The action on The Strip is heating up. An accurate description for the prestigious WDF World Masters, which this year is taking place in a desert.

Now that isn’t a typo – desert is right. I didn’t wrongly suggest that this annual tournament is being staged in a large blancmange or trifle. By desert, I mean Nevada. And more specifically, Las Vegas.

For the first time in its fifty-year history, the WDF World Masters has gone Stateside, with many of the top amateur players on planet darts jetting across the pond to compete.

With the individual honours still up for grabs, we look at the four Pairs Champions who picked up silverware.

WDF WORLD MASTERS – GIRLS PAIRS WINNERS

Yep, ladies first, as is the custom, and it was unsurprisingly the teenage tungsten twosome of Paige Pauling and Ruby Grey going all the way.

The young English pairing were never truly troubled in a field the size of a frog’s Spanish getaway resort. However, that wasn’t their fault. All you can do is rock up and deal with who you get drawn against, and that’s what Paige and Ruby did in emphatic style, dropping just one leg en route to the final.

Then, in the showdown, they kept their total concession for the entire event to that solitary leg, whitewashing the Northern Irish duo of Amber O’Toole and Ruth Bell to do what many people at the start of the day fully expected them to.

Not sure how far the $250 each will stretch the girls. Probably a show and a large packet of Maltesers if they’re lucky. But the accolade is the real prize. Congrats.

WDF WORLD MASTERS – BOYS PAIRS WINNERS

Better news financially for the team of Ben Townley and Jack Courtney, who hail from England and Ireland respectively, and can afford popcorn and a large drink too with their $1,000 payout.

Sixteen pairings competed in total, which is ideal if you want to organise a straight knockout format. The lads waltzed through their opening two matches, defeating a Canadian duo and then two English kids in Addison Heffernon and Bobby Haste.

Then, in the semis, more visitors from the land of massive moose fell before the pair also got the better of lads from Canada 4-1 in the final, making them about as popular there as a hair in your maple syrup.

WDF WORLD MASTERS – WOMEN’S PAIRS WINNERS

Striking gold for the ladies was another multicultural twosome, this time both British, in Scotland’s Lorraine Hyde and Wales’ Eve Watson. Quite the weekend for Miss Hyde, who not only grabbed gold but also said yes to Sean Fisher when he got down on one knee. Congrats, you two.

Normally in Vegas, the custom is to get drunk and have Elvis marry you in some small, dodgy-looking chapel. Maybe that’s the plan for next year. Who knows.

The girls were magnificent from start to finish, almost cruising to the final with the concession of just two legs. One of them came in the semi-final against the strong pairing of Gemma Hayter and Steph Clarke. Then, in the final, Lorraine and Eve comfortably dispatched their opponents, Roxanne Van Tassel and Kiyo Shimizu, who, if I were sticking my neck on the block, I’d say were Dutch and Japanese.

WDF WORLD MASTERS – MEN’S PAIRS WINNERS

You probably couldn’t have found a more likeable team than Isle of Wight star Keegan Brown and Canadian Jeff Smith. Not only two world-class operators on their day, but also a couple of the most genuine blokes you could wish to meet.

Keegz was dressed in his traditional pink attire – shirt, that is, not the full kit, pants and all. Jeff was coolness personified and completely unflustered.

Before you could say Brown and Smith – which sounds more like a gun manufacturer – they had shot their way to the semi-finals, with only USA’s Kevin Luke and Dustin Holt causing any real drama. Facing the boys in the last four was a strong Kiwi duo in Haupai Puha and Ben Robb. In a gripping contest which went all the way, the Kiwis were narrowly edged out.

If that was squeaky-bum time, the final didn’t require a wipe. Keegan and Jeff romped to a 4-1 victory against the German pairing of Deniz Baudis and Tom Somback to claim the title.

There we go then. That was the Doubles, or Pairs – whatever floats your boat – action rounded up. Well done to all the winners.