Juanito "Boy" Gionzon bows to Gary Mawson in a very exciting match

Boy Gionzon showed what he's made of but came off short to the more experienced Gary Mawson 4 games to 1. Gionzon showed very solid darts (90.81 average) while Gary Mawson displayed awesome darts at 92.44 average with superb outing percentage!With Gionzon's performance, the world took notice once again that Philippines is an emerging dart phenom! Congratulations Boy! You've made us proud again!
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Lourence Ilagan,Dixie Ybanez out in Philippine Qualifier to World Darts Championship

The top 32 Final Elimination of the Philippine Qualifier to World Darts Championship started yesterday at Ambassador Hotel in Manila. The top 8 from different locations all over the Philippines met yesterday as they played round robin enroute to final selection today. Among the top 16 who emerged from last night's round robin round were : (in no particular order)
1. Jun Espional (Cagayan de Oro "The One")
2. Enlindo "JunJun" Bayawa Jr. (Zamboanga del Norte)
3. Henry Rivera (Cagayan de Oro "Fundador")
4. Bert Lozano (Cagayan de Oro "Fundador")
5. Nathaniel "Nats" Guba (Iligan City)
6. Andy Villamor (Butuan City)
7. Ian Perez (Koronadal City)
8. Arvy Briones (Baguio City)
9. Ding Sumolong (Pasig City)

10. Boy Gionzon (Navotas City)
11.. Boie Parfan (Makati City)
12. Jaypee De Tablan (Taytay,Rizal)
13. Mon Oliveros (Makati City)
14. Ricky Mijares (Quezon City)
15. Chris Salinas (Makati City)
16. Robert Calupit (Bullshooter)

I had the chance to visit the venue this afternoon before the elimination started and had a quick chitchat with my hometown neighbor darter, Henry "Kiko" Rivera. It was from hin that I learned that Dixie Ybanez and Lourence Ilagan (top 2 in my recent poll) were no longer in the top 16.


The games started at around 1pm and I had the chance to see the first matches for the top 16 round robin. Great to highlight was the game of Boie Parfan who scored T,T80,T80,51 (11-darter) during his first game against Ian Perez who eventually bowed to him at a score of 3-2. It's also worth mentioning that my neighbor, Henry Rivera, crushed Ding Sumulong at a score of 3-0 (the only 3-0 score in the first top 16 round robin matches).

Philippine Qualifier to the 2011 World Darts Championship

It's been a while since I last posted an article here in my site. It's been also a while since I last played darts as I'm currently into running and biking. But my love of darts has always been there. NDFP's forum is a must visit each time I surf the net. I miss my darter friends although I've been seeing them lately to chat and play some good darts. And as expected, I bowed to them in the dart matches. It's always fun to play with them again after a long break from darts. It's also from them that I get to hear news about darting in the Philippines. Just last week, I was told that a big event will be staged in Manila as part of the Philippine Qualifier to 2011 World Darts Championship. And this time around, the dormant DCP (Darts Council of the Philippines) is running the show. Well, I really did not understand why at first until I saw the article posted at ndfpdarts.com. I won't tackle that in this entry but I would love to write about it pretty soon.
Going back to the topic, the selection process is really quite different this time around. The qualifying event will start with four regional qualifiers - Manila,Olongapo City, Cebu City, and Cagayan de Oro City. Top 8 from 4 qualifying legs (top 32) will advance into the National Finals which will be staged at NU Grille,Ambassador Hotel,Mabini St.,Manila. The regional qualifying legs should give a better chance to those who are in the province to participate in the selection process. I just hope, though,that DCP will be able to pull this through considering that didn't stage any national/regional events for quite some time now. It would even be challenging for them as NDFP with partnership of Solar Sports has set the standards on how a qualifying event or any darts tournament for that matter should be run. The challenge for them (DCP) is to stage a fair and smooth selection process as the darts world will be watching them closely. I hope that darters, DCP and NDFP alike, will come out and participate this event. May the BEST pinoy darter win and represent our beloved Philippines to the 2011 World Darts Championship. Good Luck mga DARTERONG PINOY!!!

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C-5 at Taga!

I was practicing darts when I overheard this analysis by Winnie Monsod over national TV. Like most Filipinos, I'm one of those who keenly watched and monitored the proceedings of this issue in senate sessions. However, I was so disappointed with how the senators, both pro and against Villar, presented their facts. The real score wasn't clear to me until I had watched Mareng Winnie's crystal clear analysis. Winnie Monsod hit the target right in the bull's eye! I'm sharing this clip in this blog hoping to help fellow Filipinos know the REAl score.
I'll end this post by quoting Mareng Winnie in saying "Is Manny Villar blameless?"..."Is the Pope protestant?"...

"The 2009 Shanghai International Darts Open" - an article from Dartoid's world

"If the Filipinos were regulars on the American circuit they would rock the American Darts Organization’s (ADO) rankings. If they had the sponsorship to regularly play the PDC circuit the darts world be shocked. "

Read more from Dartoids article here