After a very splendid fried breakfast, we headed back to the Killarney International Exhibition Centre for the Ladbrokes.com John McEvoy tournament, which featured over 300 competitors. As an official for the day, my main task early on was to find players and get them to their dart-board to play (there were 32 boards in total in order to whittle down the players down from 320 to 1).
The semi-finals and final were played on the stage, and I was one of the 2 markers, which is always a great honour and thrill. In the final, Mark Walsh won the €5,000 first prize, beating Paul Nicholson.
We moseyed into town again afterwards, but as it was after 10pm, the choice of restaurants was poor. A rancid starers platter was followed by vaguely passible spaghetti meatballs, washed down with a vile house red. Uninspired by the cuisine, we walked back to the B&B without troubling any further alehouses and had a relatively early night (if 1am is to be considered as early).
Contentment : 15.5 / 25
Excitement : 3.5 / 10
Memorability : 4.5 / 15
Overall Score : 47% (67th out of 288)
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