Premier League Darts reaches another milestone with the first ever staging of the event in the prospective darting hotbed of Germany. The highest ever post-war attendance for men throwing tungsten will also be seen tonight, with 12,000 crazy Germans packed into Berlin's Mercedes-Benz Arena.
The PL's only 100% records collide in the opener with Michael Smith against Australia's Simon Whitlock. Both players were expected to struggle but have been excellent in proving the doubters wrong; one of them has to drop points tonight though.
The closest thing Berlin will have to a home player is next up as Austria's Mensur Suljovic takes on Wales' Gerwyn Price in a crucial battle at the bottom. The Gentle is the only pointless player left and last week delivered his first poor performance in the competition, while the Iceman is becoming something of a battler with bottle after rescuing another draw last week.
Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen then takes to the stage against Northern Ireland's World Grand Prix champion Daryl Gurney. MVG is amazingly on a 15 match unbeaten run in all competitions having dominated the weekend's Players Championship events, and after Superchin blew a 5-1 lead last week, you just have a feeling he won't get near the Autism Express tonight.
World Champion Rob Cross's first televised venture onto the continent sees him take on Dutch legend Raymond van Barneveld in a true baptism of fire; although Voltage recorded his first PL win last week, he is certain to be the villain in this piece as everyone inexplicably loves that lazy bastard Barney.
The best of frenemies close the evening as Scotland World Cup team mates Peter Wright and Gary Anderson clash. This is the pair's first meeting since Gando's remarkable choke from 13-7 ahead in the Grand Slam semi-final, and a repeat of Gary's 111 average in Newcastle will surely beat the Clown.
Coverage starts from 7:00pm UK time on Sky Sports Action and from 7:00pm DE time (now) on DAZN.
>Tonight's fixtures (7:00pm GMT / 8:00pm CET start, all matches best of 12 legs) Michael "Snackpot 2.0" Smith v STRAYA Gerwyn "Gurning" Price v Mensur "DIE MEISTER, DIE BESTEN" Suljovic MvGOAuTism v Daryl "Sweet C4-line" Gurney Rob "BAuLDtism" Cross v v Barney Snakeshite v Gary "Big Game Counter" Anderson
As mentioned in the OP, MVG dominated Players Championships 1 and 2 at the weekend but didn't have it all his own way.
Saturday was the easier day for the World #1 as he dropped just 8 legs on his way to the final, with Danny Noppert giving him the hardest fight in the last 16 by winning 4 legs but still coming up short. His opponent in the PC1 decider was James Wade, who reached his first ranking final in over a year and despite providing some Classic Wade by going 1-0, 3-3 and 4-4, his scoring was just too little to truly punish Michael and lost 6-4 in the end.
Sunday was far more difficult as van Gerwen was taken to last leg deciders in 2 games, surviving match darts in one of them. Long haired cheat Ryan Searle somehow kept a 106-averaging MVG at bay in the last 32 but never got a dart to beat him, while Worcestershire's Luke Woodhouse missed the aforementioned match darts. Adrian Lewis was then rolled over in the quarters as his 99.99 average was never going to challenge Michael's ridiculous 109.99, and MVG even had time to joke with Simon Stevenson in the semi-final, averaging a pathetic 51 in one leg but punished multiple missed doubles by the Mirror Man to win 6-2. His opponent in the final was what some people are calling "the new Rob Cross" in Australia's Corey Cadby, making his second senior final in a month and beat a 110-averaging Ian White in the semi-final, having taken out Gary Anderson the round before. Alas, the King was taught a big lesson as MVG thrashed him 6-1.
Other news from the weekend saw Cameron Menzies and Jamie Hughes secure their first Euro Tour appearances in Leverkusen and the release of next weekend's UK Open schedule, featuring main stage appearances for Terry Jenkins, Paul Nicholson, Richie Burnett and John Part. The full schedule can be seen in the attached image.
Jeremiah Sullivan
Aww yisss, time for /180/.
Thanks for the write-up >featuring main stage appearances for Terry Jenkins, Paul Nicholson, Richie Burnett and John Part Absolutely based. Although I just remembered that I'll probably miss almost all of it.
Juan Foster
haha time for darts
Ryder Reyes
Taken the day off work for the Open, cannot fucking wait. Richie Burnett's road back to the top 32 starts here boys.
Noah Parker
/180/ is the highlight of my week and my body is ready for some darts today.
Andrew Price
I just hope the audience will not be shouting random german football shit all the time. For the games, I place my bets on Fatpot jr., Mensur, Autism, Cross and Gando.
Julian Phillips
>tfw done the same
Blake Long
Johnny Part unironically has a pretty good chance to make a decent run this year in the Open.
Hudson Bennett
What's 'Boring Boring Tables' in German?
Ethan Bell
"Langweilige, langweilige Tische" would be the literal translation.
Zachary Baker
I bet that Barney is pretty happy that he doesn't have to go all the way to UK in order to collect his paycheck.
Brody Morris
inb4 OHNE HOLLAND FAHREN WIR ZUR WM
Ayden Carter
And we're on now.
Jacob Russell
Dear god, no. But it's exactly what will happen.
Gavin Reyes
>Berlin >will take your breath away
Christian Gomez
>the best that Germany has to offer
Jaxson Wilson
wrong, sweetie.
KEVIN KEVIN MUNCH KEVIN MUNCH KEVIN KEVIN MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNCH
Eli Hughes
oh boy
Christian Long
*blocks your path*
Joshua Nguyen
As soon as Germany gets a decent player, I'll never be able to watch darts on german TV again, because they will go full Reich mode. They are even trying to Anschluss Mensur all the time.
