E-Z Lines clinched the Na­tion­al 501 League of Darts A di­vi­sion ti­tle on the fi­nal day host­ed by the T&T Darts As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­DA) on April 22 at No 36 New Street, Port-of-Spain.

The evening start­ed with De Orig­i­nal Gameshot (DOGS) in first place with 60 points, E-Z Lines in sec­ond with 57 points, Drifters third with 56 points and Jus For Fun, fourth with 54 points.

The mis­sion for the top four teams was sim­ple, se­cure a big win to guar­an­tee the ti­tle. E-Z Lines have been pushed very hard this sea­son but once again they showed their dom­i­na­tion of this league is no blip or prod­uct of luck. E-Z Lines took on rel­e­ga­tion-bound Sea Wolves in a must-win match-up and not just win but on­ly a 10-0 score­line would sure­ly win them the ti­tle.

The en­counter start­ed at a blis­ter­ing pace with E-Z lines up 4-0. There were a few scares in the sin­gles but they man­aged to clean sweep that round and got to their goal of 10-0 and it was just to wait on the oth­er re­sults.

DOGS had the dif­fi­cult task of tak­ing on Drifters. In past sea­sons, DOGS usu­al­ly are the on­ly chal­lengers but to the cred­it of Drifters, they have been in great form this sea­son push­ing all the teams around them in their pur­suit of a league ti­tle. The con­test start­ed in favour of Drifters as they sped in­to a 3-1 lead know­ing a mas­sive win would have helped them se­cure the ti­tle but DOGS put up a fight in the sin­gles round tak­ing away vi­tal points from Drifters. The con­test end­ed in favour of Drifters but they on­ly man­aged to win 6-4 which was on­ly enough to see them fin­ish fourth. Mean­while, DOGS fin­ished in sec­ond place over­all.

Jus For Fun Vikings fin­ished third af­ter an im­pres­sive 8-2 win over Scor­pi­ons.

Pub House Pi­rates emerge B Di­vi­sion cham­pi­on

Pub House Pi­rates are the Na­tion­al 501 League of Darts B Di­vi­sion cham­pi­ons and se­cured pro­mo­tion to the A Di­vi­sion. The Pi­rates were al­most cer­tain of glo­ry but had to se­cure a win against new­com­ers Mu­cu­rapo Mus­ke­teers and hope that oth­er re­sults went in their favour. The Pi­rates raced to a re­sound­ing 8-2 vic­to­ry crow­ing them cham­pi­ons of the di­vi­sion. Bul­lz I pro­duced a great come-from-be­hind vic­to­ry at the ex­pense of close ri­vals Shang­hai Bulls reel­ing from 3-1 down they ral­lied to to a 6-4 vic­to­ry that pro­pelled them to two and clinch­ing pro­mo­tion to the A Di­vi­sion.

Jus For Fun Snipers nar­row­ly missed on pro­mo­tion by one point even though they put in a com­mand­ing 7-3 vic­to­ry over Ran­dom Squad it was not enough in the end. The TT­DA ex­per­i­ment­ed with a post-sea­son play-off style tour­na­ment us­ing the top four teams of the A di­vi­sion E-Z Lines vs Drifters and Jus For Fun vs DOGS. E-Z Lines de­feat­ed Drifters 13-6, and Jus For Fun Vikings up­set DOGS. 13-7. E-Z Lines and Jus For Fun squared off in the fi­nal with Jus For Fun win­ning 14-5 in the first ex­per­i­men­tal play­off-style post-sea­son tour­na­ment Cup.

Vikings lead Mixed For­mat League of Darts

A week lat­er the teams were back in ac­tion com­pet­ing in the TT­DA's Mixed For­mat League of Darts. The league is split in­to three di­vi­sions - A, B and C - with one team be­ing pro­mot­ed and one team be­ing de­mot­ed. 

De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons E-Z Lines were once again off to a dif­fi­cult start to their cam­paign af­ter two drawn re­sults leav­ing them in fourth place af­ter two match days. Jus For Fun Vikings are in first place on 13 points af­ter one win and one de­feat. Drifters are in sec­ond spot with 12 points af­ter one draw and one vic­to­ry. DOGS are third with 11 points af­ter one win and one draw.

Scor­pi­ons were de­mot­ed to the B di­vi­sion and are at the top of the ta­ble af­ter two clin­i­cal vic­to­ries leav­ing them on 16 points. In the C Di­vi­sion, Flight­ed Friends lead the pack with 15 points af­ter reg­is­ter­ing two vic­to­ries. 

Match-day three was sched­uled to be played yes­ter­day.

Seales, Ram­cha­ran take Mixed For­mat knock­out ti­tles

Za­ck Seales and Karen Ram­cha­ran emerged as the win­ners in a straight knock­out-style for­mat on May 6. This tour­na­ment act­ed as the cur­tain rais­er for all new sea­sons and fea­tures a men's and women's cat­e­go­ry. They were among the 46 men and 13 women, tak­ing part.

