As for the 301 electronic "20 round" question - that round limitation seems to defy the game of darts itself - who plays with limits of rounds? Craziness - the greed of electronic board manufacturers has created these goofball scenarios by imposing such time-based limits on a non-temporal game. Who wins a tied baseball game after 2 hours? It doesn't, and shouldn't, apply to time, as games such as baseball (or darts) were not created with timers in mind. I guess my "final answer" on that question would be to start the game over, and void the leg altogether. It's a few more quarters for the bar owner, but apples and oranges in the conceptual sense. While I don't seek to smear the electronic game at all, this kind of limitation does not sit well with me in the sense that it renders the game impure and burdens the players with unforeseen rules that the traditional game never established.

Here's a good one though - player has 2 left - hits a single one and it dangles, and is prone to fall to the floor, and thus constitutes a non-throw - so the player throws at the dart and both knock themselves to the floor.- now, the first dart has a certain amount of time to stay in the board, and if it falls out, it falls out. But, a "bust" is defined as occurring as soon as the dart "scores" the amount necessary to score any amount below "2" in the game. But with dangling, or similar throws, the area turns mighty murky. Usually people bust with a solid throw that sticks firmly, but ya never know when that dangler might come along!

Take care and shoot well!

~ From Mike Caldwell

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