Bullshooter Europe is a sports organisation that extends from the USA through Europe and on to Asia. Founded in 1985 and now in its 33rd year it forms the autonomous structure backing the Arachnid brand of electronic darts, and its main focus is to promote the philosophy of sportsmanship and competition through leagues and championships.
Our association is run exclusively on Galaxy machines manufactured by Arachnid 360. and operates in Europe autonomously with the backing of Bullshooter USA.
We organise national championships in all member countries as well as a yearly European tournament for those league champions from abroad.
We run everything from traditional local leagues, to European online competitions where hundreds of players participate in a virtual format. All of which we offer to our members under the Bullshooter Europe association.
Arachnid, Inc. was incorporated in 1975, when a company owned by Rudy Allison made a change from making balloon inflators to electronic dart games. On a trip to Ireland Allison had discovered how enjoyable the game of darts could be.
With a rough idea of a game, Rudy Allison hired Dick Jones (who is still employed at Arachnid today) to help with the development of the machine. Jones took rough ideas for the board, darts, and scoring mechanics and innovated the basic scheme that Arachnid and its many imitators use today. At that time, Jones even drilled the first dartheads by hand!
Arachnid ran The BullShooter Regionals around the United States throughout every dart season. Arachnid also concentrated on marketing internationally and decided to start their own tournament, the world renowned BullShooter World Challenge of Champions Tournament (BullShooter). The first BullShooter took place in Chicago, in May, 1986. The tournament then featured four events, paid out $25,000 in prize money, and had over 1,000 entrants from around the United States.
Arachnid’s growth continued with a series of home games being developed, along with the new coin-op dart game in August, 1991, the fantastically popular Galaxy. The Galaxy framework was a breakthrough in league management that allowed remote stats collection via a phone line. The Galaxy game won the AMOA’s “Most Played Dart Game” award for 9 years in a row!
In 2014, the next generation of Bealls entered the story. Three brothers, Tony, Chris, and Shawn, sons of Paul F. Beall, purchased Arachnid from the John Martin estate. The Bealls renamed the company Arachnid 360, LLC and named Sam Zammuto as President with his 35+ years of expertise at Arachnid.
Arachnid celebrated its 31st Anniversary BullShooter tournament. And today players come from all over the world to compete against “the best”. Now there are 21 events and €130,000 in prize money!
Over 40 years later, the same basic technology in the Galaxy, Galaxy II, and Galaxy II.5 has been updated and improved to the standards of today, and is now being used in Arachnid’s new Galaxy 3. With the introduction of the game-changing Galaxy 3, Arachnid has re-invigorated the excitement in the dart world. The Galaxy 3 is state-of-the-art with a flip head that has a 15” target on one side and a 13” target on the other, remote play, and LED lighting to better illuminate the targets. These are just a few innovative features that helped Arachnid win the 2012 AMOA Innovator of the Year Award.
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