Medalist Asia-International 2010 - Final Day Roundup

On the last day of the Medalist Asia-International Tournament 2010 held in Taipei, Team Singapore made an almost clean sweep of A and B Flight Trios (no doubt thanks to much practice from our regular Trios league!)

Day 3 Roll call
B Flight Trios
  Champion - Jason Tay/Jason Chong/Desmond Goh
  2nd Place - Winson Damien/Joseph Ng/Calvin Tan
  Joint 3rd - Ng Ngak Keng/Joyce Chee/Vincent Leong
  Joint 3rd - Martin Tan/Kae Ng/Roger Liu
  Joint 9th - Shin/Jenny/Low Boon Chye
A Flight Trios
  Champion - Kent Ong/River Ang/Bryan Liu
  Joint 3rd - Annie Teo/Vichan/Attapol
  Joint 3rd - Albert Chia/Joe Tay/Kristine Lim

The most exciting game of the day was probably the A Flight finals. It was between the Singapore team of Kent/River/Bryan against the Taiwanese team of Cheng Sheng-Jen/Chang Chi-Chung/Kang Ling-Yuan played on stage. It was a level fight, with each team taking turns to win a game. In the last choice game of 01, all players from both teams could not check out, bungling simple dart checkout and raising the excitement and tension of everyone watching. Finally after rounds of bust, Bryan checked out with a simple 9, and the trios champion trophy went to Team Singapore!

Also on this day, in the Asia Pride Cup event, Team USA beats past champion Team Japan to grab the 4 foot giant trophy. Paul Lim defeats Watanyu of Thailand to take the Grandmasters' Singles title yet again.

In his closing speech, Paul Lim on behalf of the organisers, thanked all the players and country distributors for attending the event and especially the local Taiwanese players who supported and help made the event possible. Almost every Singapore player wins something on the last day and the happiness was evident on their faces. Though the event had come to a close, everyone had definitely enjoyed themselves and we would like to thank Medalist Japan, Medalist Taiwan and the Taiwanese darters for hosting us and making this event a successful and memorable one. Xie xie ni!

All the Team Singapore winners of day 3 cheering happily with their trophies

B Flight Joint 3rd - Ng, Joyce and Vincent

B Flight Joint 3rd - Martin, Kae and Roger

B Flight 2nd place - Calvin, Winson and Joseph

B Flight Champion - Jason Chong, Jason Tay and Desmond

A Flight Champion - Team Singapore (right) Kent,Bryan,River with 2nd place Taiwanese team (left)

A Flight Joint 3rd - Albert, Kristine and Joe

Medalist Asia-International 2010 - Day 2

Updated Nov 28 with more pictures
Updated Dec 13 fixed Bernard's name

We continue our series of coverage on the Medalist Asia-International tournament that just ended in Taipei, Taiwan last weekend. Read about the day 1 coverage here

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Day 2 of the event is jam packed with interesting events. There are the usual A,B,C flight events as well as Grandmasters singles and Asia Pride Cup. Today we were luckier as we had more players winning prizes than the day before, no doubt the nerves are more settled and players are getting the hang of the environment.

In A flight, Team Singapore performed strongly to sweep the top 2 spots. Bernard/Andy and Kent/River fought their way from different sides of the bracket to finally meet in the all-Singapore finals. It was a proud moment for all Singapore players as the pretty final-pit girls carried both Singapore flags to the stage.

A Flight all-Singapore Finalists

In the finals match, Kent/River finally overcome yesterday's A Flight bugbear to win their first ever champion trophy.

Day 2 Roll call
A Flight Champion - Kent Ong/River Ang
A Flight 2nd Place - Bernard Tong/Andy Tan
B Flight Joint 3rd - Ng Ngak Keng/Thomas Huang
B Flight Joint 9th - Martin Tan/Kae Ng
Sweet Sixteen Champion - Calvin Tan/Winson Damien
Sweet Sixteen 2nd Place - Jason Chong/Jason Tay

Day 2 Trophy winners - from left: Bernard Tong/Andy Tan, (A Flight 2nd Place), Kent Ong/River Ang (A Flight Champion), Ng Ngak Keng/Thomas Huang (B Flight Joint 3rd)

Darts couple Martin/Kae - B Flight Joint 9th

Sweet Sixteen 2nd Place - Jason Chong / Jason Tay

Sweet Sixteen Champion - Calvin Tan/Winson

The Grandmasters event always prove to be very interesting to watch as it brings together all the best-of-the-best darters to play without handicaps. Past Medalist Grandmaster champion, Paul Lim, was the man to watch. He easily swept his way pass the first round, into the single elimination. In the single elimination round, he easily defeated Chia Ming, from Taiwan and Atsushi from Japan which then puts him in a Quarter-finals showdown match against Natthakhom, of Thailand. Natthakhom was his opponent in previous Medalist AI Grandmasters finals. However, this time around, Paul easily won 3-0 in a quick match and went on to the semi-finals against Marco, of Hong Kong.

