Live televised darts returns to our screens for the first time since July as the top eight players in the world compete in the Champions League of Darts. This is of course the second year of the BBC airing proper arrows and not the shambles of the BDO.
Last year, the Prowler Phil Taylor claimed the title with an 11-5 humping of paint drinker Michael van Gerwen in the final and will want to inflict a similar humiliation to >16-6 this time around. There are also three new faces in the competition as St. Helens dunce Dave Chisnall, everyone's favourite unorthodox Serbo-Austrian Mensur Suljovic and lazy Dutchman Raymond van Barneveld replace the collapsing James Wade, the imploding Robert Thornton and the petulant Michael Smith.
The format remains the same as last time: two groups of four, with the winners and losers of this afternoon's games playing each other in the evening session. Wide-open Group B starts things off as midlife crisis clown Peter Wright faces Chizzy, while gameraising Gary Anderson plays Mensur, with the deadly Group A following as the Stoke ferry obsessives derby has Pheel up against new dad Adrian Lewis, while another new dad in MVG faces compatriot Barney in the final match of the afternoon.
Coverage starts from 1:15pm UK time on BBC One, with evening coverage from 6:45pm on BBC Two.
Today's fixtures (all best of 19 legs [first to 10]):
>Afternoon session (1:15pm - 4:30pm) Snakeshite v Chizzy (Group B) Gary "Big Game Counter" Anderson v CAN'T CENSOR THE MENSUR (Group B) Taylel v SnackP&Ot (Group A) MvGOAuTism v Barney (Group A)
>Evening session (6:45pm - 10:15pm) Winners in each group play each other, losers in each group play each other.
Lets hope for some more top quality meme material this year
Jackson Phillips
TAYLORWINSLOL
Tyler Brooks
/180/ has of course been off since Pheel won Matchplay title 16 on D16, and with MVG off for the entirety of August because of pic related, it opened up the field for title winners.
Kyle Anderson started off that month by claiming his first PDC ranking title with a 6-2 defeat of Kevin Painter in Players Championship 14, with Dim Dave claiming his first title of the year the next day in PC15, coming out on top in a last leg decider against World Grand Prix debutant Richard North.
Abbo Anderson followed up his Players Champs success with a maiden TV title in the World Series of Darts, defeating Corey Cadby in the first all-qualifier WSoD final at the Auckland Masters. Taylor claimed the inaugural Sydney Masters event by beating Clownman, but then suffered only his second defeat in Australia with Barney eliminating him in Perth; RVB however couldn't convert this and lost to Gando in the final.
As August became September, MVGWINSLOL reared its head again with two brutalising displays on the European Tour. The World Number 1 brushed aside Steve Beaton in Maastricht to claim his fourth straight Dutch Darts Masters title, only dropping 10 legs in the tournament (and five of those were to Daryl Gurney). Van Autism then threw a terrifying 111 dead average in the German Darts Grand Prix final last Sunday to put away Rob Cross, who finally has a nickname (albeit a really shit one) of "Voltage".
But the best news of the month came from Japan, where infamous Lakeside pisshead Seigo Asada confirmed his debut at Ally Pally: youtube.com/watch?v=sdThU66DCBA
This isn't really that much of a surprise given his recent woeful record at the Citywest, but it has given Robert Thornton some sort of lifeline as he wouldn't have been playing in the tournament.
As pic related indicates, the Prowler will be having a much more worthwhile time entertaining pissheads on the Hull to Rotterdam ferry while playing a burns victim.
Isaac White
Aww yiss we're fucking back again. I've missed you lads.
Thank you based OP
>Van Autism then threw a terrifying 111 dead average in the German Darts Grand Prix final last Sunday to put away Rob Cross I watched the German Darts GP as well. MVG was unbeatable there. But, damn, Rob Cross was impressive as fuck. If he can keep this level (100+ tournament average before the final), I can see him winning some more tournaments and being a top 16 player.
