New Name for Zaidi "Brocco"

From 2013 onwards, i would like to be known as Zaidi "Brocco" The Clutcher" in the darts events. The Clutcher is actually given by Eddie Putera (you know the famous photographer in Malaysia nowadays) to me when we were in the Malay College 1985/1987 undergone our GCE A Level studies before proceeded to the UK universities. I was the goalkeeper for the U-20 College Team as well as the goalie for the famous All Black A Level MCKK Team. MY form was the best at tha times where we have beaten almost every team we played in Kuala Kangsar be it the league team or the estate teams from nearby. The team also went to RMC Sg Besi to compete in the annual 1996 tournament organised between the famous two colleges in Malaysia. I plucked various crosses and made lots of point blanks saves during my heyday at the MCKK. I also played for the Newcastle Malaysia Students in the Annual Malaysian game where Newcastle Team was top in the UK. And whilst in the UK as well i was introduced to Darts.....Not by anyone but when this sport was aired in the TV much of the times. Eric Bristow The Crafty Cockney was the legend at that time. I became hooked at it and started collected darts set (cheapo ones) and dartboard as well. My room was later turned into the darts battling station amongs my good friends. But at that time, football is still my passion because i played in the university league as well as for the Islamic Society Team competed in the other tournament. ZAIDI BROCCO THE CLUTCHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good Start for the 2013 Darts Tournament entered

Capitan took part in the Selangor Open 2013 which was held at Holiday Villa Hotel n Suites Subang Jaya on the 1st to 3rd February 2013. Team Broccos only took part in the Double and Single event. In the Double event, we were not performing up to the expected level where we were beaten by MBSA and two other teams in the group G. We managed zero only. Beaten 0-3, 0-3 and 0-3 by the others. Shame on us. Actually because we did not have much rest in view of stayed up late the night before practising darts...hehehe However, luck was on my side in the Single event where i managed to hold on until the top two in the Group stage togehter with Bro. Latip Sapup. I got bye in the 1st round in view of the darter did not turn up. In the 2nd match, i played Adrian and i won 3-0. I went on to beat Rafful in the last match of the group by 3-1 and registered 180 scores in one of the legs. Having qualified in the knockout stage of last 32, i was drawn against Bro Azaihary of Zuk Darters. He is such a talented darter and had taken joint 3rd place in the Double event before. I went on to take the 1st leg in the match before again taken the 2nd leg and Bro Azaihary took the 3rd leg. I responded by winning the 4th leg and went on to qualify for the last 16 men in the tournament. I then proceeded to face Bro Zulridzan of Dury in the next round but things were not on my side and i lose 0-3 against Zul. Zul scored considerably high at each throw and i was a bit kelam-kabut with the scorings despite registered a few higher points. All in all, it was a good experience though as this is the 1st time i managed to qualify to the last 16 men in the tournament. I will double up my efforts in becoming the better darter in the country and hopefully, luck will be with my side in the next tournament i join in..:) Obtained joint 9th place is not a bad experience though.....hehehe

So Long Silence since 2011

It has been a very long silence from the Capitan......various events entered since 2011 HMKL...mostly stopped at the either 1st round or 2nd or 3rd round..hehehe Well, back to CIMB Darters, we emerged 2nd runners up in the NBSC 2012 Championship...Capitan fought very well to qualify until the Quarterfinal for the Single event whereas in the Team event, we were stopped by HSBC to qualify for the final. We defeated RHB in the 3rd and 4th place event. Not bad to emerge Bronze medalists for the 2nd successive years in the NBSC. Zahar became the new player of the year for CIMB. He assisted a lot for the team and partnered me in the double event for CIMB. At the end of the tournament, i did encourage the players to venture outside and play in the many tournaments organised by KLDA and SEDA but sadly, i did not see most of them taken part. I only saw other bankers like HSBC, AMbank, AGRO etc went on to play in most of the outside tourneys. My newly set up Team BROCCO'S went to take part in the HMKL 2012. I led the team who consists of my Son and two nephews and we did quite well in the event despite been defeated by Zuk Darters, Shanghai Darters and Brunei Team in the Group event. We wenton to take part in the Losers Pool and defeated a team from Melaka before been gunned down by KL team to qualify for the last 16. What an experience for the kids.

As for me i went on to play in the Melaka Open (Single event) and did not able to go to the 2nd round though :) I entered the Malaysian Open 2012 which was held in Johor's Amansari Hotel. Team HSBC also took part in the tourney. I was beaten by Kampung Air Brunei Darter in the grouping stage though. I took part in the last event of the Single series organised by KLDA / SEDA at Bamboo Pub, Jalan Ipoh where I managed to collect 5 points where I defeated Lim HP in my 1st match but i was beaten by Ahmad Idris in the next round and then damn incident took place in my match with Beeman where i was denied a decider leg by the Chalker, Ahmad Idris and the Officials as well because i had checked out at DOUBLE TWO but the chalker seem unnoticed while on duty and did not inform all that i have checked. By WDF Rules, it should have been a checkout despite other darts been threwn in view of the mistake committed by the chalker. Damn!!!! I was a bit mad at the silly decision made by them on the evening and straight went back home after that incident.

