The BDO's annual venture to the dark side of the PDC starts today from Wolverhampton's Civic Hall with the Grand Slam of Darts. Last year saw a thrilling comeback from Michael van Gerwen against Phil Taylor in the final to secure what was the Green Machine's complete set of PDC major titles.
Following the official side of the sport's unmitigated disaster last year, where Martin Adams was their only representative to advance from the group stages and shithouse Dutch Harry Potter impersonator Mark Oosterhuis produced some of the worst darts ever televised, there has been a shake-up in their entry criteria with places now being allocated to their Order of Merit alongside its major winners. This means that for the first time we'll see their Number 1, Middlesbrough's Glen Durrant, Dutch youngster Danny Noppert, Canadian good guy Jeff Smith and Tipton's answer to Dave Chisnall in Jamie Hughes gracing the West Midlands stage. Also from the BDO are current Lakeside champ Scott Waites, 2015's winner Scott Mitchell, Stockport bottlejob Darryl Fitton and another glorious return of Wolfie.
For the PDC qualifiers, it's another case of "oh god who are these jobbing twats" as players that actually won events this year (Stephen Bunting and Josh Payne) weren't allowed to qualify for this tournament and instead have to sit at home watching nobodies including Dullster's Brendan Dolan and permanently enraged midget Darren fucking Webster shit their pants on stage yet again. These two beat Kim Huybrechts and Jelle Klaasen respectively which is sure to enrage everyone. Uncle Barry really needs to improve the qualifying criteria otherwise we're just going to have this for years to come: places given to undeserving floor jobbers over those that actually won things in the year.
Coverage starts at 1:00pm UK time on SS2 with the evening session from 7:30pm UK time on SS5.
>Afternoon Session (1pm) Gerwyn Price v Dimitri Van den Bergh (B) Simon Whitlock v Ted Evetts (C) Dave Chisnall v James Wilson (G) Mensur Suljovic v Danny Noppert (F) Robert Thornton v Scott Waites (B) Raymond van Barneveld v Nathan Aspinall (F) James Wade v Jamie Hughes (G) Peter Wright v Jeff Smith (C)
>Evening Session (7.30pm) Brendan Dolan v Max Hopp (A) Alan Norris v Nathan Derry (E) Ian White v Darren Webster (D) Benito van de Pas v Chris Dobey (H) Phil Taylor v Darryl Fitton (D) Gary Anderson v Glen Durrant (E) Michael van Gerwen v Martin Adams (A) Adrian Lewis v Scott Mitchell (H)
As you'll note from my flag, I'm away again so I won't be updating this thread as much as I usually do.
Brandon Sanchez
Good OP. Currently in spain or just b& and thus using proxy?
Isaiah Wright
>OP is in Spain again Nice
>Michael van Gerwen v Martin Adams (A) lol poor Wolfie
Levi Stewart
Just away.
Interestingly, MVG v Wolfie is a rematch of the autist's first breakthrough a decade ago in the World Masters: youtube.com/watch?v=oPeDkZ8WBa0
He remains the youngest winner of a major in darts history (17y 174d).
Alexander Anderson
Absolute state of MVG's hair. >He remains the youngest winner of a major in darts history (17y 174d). Damn, son. It's amazing how young he still is.
Bentley Morris
And we're on now.
Kevin Bailey
>no John Part
Christian Rogers
This event is the only circus exhibition worth watching. While the enlarged trebles are offputting, the sight of the BDO boys laughing to the bank as they school these amateurs is a sight to see.
Matthew Collins
...
Brayden Lopez
BDO STRONK
Oliver Powell
>le dancing dutchman
Brandon Long
Johnny Fat's right anyone could come out of this group of jobbers. Wonder if Thorny will actually log a win or two, he's been gifted this group really on his recent form.
Brody Morgan
Waites will top this group lads.
Matthew Robinson
He looked handy at last years worlds where he put out Ian White iirc. There's an Iceman in the making with this lad.
Brayden Nguyen
vdB playing damn well.
Lucas Thomas
the dream maker has shit the bed.
Noah Peterson
>allowing this to happen
Jason Thomas
>Price lmao
Thomas James
>The city of welsh roids
Owen Bailey
>tfw no australian_national_anthem.mp3
Jonathan Gray
>yfw Wolfie smashes MvG
Chase Sanchez
>Evetts
Hunter Powell
too early in the day for whitlock.
Justin Green
shit event.
Camden Walker
fat man
Jacob Smith
MVG's gonna give Wolfie the prostate check his doctor should have given him 18 months ago.
William Long
...
Tyler King
>jizznall
Grayson Edwards
>Jizzy getting rekt by some who
Joshua Murphy
Clutch 64
Isaiah Sanchez
What's Wilson's ceiling in the PDC do you reckon? I'd assume around Beaton level, permanently between 19th and 25th in the world.
Jack Howard
I think Jizzy is incapable of finishing his dinner, never mind this
Benjamin Campbell
>jizzy
Luis Young
>Chizzy
Lincoln Kelly
>Jizzy lel
Oliver Robinson
>busting 42
ffs chizzy
Kayden James
Wouldn't surprise me if he makes top 16
Leo Barnes
BIG MENS
Adrian Stewart
>Noppert's ear stud
Brody Bennett
Mensurs action is almost hypnotic
Hudson Ward
...can you finish a 9er on D14?
Luis Lee
...
Levi Anderson
You're not Peru, fuck off
Lincoln Green
dem averages
>Peru falling over
Jackson Hernandez
I'm sure it can't be done.
Adam Garcia
Noppy is a very good player.
Had a great start to the year but fell off big time recently.
Will be debuting at the Lakeside in Jan as #2 seed IIRC
Mason Roberts
Bugger. Theres goes my dream of seeing Mensur get a 9er off D14
Elijah Jenkins
Lovely setup from Noppert.
Haven't really followed BDO darts this year. You're not kidding. He's playing lovely darts in this match.
Adrian Perez
So that's Noppert switching codes in January then. Making the GS count for the OoM was the canniest thing Uncle Baz has done in the past five years.
Benjamin Green
DAT 104
David Long
Noppert looks like he can barely believe his eyes at the size of these trebles.
Cant wait for wolfie to blow out these pdc circus floor jobbers
Liam Campbell
...
Logan Phillips
Your one hour warning.
Evan Wilson
/147/ is just starting
Andrew Richardson
>/147/ is just starting
We comfy season now
Nathan Torres
There were no threads all week
Easton Cox
Couldn't watch the afternoon session, only saw a recap of Clown and Mensur losing against noobert. Did I miss anything? From the thread, I guess Chizzy also screwed up. How did Shitlock? Did the downfall of Thornton continue?
Nicholas Hill
Ive only managed to catch the end of one of Ronnies games. The US election kinda took up everything else
Adam Adams
Already had some GWAN RONNIES tonight
Angel Roberts
>literally allowing a busted match fixer to play Disgusting
Julian Rogers
Two greats together.
Austin Edwards
Yes Barry we know
Oliver Baker
>football shirt guy
Alexander Johnson
Shitlock did okay and so did Thorny. Barney had a good performance.
Comfy overload, m8s.
Chase Johnson
/180/ fishing pic dump?
Noah Fisher
Thanks, Austriabro.
Hudson Reyes
Who /180/ on one screen and /147/ on another?
Nathan Torres
You bet.
Logan Fisher
that's some prime Hearnsport you've got going there lad
