{"id":5593,"date":"2015-06-17T00:08:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T00:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/2015\/06\/column-hr141-cinderella-honk-kong-and-the-wdf-world-cup-fiasco\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T22:24:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T22:24:04","slug":"column-hr141-cinderella-honk-kong-and-the-wdf-world-cup-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/2015\/06\/column-hr141-cinderella-honk-kong-and-the-wdf-world-cup-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Column #HR141 Cinderella “Honk” Kong and the WDF World Cup FIASCO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, June 16,\u00a02015<\/span><\/span>
\nColumn HR141
\nCinderella “Honk” Kong and the WDF World Cup FIASCO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Toeing the Oche is the cutting edge. Granted sometimes the knife\u2019s a little dull…<\/p>\n

The Old Dart Coach picked Scotland to beat England in the World Cup. On the other hand, he also picked Scotland to beat defending champion Netherlands to reach the finals. He\u2019s also top 37 in the CDC Fantasy League, only 14 points out of first place. Informed he couldn\u2019t win because he\u2019s “an employee” of Dartoid’s World, he informed the Most Honorable Editor…<\/p>\n

\u201cYou will hear from my lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n

A lady on Facebook axed, \u201cWhy can\u2019t women enter the men\u2019s singles or doubles?\u201d\u00a0 The ADO would probably answer, \u201cbecause it\u2019s the Men\u2019s Singles and Men\u2019s Doubles.\u201d Not always the case. Back in the day – okay, here we go again with the old geezer living in the past – those men\u2019s events were called \u201cOpen Singles\u201d and \u201cOpen Doubles.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ODC often played Open Doubles with the late Judy \u201cThe Witch\u201d Campbell. Her job? Score, hit doubles and scare the hell out of the opponent. Changing the name of \u00a0Men\u2019s events to “Open” also solves the problem of those who decline to state their preferred gender, usually marking it down as \u201cnone of the above.\u201d<\/p>\n

The PDC World Cup<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once every lady had a diary. She\u2019d pen \u201cDear Diary,\u201d exposing her innermost thoughts, feelings, and dreams.\u00a0 Years later, when those musing became public, it was…<\/p>\n

“I wrote that?\u201d<\/p>\n

Facebook is today’s \u00a0diary. One well-known darter wrote…<\/p>\n

\u201cI have tried watching this PDC World Cup of Darts from Germany, and I have to be honest – it’s boring me to death.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Old Dart Coach vehemently disagrees with that person’s opinion. \u00a0If everyone had the same taste, then Baskin-Robbins would have only one flavor. Rocky Road.<\/p>\n

With the PDC TV package, the ODC\u00a0 got up at 5:00 am to watch.\u00a0 It was made possible thanks to the Customer Service Department of the PDC with Nitish, Raghavendra, Robin, and Martin (which could be a law firm in India).<\/p>\n

The PDC World Cup, at least the first two rounds,\u00a0is about sport and country. For those who have forgotten, \u201csport writes stories that if written in Hollywood no one would believe.\u201d \u00a0For the 28 lower seeds, it\u2019s a chance to represent your country and face the best in the world.<\/p>\n

The opening session saw all seeds advance with ease. The evening session was great TV with Canada v. New Zealand, USA v. Netherlands, Singapore against defending champions Netherlands, and Honk Kong against Wales.<\/p>\n

When the USA (Darin Young and Larry Butler) faced Netherlands (“Marvelous\u201d Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld), on paper it seemed blowout possibility. It was an easy win for Netherlands, 5-2, although the USA did\u00a0connect on two of the three double chances they had – Young (105), Butler (100). You can\u2019t hit a double if you don\u2019t get to one. The Netherland would lose in the semifinals to Scotland.<\/p>\n

Number two ranked Scotland beat Singapore 5-1, but the score is misleading.\u00a0 Harith Lim – playing with “not his brother” Lim Leong Haw (Paul Lim) – had darts to win the first four legs. To quote the late Sid Waddell, \u201cIt\u2019s a funny old game.\u201d Paul Lim got Singapore off the \u201csynder\u201d with double tops in the 5th leg. \u00a0The 61-year-old Paul Lim would leave Frankfurt to travel to France for the third event of the DARTSLIVE “The World” tour, where he would finish runner-up to USA\u2019s Leonard Gates.<\/p>\n

Canada, as the #11 seed, should have advanced when they faced the\u00a0New Zealand Sheep Shaggers.\u00a0 The first leg was a finger painting done by a two-year-old. The two duo\u2019s combined for a total 13 missed doubles before the Kiwi\u2019s Warren Perry connected with his 8th.\u00a0 At the time, TV commentator Wayne Mardle said…<\/p>\n

\u201cThose missed darts by Canada may be their downfall.\u201d<\/p>\n

After falling behind, Canada would level at two, three, and four – but lose the decider when Mr. Perry erased 92 for New Zealand\u2019s first World Cup win since 2010.<\/p>\n

