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The Weeghside World Darts Tournament is a local championship competition in darts, organised every year by members of the Student Association for Mechanical Engineering W.S.V. Simon Stevin. The Weeghside World Darts Tournament was first held at the De Weeghconst in the basement of W-Laag at the Eindhoven University of Technology and it has been held there ever since. Traditionally the tournament takes place in the end of February.

Origins
In January 2015, the Extraordinary Activities Committee (BACo) of the Student Association for Mechanical Engineering W.S.V. Simon Stevin, or BACo, came together to brainstorm over a new, potentially beer related, activity. Many ideas were posed and rejected until C.L. Meeng, R.F.H. Mommers and S.R.T. Straatman came up with the idea to organize a darts tournament. They are seen as the founding mother and fathers of this annual event.

The tournament was a huge success, and already after the first edition it became to much of a responsibility to be organized by any existing committee of W.S.V. Simon Stevin. This is when the Eindhoven Darts Club Plate before your Face (E.D.C. Bord voor je Kop) took over the control of the event, and it has been their sole selling point ever since.

Nine-dart Finishes
There has never been a nine-dart finish in The Weeghside World Darts Tournament up to this moment.

Highlights
In the first round of the knock out stage of the 2015 tournament, Martijn 'Bosjesman' Bos finished with a famous Shanghai 20 to elimate Jasper 'Borrelman' Borreman from that years edition.

The flights in the first edition of the tournament were custom made by abcDarts and included a handdrawn picture of Simon Stevin. They were used on four sets of common darts, which could be borrowed by the players that did not bring their own set of darts.

During the second edition of the tournament, the custom made flights returned and were given to every contestant as a reminder of this great sports event.

Trivia
Although Around the world is broadly accepted to be the dumbest game in darts, it traditionally is the one game that is played during the poule stages of The Weeghside World Darts Tournament. Some love it, some hate it, but most definitely everything can happen in this idiotic round.

In the 2016 edition of the tournament, the first ever international darter, Xi Luo, joined the playing roster in The Weeghconst. He got as far as the quarterfinals, where he lost to that years runner up; Tim 'Profshop' Korssen.

Another first timer during the 2016 edition, was the addition of a live camera that projected the enlarged image of the board on which the finals where being played, so everyone could see the double 9 with which Bas 'Sebastian' Straatman brought home the title that year.

Although it has never been formally proven by any international darts ethics organization, some treasurers claim that the only reason the first Weeghside World Darts Tournament was even organized to begin with, was to secretly buy the famous dice game Shut the Box. Strangely enough, the winner of this first years edition was... 'The Dice', which on his turn eventually was promoted to become the associations treasurer in the following year. Coincidence, or conspiracy?