Last night was the Luck of the draw tournament for the Kick off of our league season. It was nice to see people from other teams that I haven't seen since the league championship (my team won last season by the way! lol). The league director, who at times has the personality of a rattlesnake with PMS, took the league fees and tournament fees. He had bracket sheets drawn out for the evenings events. In his infinate wisdom, he chose a woman to keep up with the tournament bracket and placement who not only had never been involved in a tournament, but had never even played darts. To her credit she tried her best but was confused a bit on where to place losers and winners in the brackets. Also people weren't around when called to a board, which irritated the league director to no end. He was constantly dealing with bracket problems and players complaints, which is his job; but keep in mind he isn't exactly a "People Person" lol.

     In the last tournament of the night, I drew the league director as a partner. I really didn't mind. He and I get along fairly well because I never cause problems and I stay out of his way. He's a good player so we were doing well in the matches, although each game would have long delays in the middle while the director was fixing another bracket problem or player complaint. I could tell he was getting more and more irritated as the night went on.

     The money for league and all the evenings tournaments were taken up at the beginning of the evening, at which point you chose which tournaments you were going to play in. When you pay your league dues, you are covered for all events weather you wanted to play in all of them or not. Problem was, some of the league players left after the second tournament, but they were still down for the next one, and our wonderful league director, in his infinate wisdom, did not have players check in before laying out the draw bracket for the frazzled and confused woman who had no clue what was going on. Needless to say, some people, after the draw didn't have a partner. Instead of trying to put them together, the director again, in his infinate wisdom, said they'll just have to play by themselves and (get this!) they had to skip their partners throw! Well, as you might guess, this brought some of the players to the boiling point. It wasn't their fault the people left. So the people really started to argue.

     The director and I were in the middle of a game when he decided on all of this and since he was busy arguing with everyone, I decided to go to the bathroom. While doing my business (and cursing my kidney stone), I heard our wonderful league director's voice come over the speakers from the DJ booth. He said, "If any of you don't like the way I run a ~@#*#*! tournament you can just leave! Get the @#$% out!

     I stood in the bathroom thinking, "Oh no!!!" When I walked out of the restroom, most of the people were outside. The director was into it with a couple of the guys in the parking lot and the bouncer got involved. The director punched the bouncer a few times then ran; at which point several of the players realized he still had the league and tournament money with him. Two police officers were sitting in the shopping center parking lot where the bar is located and saw the whole ordeal go down. The blue lights when on and the director was put in the car. We got the money back, but surprisingly, the director didn't go to jail. They let him go, when his ride arrived.
We walked back into the bar and didn't really know what to do. I had just lost my partner too so I was kind of screwed. The bar manager, who is a dart player and a really great guy, took it upon himself to take over the events for the evening. We redrew partners and started over the last tournament. My new partner and I got third.

     I've always considered dart's a gentleman's game (and ladies). It's a sport that should begin and end with a handshake. We should leave the fights to pool players. Take care all! I kept the director's name out of this to protect the guilty lol.