Players Championship Finals

KevIRL

This weekend is the final 2 events of the Players Tour, with the championship finals the following weekend and on ITV4

Current standings are

Pos Name Nationality Prize Money
1 van Gerwen, Michael Netherlands £124,350
2 Wright, Peter Scotland £61,900
3 Huybrechts,Kim Belgium £58,850
4 Chisnall,Dave England £58,150
5 Caven, Jamie England £54,350
6 Thornton, Robert Scotland £52,900
7 Dolan, Brendan Northern Ireland £49,550
8 Beaton, Steve England £48,150
9 Whitlock, Simon Australia £46,200
10 Newton, Wesley England £45,500
11 King, Mervyn England £41,850
12 White, Ian England £40,750
13 Part, John Canada £37,700
14 Lewis, Adrian England £31,650
15 Nicholson, Paul Australia £31,100
16 Anderson, Gary Scotland £30,550
17 Kellett, Stuart England £30,300
17 Painter, Kevin England £30,300
19 Taylor, Phil England £29,850
20 Hamilton, Andy England £28,850
21 Baxter, Ronnie England £25,400
21 van Barneveld, Raymond Netherlands £25,400
23 Pipe, Justin England £23,200
24 Smith, Andy England £21,100
25 Wade, James England £20,200
26 Lloyd, Colin England £18,950
27 Burnett, Richie Wales £18,400
28 Jones, Wayne England £18,100
29 Klaasen, Jelle Netherlands £17,450
30 Smith, Michael England £16,100
31 Lewis,Jamie Wales £15,600
32 Jenkins, Terry England £15,500

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33 Webster, Darren England £15,400
34 Huybrechts, Ronny Belgium £14,450
35 Suljovic, Mensur Austria £13,850
36 Webster, Mark Wales £13,750
37 Monk, Arron England £13,650
38 Cullen, Joe England £13,550
39 Walsh, Mark England £13,300
40 van der Voort, Vincent Netherlands £13,050

32 will play 1, 31 v 2, 30 v 3, etc etc

Interestingly as things stand it would Lewis v Taylor in round one! Likely to change though after this weekends 2 floor events

KevIRL

Brendan Dolan and Chizzy won the 2 floor events this weekend in Barnsley which means the draw for the championship finals is

First Round Draw & Tournament Bracket
Michael van Gerwen (1) v Jamie Lewis (32)
Adrian Lewis (16) v Kevin Painter (17)
Steve Beaton (8) v James Wade (25)
Wes Newton (9) v Andy Smith (24)
Kim Huybrechts (5) v Terry Jenkins (28)
Ian White (12) v Ronnie Baxter (21)
Brendan Dolan (4) v Wayne Jones (29)
John Part (13) v Andy Hamilton (20)
Dave Chisnall (2) v Jelle Klaasen (31)
Gary Anderson (15) v Stuart Kellett (18)
Jamie Caven (7) v Colin Lloyd (26)
Simon Whitlock (10) v Justin Pipe (23)
Robert Thornton (6) v Richie Burnett (27)
Mervyn King (11) v Raymond van Barneveld (22)
Peter Wright (3) v Michael Smith (30)
Paul Nicholson (14) v Phil Taylor (19)

Kingp35

I would say Nicholson is not a happy man right now!

KevIRL

Weekends schedule

Cash Converters Players Championship Finals
Friday November 29
First Round
Afternoon Session (12.45pm)
Ian White v Ronnie Baxter
Kim Huybrechts v Terry Jenkins
Wes Newton v Andy Smith
Gary Anderson v Stuart Kellett
Brendan Dolan v Wayne Jones
Jamie Caven v Colin Lloyd
Peter Wright v Michael Smith
Steve Beaton v James Wade

Evening Session (7pm)
John Part v Andy Hamilton
Simon Whitlock v Justin Pipe
Robert Thornton v Richie Burnett
Mervyn King v Raymond van Barneveld
Adrian Lewis v Kevin Painter
Paul Nicholson v Phil Taylor
Michael van Gerwen v Jamie Lewis
Dave Chisnall v Jelle Klaasen

Saturday November 30
Second Round
Afternoon Session (12.45pm)
Dolan/Jones v Part/Hamilton
Huybrechts/Jenkins v White/Baxter
Caven/Lloyd v Whitlock/Pipe
Beaton/Wade v Newton/A Smith

Evening Session (7pm)
Chisnall/Klaasen v Anderson/Kellett
Thornton/Burnett v King/van Barneveld
Wright/M Smith v Nicholson/Taylor
van Gerwen/J Lewis v A Lewis/Painter

Sunday December 1
Afternoon Session (12.45pm)
Quarter-Finals

Evening Session (7pm)
Semi-Finals
Final


Coverage on ITV4

ArmaniJeanss

Off work tomorrow, hopefully UPC forget to flip the switch for the first session as happened in the last event ITV4 had.

Nicholson seems to run terrible in these draws - spends most of the last few years at #16 so consistently running into Taylor in the last 16, then when it comes to a comp with pretty unique seeding he manages to bink him in the last 32.

mdwexford

Lewis vs MVG in round 2 if they get there.

Taylor gets the easy side of the draw even though hes seeded 19, not like he needs it the way hes playing.

Kingp35

Forgot there is an afternoon session today, trying to watch it on the sly in work!

ArmaniJeanss

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Off work tomorrow, hopefully UPC forget to flip the switch for the first session as happened in the last event ITV4 had.

Boooommmmm :pac:.
Not the sexiest set of games ever but better than nothing on a Friday.

KevIRL

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Boooommmmm :pac:.
Not the sexiest set of games ever but better than nothing on a Friday.