In every World Cup, there\u2019s a Cinderella Story. In this one, the glass slipper fit a couple of primarily soft point players from Honk Kong named Ting Chi Royden Lam and Scott MacKenzie. Royden wears thick glasses with a white frame that screams, \u201cLook at me!\u201d Number 7 seed, Wales (Mark Webster-Jamie Lewis), should have taken notice.\u00a0 Honk Kong trailed 1-0, 2-1. When they leveled at two, they never looked back.\u00a0 Back-to-back T80\u2019s made it 3-2, that became 4-2 when Royden connected\u00a0with a 131-out. Wales got to 4-3. In the decider, Royden missed two at double 10 but not three as Honk Kong got the win.<\/p>\n

The format would change in round two from doubles only to two singles and doubles if tied with a point for each. Honk Kong faced the Republic of Ireland.\u00a0 Royden \u201cbitch-slapped\u201d lanky William O\u2019Connor 4-1. Scott MacKenzie was doing the same – up 3-nil\u00a0 to Connie Finnan – when he got the \u201cevery-loving 100% guaranteed son-of-a-bitch yips.\u201d He couldn\u2019t hit the Pacific Ocean with a beach ball standing on the sands of Malibu.<\/p>\n

Different story in the doubles as MacKenzie hit doubles to give Honk Kong a 2-0 lead.\u00a0 O\u2019Conner would get the Irish lads level at two with a suburb\u00a0132-check, which he celebrated by prancing around like a chicken in the farm yard scratching for worms.\u00a0 (Hmmm, he didn\u2019t prance when he missed to make it 2-1.) Ireland would level at 3 when everybody missed a double except O\u2019Connor, with double 4. Yes, he pranced again, which caused the ODC to yell at the monitor…<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a dick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott Mackenzie\u00a0took out 86 for the win.\u00a0 Honk Kong would fall to Scotland 2-0 in the quarter-finals,\u00a0but Cinderella\u2019s slipper still fit.<\/p>\n

The match<\/em> of the World Cup was the quarter-final between Australia and Belgium. Australia\u2019s Simon Whitlock was almost perfect, taking his singles 4-2 against Ronny Huybrechts.\u00a0 There are some given\u2019s in darts. One of those is if you\u2019re a \u201cJERK\u201d \u00a0it will come out. No one epitomizes that more than Australia\u2019s Paul Nicholson.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s why there was such pleasure at the ODC\u2019s mansion when Nicholson blew a 3-0 lead against Kim Huybrechts, missing six match darts, then leaving the stage without a handshake after the 4-3 loss.<\/p>\n

The deciding doubles was explosive. Nicholson missed two at tops as Ronny took out 72. Nicholson then took out 77 to level at one.\u00a0 After the double hit home, Nicholson turned to the crowd (and Ronny) and did the \u201ccut” sign, hand across the neck. Ronny looked like a thermometer in mid-July at high noon in Las Vegas.\u00a0 At 2-1, Whitlock and Ronny both tossed 180s – Ronny\u2019s came after he got seven in his first visit that caused the commentator to say,\u00a0 \u201c187 from 6 darts not too bad.” Nicholson leveled at two with tops. More \u201cthroat cut\u201d from Nicholson.<\/p>\n

Belgium made it 3-2 with Kim taking out 105. It\u2019s a fact there are people that don\u2019t believe in God. It\u2019s also a fact that any real dart player knows there is a Dart God.\u00a0 It is also fact that she works in mysterious ways and paybacks are a bitch.<\/p>\n

How prophetic that Ronny Huybrechts would apply to the \u201ccoup de gr\u00e2ce\u201d – a hit or shot that kills a person – with a 96 finish on the bull, the ultimate \u201cF You\u201d in darts – for the 4-2 double win and a trip to the semis.<\/p>\n

World Cup \u201cYEA\u201d or “NAY”? <\/strong><\/p>\n

As the Roman poet Lucretius wrote, \u201cOne man\u2019s meat is another man\u2019s poison.\u201d That was updated by 20th-century literary wit, George S. Kauffman, as \u201cOne man\u2019s Mead is another man\u2019s Persian.\u201d Going with Lucretius on this one.<\/p>\n

The Nation Darts Federation of Canada has announced they will not be sending a team to the World Dart Federation’s (WDF)\u00a0World Cup, scheduled for October 21-25 in Turkey. Turkey has been in the news for its support of Muslim extremism.\u00a0 Last year, Toeing the Oche called for the ADO to boycott the World Cup, out of concern for the\u00a0safety of its players. The ADO remained silent.<\/p>\n

This decision by the NDFC is important because the President of the NDFC, Bill Hatter, is also the President of the WDF.\u00a0 One of his vice-presidents is America\u2019s Buddy Bartoletta, a former executive with the ADO.<\/p>\n

The ADO team voted not to go to Malaysia for the WDF World Cup after 9\/11.\u00a0 If given the vote again, they would probably vote for a \u201cPasadena\u201d on Turkey.<\/p>\n

There were probably lots of backdoor negations going on within the WDF.\u00a0 If Hatter didn\u2019t have the \u201cokay\u201d from WDF Kingpin Olly Croft at least one head at the WDF will be rolling. \u00a0Way to go Canada<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Finally, Open events in America would open the door to Caitlyn Jenner entering the dart world. From the grave, John Wayne voiced his opinion on Ms. Jenner…<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a man discards his Johnson he doesn\u2019t become a woman. He becomes a man without a Johnson.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stay thirsty my friends.<\/p>\n

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