Fix Four-Person Team
Forty-three (43) teams played in the Fix Four-Person Team event, won by slight favorite Robson Razor of Boie Parfan, Bert Lozano, Ricky Mijares and Noel Malicdem, despite the absence of international player Ian Perez. Underdog Datadarts B of Jun Cotilling, Homer Velasco, Rey Vilda and Glen Buenaventura came in 2nd and almost won the event after Robson squandered a 3-0 lead to reach a decisive final leg.

The 2nd place team last year of Lourence Ilagan, Arby Briones and Robert Reyes beat the defending team champion of Boy Gionzon, Nayr Ocampo, Celso Landerito and Louie Soriano in the top 8 but lost to Team Robson in the top 4.

Classified Draw Triples
In the one hundred seventeen (117) player Classified Draw Triples provincial darters dominated the finals. Alvin Mallilin, of Tarlac City, and who now plays in Las Pinas paired with Erwin Quenada of Sariaya, Quezon and Antonio Cabreza of Project 4 to win the event over Rolly Majorenos of Pagadian, Zamboanga del Sur, Manny Abratique of Dagupan City and Jun Jun Prades of the Marikina City Darts Organization. Again, no where are the top players.

Fix Doubles
One hundred twenty-eight (128) players saw action in the fixed doubles. Unexpected underdog pairs dominated the finals, in an event where big name players are expected to dominate. Playing under the banner of the Big Four Darters of Benjie Mapanao, Gilbert Ulang of Pasig City Darts Federation and Gilbert Noble, President of the Darters of Comembo, Makati, came from behind 3-1 to win the championship over Louie Soriano and Homer Velasco of Datadarts. Rounding the top 4 were Max Tudlong / Norman Seo-as of Baguio City and Rizal Barellano of Davao City / Dhoe Macasaquit of Stingers.

Defending champion Boie Parfan / Bert Lozano lost to the champion team; runner -up last year of Lourence Ilagan / Arby Briones lost to Barellano / Macasaquit and the joint 3rd placers of 2009 Boy Gionzon / Nayr Ocampo were beaten by Ilagan/Briones.

Singles Events

Youth Singles
The Youth Singles Championship was wide open this year with the graduation of JP de Tablan from the youth division. From the field of 60 players ranging in age from 10 to18 years old, Emerson Arteta of Angalo Circuit Dart Club (ACDC) of Tondo, emerged as the victorious champion defeating Jhunmiel Flaviano of the Zambales Darters League. Another ACDC player Aaron Barrera and Rupert Guangco of Golden Friendship Dart Club, Cagayan De Oro came in joint 3rd and 4th placers.

Ladies Singles
There were only 17 players in the Ladies Singles. Seven (7) players, all from Mindanao, who are in the top 10 ranking failed to participate. This gave the opportunity for Camille Flaviano of Zambales 3rd ranked, Siony Laluan of Baguio 9th ranked, Kristine Calderon of Angono, Rizal, 10th ranked and Arnie Ticman, 11th ranked of Manila, as the top players to vie for the championship.

Kristine Calderon of Bullshooters won the Ladies Singles 4-2 over comebacking Arnie Ticman of Datadarts. Siony Laluan came in joint 3rd/4th with youth player Aya Takemoto of the Pasig City Darts Federation.

Seniors Singles
Thirty-six (36) players played in the seniors event. Al Sagario of Las Pinas won the Seniors Singles 4-2 over Rolly Salcedo of the SSS Darts Club. Defending champion Gerry Osman of West Rembo Unified Darters of Makati came in joint 3rd/4th with Hermie Adolfo of Quezon City.

Open Singles
One-hundred twenty three (123) players signed up for the Open Singles. True to form, the unexpected happened, especially in a seeded format, when 73rd ranked player, Ric Almonte of Cavite captured the Open Singles over 63rd ranked player Jaypee De Tablan of Taytay Rizal. Coming joint 3rd/4th were Nayr Ocampo, ranked 47th of the United Darters of Navotas and Francis Eguia of San Lazaro Hospital ranked 173rd.

Forty seven years old Ric Almonte, comes from Liloy, Zamboanga del Norte and currently lives in Cavite. He is a dart fanatic who has been playing darts in the past 20 years, including the inter-department competition in Mandarin Oriental Hotel where he currently works in the last 22 years. This is his first ever singles championship and he was overjoyed that he still won though he is at the twilight of his darting career.

In contrast, Japee de Tablan is only nineteen years old but a “veteran” in competitive darts playing for 5 years in the NDFP Youth Singles winning the last 3 Darterong Pinoy Youth Singles, last year’s Sumer Dartfest and the youth singles of the 5Million Manny Pacquiao Darts Classic. JP comes from the youth development program of the United Darters of Taytay (UDT) under the leadership of then President Orlan Bernardino. This is also a fitting tribute to Orlan Bernardino who is currently on vacation from Abu Dhabi since leaving over a year ago.

Addendum
The success of this tournament is through the support of our sponsors. We thank our partners in darts, event presentor Robson Sportscraft, major sponsor Chris Sports and sponsors Questor and Yonnex; special mention to Sta Lucia East Grand Mall in providing us the venue not only this year but for their continuing support in last 3 years.

The outcome of the tournament though cannot be predicted, may be from a convergence of factors.

1.) The support of the NDFP in the youth development program especially the youth singles cannot be underestimated.

2.) The big equalizer leveling the playing field in the classified events is the integrity of the classification system known NDFP classified players.

3.) The exposure of new players to an environment of correct technical skills accelerated improvement.

The event was covered by ABS-CBN Sports Unlimited. Please wait for website announcement for the date of telecast.