doubles from the Star Hotel man Malcolm McCaig, Colin Kelly punished him showing real class and storming to a 4-0 win
Second semi final saw Star Hotel Jason Kirkland show great composure over The Eagle Coaching Inn star Chris Kirkcaldy in a great fighting match. Jason see’s his way to the final with a 4-2 win over Chris

After a small break spectators and players were ready for the final match of the day

Colin Kelly V Jason Kirkland

Colin wins the bull to start the match and with no pressure starts pampering the TREBLE 20. Jason looks under par as Colin see’s his way to victory over Jason with a 4-0 win

Well done Colin Kelly (The Paraffin Lamp) Champion
Great darts thrown all day by everyone.

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Northern Region Darts Final 17th May 2014

Rileys, Wigan was once again the venue for the Season 2 quarterly final.

After an exciting series of round-robin games we were left with the final four who all qualify for the National Final in November.

In the first semi-final Tom Neil, Pheasant, Batley took on Ian Sanderson, Kings Arms, Haworth. In a close fought battle Ian managed to come from behind to win a tense match 4-3, avenging an earlier loss to Tom in the round-robin.

The second semi-final saw a clash between two players from the Kings Arms, Haworth with James Andrews taking on Brian Annalls. In another exciting match James came out on top with a 4-3 victory.

After two very close semi-finals Ian took on James over the best of nine legs, Ian hit top form in the final running out a 5-1 winner, picking up the first prize of £100 and the title of Northern Area Regional Champion.

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Scotland Regional Final – 23rd Feb 2014

The presentation started the event with certificates and trophies being awarded to pub winners.

The draw was made and matches started.

Eagle Coaching Inn, Dundee, duo Fred Thompson & Joe Lynch and Paul Burrows & Scott Parry from Riley’s Edinburgh were in the semi-finals and had once again made it to the National Finals.

Congratulations to all 4 players

The first semi was to be tasty.  Last 16 placed at the 2013 National Finals, Riley’s champion, Paul and Eagle Coaching Inn, Joe, were up first.

Paul winning the bull to kick off but a poor start for Paul saw Joe take the first leg.  Joe once again shows his talent and starts off with a 180, Paul throwing great darts in the leg with a  100 & 125 but not strong enough as Joe hits 2x 100 to storm into a 0-2 lead.  Paul sees himself get 2 legs with some great darts and levels the game 2-2.

Joe starts off steady with 2 x 100, then Paul gets a bad bounce out at the wrong time, to see Joe go one leg away from the Final 2-3.  Not giving up Paul hits a 180 to storm into the lead and levels the game once more at  3-3.   No mistakes now from Joe as he shoots off like a rocket 100, 125 & 131 to see him into the Final 3-4.

Second Semi was underway with Riley’s Scott Parry up against Eagle Coaching Inn Fred Thompson.

Scott gets things under way with a good strong leg of dart,s including a 60 and 119, to see him go 1-0.

Fred gets the ball rolling with a good 17 dart leg 60, 85 &100 to get the game leveled up 1-1

Fred storms ahead in the 3rd leg  then unfortunately misses the big 18 giving Scott the opportunity to steal the leg and go 2-1 ahead.  Scott ceases his opportunity and wins the next 2 legs on the bounce to see him into the Grand Final.

Eagle Coaching Inn (Joe) V Riley’s Edinburgh (Scott)

The Grand Final:

Joe gets the final underway with a good steady 17 dart leg with a 81, 81, 140 & 85    1-0 Joe.

Scott is very unlucky with a lot of darts around the sweet spot, but it’s not to be, as Joe keeps his great form running and storms into a comfortable lead going 4 legs to nil in the final.

Scott gets his head on and plays the game as he can with a great 100 & 140 get’s him to 4-1.

Scott hits 100, 83, 100 to put him ahead, but Joe keeps scoring consistently and wins the final leg of the game 5-1

A massive well done to Eagle Coaching Joe Lynch, and a well done to all the guys who attended the Regional Final. Best of luck at National Final.

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Midlands Regional Darts Final – 16th Feb 2014

Play commenced at 2 o’clock with a best of 5 leg round robin tournament to get to the last 8 for the quarter finals.  After over 3 hours of play, the final 8 emerged to go forward to the knock out stages of the regional final and also won their place in the National Final.

