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The Steel Tip Report
By Bob Ross, South Sound Darts Assn.
Nearly every Saturday night since March 20, The Home Plate Tavern in Tacoma has hosted steel-tip tournaments. We charge $8.00 and set aside $3.00 from every player every week. This reserve fund grew to $839.00, which went into the pot for the SuperShoot (along with $150.00 each from the league and the tavern). We extorted $20.00 from some lawyer, and Wisski added $1.00, making the total payout for one event $1160.00.
6th Tacoma Open (Steel Tip)
The Steel-Tip Report
6th Tacoma Open – July 8, 9, 2011
By Bob Ross, President South Sound Darts Association
Over the weekend of July 8 and 9, 2011, players from all over the Pacific Northwest (as well as a few from BC, and one from San Diego) gathered at the fabled (or infamous) Home Plate Tavern for the sixth Tacoma Open.
This one’s for Mom!
By Ty Hughes
Saturday, May 5th was a glorious day in Tacoma when the Home Plate presented their First Annual Janis Baker Memorial Mother’s Day Barbecue and Dart Shoot. And all the zany human antics that goes with this bunch.
Of course, this event has maintained rockstar status in the ‘hood for probably a good ten years now and still extremely popular with the players. You can be assured that there was a little bit of everything that day.
Home Plate picks up Mixed Memorial Cup
By Jennifer Wood
It was yet one more wet and rainy Saturday in Tacoma as Dawson’s players Mark Rowe, Jeff Christian, Kelly Pappuza and Naomi Bentz set out to defend their Mixed Memorial Cup against Home Plate’s Willy Walker, Jim Tederman, Mary Todd and Lindia Owen.
The Steel-Tip Report
By Bob Ross, President, South Sound Darts Association It’s been a busy couple of months for local shooters, and things aren’t slowing down a bit. April will bring the Oregon Open – the longest-running steel-tip tournament in the U.S. Plus, the annual Salmon Harvest tournament in Victoria, as well as the start of SSDA’s Spring [...]
Home Plate Tavern; Tacoma, WA – Steel-Tip Darts at the Home Plate
By Bob Ross, President, South Sound Dart Association (SSDA) The Home Plate Tavern in Tacoma has become a Mecca for local and regional steel-tip players. For the past five years, Hudy and the gang have hosted and run the only ADO-sanctioned tournaments in Western Washington: the South Sound Open in March, and the Tacoma Open [...]
