from the email stack... ADO Region II-2... Regional locations...

From:

"ANNE K"

Hello everyone, as I near the last 6 months of my term as ADO Regional Director, I wanted to say thanks to the many that helped out and supported the regionals in the last year and a half. It has been an interesting time for me, as well. I wish life was able to allow me the chance to do many of the things with this position that I had hoped to accomplish, but well....life and work tend to call first and the loudest, and in these tough economic times, it is folks like me and you who are grateful to have the jobs we do and will do everything they can to ensure their success in them. This never means that darts and the game is not important, but just sometimes needs to take a back seat to the realities of life.

I would foremost like to thank the members of the GSDDA. Their constant and continued support for each and every regional event has been without fail. I commend all of you and I wish that all the leagues in the region had the same dedication to the regional events. GSDDA has without fail sent anywhere from 3-6 participants for each event, whether they be league qualifiers or players paying their own money to play. I thank you all for your support, as the regionals would never have been a success without it. In return for those efforts and in closing to my term as Regional Director, I have arranged for GSDDA to host the last two remaining regional events for this year.

The next regional is for the US Team where the winners will go on to compete at the National Playoffs in Denver, Colorado in October. The date for the mens regional is set for August 10th starting at 10am at the Fleet Reserve in Poway. I was advised that the management has arranged for food to be available that day, more than likely at their usual $5 a plate, to help support the event. Thanks much to Deb Pundt, GSDDA ADO Rep for arranging the event and for everything she has done to ensure GSDDA's continued strong participation at the regionals. The cricket regional dates are still pending.

Our women's regionals, while they started off with a pretty good bang and we sent quite a few women to compete in the last year and a half, which is more than what we have sent in quite a number of years, the participation seems to have waned, so I am still working on this and determining when and where we can have a regional event, or if there will even be any participants for it.

In conclusion, thanks to all of you for your continued support, your words of praise and your assistance when needed. It is teamwork that really makes these events happen and I could not have accomplished all of this without the help and support from the many of you out there.

As an added note, I wanted to also take a moment to advise you of an upcoming special event in this area called Baby Angel's Trust, which is an event to help assist a child who was brutally attacked by his father. Please click on the link below to go to the SCDV website that has all the information available for the event.

http://www.scdartsvenue.com/spl__events.htm

As an FYI....complete results for PacMania II are now listed on The Martell's website- link.
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Thanks again everyone for everything and looking forward to seeing you at some darting events in the future.

Take care!!!

Anne

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from the email stack... ADO Region II-2, East/West Allstars-501 National Championship Qualifer

Hello everyone! Just wanted to share with you the final results for our men’s regional for the East/West Allstars-501 National Championship. Once again, I have to give a huge thank you to the GSDDA for continuing to bring out great support for the regional events. The efforts are very much appreciated and it would be awesome if every league in this regional could have 5 representatives for each regional event. Then we could send on 2, or maybe even 3 players on to the National events. We had 9 men on Saturday and here are the results! Congratulations to Doug McDonough, who will go on to Connecticut to represent region II-2 at the East/West Allstars-501 National Championship event in August. Good luck Doug!

Doug McDonough (GSDDA) 17 legs won

Andrew Bennett (TDS) 15 legs won (playoff winner)

John Kramer (TDS) 15 legs won

Marvin Wentz (GSDDA) 13 legs won

JD Newman (GSDDA) 12 legs won

Bill Neel (VCDA) 12 legs won

Dan Jager (GSDDA) 11 legs won

Charles Bradish (GSDDA) 10 legs won

Allen Williams (PDA) 4 legs won

Sadly, there was not ladies regional event due to lack of interest so we will not be able to send a lady on to Connecticut to represent region II-2.

Thanks again everyone for your participation and looking forward to seeing all of you at PacMania II next weekend.

Take care!!!

Anne

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ADO Area 2-2 regional playoffs for the All-Stars

Hello everyone, sorry for the delay. The regional playoffs for the All-Stars will be as follows:

Men-Saturday June 6th 11am start
Women-Sunday June 7th 11am start

Location for both:

The Dolphin Lounge
1274 S. Magnolia
Anaheim 92804

The regional winners will go on to the National playoffs on August 7th in Stamford, CT.

Hope to see everyone there!

Take care!!!

Anne

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from the email inbox... 3-18-09 - ADO Regional 2-2

Hi all.

Just a reminder for this weekend and I have attached the flyer for the Pat Murphy Open. Hope to see you all there.

Also, the men's Masters regional will be at the Fleet Reserve in Poway on Sunday. Start time will be 10am.

Unfortunately, we did not have any women to participate in the ladies regional last weekend, however, if I can gather some interest and get some raffle tickets going at the Pat Murphy, the ladies could play a regional on Sunday and start at noon. Please ladies, if you are interested, let me know and find me at PMO to get things going.

See y'all this weekend!

Take care!!!

Anne

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Who in the World is Sleepy Kramer?

