Real tournament feel. No real money. Playable any time.
A bot tournament is a fully played-out tournament against bots from the DartBoom world ranking. Every opponent is a fixed player with a name, home country, average, checkout rate, throwing tempo and character. You play your own matches at the board, every other match is simulated dart by dart in the background - with real results, upsets and early exits.
The best part: you never wait. No entry deadline, no travel day, no field that has to fill up first. Open the invitation, pay the entry fee, go. And you can pause at any time - the tournament state is saved after every step.
Every invitation has a fictional venue, a bot host from the world ranking, a format and an expected average.
You pay the entry fee in coins. Not enough coins, no entry - just like in real life.
Players arrive. Not everyone always turns up: attendance varies, and the prize money grows or shrinks with it.
Before each of your matches you bull off - closest to the centre throws first.
You play your own matches, the rest of the tournament keeps running in simulation. The bracket fills up live.
Placement, standings and prize money for the paid places. If you go out early, the tournament still plays on to the final.
Every invitation names its format. The numbers below show how often each format appears in the catalog right now.
One loss and you are out. Maximum pressure from the very first leg.
Lose in round one and you play your own knockout for the consolation prize. After the opener, your evening carries on.
Groups of four, everyone plays everyone. The best move on to the knockout bracket. A bad start is not the end.
First loss: into the losers' bracket. Only the second one knocks you out. Comebacks are built in.
Group stage, then double elimination with a possible reset final. The longest and fairest format.
Short on purpose: a tournament should fit into one evening, not three.
Every tournament has an expected average corridor - that is how strongly the bots in this field throw. The chart shows the five levels: light bar = full range, solid bar = typical corridor.
Coins are play money. You cannot buy them, cash them out or trade them.
So why have them at all? Because a tournament without stakes would just be a training game with decorations. The entry fee makes every match count: lose early and you have burned coins. Go deep and you get paid. That is exactly the feeling of real tournament life - here you get it without any risk.
Every bot has its own throwing tempo - part of its personality, just like its average or favourite double. This is how tempo is spread across all players in the world ranking:
On stage there are fast throwers and players who take their time. A bot that always throws at the same speed feels like a machine.
A slow opponent breaks your rhythm, a fast one puts you under pressure. Learning to handle both is real tournament training.
The waiting time is your time too: check your score, plan the checkout route, stay loose.
In a tournament an opponent's tempo stays fixed - it belongs to them. With voice input you can hurry them up though: every "faster" or "hurry up" saves one second, down to a minimum of 1 second.
In the middle of a tournament another player may ask you: "Fancy a round of 170?" The two of you play a shared pot down from 170, double out. Every checkout resets the pot to 170 - every throw can become a high finish.
Don't want to wait? Click a player in the group table or bracket and challenge them yourself. Your tournament match stays untouched and picks up exactly where it was.
Why all this? Because real tournament days consist of waiting - and the best players use exactly that time on the practice board.
Darts and the bar have always gone together – so DartBoom has one too, with a wink. Our stance is clear: DartBoom is against drugs of any kind, and the house recommendation is always alcohol-free. The bar is a small side gimmick, not a drinking game.
Shares of the current world ranking. The drinking type is visible – how someone reacts to alcohol isn't.
How a player reacts to alcohol is fixed in their player data – but shown nowhere. Some loosen up briefly at a small level, some get worse straight away. For some only the checkout suffers, for others the average, and at some point darts start flying past the board. Where it tips is different for everyone. You can find out – or just leave it. One rule applies to all: too much, and performance drops fast.
At the very top the glass stays clear: every world-class player (Ø 85+) is at 0.0.
About 18 % of the field reach for a glass more often – the bar is a side dish, the board stays the main course.
Training makes you accurate. Tournaments make you competition-proof. That is not the same thing.
In training a missed double does not matter. In a knockout it decides everything. Throw under pressure often and you stay calmer when it counts.
Best of 3 does not forgive a slow start. You learn to be there from the first dart.
Every bot throws differently: tempo, strength, nerves. You only learn to adapt against many different opponents.
Every tournament match lands in your statistics. You see in black and white whether your average holds under pressure.
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