The Grandmasters semi-finals match between Paul and Marco prove to be very exciting, as competition was quite level between the 2 players. Each player took turns to gain a point with Paul winning the cricket games and Marco taking the 01 games. In the cork for the final choice game, Paul hit a closer black bull than Marco's to choose the next cricket game. It was an amazing game to watch as Paul maintain a small lead in almost every round by trying to close any house that Marco tried to open and at the same time scoring triple-20 whenever there is opportunity. Similar to previous cricket games, it was a neck-to-neck game even to the last bull. When Marco misses a crucial bull, Paul homes in and grabs the win. Everyone, including the HK players cheered for a very exciting game. The win for Paul puts him in a finals game on stage against Watanyu, of Thailand, played the next day. In the Grandmasters finals, Paul Lim had no problems putting in the bulls and won the game after a short fight.

2010 Grandmaster's Singles Champion - Paul Lim (left) with Watanyu of Thailand (2nd)

Next up was the Asia Pride Cup which is an inter-country event, with each country forming their best trios team to play. The players from each country were introduced and everyone cheered for their teams on stage.

Asia Pride Cup players On-stage (Singapore team on rightmost)

In the Asia Pride Cup, Team Singapore comprising Kent Ong, River Ang and Andy Tan were pitted in the same group as Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia. They had challenging matches playing against the top players of each country. Thailand proved to be a challenging opponent. Both teams were tied at 2-2 and needed to win the last game. Just one small mistake gave the game away to Thailand. The game was not only challenging but fun to watch as both teams cheered and shared jokes with each other and their supporters. In the end, although Team Singapore fought valiantly and even though all 3 were tired from playing whole day of games, only the top 2 teams advanced and we were not one of the teams.

Asia Pride Cup: Team Singapore with Team Thailand

Asia Pride Cup: Team Singapore with Team Korea

Asia Pride Cup: Team Singapore with Team Taiwan

We retired from the tournament hall tired but still happy with the reasonable wins and most importantly made some new friends and played some challenging darts.

Stay tuned for the final day-3 blog coverage

Singapore wins big in the Medalist Asia-International 2010 - Day 1

Team Singapore finally returns from Taipei yesterday (22nd) after winning many trophies and enjoying excellent darts and challenge with all the other Medalist darters from Asia and around the world.

Medalist Asia-International Tournament is an annual tournament with mainly Asian plus a few other European and American Medalist players. This year, the event is the biggest AI tournament ever and hosted in Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan. More than 400 darters descended on Huashan Creative Park, a conserved area of buildings popular with the local creative arts and music scene.

With such a large group of darters from various background put together, the mood was exciting, the games were challenging, the pit marches were exhilarating, the pit girls were pretty and final pit was just beautiful - what more can you ask for? The organizers had done an excellent job putting the whole tournament together. Congratulations to Medalist Taiwan!

On Day 1, the players were feeling nervous and jittery. Everyone was trying to get accustomed to the environment, the throwing areas and the process involved. The introduction of all the Medalist countries involved in the competition were made: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, HK, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, France, Spain, USA. Everyone was excited with the prospect of meeting and playing with various players from around the world.

First day results for Team Singapore were quite subdued though, the biggest win being Joint 3rd positions from Kelvin Chia/Zann Hu and Kent Ong/River Ang.

Day 1 Results
C Flight Joint 3rd : Kelvin Chia/Zann Hu
B Flight Joint 9th : Joe Tay/Deng Hui Shan
B Flight Joint 5th : Desmond Goh/Ken Hiu
A Flight Joint 3rd : Kent Ong/River Ang

C Flight Joint 3rd : Kelvin Chia with Hu

B Flight Joint 5th : Desmond Goh/Ken Hiu

A Flight Joint 3rd : Kent Ong/River Ang with the pit girls

All the winners of Day 1 cheerfully displaying their trophies

Next, read our Day 2 or Day 3 event results of the Medalist AI tournament.

10th Medalist Trios League Finals - Day 2

Updated 15Nov : Added pictures

Here are the results of the last day of the 10th Trios League finals. Also check out day 1's results and pictures.

