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This is the best summary I could come up with:
LONDON (AP) — Luke Littler, a 16-year-old on debut at the World Darts Championship, came within one match of winning the sport’s biggest prize and a jackpot of 500,000 pounds ($630,000).
For three weeks from December through January, it is party time at the Alexandra Palace — or “Ally Pally” — in London, when grown men dress like babies and revelers turn up in ever more outrageous costumes.
1 Luke Humphries, fans came dressed as everything from the characters from Alice in Wonderland to pop and rock stars like Elton John, David Bowie and Michael Jackson.
A woman could be seen limbo dancing between a group of men dressed as traffic cones and the sight of someone wearing a foam dartboard on their head was never too far away.
Likely helped by the huge pitchers of beer that slosh around the room, the crowds chant about their love of the sport as much as any individual competitor.
Littler would have become the youngest-ever winner of the tournament and his unlikely run saw him make front-page headlines around the world and pick up celebrity fans.
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