Table after 2023 STAGE 16 Kanagawa 神奈川 20240113
Players with an (*) after their score are seeds for the next round.
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Momoka Hayashi had a tremendous day starting off banished to the Marineria where she fought out a round robin with slight hiccup against Yui Yazawa, losing a sudden death leg, but Momo-chan won her board with three other goose egg results and rock solid cricket play but was a bit off on the 501 games left her ranked 26th of the 91 players who entered the Division 2 knockouts rounds. The knockouts were mostly comfortable wins, save for her match up against Wakana Tsuzuki, which pitted the best 501 player (Wakana-pro) against the best cricket player (Momoka-pro) from the robins together in a match duel to advance - and in the sudden death leg it was Momo-chan who prevailed against the accurate arrowcaster of Aichi.
Momoka-pro left the Marineria and took the short walk (But she has little legs - so many more steps!) to the Osanbashi for the finals with a rowdy Kanto crowd. Emulating the energy of the previous stage in Osaka as well as those Beer Fueled Warriors in the crowd at Alexandra Palace for the PDC World Championships. - As with everything a polarising subject of Fanatical Fun vs Formality and Respect. That said, the crowds were only cheering for goodplay (No singing, jeering and whistling morons in Japan!) - but with multiple boards in the finals - the fun loving crowds enjoyment often crashed into other players setting up to throw. If this random spontaneous noise did distract players, Momoka-pro wasn't one of them, as she dealt with Natsumi Iwata, Koto Imai as well as Nami Iwasaki to get to the final when she got off to a fast start and when Sayuri-pro struck back with a heavy leg, Momoka turned on some winning style with an emphatic 161 checkout to complete a 12 darter with all the pressure knowing that her oppenent was down to a 141 outshot after 9 darts and Momo-chan's final, delayed dart was for her very first win.
Natsumi Iwata made things interesting when she was given number 6 as her draw. discovered that Momoka-pro had drawn her for the replacement round but was unable to stop the tiny tornado path to victory. Natsumi-pro losing does knock her right back to the round robins - Her only consolation was Koto-pro didn't get beyond the quarterfinals and Yukie Sakaguchi was stopped in the final game in the Marineria by Namie Furukawa. one thorn was Shizuka Kondo bounced back into the seedings but like Koto Imai she only got to the quarterfinals. Next Stage is normal points but winning the replacement round will be pivotal for an easy route to big points for the final round in Natsumi's prefecture of Chiba.
There are a maximum of 160 points for any player between now and the end of the season - So only 4 players can take the title. Natsumi Iwata just needs to push her score to outpace the rest. Koto Imai is only 61 point down and in a seeded postion, If she wins her first game in Sendai - then she will have 58 points in the bag. Shizuka Kondo is in 4th place, 116 behind, but is in the same postion as Koto-pro, just one good game and a huge porton of point will close that gap. A chunk of points. Yukie Sakaguchi is in 3rd place and only has a 109 point deficit but she will need to straighten her tie and play hard in Sendai. If Yukie-pro falters before the replacement round then her fading title hopes are probably over.
Of course much of this all pivots on the leader slipping up, but Natsumi-pro did get knocked out in the replacement round in Kanagawa (That is the second time this season Natsumi has been defeated in the replacement round inside the Osanbashi Hall... Gah, pathetic humans, always trying to link two unrelated things together!) Natsumi-pro is probably thankful that Stage 17 was transfered up North to the Prefecture of Miyagi and did not remain in Kanagawa and the Osanbashi for Stage 17 in February!)
The championship is still in Natsumi-pro's hands (Well her right one to be exact and then for the final 8 feet it is all up in the air!)
