Dart etiquette is an important aspect of darting. Just because your darts may not be obeying your every command, this is no reason to whip your third dart at the board if you bust your score, punch the board or even kick the wall while retrieving your darts.
Likewise it's no place to curse at a fellow darter who may be giving you too much info, while your shooting! Even your opponent could be rattling his darts 3 inches behind you. Be patient, pause, turn around and ask nicely for the annoyance to stop while you are at the oche. After the match explain in a calm voice the distraction.
Welcome to the world of Dart Etiquette. Please no swearing, tossing darts anywhere but at the board, heckling opposing teams or players while at the line, wagering on a match or game in which that member's team is involved, these are all no-nos in the SFDL and at most other dart organizations.
It is also very bad etiquette to pass gas at the line. You may think its funny, but your opposing player, the chalker and anyone in the close vicinity do not.
Try and turn off your cell phone while playing in a match, because, guess what, it's a distraction!
I have seen people chalking, using their cell phone to do math. Now that we have dart connect, there should be no reason to have your cell phone out distracting players as dart connect can show the chalker and players the score even though only one dart has been thrown. punch in their score and it will automatically show their current score (Hit the back button to return to where you were. If you need some DartConnect guidance, please reach out to our info hotline
If you are the chalker, position yourself so that you are looking at the dart board (without craning your neck) and are ready to enter scores into dart connect. Unless the person throwing the darts at that moment asks you what he hit or what the score is, you should not move your head into the 'dart lane', again, only if a player shooting asks you! I have seen chalkers staring at a tv above the head of the player at the oche, at certain venues, and it seems like the chalker is trying to stare into your soul, even though they are not!
So we get it, you love sports and want to see the 'game' but please do so when you are not chalking, so that the game may continue to played and not holding up game play.
Be aware that a shooters peripheral vision, if you're in it, can also be a distraction. If the venue allows for people to be in a shooters peripheral vision, (left or right side), to try and stand relatively still and don't carry on loud distracting conversations, clinking drinks together, because as you move up divisions, although every division likes to have fun, just that during those brief 20 seconds at the oche, we are concentrating. Everyone has his or her own style that makes them comfortable for some, it's joking in between dart throws, for others it is more serious, so no matter who you play with, give your opponent and their team a little breathing room and have fun, respectively!
Any physical confrontations brought to the board of directors attention, shall be investigated and acted upon accordingly. In other words don't do it, we're all adults here.
At the start of a dart match all players of opposing teams shall shake hands (bump fists - whatever), at the end of all games there is also the parting hand shakes/fist bumps.
Before an individual match or doubles match it is customary to wish the opposing players good luck and, yes, another fist bump. And whether you win or lose, a parting good game asserts the fact that you have great etiquette win, lose or draw!