We recently took the team out to spend the afternoon playing social darts at Flight Club in Manchester, which opened last year October. At Skylab, we work with national and international sporting organisations, so we enjoy testing out different sport-related activities and Flight Club had been on our to-do list for quite some time.

The Manchester venue consists of several dart lanes (oches). The board is automated and connected digitally – meaning you don’t have to keep score; it’s all done for you and shown on the screens. This, of course, gives you more time to enjoy the pizza, nachos and drinks.

Here our Senior developer Barry focussed on getting the right points

The most entertaining part is that there are cameras that captures your group’s every move, so if you win there will be an “Action Replay”. You can also take photos of your group at any time, as well as creating boomerangs of the group. All of the videos and shots are then sent to your email address the next day, laughs guaranteed!

Our Strategy Director Dave was the winner of the day with the most points, our CEO Nigel and Senior Developer Barry both came in second just one point behind. Overall a great afternoon spent out with the team.

The Flight Club concept consists of five pre-programmed games to choose from. The choices are:

1. Demolition: play a shortened version of the classic game.
2. Quack Shot: aim for the inner circle to gain points. But hit the ‘ring of fire’ and get minus points.
3. Shanghai: hit a designated number to earn points.
4. Killer: eliminate your opponents by successfully hitting their assigned numbers on the board. Definitely our favourite game!
5. Snakes and ladders.

Our finance manager Lisa in action!

Senior developer Nate midst throw

Award to the most aggressive player goes to our Marketing & Events Manager, Emilia