Garrison Vending has finished up another great season of the Medalist Dart League. We held our Garrison Prize Money Payout Party #8 at the American Legion post #105 on January 23, 2005.

If you did not play for Garrison Vending during the Fall 2004 Medalist Dart League, you missed out! We paid back over $2000 in prize money to our league winners, $380 in trophies, free food at our banquet and two dart tournaments with a combined total prize money of $980.

First we started off by handing out our awards. The following took first and second in their divisions:

Sunday BBB Trios; Division 6050

1st - Charley's Place BIGGUNS2; Cody McCollough, Dan McCollough & Enoch Davis
2nd - Charley's Place JAGBMRS; Charley Farley, Ray Ackerman & Ken Vanornam

Sunday BBB Trios; Division 6051

1st - Final Score NONAME; Bob Spaugh, Richard Coghill & Paul Lazinsky
2nd - Charley's Place BERTBK; Rod Rood, Brad Kruse & Brian Finley

Monday BBB Doubles; Division 6200

1st - Northern Lounge GDHLPYOU; Chad Pratt & Brian Finley
2nd - Charley's Place; Larry Cook & Bob Brock

Tuesday CC Trios; Division 6500

1st - Wagon Yard 1HOLEOUT; Bob Ashcraft, Arla Ashcraft & Troy Shaw
2nd - Old Palomino NEWPONY; Ken Bishop, Chris Murphy & Charley Runkel

Wednesday BB Trios; Division 6600

1st - My Ole Man's BANDITS; Todd Benidict, Katy Craig & Travis Wells
2nd - My Ole Man's NITEOUT; Joe Kush, Sean Pearson & Jim Wisnor

Wednesday BB Trios; Division 6601

1st - Neighbors SPNKNYOU; Amy Bruno, Larry Vinesky & Tim Inman
2nd - Northern Lounge DRNKNDMB; Chad Pratt, Brian Finley & Karen Maines

Thursday - AA Doubles - Division 6800

1st - Casey Jones POLISH; Rick Pudjak & Bruce Simmons
2nd - Recovery Room STATDART; Anthony Johnson & Gary Johnson

As you can see, this was a great season and everyone in first and second got personalized trophies.

After all the awards and trophies were handed out we started to do our draw for the first of two dart tournaments. Our first dart tournament was a $10 entry fee that was a Garrison Parity, blind draw; women don't draw women, handicap tournament.

If you are asking what is the Garrison Parity let me explain:

Garrison Vending has perfected a system where the top half of its dart players draws the bottom half, so it evens out the playing field. On top of that, its handicapped, but we never end up having a 4 point team playing a 28 point team, the most anyone gave away was 4 marks in cricket, and 72 points in 701. If it sounds hard to do a draw like that - it is, but the only fair way for a handicap tournament. This tournament had 40 players, $400 added, with an $800 payout.

The results are as follows:

1st; Anthony Johnson, Bob Ashcraft
2nd; Daniel Vinesky, Karen Maines
3rd; Bob Spaugh, Stormi Johnson
4th; Chad Pratt, Ray Salvage
5th Tie; Charley Farley, Angela Bishop
5th Tie; Enoch Davis, Arnie Hogan
Tied for 7th; Paul (kidney stone) Parosky, Troy Shaw
Tied for 7th; Ken Vanornam, Brad Kruse

After the first tournament was just about finished, we did our draw for the second dart tournament that was just a blind draw. For this tournament we had 18 players signup with $90 added, with a payout of $180.

Those results are as follows:
1st - Daniel Vinesky, Tim Inman
2nd - Anthony Johnson, Stormi Johnson
3rd - Jim Winsor, Karen Maines
4th - Katy Craig, Travis Wells

As you can see, it was a big night for Garrison Vending. For the players that have asked what our payouts were compared to the other valley Medalist League operator, we don't know what theirs was, but we are doing the math and here is ours below:

$2000 paid back to our league winners
$400 added to first dart tournament
$380 for first and second place trophies
$200 for banquet room rental and food
$160 added for second dart tournament
$40 for first and second place trophies for dart tournament

That's a minimum $3180 paid out this season by Garrison Vending. For more information please visit www.garrisonvending.com.