- If you are new to chalking, let the players know and do not be offended by corrections to your math. Even seasoned veterans make mistakes!
- Stand within arms reach and angle your body so you can see the darts land and the players can see their score from the line.
- Do not lean in to see where a dart landed, unless the player asks what did I throw or it was the third dart.
- Take your job seriously! Chalking is more then math, staying very still, not staring at the thrower (or the TV above him).
- Always put the number scored on the outside and the score remaining on the inside.
- After you have subtracted the total score thrown, cross off their last score and their last remainder score, leaving only the current remainder not crossed off.
- When you run out of room at the bottom of the score board, between turns, erase the numbers from the top, leaving a few scores at the bottom. (this is in case there needs to be a math correction) Start at the top again, and after both opponents throw their darts and a new remaining score is at top, then you may erase the lower part of the board.
- Make sure your hand writing will be large enough and neat enough so the players of the match can read it well and see the difference between a 1 and a 7.
- The chalker is neutral, which means no matter what team or affiliation the chalker has, he/she may only call out the total score or the remaining score (if asked).
Never may a chalker tell a player that he/she has a double 16 left, only that 32 is their remaining score. - If, per chance, there was a scoring error, that score must be changed before that same player throws again or it stays as is.
Now that the San Francisco Darts League has embraced DartConnect as their way to score a match, there is very minimal chalking needed these days, however, button pushing, is the next big thing :D
NOTE: Currently only extended cricket games are chalked on a board while the rest of our league games are entered into DartConnect.
DartConnect
https://www.dartconnect.com/ DartConnect is a scoring app for darts at home, online, for leagues and tournaments. During covid we met once a week and used DartConnect to score our online games, from the comfort of our home dart board set-up!
DartConnect is FREE to sign-up, but we recommend paying the $2/month for the premium account which allows you to generate, store and access your dart data anytime. Tournament averages, points per dart, match recaps which include all your and your opponents darts thrown!
You can follow live matches, broadcast your match, and if that's not enough, it's the Official Scoring App of the Professional Darts Corporation and Official Partner of the World Darts Federation.
Usually one person per team will bring a tablet with DartConnect pre-loaded on the tablet for scoring of home matches, while away matches, the opposing team is responsible for providing the tablet with DartConnect.