Robert Lewis
Remember Max Hopp?
Of course you don't.
Henry Torres
>Sind sie bereit für Darts lel
Blake Bennett
This PL really misses an out of form Lewis or Taylor. I miss seeing the "bad boys" getting smacked.
Camden Diaz
You forgot to mention the Prince of Style Ryan Harrington returning to TV.
Adrian Nguyen
How is his wife's son doing?
Brody Sullivan
Now we just have Gurney and Price.
Easton Nguyen
also based mervyn king and peter manley the true GOAT heels of darts
Elijah Green
That transition from "Layla" to "Shut up and let me eat" is horrible
Daniel Bennett
australian_national_anthem.wav
Lincoln Ward
australian_national_anthem.mp3
Gavin Barnes
>the true GOAT heels of darts you forgot one
Wyatt Perez
Simon GOATlock
Lincoln Cook
based ted
Colton Ortiz
Damn, everybody is at least 2 minutes ahead of me.
Jacob Morgan
Price is doing fine, Gurney is only a heel when he wins, otherwise he's acting like a little girl.
This is the caliber of players that can make you feel absolutely annoyed when they win. I miss that shit this year.
Levi Campbell
Hankey was the man. I really hope that he can make a comeback to the top level someday.
>mention they're in a city famous for its beer in the intro >Simon Whitlock throwing like shit
What did they mean by this?
Austin White
Smith's 100+ finishes are always great.
Landon Ross
DAT 106
Jordan Watson
needs some of tony fleet's super strong castlemaine
Jose Walker
Blubby has switched off again.
Henry Morgan
Thanks, but couldn't get it to work. Even allowing literally every script on the site didn't do the trick, only thing left was turning of ublock. Maybe I'll try again when there's no pressure. Sigh, so it's Golden Arrows Channel and it's crypto miner again.
Lincoln Evans
pl would be more fun without play-offs
Hunter Rodriguez
TANTRUM TIME
Henry Lee
>Shitlock
Ryan Sanders
Strange that they introduce league play in a sport which is completely playoff-based, only to switch to playoffs at the end.
Andrew Martinez
>Pisslock
Landon Cooper
Another awful Premier League match.
Smith >87.32
Whitlock >85.60
Jeremiah Green
just BDO my shit up senpai
Easton Bennett
>missing Shanghai 20s for the win
Julian Garcia
That's really poor.
The crowd went to sleep too.
Ayden Wilson
>Wayne Mardle: Finished 5th in 2008 Premier League every time
Grayson Anderson
>smith promo
Samuel Cox
rather drink diamond white than eat that shit desu looks foul
Xavier Hughes
I miss Taylel making fun of Wayne and refering to him as Wayne Mardell
David Thompson
>PL in Berlin
Impressive Baz, what’s the next step lads?
Isaac Cox
>this montage top lel
Hudson King
selling out the msg brother
Adrian Long
...
Matthew Peterson
SIMPLY THE MENS
Owen Watson
>kim jong-un hits 27 9 darters in a row
James Hall
'Muricans aren't interested in 501, they only play cricket because they're too dumb to count.
Jeremiah Cruz
>kim jong-un hits a one-darter
Cameron Reed
mvg vs gando will be the best main event that stadium has seen since inoki vs flair
Cooper Gutierrez
Should have brought "Life Is Life" back now he's in central Europe, imagine the pop.
Xavier Jackson
So the next step is installing an electric counting mechanism in steel darts boards.
Ethan Adams
Fuck off then. Not all of us are fat, gun-toting, idiots. Most are, though.
Nathan Mitchell
>mfw Big Sexy cures autism
Benjamin Hughes
THAT BULL
Oliver Hall
I don't think Beaton will ever be in the PL, user.
Henry Russell
Absolute state of Mardle being all "I did a funny tweet the other day, lemme tell you about it".
DAT BULL
Chase Allen
EINS EINS EINS
WUNDERDARTS VON MENSUR
Lincoln Jackson
john henderson in the streets steve beaton between the sheets
Camden Foster
muh dick
Matthew Morris
>imagining hendo having sex
Blake Ramirez
...
Samuel Watson
He's what every woman wants.
Eli Walker
>this game And yes, that really is Kyle the Petrol Sniffer.
Lucas Perry
GWAN MENS
problems?
Chase Bennett
DOPPEL NEUNZEHN
JAWOHL
Aiden Walker
I love you
Evan Adams
>Reviewbrah meets Rick James
Robert Parker
>roidlet
Aiden Lopez
Mon mensur
Xavier Peterson
Big Mens is back lads.
Leo Myers
Still a 90+ average though, despite all that ones and fives.
Christian Russell
>not saving the super hi-res version of Barney aiming a chisel at Pheel's face
ERSTE PREMIER-LEAGUE-PUNKTE FÜR MENSUR!
Luke Ross
>Still a 90+ average though, despite all that ones and fives. Oh wait, not any more...
Sebastian Davis
Kek'd at the file name.
Hudson Williams
...
Kevin Jackson
Based Mensur.
Caleb Sullivan
>Sky broadcasting Mensur FINALLY wins.
Aiden Sanchez
AUSTRIAN NATIONALISM ON THE RISE
Jason Harris
>Back in October 2017 @Superchin180 won Grand Prix and I promised him a MK2 escort!!! Today I delivered on that promise