Noah Fisher
>autism
Oliver Lewis
Is he even human?
Gabriel Cruz
>Ian White
Dat anomaly
Christian Russell
That chart shows just how few challengers there are to the World's Top 4 at the moment.
The Dab has been terrible this year too.
Daniel Brooks
Checked. >how few challengers there are to the World's Top 4 at the moment. ...and even in those top 4 MVG still stands apart.
Colton Nguyen
And we're on now.
Adam Thomas
>this intro
Oliver Nguyen
>these intros lel
Daniel Robinson
>Peter Lewis Well done, Jason.
Thomas Martinez
>Paul and Mark
Nathaniel Richardson
>Chisnall being asked one word questions >still confused
Connor Rogers
Why are they playing that "epic" music before the walk-ons?
Chase Clark
>Vassos "160 is not a finish" Alexander on commentary again
Noah Mitchell
Friendship ended with BBC
Channel 4 is now my best friend
Ian Martinez
Fuck
Blake Bell
>darts is a sport where you need arms >channel 4 employ a one armed man to be an interviewer
Jack Smith
Quality match so far
Jack Jenkins
Jizzy already regretting sacking off a visit to Legoland
Lincoln Nelson
>D3 lel
Brody Lewis
THIS IS SO BORING
Aiden Lee
Ring Samaritans please, you're not very well.
Carter Jones
Fine British lasses there
Carter Reyes
>BBC's break music is Bohemian Like You
Austin Morris
...
Juan Hill
>Jizzy blowing it against Clownman again
Matthew Perez
Solid 101.28 average from Snakeshite there.
James Wilson
>no mardle Fucking comfy
Jeremiah Wilson
completely forgot this was on and just wasted the past hour and a half watching that absolute dogshite Palace v Southampton game. SEETHING
Hudson Murphy
darts on terrestrial TV just feels tinpot
Ryder Green
>thingken about crayons
Jeremiah Cooper
BASED BIG MENS
Easton Long
gando going to be seething very shortly
>reeeeeeeee why won't he throw quickly
Jaxon Green
>that handshake-fistpump confusion
Logan Rivera
>that bump/shake fuckup
Blake Lee
>Try to wtach this on BBC HD >Signals fucked
Ryder Powell
76 - 15 = ??????????
Brody Reed
>Gando
Andrew Scott
>le counting man
Jason Thomas
>Gando
Parker Morris
LE D14 MAN!
Adam Jenkins
absolute raping
James Price
>Mensur getting Mensur
Thats so Mensur
Nathan Reyes
How SEETHING is Gando right now?
Gavin Murphy
>world championship [ ] >not the world championship [X]
>Phil has done this for years. He sometimes gives it to a player that he competes against as a memento of the match. That usually happens in World Series darts around the world, but most of the time he gives it to someone in the crowd with a set of his match darts. To his credit, he does tend to give the board to children if at all possible.
Kayden Wilson
>Are you still talking rubbish again?
>it's a Taylel interview
David Hughes
There was something on the BBC website about this;
fuck this cunt beat me to it
Ryan Moore
>Gerwen >Stand up if you like the darts
Lying bastard.
John Rogers
The 2015 World Grand Prix final is probably the biggest case of that.
Cameron Allen
>barney looking completely bored
Carter King
>He sometimes gives it to a player that he competes against as a memento of the match. You think he does it after a classic Taylel raping?
Daniel Collins
and writes "I bummed you" under the signature with the score
Chase Jenkins
>van autism
Daniel Brooks
Barney nearly throwing that away.
Leo Smith
>van Gerwen not even averaging 95
Wouldn't suprise me
Jackson Sanchez
316 IN 6
Robert Taylor
MVBTFO
Asher Gutierrez
HOW CAN AUTISM EVEN COMPETE
Jackson Gomez
>van paintdrinker Rushed that last visit and fucked it.