If she can string a couple of reasonable results together then she will win no matter what the rest get up to, But Should Natsumi-pro trip up then Koto-pro, Yukie-pro and Shizuka-pro have to close the gap in Sendai
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Outside of the 4 way kerfuffle for the overall title there are other positions to be battled over. 5th placed Maiko Koyama almost returned to the seedings but lost out in her challenge to the replacement round. Maiko-pro went undefeated in the robins, but had 3 close sudden death games in the knockouts to reach the replacement round where she pulled number 1 for her draw - and had another close match this time against Kasumi Chiba which went to a sudden death leg - which she lost out - all that effort just for her luck to falter at the critical moment sending her to the Robins for the next stage. Just to rub in her misfortune at the end of the day the four players directly behind her will all be seeded for Miyagi. Momoka-pro, Mana-pro, Kasumi (Sato) and Nami-pro all have a solid chance to steal 5th place from her. Maiko-pro needs to return to the seedings and score well to avert dropping places to those pesky players behind her.
Momoka-pro is just 10 points down on Maiko-pro and being seeded and in such strong form she looks set to keep accruing those points. Mana-pro is a distant 75 points down, Kasumi-pro 107 and Nami-pro 109 behind Maiko-pro.
10th place is now Sayaka Sasaki, who had a dreadful start in the marineria, losing her first two games Mina Hayashi and eventual board winner Yuna Yamamoto. The final two robin games, Sayaka-pro came back to scrape out of the robins ranked in 84th place. Sayaka-pro's run in the knockouts was short, a first round exit to Umi Abe. This final result lost her momentum in the championship, causing her to drop two places and she trails Nami-pro by 30 points. Sayaka-pro holds a 37 point gap over Sayuri "Dreamy" Nishiguchi but with the Hyogo player being seeded and in good form that gap looks set to close dramatically should 'Claws of Doom' Sayaka-pro not find her winning touch soon.
Sayuri "Dreamy" Nishiguchi may be chasing the little leveret, (Sayaka-pro) but her visit to the final let her bunnyhop 3 places into 11th spot. Should The Dreamy One keep this level of play up then the Hyogo Hattrick Hurler will break into the top 10.
Kasumi Chiba was the high flyer futher down the table, as others struggled she maintained her seeding. After stage 16 Kasumi-pro gained 3 places from 20th up to 17th. Kasumi Chiba is only 69 points down on 12th placed Yukina Chiba and every player between them are unseeded. If Kasumi Chiba can keep her current point scoring charge going and the other fail to step up then the cold wind from Hokkaido could gain alot of places - If Kasumi (Chiba) has an epic run and wins both of the final stages she would break into the top 10.
Hotaru Igarashi had a good robin, winning her first three games letting her relax and lose her final match up. 2Scotaru's run in the knockouts included a last 16 win against tall lefty Ami Komiyama to earn her a star hunter bonus. Hotaru-pro's match up in the replacement round was a resolute Kasumi Sato and it was here Hotaru-pro's visit to the Replacement Round and Osanbashi was over.
Natsuki Adachi only dropped two legs in her win of board 117 in the Marineria. The 4'12" left hander from Tokyo then trotted through the knock outs with a final star hunter win over 5th ranked Robinista, Kanagawa's Rie Ikeda. In the Replacement Round Natsuki was drawn against, Sayuri "Dreamy" Nishiguchi in a game that went the distance but in the end it was Orthodox Kansai Grace that triumphed over Sinister Kanto Wonkiness. (Just a joke, but left handers are just weird!) A Brave run but for Natsuki it is back to the Round Robins.
Namie Furukawa had a birthday trip up from far off Satsuma all the way up to Yokohama. Namie-pro's day started with a brace of perfect games over two players from Tokyo - Kyoka Akiba and Tomoko Oikawa. The wheels then started to fall off with two heavy losses to Gunma's Keiko Mogi and eventual board winner, Osaka's Mana Fujita. Namie-pro was one of the lucky 9 players with a perfectly balanced 2-2 record, 13 players with the same win/loss record were eliminated at this point. The knockouts were all close run things for Namie-pro four consecutive wins and all four went the distance to a nail biting sudden death leg... With no nails left to nibble on, Namie-pro was drawn against the Stage 15 Winner of Osaka, Mana Kawakami and that was too much as she bowed out in a 3-1 defeat. Still Namie-Pro did get to go to on the pier and enjoy a game with the big players. The Osanbashi sadly will not return for the schedule in the 2024 season, the event in Kanagawa moving to the Pacifico over in the Minato Mirai 21.