The Passionate Darter's interview:
In my quest for interviewing passionate darters worldwide, I came across Anne Kramer's dart website, AKA Sleepy Kramer. Her website oozes enthusiasm and passion for darts and indeed, she has a story to tell. Growing up in a household of brothers, she was introduced to darts at a young age and found she had some natural talent - much more than her brothers! From there she began playing competitive steel-tip darts as a teenager, and without any youth leagues in existence, she went right to the adult competitive arena, where she did really well. (full interview...)

... in today's email

Found this email posted below on a site and thought I would pass along to remind everyone to get their entries in. This runs the same as the QM, so if you want to get free entry into the games, you must pre-register.

Sadly, JK and I will be missing this inaugural event as we will be in Austin, Texas for the US Team Nationals. But I would like to encourage everyone to attend, as I have been working with the great gents in the Ventura league and this has been a long journey for them to get this going. I would hope that the great people of SoCal could step up and make this first effort for them a great success!

Also, as an added note, last year JK and I took the Amtrak train to Santa Barbara and we noticed that Amtrak has a stop and the site for this event. So if you want to skip the driving, check out the train! It was $54 each round trip for us and well worth the price!

Please pass this info along to anyone I may have missed! Thanks!

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Contact The VCDA for a
chance to
sponsor this event!

email: Bryan Gosser

Sponsorship information

Press Release

Link to the GOLD COAST SHOOTOUT Page

Click to see the Seaside Highland Games "Gold Coast Shootout I" flier .jpg

Click to see the Seaside Highland Games "Gold Coast Shootout I" flier .pdf

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Just a reminder that the Ventura Dart Association are hosting their very first ADO sanctioned dart tourney coming up on the weekend of October 11. There is a deadline for preregistration which will get you into the festival for free. The deadline for pre sign ups is Sept 30^th so I strongly encourage you to go to our website at www.sbdarts.org and click on “Tourneys” to download the flier for the event. You need to sign up for at least 2 events for both days to get a festival pass.

I really hope to see a strong showing from the Santa Barbara Dart Association to show support to Ventura for putting on this event. There are sure to be the best players in Southern California at this event and it should be a great time for everyone.

Take care!!! Anne
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ADO Region II-2, US Team Regional Playoffs

Hello everyone!
... This email from our ADO regional director.
Just wanted to forward on the results from this past weekend for our regional playoffs for the US Team. I would like to sincerely thank the GSDDA members and everything they are doing to support darts in Southern California. We had 11 men this time and 7 of them were from GSDDA! Thanks guys! GSDDA has truly become the backbone of support in this region and your efforts do not go unnoticed or unappreciated!

As I said, we had 11 men compete on Saturday and it was a long day of darts. For those that do not know me well....I really dislike the concept of breaking up a large group into 2 or more groups. I really dislike the "luck of the draw"! I will give you a "for instance" on why I do not break things up into 2 or more groups to play. I recently went to Houston to compete in the National playoffs for the World Masters. There were 28 women and they broke us up into 4 groups of 7. So, I went and drew my card....and I will share with you just who all was in my group. Stacy Bromberg, Carolyn Mars, Brenda Roush, Linda Anglin, Pamela Patton and Cindy Gaskin. So my "luck of the draw" puts me in a group with 3 of the top 4 women players in this country....and Linda, Pamela and Cindy are nothing to sneeze at either! And this is exactly why I dislike the "luck of the draw".

So, out of 30 possible legs won, this is how the men's event ended:

John Kramer-(The Dart Shop)-26 legs won
Charles Bradish-(GSDDA)-18 legs won
Steve Lawson-(PDA)-17 legs won (tie-breaker win)
Doug McDonough-(GSDDA)-17 legs won
Marvin Wentz-(GSDDA)-16 legs won
Curtis Pierpont-(SCDA)-16 legs won
Mark Pundt-(GSDDA)-13 legs won
Dan Jager-(GSDDA)-13 legs won
Mark Veatch-(GSDDA)-10 legs won
JD Newman-(GSDDA)-10 legs won
Mick Farrell-(VCDA)-9 legs won


Our ladies event was held on Sunday. The results in a moment, but again a HUGE! thank you extended to the men from all of the ladies involved for letting the extra money collected forwarded on to the ladies event, so we are finally able to send one man and one lady to the national playoffs fully paid without having to have any fundraisers. Props to the men for helping out the ladies!

The results for the ladies were as follows:

Anne Kramer -(Triple Crown Productions)-11 legs won
Jennifer Polefko-(The Dart Shop)-6 legs won (tie-breaker win)
Deb Pundt-(GSDDA)-6 legs won
Christa DeBoer-(The Dart Shop)-4 legs won
Joyce Bleak-(PDA)-3 legs won

And extra thanks to Lori at the Dolphin Lounge for hosting both events and making us all feel welcome.

The winners of both events will now go on to compete in the national playoff in October in Austin for the US Team, which will be for the World Cup team that will compete in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2009.

And now it is time for the cricket qualifiers to begin! Leagues and associations, please begin your qualifiers and lets see if we can get enough players qualified to be able to send 2 men and 2 ladies to Vegas to compete in the Cricket Nationals in January 2009!

Thanks again everyone for your support! Webmasters, please post on websites!

With regards,

Anne Kramer
ADO Region II-2 Director