What are the rules of the JDC Challenge?

Three sections, always in the same order. Shanghai on 10 to 15: three darts at each number, scoring only that number at its board value, with 100 extra for a single, a double and a treble of it in one visit. Then one dart at every double from 1 to 20 and one at the bull, 50 for each double hit and 100 for the bull. Then Shanghai again on 15 to 20. Add the three sections together for your total.

What is a good JDC Challenge score?

The JDC's own sheet grades it by shirt colour. Under 150 is White, the beginner grade. 450 is Green, league standard. 700 is Red, super league standard, and 850 or more is Black, county standard.

How many darts is the JDC Challenge?

Fifty-seven: eighteen in each Shanghai section and twenty-one in the doubles, one at each double and one at the bull. Some write-ups count 39 or 63. The sheet has one dart per double, which makes 57.

What is the highest possible JDC Challenge score?

It is 3,380. A Shanghai on every number from 10 to 15 is 1,050, every double and the bull is 1,100, and a Shanghai on every number from 15 to 20 is 1,230. On every one of those numbers a single, double and treble plus the bonus beats three trebles, so the Shanghai is always the best visit.

Does the outer bull count in the JDC Challenge?

The sheet only says "the bull". This scorer counts the bullseye alone by default, because it is the double bull and the last target of a doubles round. If the version you learned counted the 25 too, switch on "Either bull counts" before the first dart. Totals from the two versions are kept apart.

The JDC Challenge

What is the JDC Challenge?

A 57-dart practice routine from the Junior Darts Corporation. You play Shanghai on 10 to 15, throw one dart at every double and the bull, then play Shanghai on 15 to 20. The three sections add up to one total, and the JDC's own sheet grades it by shirt colour, from White for a beginner to Black at 850 for county standard.

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PracticeKept out of your match figures, and kept in your Practice area.

The last doubles target is the bullseye, the double bull, as everywhere on this site. The 25 scores nothing there.

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Shanghai 10 to 150
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Shanghai 15 to 200

Visit 1 of 19, set by the drill10

Any ring of the 10. Nothing else scores.

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Getting the board ready

Trebles, doubles and the bull in one sitting, added up to a single number you can hold against a grade. Tap each dart as it lands. The board says which number or which double every dart is for, tells you when a Shanghai is one dart away, and marks the switch into the doubles and back out again. Tap any visit in the list to correct it.

How it is scored

Section	Targets	Darts	Most you can score
Shanghai 10 to 15	10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15	3 at each	1,050
Doubles	D1 to D20, then the bull	1 at each	1,100
Shanghai 15 to 20	15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20	3 at each	1,230

The doubles section pays a flat 50 for any double hit. Double 1 is worth exactly as much as double 20, which makes the small doubles count for once. Each of the seven visits covers three different doubles, so the first is D1, D2 and D3 and the last is D19, D20 and the bull.

The 15 turns up in both Shanghai sections. That is how the sheet sets it out.

Open it with either bull counting

The JDC's published grades

The sheet's "average score indicator" gives each total a shirt colour. They are the JDC's grades; the finish screen here reads your total against them.

Shirt	Standard	Total
White	Beginner	0 to 149
Purple		150 to 299
Yellow	Improver	300 to 449
Green	League standard	450 to 599
Blue	League division 1 standard	600 to 699
Red	Super league standard	700 to 849
Black	County standard	850 and over

The sheet's bands share their end points (150 closes White and opens Purple), so each band here starts on its lower figure: 150 is Purple. Source: the JDC's routine sheet, archived copy.

Questions

What are the rules of the JDC Challenge?: Three sections, always in the same order. Shanghai on 10 to 15: three darts at each number, scoring only that number at its board value, with 100 extra for a single, a double and a treble of it in one visit. Then one dart at every double from 1 to 20 and one at the bull, 50 for each double hit and 100 for the bull. Then Shanghai again on 15 to 20. Add the three sections together for your total.
What is a good JDC Challenge score?: The JDC's own sheet grades it by shirt colour. Under 150 is White, the beginner grade. 450 is Green, league standard. 700 is Red, super league standard, and 850 or more is Black, county standard. Source: the JDC's routine sheet, archived copy
How many darts is the JDC Challenge?: Fifty-seven: eighteen in each Shanghai section and twenty-one in the doubles, one at each double and one at the bull. Some write-ups count 39 or 63. The sheet has one dart per double, which makes 57. Source: the JDC's routine sheet, archived copy
What is the highest possible JDC Challenge score?: It is 3,380. A Shanghai on every number from 10 to 15 is 1,050, every double and the bull is 1,100, and a Shanghai on every number from 15 to 20 is 1,230. On every one of those numbers a single, double and treble plus the bonus beats three trebles, so the Shanghai is always the best visit.
Does the outer bull count in the JDC Challenge?: The sheet only says "the bull". This scorer counts the bullseye alone by default, because it is the double bull and the last target of a doubles round. If the version you learned counted the 25 too, switch on "Either bull counts" before the first dart. Totals from the two versions are kept apart.