次回は2月24日(土)JAPAN STAGE17 宮城です☆
Remaining Events This Season...
20240224 STAGE 17 Miyagi 宮城 (SunFesta, Sendai)
20240302 STAGE 18 Chiba 千葉 (Makuhari Messe, Chiba) Final round so a bonus of 50% more points.
(Sorry, I am not picking on Momoka Hayashi - but it is hard to believe at 4'10 she is still taller than that tyrannical tummy toucher, Napoleon Boneparte was. Not sure if the colours helped or made that more confusing than normal!)
| Postion | Previously | Sponsor | Player | 選手名 | Points |
| 1 | 1 | TRiNiDAD | Natsumi Iwata | 岩田 夏海 | 711 |
| 2 | 2 | CUESOUL | Koto Imai | 今井 琴 | 650 * |
| 3 | 3 | TIGA | Yukie Sakaguchi | 坂口 優希恵 | 602 |
| 4 | 4 | TRiNiDAD | Shizuka Kondo | 近藤 静加 | 595 * |
| 5 | 5 | DMC Japan | Maiko Koyama | 小山 麻衣子 | 514 |
| 6 | 6 | Harrows | Momoka Hayashi | 林 桃加 | 504 * |
| 7 | 7 | Cosmo Darts | Mana Kawakami | 川上 真奈 | 439 * |
| 8 | 9 | Unicorn | Kasumi Sato | 佐藤 かす美 | 407 * |
| 9 | 10 | CUESOUL | Nami Iwasaki | 岩崎 奈美 | 405 * |
| 10 | 8 | CUESOUL | Sayaka Sasaki | 佐々木 沙綾香 | 375 |
| 11 | 14 | Canis Major | Sayuri Nishiguchi | 西口 小百合 | 338 * |
| 12 | 11 | DYNASTY | Yukina Chiba | 千葉 幸奈 | 329 |
| 13 | 12 | DYNASTY | Mayu Shimizu | 清水 舞友 | 322 |
| 14 | 13 | TRiNiDAD | Miyu Miyawaki | 宮脇 実由 | 297 |
| 15 | 15 | TARGET | Kosuzu Iwao | いわお 小鈴 | 296 |
| 16 | 16 | Mystery! | Wakana Tsuzuki | 都筑 稚菜 | 292 |
| 17 | 20 | Zephyr | Kasumi Chiba | 千葉 香純 | 260 * |
| 18 | 18 | Cosmo Darts | Ami Komiyama | 小宮山 亜美 | 254 |
| 19 | 17 | DYNASTY | Kim Hyojin | キム ヒョジン | 253 |
| 20 | 19 | DMC Japan | Asuka Imose | 五百瀬 明日香 | 239 |
| 21 | 21 | TIGA | Yuriko Yamaguchi | 山口 祐理子 | 230 |
| 22 | 22 | Mystery! | Yuna Yamamoto | 山本 侑奈 | 198 |
| 23 | 23 | Ultima Darts | Yumiko Sugime | 杉目 優美子 | 194 |
| 24 | 24 | One80 | Saori Miyamoto | 宮本 沙織 | 176 |
| 25 | 25 | Caramel Clutch | Yuri Saijo | 西條 友梨 | 174 |
| 26 | 26 | Joker Driver | Shiho Sumida | 角田 糸穂 | 169 |
| 27 | 29 | DMC Japan | Yumi Suzuki | 鈴木 優美 | 167 |
| 28 | 28 | TIGA | Aika Ohsugi | 大杉 愛華 | 161 |
| 29 | 27 | Cosmo Darts | Yuko Hino | 日野 優子 | 160 |
| 30 | 30 | Mystery! | Maika Morimoto | 森本 舞香 | 146 |
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Momoka Hayashi had a tremendous day starting off banished to the Marineria where she fought out a round robin with slight hiccup against Yui Yazawa, losing a sudden death leg, but Momo-chan won her board with three other goose egg results and rock solid cricket play but was a bit off on the 501 games left her ranked 26th of the 91 players who entered the Division 2 knockouts rounds. The knockouts were mostly comfortable wins, save for her match up against Wakana Tsuzuki, which pitted the best 501 player (Wakana-pro) against the best cricket player (Momoka-pro) from the robins together in a match duel to advance - and in the sudden death leg it was Momo-chan who prevailed against the accurate arrowcaster of Aichi.
