More fun darts facts.....

One of the response that I got to the post about World records:
paul williams - darts world records: "Re: darts world records
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an interesting passage i came across

Subject: Darts World Records
From: sven@sdd.dart.se (Sven Silow)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 15:26:34 GMT
Message-Id: <5jnu1h$ivj@epimetheus.algonet.se>
Newsgroups: alt.sport.darts

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'Jeff Ash'
wrote:

>Does anyone know of a record/time for a group of throwers scoring 1,000,001
>points. We have a group of folks who are crazy enough to attempt it. Please
>respond if you have heard of a time.

As the WDF has no rules about world records, and as the WDF thus don't
approve any results as world records, there is no such thing as an
official world record whatsoever in darts!
From time to time - if one reads Darts World - one reads that a new
record has been set. And, also one now and the comes across 'world
Records' and also listings of those 'World Records'. But, as earlier
mentioned, these can't be claimed to be official world records in any
sense. There is a whole lot of possible and impossible 'records' being
beaten. First there is the number of players and second there is a
multitude of score achived in stipulated time, time to achieve a
stipulated score, number of darts to achieve a stipulated score and so
on...
For instance in the April -97 issue of Darts World there is reports
on new records for a ten men team going round the board on doubles 133
times in 12 hours, and also of an eight men (well one was a woman,
does that make it a different category, as eight men have made
883802?) team that made 417089 points in 24 hours.
The last publication of the 'Darts maraton world records' was
published in the June 1966 issue, and for a million and one there is
the following two records:
'Alan Powling and Eddie Davies completed the score in 48334 darts at
the"
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