There is usually a dart board in most bars (read “pubs”) although they are not utilized that much from what I have observed. Not real popular here.
That being said, they do have tournaments from time to time in our area but they are usually confined to the patrons of a given bar.
There’s a bar a mile down the road from my house with 6 dart boards. It’s the main attraction there, and people really have fun with it (but it’s not taken seriously like in the UK).
I don’t know about the rest of the country, but South Dakota has one of the largest soft tip Dart Tournaments in the world. A state with less than a million people hosts over 1000 teams every year. Only about 20% of the teams go to the state tournament.
We do play soft tip on electronic boards, which is a little different from the steel tip they play on TV.
Dart competition is pretty intense in San Antonio, Texas where there is a whole community into that activity. They have dart teams teams (men, women and mixed), clubs and leagues. My wife and I lived there for 1½ years and a women tried to get my wife to join her dart team.
We have them in some bars/pubs here (Calgary, AB) and I’ve seen games on TV. I have a dart board and darts myself. I sometimes play when I’m thinking about stuff or need to take a break from studying.
He musta bin watchin the premier league darts eh @Headhurts?
The yanks had one top player years ago, Paul Lim, fired a 9 dart finish at the world championship one time. A couple of pro touurnaments are held in the states, but like with football/cricket/rugby/golf & tennis over here in england town, it’s never going to compete with baseball/basketball & nfl.
The dutch are absolutely darts crazy, play in clogs too…which is nice.