501 up, straight start, double finish — 170 (treble 20, treble 20, bullseye) is the highest possible three-dart checkout 451 mm bristle board, 20 numbered segments plus a 25 outer ring and a 50 inner bull; the treble ring pays three times the segment
Nine darts — first achieved on television by John Lowe on 13 October 1984 for a £102,000 prize The PDC, founded in 1992 as the World Darts Council, and the World Darts Federation, founded in 1976, with member bodies in more than 70 countries
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501 up, straight start, double finish — 170 (treble 20, treble 20, bullseye) is the highest possible three-dart checkout 451 mm bristle board, 20 numbered segments plus a 25 outer ring and a 50 inner bull; the treble ring pays three times the segment
Nine darts — first achieved on television by John Lowe on 13 October 1984 for a £102,000 prize The PDC, founded in 1992 as the World Darts Council, and the World Darts Federation, founded in 1976, with member bodies in more than 70 countries
Darts compresses elite sport into an area smaller than a dinner plate. The scoring surface is 340 millimetres across, the treble 20 bed is roughly 8 millimetres wide, and a professional stands 2.37 metres away and hits it three times in a row often enough that a 180 barely raises an eyebrow. Everything else follows from that geometry.
The game grew out of English and Welsh pubs, where it was a wager and a way to pass a wet evening long before it was a profession. That inheritance still shapes it: the walk-on music, the fancy dress and the singing crowds at Alexandra Palace are not a marketing overlay but the sport's actual origin, industrialised. What has changed is the standard.
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