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CHITO YACAPIN DART DIARY ENTRY NO. 1
Updated August 02, 2013
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August promises to be a month full of great fun and excitement for the darters.  July and its summer heat and flash flood is gone. Now it’s time for the third quarter storm and darters to practice hard for the big tournaments coming.   August weekends in Metro Manila are fully booked for big tournaments already.  But the bigger tourneys are in the provinces such as August 16 to 18 - CDO’s P200K TSADARTS 2013, and August 23 to 25 - Davao’s P120K Kadayawan.  And to top it all in August, the last weekend is the P50K No Entry Fee JunJun Binay Cup in Makati.

Toto “Pretty Boy” Andrade is sizzling hot nowadays.  He wins the big, the small, and the weekly tournaments. Lahat sinasalihan.  Walang pinapalampas.  Lahat larap niya.  When I spoke with him last Monday, sabi ko ang init mo ngayon To, parang ikaw yung sikat na Padilla sa showbiz.  Sagot niya, sino si Daniel o si Robin.  Sabi ko, hindi. Para kang si Dennis Padilla, yung anak ng namapayang Dencio Padilla. Corny!

Meron binomba na isang mall arcade sa Cagayan de Oro last week.  Kung kelan meron malaking event na gaganapin doon, meron pangit na nangyari at nagkaroon tuloy ng bad publicity.  Pero tulad nung P5 Million Pacquiao Cup, na kung saan ang mga foreigners ay natakot at di sumali dahil sa news report na bakbakan, dinumog pa din ng mga darters ang GenSan at naging successful.   Let us not be frightened and cowed by this unfortunate event.  Let us join hands and be courageous and help fight violence and criminality by giving our all-out support to the darting community in Cagayan de Oro.  Mas safe pa nga ngayon dahil dumami ang police presence sa aming mahal na bayan.

Ang ating mga international Pinoy darters naman ay sasali in late August sa Shanghai International Darts World Cup tournament in China.  Dito sa Shanghai noong 2009 unang nakilala ng buong mundo si Ian “The Titan” Perez when he won runner-up honors to the veteran John Part of Canada. Hindi lang si Ian ang pumutok noon kundi ang lahat na  Pinoy darters na sumali - sina Boie Parfan, The Gunner, The Highlander, Mon Sabalboro, Robert Calupit, at Anne Awitan sa ladies.  Bilib nga sa Pinoys ang sikat na darts correspondent, si Paul Sigel of Dartoid.  Sinabi nya sa kanyang column, “if the Pinoys can gain sponsors and play in the American circuit, they will rock the ADO rankings”.  Pupulbosin ng mga Pinoys doon.  And true enough, slowly but surely, nangyayari na ito.  We are conquering territories, starting with Asia.
 
Pagkatapos ng Shanghai World Cup tournament ay ilalaro din ang The World Soft Darts Stage 5 tournament ng Dartslive.  Total prize money - $108K or P4.3 Million.  Wow!  Go Pinoy!  Ang daming beer mapainom nyan. Time to hit the boards guys!

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DART DIARY ENTRY NO. 7, September 16, 2013
DART DIARY ENTRY NO. 6, September 02, 2013
DART DIARY ENTRY NO. 5, August 28, 2013
DART DIARY ENTRY NO. 4, August 22, 2013
DART DIARY ENTRY NO. 3, August 15, 2013
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