In this World Darts Championship of shocks, the last 8 contains just 3 of the world's top 8 players, with 3 of the losers failing to make it past Christmas. So a special congratulations must go out to Dave Chisnall, Adrian Lewis and Daryl Gurney for being that bad.
The main beneficiary of Snackpot's disaster begins the day's play as Norfolk midget Darren Webster plays Wales' prelim upsetter Jamie Lewis. Demolition Man has made light work of his rivals, only dropping 3 sets to make it to the last 8 and whitewashed Toni Alcinas. Fireball on the other hand has only dropped 2, and proved his defeat of Peter Wright was no fluke by thumping James Richardson by the same scoreline. The other afternoon's match sees two last 8 debutants in breakthrough sensation Rob Cross and dancing Belgian Dimitri Van den Bergh. Voltage cut down big John Henderson yesterday after he'd dumped Superchin out while the World Youth Champion took advantage of a poor Mensur Suljovic and amazingly scrubbed him 4-0. If both play to their best, this could be a remarkable game.
The evening sees years of experience and 25 world titles on display and repeats of matches from the past 3 iterations. Kicking things off is the Dutch derby between Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld: this has been contested in 2016 at R3 and last year in their blistering semi. MVG had a Gerwyn Price choke to thank as his underpar performance nearly got punished by the roidlet, while Barney dominated Chizzy's conqueror Vincent van der Voort in some style. Michael added some spice to the tie by saying RVB will never match the 114 average he recorded in the SF, so it should be fun. The other semi is a repeat of the 2015 final between Phil Taylor and Gary Anderson. Pheel looked ominously good at times against Keegan Brown, while Gando struggled past Steve West with a back problem. Nobody wants to see Phil in the semi so please Gary: REMOVE TAYLEL!
Coverage starts at 12:30pm UK time on Sky Sports Darts (SS Arena).
All matches are best of 9 sets; first to 3 legs in a set.
>Today’s matches (12:30pm start) Jamie "Rastajobber" Lewis v Darren "Demolition Manlet" Webster (23) Rob "Danger! Danger! Shit Nickname!" Cross (20) v Dimitri "Twink" Van den Bergh
>Tonight's matches (7:00pm start) MvGOAuTism (1) v Barney (9) Taylel (6) v Gary "Big Game Counter" Anderson (3)
Taylor: I can make Corey the best player in the world.
wew
Cameron Sanchez
Never knew Sharrock played some development tour.
Dylan White
Just saw it. Man what a cocky twat.
Austin White
...
Andrew Clark
Pretty sure Jamie Lewis's dad unlocked my mobile a few years ago.
David Hughes
I'm okay with this.
Nathaniel Ramirez
>they should call him Reggae Reggae Sauce fuck's sake midget
Ian Campbell
>Man's not hot
Angel Garcia
>they should call him Reggae Reggae Sauce
Joshua Cox
ha ha time for manlet
Matthew Gonzalez
I like Webster, cheeky lad
Brandon Rogers
any streams?
Ian Cruz
Is John Part Elite?
Andrew Davis
THIS GUN'S FOR HIRE EVEN IF WE'RE JUST DANCING IN THE DARK
Lincoln Sanders
I AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT TIRED
Cricfree. Bosscast not working for me at the moment.
Jacob Sanders
...
Brayden Foster
Feels like almost every game/player starts with a 180.
Colton Fisher
Scripted
Juan Foster
Premier League mention counter: II
Leo Bell
>manlet
Mason Torres
If Taylor wins the tournament, it's scripted. 100%
Jason Parker
Just saw the translated comments from this, so Taylor is going to rent a house out to Corey and Conehead Kylo and train them to become the MVG-blockers of future darts?
Jonathan Ross
i wonder where jamie lewis is from
if only there was some sort of indicator, some sort of hint, that would give you an idea
Andrew Walker
Is there a semi final on the afternoon tomorrow?
Asher Cooper
Final double session today.
Both semis are in the evening.
Henry Morales
I wasn't sure if it's already happening or that it's just a wish that Taylor has.
