Every week I get messages from members suggesting either new games they’ve come up with themeselves, requesting games they’ve heard pro players play or games a darts coach suggested them to use. In 2024 I got several messages from members that had been coached by SWR Darts Coaching and used some of the game ideas suggested there. One of them was the Matchplay Checkouts. So I reached out to the coach Shaun Rogers at SWR Darts Coaching and started to discuss a way to develop the game for GoDartsPro! Shaun has been a member on GoDartsPro since 2018 and we thought it was a great idea to let all the members on GoDartsPro play and use the game for their training.

The game idea is to play different checkouts in a leg format against a virtual opponent. If you finish the checkout you win a leg but if you don’t the opponent wins the leg. And wrapped in to a Matchplay format with Round 1, Round 2, Quarter Final, Semi Final and lastly the big Final!

In the standard game option Long Format you’re up against the checkout 40 in Round 1, and you need to finish it in 3 darts in the best of 19 legs (first to 10 legs). Then it continues with Round 2 with Checkout 80 in 3 darts best of 21. For the Quarter Final it is surely getting harder since you need to finish the Checkout 100 in 3 darts to win a leg (best of 31). If you manage to reach the Semi-Final you’ve got the Checkout 120 to finish in 3 darts, in best of 33 legs format.
It you’re good enough to reach the big Final you’re up against the Checkout 170, but this time you have 6 darts to finish the leg, in best of 35 legs.
It is a quite long game format so we’ve divided it up in the different rounds. So when you finish a round, it is time for a break or even for the day, to come back when you’ve rested and got 100% focus for the task ahead. We also added a Medium format to give you a bit quicker game format.

It is a really great game that will put you under pressure in a match-like scenario. After we’ve been testing the game several times we started to get a bit tired of the checkouts 40,80,100 etc., so we felt the need to also add an option to get random checkouts in a range close to the original checkout. So for each round you will get a random checkout to finish.

Thanks Shaun at SWR Darts Coaching for a great game and for letting us develop and publish it for the GoDartsPro members. They’re also at Facebook, so click here and give them a follow!