Momoka-pro left the Marineria and took the short walk (But she has little legs - so many more steps!) to the Osanbashi for the finals with a rowdy Kanto crowd. Emulating the energy of the previous stage in Osaka as well as those Beer Fueled Warriors in the crowd at Alexandra Palace for the PDC World Championships. - As with everything a polarising subject of Fanatical Fun vs Formality and Respect. That said, the crowds were only cheering for goodplay (No singing, jeering and whistling morons in Japan!) - but with multiple boards in the finals - the fun loving crowds enjoyment often crashed into other players setting up to throw. If this random spontaneous noise did distract players, Momoka-pro wasn't one of them, as she dealt with Natsumi Iwata, Koto Imai as well as Nami Iwasaki to get to the final when she got off to a fast start and when Sayuri-pro struck back with a heavy leg, Momoka turned on some winning style with an emphatic 161 checkout to complete a 12 darter with all the pressure knowing that her oppenent was down to a 141 outshot after 9 darts and Momo-chan's final, delayed dart was for her very first win.
Natsumi Iwata made things interesting when she was given number 6 as her draw. discovered that Momoka-pro had drawn her for the replacement round but was unable to stop the tiny tornado path to victory. Natsumi-pro losing does knock her right back to the round robins - Her only consolation was Koto-pro didn't get beyond the quarterfinals and Yukie Sakaguchi was stopped in the final game in the Marineria by Namie Furukawa. one thorn was Shizuka Kondo bounced back into the seedings but like Koto Imai she only got to the quarterfinals. Next Stage is normal points but winning the replacement round will be pivotal for an easy route to big points for the final round in Natsumi's prefecture of Chiba.
There are a maximum of 160 points for any player between now and the end of the season - So only 4 players can take the title. Natsumi Iwata just needs to push her score to outpace the rest. Koto Imai is only 61 point down and in a seeded postion, If she wins her first game in Sendai - then she will have 58 points in the bag. Shizuka Kondo is in 4th place, 116 behind, but is in the same postion as Koto-pro, just one good game and a huge porton of point will close that gap. A chunk of points. Yukie Sakaguchi is in 3rd place and only has a 109 point deficit but she will need to straighten her tie and play hard in Sendai. If Yukie-pro falters before the replacement round then her fading title hopes are probably over.
Of course much of this all pivots on the leader slipping up, but Natsumi-pro did get knocked out in the replacement round in Kanagawa (That is the second time this season Natsumi has been defeated in the replacement round inside the Osanbashi Hall... Gah, pathetic humans, always trying to link two unrelated things together!) Natsumi-pro is probably thankful that Stage 17 was transfered up North to the Prefecture of Miyagi and did not remain in Kanagawa and the Osanbashi for Stage 17 in February!)
The championship is still in Natsumi-pro's hands (Well her right one to be exact and then for the final 8 feet it is all up in the air!)
If she can string a couple of reasonable results together then she will win no matter what the rest get up to, But Should Natsumi-pro trip up then Koto-pro, Yukie-pro and Shizuka-pro have to close the gap in Sendai
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Outside of the 4 way kerfuffle for the overall title there are other positions to be battled over. 5th placed Maiko Koyama almost returned to the seedings but lost out in her challenge to the replacement round. Maiko-pro went undefeated in the robins, but had 3 close sudden death games in the knockouts to reach the replacement round where she pulled number 1 for her draw - and had another close match this time against Kasumi Chiba which went to a sudden death leg - which she lost out - all that effort just for her luck to falter at the critical moment sending her to the Robins for the next stage. Just to rub in her misfortune at the end of the day the four players directly behind her will all be seeded for Miyagi. Momoka-pro, Mana-pro, Kasumi (Sato) and Nami-pro all have a solid chance to steal 5th place from her. Maiko-pro needs to return to the seedings and score well to avert dropping places to those pesky players behind her.