C Flight
Champion - Forest Eagle (Forest)
2nd Place - Arashi (Club House)
Joint 3rd - Thomson Terriers (Bojangles), Hermes (Alps Cafe)
Joint 5th - Forest Bear (Forest), Le Pin Purple Monster (Le Pin), Team 82 - Queenie (Chambers 82), The One

BB Flight
Champion - Titan BB (Club Titan)
2nd Place - Beer Marketers (Beer Market)
Joint 3rd - PPC (BB) (PPC), Ice Blast (Ice Karaoke)
Joint 5th - Forest Bull (Forest), Sara's Knight (Sara's), Bishi Bashi (Temple), Poseidon (Alps Cafe)

MVP BB Flight - Kent Ong (Sara's)
MVP C Flight - Tony Wee (Asylum Bar)

Most Improved Player - Bryan Chen (Hoodlum)

BB Flight Champion - Titan BB (Club Titan)

BB Flight 2nd Place - Beer Marketers (Beer Market)

BB Flight Joint 3rd - PPC (BB) (PPC)

BB Flight Joint 3rd - Ice Blast (Ice Karaoke)

C Flight Champion - Forest Eagle (Forest)

C Flight 2nd Place - Arashi (Club House)

C Flight Joint 3rd - Thomson Terriers (Bojangles)

C Flight Joint 3rd - Hermes (Alps Cafe)

MVP BB Flight Finalists with MVP Champion Kent Ong (with envelope)

MVP C Flight Champion - Tony Wee (Asylum), left, with runners up, Marcus Chiang

Most Improved Player - Bryan Chen (Hoodlum)

Congratulations to all the winners. The Final for both flights (especially C Flight) were exciting and nail biting!

10th Medalist Trios League Finals - Day 1

Updated 15Nov : Added pictures

Here are the results of the first day of the Trios League Finals held at V-Golf tonight. Also check the results for day 2.


A Flight
Champion - Sara's Crusaders
2nd Place - Team Forest (Forest)
Joint 3rd - Titan A (Club Titan), Hades (Alps Cafe)
Joint 5th - Eagle Ice (Ice Karaoke), Starlet Premier (Pub Starlet), Sara's Aces (Sara's), Arrows (Pink Peppercorn)

MVP A Flight - Terry Wong (Sara's)


B Flight
Champion - Nightmare in Dreams (Temple)
2nd Place - Starlet Classic (Pub Starlet)
Joint 3rd - Forest Unknown (Forest), Dartsmen (Pink Peppercorn)
Joint 5th - Crazy Ice (Ice Karaoke), Ares (Alps Cafe), Team 82 - B1 (Chambers 82), Forest Fire (Forest)

MVP B Flight - Yeow Jen Hwa (Alps Cafe)

And here are the all-important pictures...

A Flight Champion - Sara's Crusaders (Sara's)

A Flight 2nd Place - Team Forest (Forest)

A Flight Joint 3rd - Hades (Alps Cafe)

A Flight Joint 3rd - Titan A (Club Titan)

B Flight Champion - Nightmare in Dreams (Temple)

B Flight 2nd Place - Starlet Classic (Pub Starlet)

B Flight Joint 3rd - Dartsmen (PPC)

B Flight Joint 3rd - Forest Unknown (Forest)

MVP A Flight Champion - Terry Wong (Sara's), left, with runners up, Nick Low

MVP B Flight Finalists & Champion (with envelope) - Yeow Jen Hwa (Alps Cafe)

Congratulations to all the winners!
See this post for the BB and C Flight Finals results

Medalist Tour to Taiwan crowns its lady winner

In the final Medalist Tour To Asia event of the year, we crown the Tour to Taiwan champion - Kristine Lim. Incidentally, she won 3rd place in the earlier Queen of the Hills event (Tour To Hong Kong) event. She manage to overcome nerves and played consistently well to defeat the runners-up - Desmond Goh. The 3rd place winner was River Ang.

Kristine finally wins champion after coming in 3rd in the earlier Tour to HK event

Desmond Goh comes in as first runners up

River Ang wins 3rd place

The 3 top winners of the Medalist Tour to Taiwan event

10th Trios League Finals Grouping

Here are the groupings for the 10th Trios League Finals conducted at V-Golf today.
For all flights, top 8 teams will qualify to the single knockout stage.

A Flight grouping - 12 teams separated into 2 groups.




BB Flight grouping - 12 teams separated into 2 groups.




B Flight grouping - 18 teams separated into 3 groups.



C Flight grouping - 16 teams separated into 3 groups.



League Finals is on next Saturday/Sunday. To all teams, train hard and good darts!