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Fiji
Ventures limited, a sport and recreational centre, through its sports
promotion division, Sport Manufacturing Marketing and Promotion (SMMAP)
is set to introduce a Speed darts tournament to the country.

The tourney would
act as a forum to re-introduce Nigerians to professional darts. “We
believe that dart is the leading and most popular bar game worldwide
and should be developed to give skilful and talented players a chance
to compete effectively in the lucrative international professional
arena,” said Joachim Idada, Chief Executive Officer, Fiji Ventures.

The Speed Dart
tournament will be the precursor for would-be professionals to the
Inter-bar Darts circuit. This circuit offers a total prize of N189, 000
for bars as an incentive to invest in the recreational value available
in them and the opportunities derived in exploiting a well developed
and viable darts sector in Nigeria.

But Fiji Ventures cannot promote the game by itself.

“We continue to
call on and encourage bars, breweries and distilleries to adopt bar
sports, as the industry shall be a key beneficiary when the
recreational content in bars is improved upon,” Idaba said consequently.

Players Championship

Meanwhile the
players championship continues in Bristol as Steve Brown faces Phil
Taylor in the Championship Final. Bristol’s Brown will take on 15-time
World Champion Phil Taylor in the first round of the tournament.

Brown has yet to
defeat Taylor since turning professional in 2008, but has emerged as a
challenger for the world’s top 32 during the past year knocking Terry
Jenkins out of the World Match-play in Blackpool, United Kingdom.

Brown faces Taylor,
in a best-of-eleven leg game giving the latter the chance to challenge
darts’ greatest ever player. Should Brown overcome Taylor, he would
meet either James Wade, world number three, or fellow Bristol-born Mark
Dudbridge, who travels with Brown on the Professional Darts Council
(PDC) circuit and is often a practice partner for the 30-year-old. The
Players Championship offers as first prize, £250,000 (about N63
million).