2016 Mid West Regional Recap

ADA Mid-West Regional Recap
By Sarah Coyne, ADA Representative

2016 American Darters Association Mid-West Regional held another successful event.  Lots of new faces this year at the 2016 ADA Championship held at Side Pockets in Blue Springs, MO.  Members from seven ADA areas attended and competed throughout the 3 day regional soft-tip event.

Side Pockets were amazing hosts as always, contributing an additional $1000 add with 100% payout.  Friday early evening ADA Professional Members played in the doubles event.  Followed by the Youth/Adult event and the Friday night draw doubles event.  Over 80 members played in the Friday Draw Doubles and an extra $800 was added to the event from our gracious host.  Our $500 first place winners were Aaron Frels (TX) & Derek Kenworthy (IL).

 

          

Saturday morning Side Pockets offered darters an early bird breakfast special of biscuits and gravy before the opening Mens/Womens Double event.  Men/Women Cricket Singles followed the Doubles event and ended shortly before Saturday Draw Doubles.  An extra $200 along with some ADA attendance prizes were added to the Draw event with over 40 teams participating.

 

Sunday, the final day of the Regional event began with Bloody Mary drink specials for the Professional darters who competed for the ADA Pro Singles event.  Congratulations to Men Pro Singles winner Shannon Norman and Woman Pro Singles winner Erin Fetzer!

       

Like most Regional events, the members are here for darts but also to have fun.  “It has been a good weekend!  I got First in the Men’s Neutralizer Doubles, second in the Draw Doubles on Saturday night and I’m playing for the King’s seat in Triples Open event.  My daughter came with me this weekend and she got second in the Youth/Adult event” said James “Goofy” Gifford member from the Grundy, IL 604 area.

       

 

Huge thanks to the Side Pockets staff for all the hard work and long hours that they worked this weekend!  The event could not have been successful without Side Pockets’ General Manager Bill Fickle.  Gigantic shout out to Amanda Hicok, Sky Hicok and Jennifer Rahe listed in the picture below and all the other Side Pocket employees that worked our event weekend.  Thanks to Jim Yates, Tyler Williams and David “Propane” Strickland from Kraken Darts for the extra dart boards.

Dart supplies were provided by JD Larson’s Dynasty Darts.  JD and Dustin Garcia were open the entire weekend providing the darters with a wide variety of dart supplies.  JD and Dustin are also ADA members who were able to play in a couple events throughout the weekend.  Thank you for supporting the ADA and our members with your mobile dart shop!  See you at the next stop in West Memphis!  Visit them online at www.dynastydarts.com

Our hosting Kansas City 641 area, ADA Reps, Cliff Mutchler and David Seibert helped tremendously with advertising the event to bring in new members.  In order to compete in the Men/Women Single/Double/Mixed Triples event, you have to play in ADA leagues, be a paid ADA member and have qualifying scores in the Open/Neutralizer system.  New members are encouraged to attend and invited to play in the nightly Draw Doubles event.  Membership to ADA is required and event entry fee is all it takes to play in the Draw Doubles event.

Raffle prizes provided by Budweiser, Unicorn Darts, American Dart League and GLD products were raffled off all weekend.  Check out some of the prizes members received below.  Want more opportunities for GLD prizes?!  Visit https://goo.gl/f8Nh4B for GLD products D.A.R.T. perks that include exclusive early access to new products, free and discounted products for your review, prize drawings, contests and much more!  Take the short survey and/or visit them on Facebook.  Check it out!

Thanks to all the ADA Reps for attending!  604/606 Andrea Mayer, 610 JD Larson, 622 Bob Holly & Jack Holloman, 631 Rob Young, 636 Cory Thrasher, 641 Cliff Mutchler & David Seibert, 741 Chuck Brocar, 750 Richard Lough, and 763 Erin Fetzer.

Regional events are also a time of celebration.  James Bollwerk from St. Louis, MO 631 area celebrated his birthday.  Cindy Larkins retirement from the ADA was recognized after the Regional with the ADA Staff.  Cindy was the area Rep for the Kansas City ADA area for 25 years!  Thank you so much Cindy for all you have done for the ADA and our sport of darts!  We will miss you!

Thanks for playing in the ADA!  See you at the next ADA event around the country!
Complete ADA Mid West Regional results here: https://www.adadarters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/MEDIA-WEB-REPORT.txt