Momoka-pro is just 10 points down on Maiko-pro and being seeded and in such strong form she looks set to keep accruing those points. Mana-pro is a distant 75 points down, Kasumi-pro 107 and Nami-pro 109 behind Maiko-pro.
10th place is now Sayaka Sasaki, who had a dreadful start in the marineria, losing her first two games Mina Hayashi and eventual board winner Yuna Yamamoto. The final two robin games, Sayaka-pro came back to scrape out of the robins ranked in 84th place. Sayaka-pro's run in the knockouts was short, a first round exit to Umi Abe. This final result lost her momentum in the championship, causing her to drop two places and she trails Nami-pro by 30 points. Sayaka-pro holds a 37 point gap over Sayuri "Dreamy" Nishiguchi but with the Hyogo player being seeded and in good form that gap looks set to close dramatically should 'Claws of Doom' Sayaka-pro not find her winning touch soon.
Sayuri "Dreamy" Nishiguchi may be chasing the little leveret, (Sayaka-pro) but her visit to the final let her bunnyhop 3 places into 11th spot. Should The Dreamy One keep this level of play up then the Hyogo Hattrick Hurler will break into the top 10.
Kasumi Chiba was the high flyer futher down the table, as others struggled she maintained her seeding. After stage 16 Kasumi-pro gained 3 places from 20th up to 17th. Kasumi Chiba is only 69 points down on 12th placed Yukina Chiba and every player between them are unseeded. If Kasumi Chiba can keep her current point scoring charge going and the other fail to step up then the cold wind from Hokkaido could gain alot of places - If Kasumi (Chiba) has an epic run and wins both of the final stages she would break into the top 10.
Hotaru Igarashi had a good robin, winning her first three games letting her relax and lose her final match up. 2Scotaru's run in the knockouts included a last 16 win against tall lefty Ami Komiyama to earn her a star hunter bonus. Hotaru-pro's match up in the replacement round was a resolute Kasumi Sato and it was here Hotaru-pro's visit to the Replacement Round and Osanbashi was over.
Natsuki Adachi only dropped two legs in her win of board 117 in the Marineria. The 4'12" left hander from Tokyo then trotted through the knock outs with a final star hunter win over 5th ranked Robinista, Kanagawa's Rie Ikeda. In the Replacement Round Natsuki was drawn against, Sayuri "Dreamy" Nishiguchi in a game that went the distance but in the end it was Orthodox Kansai Grace that triumphed over Sinister Kanto Wonkiness. (Just a joke, but left handers are just weird!) A Brave run but for Natsuki it is back to the Round Robins.
Namie Furukawa had a birthday trip up from far off Satsuma all the way up to Yokohama. Namie-pro's day started with a brace of perfect games over two players from Tokyo - Kyoka Akiba and Tomoko Oikawa. The wheels then started to fall off with two heavy losses to Gunma's Keiko Mogi and eventual board winner, Osaka's Mana Fujita. Namie-pro was one of the lucky 9 players with a perfectly balanced 2-2 record, 13 players with the same win/loss record were eliminated at this point. The knockouts were all close run things for Namie-pro four consecutive wins and all four went the distance to a nail biting sudden death leg... With no nails left to nibble on, Namie-pro was drawn against the Stage 15 Winner of Osaka, Mana Kawakami and that was too much as she bowed out in a 3-1 defeat. Still Namie-Pro did get to go to on the pier and enjoy a game with the big players. The Osanbashi sadly will not return for the schedule in the 2024 season, the event in Kanagawa moving to the Pacifico over in the Minato Mirai 21.
次回は2月24日(土)JAPAN STAGE17 宮城です☆
Remaining Events This Season...
20240224 STAGE 17 Miyagi 宮城 (SunFesta, Sendai)
20240302 STAGE 18 Chiba 千葉 (Makuhari Messe, Chiba) Final round so a bonus of 50% more points.
(Sorry, I am not picking on Momoka Hayashi - but it is hard to believe at 4'10 she is still taller than that tyrannical tummy toucher, Napoleon Boneparte was. Not sure if the colours helped or made that more confusing than normal!)