Irish cricket team on sky 3 as well aj

Kingp35

Great 6-2 win for Terry Jenkins over Kim Huybrechts.

sc86

anderson got lucky, not often you can say that

Kingp35

Dolan with a 126 finish on the Bull to beat Jones 6-5. He shouldn't have won though, Jones missed a shed load of doubles and should have won handy enough.

KevIRL

Great win from Beaton there over Wade. Super fightback.

sc86

who does the winner of chisnal/klassen v anderson play?

ArmaniJeanss

sc86 wrote: »

who does the winner of chisnal/klassen v anderson play?

Winner of Caven v whitlock/pipe.

First Round Draw & Tournament Bracket
Michael van Gerwen (1) v Jamie Lewis (32)
Adrian Lewis (16) v Kevin Painter (17)
Steve Beaton (8) v James Wade (25)
Wes Newton (9) v Andy Smith (24)

Kim Huybrechts (5) v Terry Jenkins (28)
Ian White (12) v Ronnie Baxter (21)
Brendan Dolan (4) v Wayne Jones (29)
John Part (13) v Andy Hamilton (20)

Dave Chisnall (2) v Jelle Klaasen (31)
Gary Anderson (15) v Stuart Kellett (18)
Jamie Caven (7) v Colin Lloyd (26)
Simon Whitlock (10) v Justin Pipe (23)

Robert Thornton (6) v Richie Burnett (27)
Mervyn King (11) v Raymond van Barneveld (22)
Peter Wright (3) v Michael Smith (30)
Paul Nicholson (14) v Phil Taylor (19)

ArmaniJeanss

UPC still going strong, kind of wish it wasn't after that Part/Hamilton match.

Standard was slightly below that of the famous Martin Adams v Antony Fleet leg from the Lakeside a few years ago, but neither player here seemed to have the excuse of being blind drunk. Averages must have been in the 60s at best, plenty of 27 dart legs.


Oh, whopeeee, Justin Pipe now.

mdwexford

The cameraman is a monkey, showing players faces instead of showing where the darts are going.

Coverage is shocking.

ArmaniJeanss

Zooming in on the 19/3/17 corner of the board when Aidy was on a 100 finish was curious alright.

Looks like a fun weekend with everyone from players to fans staying onsite, so the spotters are probably on the beer as well.

mdwexford

Every single 3 dart finish was missed by the camera.

Do they even know how darts works, complete joke.

Yeah would be a good weekend away alright.

ArmaniJeanss

mdwexford wrote: »

Do they even know how darts works, complete joke.

Answer is no, they don't have a clue.
Sky spotters are pros, they get about 70 days work a year between the 6 or 7 comps that Sky has. Trained by KJP, and they put time and effort into their trade and research what way players do particular checkouts.
ITV guys strictly amateurs, wouldn't be surprised if they've never done it before.

In fairness other than that I like the coverage; no bigging up grudge matches, color commentators aren't self publicising idiots, less panning to the crowd for fancy dress retardedness.

mdwexford

Some of it was basic stuff though, if someone has 32 or whatever left just show the 16. There was no excuse for how bad that game was tonight.

I actually enjoy the Sky coverage, like a bit of the grudge stuff they go for.

ArmaniJeanss

Glad to see MVG beat Lewis, slightly fed up with Lewis being all pally with Taylor, averaging 105 and still getting beaten by 15-8 or whatever.

MVG doesn't do the best pals stuff with Taylor and thus gets under Taylors skin that bit more which means imo he's a better chance of beating him.

Early start today, MVG/Newton starting now.

Kingp35

It's not looking good for Barney here despite playing well enough.

Good win for MvG earlier. Hamilton was involved in another terrible game but he gets through again. Pipe played well despite one bad leg but can't see him doing anything against Taylor when he inevitably wins.

gramar

mdwexford wrote: »

Every single 3 dart finish was missed by the camera.

Do they even know how darts works, complete joke.

Yeah would be a good weekend away alright.

The cameraman or woman is terrible. They haven't a clue where or when to point it.

Taylor has Barney in his pocket at the moment and I can't see Barney putting up any resistance. Hopefully MvG goes all the way. He's throwing some very good darts and great to watch. I'd like to see someone other than Taylor in the final but not Pipe. I just can't watch him. When he came on earlier I went out. MvG and Phil should be a good match if it comes about.

gramar

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Answer is no, they don't have a clue.
Sky spotters are pros, they get about 70 days work a year between the 6 or 7 comps that Sky has. Trained by KJP, and they put time and effort into their trade and research what way players do particular checkouts.
ITV guys strictly amateurs, wouldn't be surprised if they've never done it before.

Keith Dellor works as a spotter for Sky and knows the checkouts and the preferences of each player and he has the people on the cameras well briefed. ITV look like they have Stevie Wonder working on the cameras.

ArmaniJeanss

Will be cheering on Taylor for the first time in a long while - if Pipe ever gets a TV win then they'll be nearly forced into giving him one of the 6 Wildcards for the PL.
Which would be up there with the great sporting disasters of our time.

barone

woeful camerawork and commentary..woeful

gramar

barone wrote: »

woeful camerawork and commentary..woeful

Chris Mason is ok, but that Rawlings fella is a bit annoying.
Everything dart thrown at a triple is 'excellent'.

As for the camerawork..it's improved slighty but is still only barely getting to the bull or doubles in time.

Come on MvG in the final!

KevIRL

Wow MvG

ArmaniJeanss

Such an awesome set of 5 there from MVG, from 4-6 to 9-6.

Kingp35

MvG on fire, even Taylor couldn't handle him in that session.