Andrew Roberts
Welsh Lewis absolutely thumping Little Man at the moment.
Oliver Bennett
Manlet Webster bottling it big time
Charles Lee
Webster getting done hard at the moment.
Brody Jackson
he will
he'll ease past gando's dodgy back, lewis will pull an 89 average and MVG will bottle hard
Caleb Harris
Nailed on for him to """win""" it. All the other matches are just for entertainment and to fill time until the final.
Asher Powell
>Wobster
Adrian Phillips
No way do they want Taylor winning it. A whole year of PDC events without the "World Champ."
The dream pay off for Barry is Gerwen vs Taylor in the final with Gerwen winning 7-6 with a nine dart leg.
Andrew Reed
ITS OGRE
Jason Morales
Poor Kyle having to live with Corey.
Brody Edwards
...
Elijah Richardson
lel
Aiden Evans
Quick, come up with some new chants
Lucas Nelson
Jamie Lewis could unironically beat Taylor playing like this.
This is bewildering.
Hudson King
Lewis is wrecking him
William Allen
...
Jayden Peterson
Webster feeling the heat of Reggae Reggae Sauce
Mason Bailey
Webster is fucking done.
Cameron Flores
Lewis could make it to the semi-finals of the Worlds, and yet still be behind Christo "Fat Mark Lamarr" Reyes in the OoM.
Kayden Rivera
exciting play but another boring game
Luis Gomez
webster turning up for his pay check.
James Mitchell
Been a really weird Worlds in terms of close matches.
There have barely been any.
Matthew Anderson
Reyes is the only player in the top 32 to have never made a PDC ranking final of any sort.
Zachary Hughes
I saw that from Ochepedia, insane stat. It's been, what, three years since Reyes fully announced himself to world darts, and yet I still have no idea if he's any good or just a man who flukes a lucky draw often enough to stay in the top 32.
Grayson Adams
Were those Lewis' parents in the crowd?
Jaxon Robinson
>4-0 BTFO
Yes
Ayden Kelly
The ABSOLUTE STATE of Demolition manlet
Cameron Howard
Yeah. As with Ryan Giggs, having a Welsh mother seemingly obliterates all black genes in a man.
Looks to be picking up winnings regularly even if they're nowhere near the final.
Brandon Walker
Bazza literally wanks off to pictures of taylor at night lad
Eli Butler
this is fucking shit
Lucas Mitchell
Based
Nolan Young
And a lot of the close matches have only been close because a good player is playing like shit so aren't fun to watch. Lewis vs Wright and Smith vs Cross have been the only close high level matches
Chase Williams
Only thing he loves more is money and not having the World Champ at all your events is bad for business...
Caleb Wilson
He looked more Asian rather than black
Jaxson Price
>And a lot of the close matches have only been close because a good player is playing like shit so aren't fun to watch Cullen-Wattimena was good.
Jeremiah Sanders
THAT BULL TO BREAK
Cameron Moore
Didn't Webster miss 200 bulls before this?
Dominic Sanchez
COMEBACK ON
Adrian Mitchell
DAT BULL Prepare for manlet rage
>first stream not far behind but starts to go to shit >new stream works but ages behind
Kevin Sanchez
COMEBACK OFF
Luis Ward
Lewis looks the real deal
And I'd literally never heard of the cunt or seen him play before this tournament. Mental
Kayden Gray
The weirdest thing is, Lewis looked nowhere near this good against Neyens nor Clayton.
Jason Garcia
Webster is fucking raging
Brandon Perez
I was one of the idiots who watched the PDPA Qualifiers. He absolutely collapsed against Brendan Dolan in the semis and at that point I thought "even if he makes it to Ally Pally, he'll be dumped out by the first remotely decent player he comes across".
Easton Rodriguez
That Dolan game was ridiculous.
>5-0 Webster coming up short yet again.
Jacob Sanders
Newbie to darts here, I know the basic rules, but why aren't they going for 180s every time until they get close to finishing?