HMKL International Darts Challenge 2011

HMKL 2011 darts Challenge was the best so far for the Capitan. Capitan was picked to join the first timers together team that combined Masrul from Sepang Darters, Iwan from the then D'Taza Darters, Bro Azli @ Bek from Dury MBSA, Zaidi and Ahyarrudin from CIMB Bank. At first, we do not know what name to be given to this team and at the very last minutes, Dury 7 was used in view of there were other two Dury teams that took part in the same tourney.

Dury 7 only trained once at the Summit's Century Club where three members turned up and pair each other plus other team darters that night. Actually, Proton Lekior team members were present that night where they played their single league.

50 teams took parts in the HMKL 2011 where we seen Philipino, Brunei, Spore and other locals team participated. Dury 7 was scheduled against ADAM Melaka and Fantasy Darters. Unfortunately, in view of lacking preparation and been playing for each other for the first time, we lose the both bouts. We were then drawn into the 2nd Chance Pool the very next day.

We met Locos Ladies in the 1st match and we had no difficulties in defeating them though quite scary though with the 1st Single event where Ina took 180 and marginally beaten by Masrul. I did not have to play in the double event in view of Dury 7 had secured enough points to beat the Locos Ladies. The next bout was against Fantasy Blue Darters. We did exceptionally well by defeated them again to enter the semi final where the opponents are the BSRC Brunei darters where Penggiran Mohd is one of the team members. Again, we did our very best to defeat the Brunei team and went on to the Final to meet Team Proton Lekior.

Luck was on our side again where good darts and God's willing, we were crowned 2nd Chance Pool Champion for 2011. RM1500 was the price money and we divided among ourselves satisfactorily. Unfortunately, Ahyarrudin was not there for the last two days due to various reasons but i dont know what went wrong to his darts skill on the 1st day where the scores were low and he seem lost somewhere. Thus, the four of us had to fight our very best to emerge Champion for the 2nd Chance Pool.

Super G of the Phillippines took the Team event title on that night where they defeated Malury Blue Hades (ada import players from Thailand)

On Sunday, we entered the Single event where Masrul took one of the Kitchen Darters guy, I took Faizal of D'Mak Team and Bro Bek took one of the other darters there. We did not have luck in the Single event where i and Masrul lose in the 1st round but Bro Bek kandas in the 2nd round.

Well, thats about it on the local darts scene for now. Njoyyyyyy!!!

Inter Bank Darts Tourney 2011

I came back from Europe just in nick of time to enter the Inter Bank Darts Tourney 2011. I had two days training at Amin Alley Darts Studio as this is our training camp for CIMB. The tourney started on Friday 17th June 2011 @ Bank Rakyat. We started well by defeated HSBC B by a very big margin. Then we were unluckily been defeated by Bank Rakyat by just a slight margin though Capitan won his bout. Later that day, Single event took place. Capitan was drawn against Jai of HSBC. Again Capitan defeated Jai by 2-0. Capitan went on to defeat Halim of Bank Rakyat by 2-1 and in the cQuarter Final, Capitan met Stephen of RHB. Capitan managed well in the 1st leg but due to slightly poor form in the 2nd and final leg, Capitan had to bow down to him 1-2. Whatever it was, a very good display by Capitan where the other two single participants from CIMB did not even make it to the 2nd round.

The very next day, CIMB met SCB where we again won the match with a slight margin. Unfortunately, Capitan lose the match against Akram. The next match, CIMB met The Tiger and we did a very good job by defeated them with a big margin too. CIMB was top of the A Group. In the semi, we met AMBANK where due to poor form, we were easily been defeated by them. Capitan also lose his bout by 1-2 against Bro Hj.

On Sunday, we met again SCB to decide for the 3rd and 4th place. We lose the 4some but then Capitan took 2-0 win against Akram to avenge the yesterday's defeat and my the rest of my bteam members did a very good job to ensure CIMB captured 3rd place in the 2011 Inter Bank Darts Tourney. RHB won the tourney by defeated AMBANK.

Overall, Capitan satisfied with the winning despite two days training before the tourney. Bravo to team CIMB. We will try again next year to be the BEST!!!

Been Silence for Quite Sometime

It has been a while since my last posting. A lot of thing happened since then but most importantly, I am very busy at work...:)

At last I owned Target Perfect Storm 24gm from Sykt Car n Co, PJ. The dart set is nice and I love it although Sigma Pro XL is very much my favourite so far.

I have been waiting for the NBSC Inter Bank Tournament 2011 to be announced since April 2011 but it was not available until I left for my holidays in the Europe recently. I took off from KLIA on 30th May to Heathrow, London with my wife. Trial for CIMB taken place after i left Malaysia. Luckily for me that i have alerted Ananth and few players that I will not be available for two weeks during that time.

Visited lot of places in the UK and Europe but was unable to find where actually these Mat Saleh jual quality dart set and goalkeeper gloves like Reusch and Uhlsport like what been advertised online. Damn!!

Will continue writing later.............Cheers!!

My Office's Darts Activities

I promoted darts to some of my office mates by putting up dartboard in our spacious store. They are now enjoying darts games every day after office hours and I did make it very interesting by playing handicap matches against them in view of attracting them to take up darts seriously. Actually I needed new faces for the bank as current players are not really enough to make a very strong team in the future tourneys. At least to have few back up players and hopefully to be able to have one dart team for my department. I will try to lure them into taking part in whatever local tourneys once they are ready for it. As for now, let them njoy the game and the Master is still polishing n njoying nabbing them in the evening matches...hehehe