Sunday, January 11, 2009

No tears for Hankey

The BDO world darts championship final threw up another classic today. Two of the last four finals have gone to the 12 out of a maximum 13 sets and the other two ended 7-6, as did today. With the opportunity to close out the championship Hankey missed an easy out and his odds rocketed from 1.05 to nearly evens. He then gained his composure to claim the championship. Great entertainment and some great moves.

The movements are similar in a way to Tennis with the way the scoring is set up. I may try and model darts at some point having cracked Tennis. I'll keep an eye on future tournaments ,but for the moment any participation will be limited as decent volume events don't seem to come around that often. Good fun when they do though.