The top names were present Karen Ram­cha­ran Kim­ber­li Ri­vas, James Walk­lin, and Joshua Bal­four. The semi­fi­nals of the women's cat­e­go­ry did re­flect the top women of the na­tion semi­fi­nal one was Ri­vas vs Nicole Lee-A-Ping and semi­fi­nal two was Karen Ram­cha­ran vs Pe­tri­cia Mes­si­ah.

Ri­vas dis­patched Nicole Lee- A-Ping 2-0 mean­while Ram­cha­ran had to bat­tle her way to the fi­nals af­ter nar­row­ly de­feat­ing Pe­tri­cia Mes­si­ah 2-1. The fi­nal was set be­tween Ri­vas and Ram­cha­ran. The first leg was 501 with Ram­cha­ran pick­ing up the first leg af­ter tak­ing out dou­ble 8.

Ram­cha­ran won the sec­ond leg which was mick­ey mouse, need­ing just one more leg for vic­to­ry which was an­oth­er leg of Mick­ey Mouse. Ri­vas put up a tough fight try­ing to pull one leg back but Ram­cha­ran kept her nerves need­ing two bul­lz-eyes to win closed off the bull, to be crowned the mixed for­mat women’s Open cham­pi­on. The men's brack­et was very ex­cit­ing with all eyes on the progress of Bal­four and Walk­lin.

Bal­four made a great start to the tour­na­ment get past the open­ing rounds to make it to the quar­ter­fi­nals, Walk­lin al­so eased his way to the quar­ter­fi­nals on the oth­er side of the brack­et. Both gen­tle­men seemed des­tined to meet up in the fi­nals how­ev­er a dark horse in the form of Za­ck Seales had oth­er plans as he made his way through very dif­fi­cult op­po­nents to see his way to the quar­ter­fi­nals where he would face Walkin in what was an im­pres­sive dis­play by Seales win­ning 2-0. Bal­four got pass Roger Maraj 2-0. Both Bal­four and Seales were able to get past their semi­fi­nal op­po­nents to set up what would be a very en­ter­tain­ing fi­nal most bets were on Seales as he had the most dif­fi­cult side of the brack­et and was clear­ly in great form but Bal­four him­self, was in great do­mes­tic form.

Seales took the first leg but then Blafour won two legs unan­swered. How­ev­er, Seales put in a bril­liant come-from-be­hind per­for­mance to win 3-2 clinch­ing his first-ever Open ti­tle to be crowned the na­tion­al Open mixed for­mat cham­pi­on.

Tues­day's (May 27) match­es

E-Z Lines vs Pub House Pi­rates

JFF Vikings vs Bul­lz I

DOGS vs Drifters

Sea Wolves vs Triple Vi­sion

Shang­hai Bulls vs JFF Snipers

Reck­less vs Scor­pi­ons

Ran­dom Squad vs Pel­terzzz

Top Shot vs Bull­dogs

Flight Friends vs Mu­cu­rapo Mus­ke­teers

League fi­nal stand­ings

A Di­vi­sion

Pl*Club*P*W*D*L*PTS

1*E-Z Lines*10*7*2*1*67

2*DOGS*10*6*1*3*64

3*JFF Vikings*10*7*0*3*62

4*Drifters*10*6*2*2*62

5*Scor­pi­ons*10*1*1*8*30

6*Sea Wolves*10*0*1*9*15

B Di­vi­sion

1*Pub House*10*9*1*0*68

2*Bul­lz I*10*7*1*2*65

3*JFF Snipers*10*8*0*2*64

4*Shang­hai Bulls*10*4*1*2*56

5*Reck­less*10*3*4*3*49

6*Triple Vi­sion*10*4*1*5*48

7*Ran­dom Squad*10*3*2*5*45

8*Flight­ed Friends*10*3*2*5*44

9*Bull­dogs*10*3*2*5*42

10*Top Shot*10*2*2*6*39

11*Mus­ke­teers*10*0*2*8*29

Mixed For­mat League of Darts

A Di­vi­sion

1*JFF Vikings*2*1*0*1*13

2*Drifters*2*1*1*0*12

3*DOGS*2*1*1*0*11

4*E-Z Lines*2*0*2*0*10

5*Bul­lz I*2*1*0*1*9

6*Pub House*2*0*0*1*5

B Di­vi­sion

1*Sor­pi­ons*2*2*0*0*16

2*Reck­less*2*1*1*0*11

3*Triple Vi­sion*2*0*2*0*10

4*Shang­hail Bulls*2*0*2*0*10

5*JFF Snipers*2*0*1*1*8

6*Sea Wolves*2*0*0*2*5

C Di­vi­sion

1*Flight­ed Friends*2*2*0*0*15

2*Bull­dogs*2*2*0*0*14

3*Ran­dom Squad*2*1*0*1*11

4*Top Shot*2*1*0*1*8

5*Pel­terzzz*2*0*0*2*6

6*Mus­ke­teers*2*0*0*2*5