DARTS ON TV IN THE US!

The GVDA has a favor to ask. Part of the GVDA mission is to promote the sport of darts. In addition to our local league play and running the annual Rochester Open many of our members travel to out of town tournaments.  Through this the GVDA has earned the privilege to call friends many players in the US, Canada and a few abroad who also play darts in leagues and competitively at tournaments. Beginning tonight into tomorrow morning is an important broadcast of a Major US tournament from Las Vegas.  This is a huge step in growing the sport in North America and is the first time in a very long time that the PDC will be here playing against North American players.  Darts is rarely televised in the US but It will be broadcast on FOX SPORTS 1 channel 400 on Spectrum Cable in upstate NY. We need to show that dart telecasts are worth the time, effort and expense for broadcasters and advertisers. What we need from our GVDA friends is for everyone to record, watch or just leave the cable box on to get the ratings up for this event. There are multiple broadcasts. Here are the days and times.
Friday ~ 12:30 am - 2:30 am
Saturday ~ 12:00 am - 2:00 am
Sunday ~ 12:00 am - 2:00 am and 10:30 pm - 12:30 am
Monday ~ 7:30 am - 9:30 am
Thanks

SUMMER MIDSEASON RESULTS

Congratulations to Dale LaFrance and Scott Chamberlain on their win at Tuesday's Summer Midseason tournament. Runner up went to Steve Ellingham and Brian Lennox. Third went to Reggie Rollo and Adam "Ace" Smith. Thanks to everyone that came out to shoot. Have a great 4th!

SUMMER MIDSEASON

It's time for the SUMMER midseason tournament already! Tonight at McGinnitys. 7pm sign up 7:30 start. Blind draw with $240 added to 100% payout. Not playing SUMMER league? Come on out anyway!

ADO ALL STAR REGIONAL RESULTS

Congratulations to the top 3 in the 1st of 2 ADO All Star Regionals being held in region 5-2:

Ryan Morey (SALT) won a playoff over Michael "Data" Nguyen (GVDA) to claim the top spot and Gino Florian (SALT) took 3rd.

Ryan moves on to the National Final to be held at the USA Classic in Stamford CT in August.

Congratulations to all the shooters!!

Stay tuned for details on the newest event..The U.S. Team (World Cup Team).

ADO QUALIFIER RESULTS

The local ADO qualifier for the 501 Championship and East/West All stars was held Sunday at Sunset Lanes. Thank you to the 8 darters that came out to play. Congratulations to Michael "Data" Nguyen on his first place finish and runner-up Dale LaFrance. They will both now go on to represent the GVDA at the Regional in Syracuse on June 10th. I also need to clarify a miscommunication on my part. At the beginning of the day I indicated that we would be sending one qualifier from the event. I believe I also said that to a player later in the day. This was incorrect and an absolute brain dart on my part. In light of the success of the 50/50 drawings held during the 2017 Rochester Open to support the league ADO effort, the GVDA board elected in the May meeting to qualify 2 people from the free qualifiers conducted by the league for the remainder of the year. This fact was pointed out to me by the other board members in attendance late in the day. I tried to explain the error when announcing the days results but I'm not sure I was successful in explaining my error. I apologize for the conflicting information and any confusion that I caused. Good luck to Data and Dale on June 10th!

NEXT ADO QUALIFIER - 501 CHAMPIONSHIP AND EAST WEST ALL STARS

The 2nd FREE local GVDA ADO Qualifier is coming up on May 21st!!

Sunset Lanes
Sign-in at 11:30 am with play starting at noon.
All 501, play all 3 legs.
1 bracket unless we have more than 12 - then there will be 2 brackets with the top 2 or 3 moving on to a final bracket.

Not a GVDA member? No problem! Become a general member for $30 and be eligible for the ADO qualifiers as well as the sign-up and mid-season tournaments.

Hope to see you all there!

SUMMER DARTS

Summer sign up is underway. Do you have a team that wants to play summer? We need to hear from you ASAP! Season starts Tuesday, May 16th. If you have a team contact us now so we can get you on the schedule.

Summer Signup Result

Some great competitive darts last night saw Geoff Silkey and Pat Mangan scale the heights to victory over the Andys (Joss and Baggesen). Well played to all. The next GVDA member tournament will be for midseason on July 7th, again at McGinnity's. Hope to see you all there!

• 1st: Patrick Mangan / Geoff Silkey
• 2nd: Andy Joss / Andy Baggesen
• 3rd: Brian Lennox / Steve Ellingham
• 4th: Jon Karnisky / Steve Zollweg

Full Bracket
Avg Match Length: 33.97 mins (12.56 mins Losers Bracket)

Summer Season Sign-ups and tournament

Tuesday May 9th is Summer season sign-ups , also tournament at Mcginnity's on West Ridge rd .
Tournament sign-ups start at 7:00pm and tournament to start at 7:30pm .

If you dont have a team for the summer stop on down and see who else needs someone to complete a team .

Summer Season and Winter 2017 Championships

Interested in shooting the summer season but don't have a team put together? Let us know - we have at least one team already looking for one full time player or a couple of subs that can coordinate schedules over the season. Also, come down to the signup tournament to see if there's others looking.

Here are next week's finals

Metro: McGinnity's Gunners at Dog House Dirty Kids
Div A: Sunset Cut Men at Corner Sports Bar Island of Misfit Toys
Div B: Bathtub Billy's Army of the 12 Monkeys at Barnard Crossing Woodchucks