  •  Jason Brooks – Warsop Ex Servicemens
  • Ash Cartwright – Gigmill
  • David Simpson – George
  • Mike Plews – Warsop Ex Servicemens
  • Lewis Law – George
  • Gaz Wilson (Jnr) – Rileys (Leicester)
  • Brian Lewis – Wilton
  • Joshua Longden – Alpine

After some excellent dart throwing Jason Brooks, Mike Plews, Lewis Law and Brian Lewis made it through to the semi finals and the cash prizes.

Results of the semi finals were:-

  • Jason Brooks v Mike Plews     4 : 3
  • Lewis Law v Brian Lewis          1 : 4

The 2 players heading into the Final were Jason Brooks from Warsop Ex Servicemens Club and Brian Lewis from the Wilton in Rotherham.

After a short break the best of 9 leg Final got underway.  Great arrows from both players to start with and were going leg for leg.  However  Brian got an unlucky bounce out in the 8th leg and Jason took control to win 5 legs to 3.

Great darts Jason – our Season 2.1 Midland Winner !!!

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Northern Area Darts Final – 15th Feb 2014

Riley’s, Wigan was the host venue for the first quarterly final of the Redtooth Darts tournament. Play started promptly at 2.00pm with the round-robin group stages over the best of five legs.

Two former winners, Anton Hastings and Martin Copperwaite were both in the field again looking to qualify for this year’s final. The standout game in the group stages was between Martin and Stuart Brears who was making his debut at the event. Martin eventually edged a see-saw match winning 3-2.

The quarter finalists all qualified for the National Final to be held towards the end of this year.

The quarter final results were as follows;

  • Liam Gollop (Riley’s Wigan) 4 v 2 Ben Guy (Pheasant, Batley)
  • Stuart Brear (Butcher’s Arms, Eckington) 3 v 4 Martin Copperwaite (Three Horses, Keighley)
  • Daniel Roberts (Butcher’s Arms) 1 v 4 Sean Johnson (Griffin, Carlisle)
  • Mike Atkins (Riley’s) 1 v 4 Anton Hastings (Riley’s)

After going through the group stages impressively undefeated the stand-out semi-final saw Sean taking on Anton in what proved to be a high class battle with Sean eventually coming out on top with a 4-3 victory.

In the other semi-final Liam took full advantage of an erratic performance from Martin running out a 4-0 winner.

Cumbria county player, Sean, looked to be on top form throughout the day however the final was a real thriller. Liam raced into a 2-0 lead with a barrage of high scores and some excellent finishing, Sean however fought back to level at 2-2 only for Liam to regain the advantage by winning the next two legs. Sean showed real grit and fought back to level the scores at 4-4 before rounding off a great day by clinching the last leg for a 5-4 victory.

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Q School Time!

Today was the first day of Q School and the 8 Redtooth Darts players that qualified at our National Final were in attendance.

Q School runs through until Saturday 19th January.  The last four players each day automatically win a Tour Card, with further players gaining their Tour Card from the final Q School Order of Merit.

Good luck to all the Redtooth players over the coming days:-

Bob Fuller
Simon Cassidy
Michael Symes
Lee Cusworth
Dave Harper
Curtis Hammond
Frank Kirkwood
Brian Lewis

Go for it guys !!!!!

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Redtooth National Darts Final 2013

Redtooth National Darts Final 2013

Sunday 24th November, Genting Casino, Sheffield

More than 150 people gathered at the Genting Casino in Sheffield last Sunday for the National Final of the Redtooth Darts tournament with players from as far apart as Dundee and Devon.

After six gruelling hours the Group stages were completed and we entered the knock-out stages with the last 32 remaining players.

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Northern Regional Darts Final – Season Four

The Redtooth Darts North Regional Final for season 4 got underway on Saturday 17th November at Rileys in Wigan. 

After some tense matches in the league stages, the 4 semi-finalists were Scott Dale, Graham Salmon, Paul Howell and Andy Hornby.

Paul “Howler” Howell (Gunner) had a fantastic 3 darts finish with 20, treble 17, bull and subsequently won 4 – 1 against Andy Hornby (Dog & Partridge) to make it into the final.   Scott Dale (Dog & Partridge) battled it out against Graham Salmon (Gunner) also winning 4 – 1 to secure his place in the final.

Onto the final round and best of 9.  Scott took the lead against Paul and then ran away with a 5 – 0 win to take the title of Regional Final Winner, his finishing blowing away the competition.  Good luck in the National Final Scott !!

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