BDO Lakeside World Championship 2011 draw

dartbhoy

The draw was held earlier today for the 2011 Lakeside World Championship. Players with numbers in brackets beside them are seeded.

Dave Prins (16) v John Walton
Martin Adams (1) v Tony West
Willy V D Wiel (9) v Alan Soutar
Tony O'Shea (8) v Ross Smith
Mark Barilli (12) v Martin Phillips
Joey Ten Berge (5) v Shaun Griffiths
Gary Robson (13) v Steve Douglas
Steve West (4) v Dave Chisnall
Scott Mitchell (15) v Jan Dekker
Stuart Kellet (2) v Darryl Fitton
Garry Thompson (10) v Arno Merk
Ross Montgomery (7) v Alan Norris
Brian Woods (11) v Stephen Bunting
Scott Waites (6) v Ted Hankey
Robbie Green (14) v Andy Boulton
Dean Winstanley (3) v Martin Atkins

Order of play can be found on www.bdodarts.com and the draw bracket can be found on www.bdodarts.com/LakesideBracket2011.htm

Double Top

Match to Watch Waites V Hankey should be a cracker of one

dionsiseire

Keep an eye on Shaun Griffiths, has the potential to cause many an upset

dartbhoy

After looking at Tony O'Shea in the GSOD last night averaging 102 in his game if he reproduces that type of form in Lakeside there's every chance he'll win the title there.

wildrover444

how can a 2 time champion like hankey not be seeded and end up playing scott waites.it will be a pity to lose one of them so early.

scudzilla

wildrover444 wrote: »

how can a 2 time champion like hankey not be seeded and end up playing scott waites.it will be a pity to lose one of them so early.

He's not played many BDO ranking tourney's this year

Parky2010

Has to be said, really poor field there bar one or two. How that can still be called a world championship is beyond me

dionsiseire

On the flip side you have to say that Tony O'Shea, Scott Waites, Ted Hankey (considering he hasn't been playing much BDO at all this year, only masters and lakeside), Daryl Fitton, Martin Phillips and John Henderson have all given decent accounts of themselves so far at the Grand Slam

Some of those players look deserving of a place in the PDC WC, so how can either claim to be the best of the best. Merging is needed, and needed bad

shockframe

Parky2010 wrote: »

Has to be said, really poor field there bar one or two. How that can still be called a world championship is beyond me

Some players I have not heard of myself but they all qualified on merit.There is one or 2 poor players in the draw but considering that mccloskey, gurney and henderson to name but a few didnt qualify means the players must be doing something right.

You will see poor players in the last 32 of the pdc aswell.

Looking forward to this now.waites and hankey the tie of the round surely.tough start for fitton and adams aswell.

presume there is around 7/8 players considering a move to the pdc after.

ciarraibhoy

shockframe wrote: »

presume there is around 7/8 players considering a move to the pdc after.

And why would you presume that?

Parky2010

shockframe wrote: »

Some players I have not heard of myself but they all qualified on merit.There is one or 2 poor players in the draw but considering that mccloskey, gurney and henderson to name but a few didnt qualify means the players must be doing something right.

You will see poor players in the last 32 of the pdc aswell.

Looking forward to this now.waites and hankey the tie of the round surely.tough start for fitton and adams aswell.

presume there is around 7/8 players considering a move to the pdc after.

True, theres about 4/5 decent players in it would hope they'd move to the PDC . Especially O'Shea looking at the way he's started the grand slam he's looking good. Adams will never join the pdc seems to be anti-pdc as is Hankey. Wouldn't be surprised if fitton and waites did though

dartbhoy

I'd be surprised if any BDO players make the move to the PDC next year because I'm sure you have to be in the top 96 in the PDC rankings to be guaranteed a tour card for next year's PDC tournaments or else you have to go through some new system called a PDC qualifying school to qualify to play on the PDC tour.

CarnTorres

No martin mccloskey this year?? did he not qualify?

dartbhoy

CarnTorres wrote: »

No martin mccloskey this year?? did he not qualify?

McCloskey doesn't do the BDO circuit so he couldn't qualify from the BDO rankings. He entered the International play offs but was knocked out in the last 16. When you look at the line up Martin would probably beat a good share of the players taking part in Lakeside this year.

CarnTorres

Thanks dartsbhoy. Wouldnt follow the darts too well during the year if im honest. Was class in the pub last year watching him thought

Degag

Henderson didn't qualify either?

tinner777

is it on bbc2? and if so when does there coverage start?

dartbhoy

Degag wrote: »

Henderson didn't qualify either?

No,Big Hendo failed to make the cut in the rankings and was knocked out by eventual qualifier Shaun Griffiths in the BDO play offs.

dartbhoy

tinner777 wrote: »

is it on bbc2? and if so when does there coverage start?

The tournament will be on BBC but you can watch every match live on BBC interactive (red button),the main channels won't be covering every game. Tournament starts on January 1st till the 9th.

monkey9

What's the craic with William O' Connor?? Did he not qualify??

dartbhoy

monkey9 wrote: »

What's the craic with William O' Connor?? Did he not qualify??

William O'Connor plays with the PDC so he couldn't qualify for Lakeside.

pudzy

would hav been nice to see martin mc closkey play, watched him on tv few weeks back steady player... what about connie will he ever make the step up.. only messin .. come on the irish