2016 PDC World Darts Championship

ComfortKid

That time of year again...

The draw was made for the 2016 William Hill World Championship.

Michael van Gerwen (1) v Thanawat Gaweenuntawong/Rene Eidams
John Henderson (32) v Darren Webster
Raymond van Barneveld (16) v Dirk van Duijvenbode
Stephen Bunting (17) v Jyhan Artut
Michael Smith (8) v Jeffrey De Zwaan
Steve Beaton (25) v Koha Kokiri
Ian White (9) v Dimitri Van den Bergh
Benito van de Pas (24) v Max Hopp
Adrian Lewis (5) v Jan Dekker
Andrew Gilding (28) v Gerwyn Price
Kim Huybrechts (12) v David Pallett
Mensur Suljovic (21) v Jermaine Wattimena
Peter Wright (4) v Keegan Brown
Dean Winstanley (29) v Ronny Huybrechts
Dave Chisnall (13) v Rowby-John Rodriguez
Justin Pipe (20) v Christian Kist
Gary Anderson (2) v PDPA Qualifier Runner-Up/Per Laursen
Jamie Lewis (31) v Daryl Gurney
Vincent van der Voort (15) v Loz Ryder
Brendan Dolan (18) v Kyle Anderson
James Wade (7) v Warrick Scheffer/John Michael
Wes Newton (26) v Cristo Reyes
Simon Whitlock (10) v PDPA Qualifier Winner
Jamie Caven (23) v Michael Rasztovits/John Michael
Robert Thornton (6) v Alan Norris
Andy Hamilton (27) v Joe Murnan
Terry Jenkins (11) v Darin Young
Mark Webster (22) v Qiang Sun/Mick McGowan
Phil Taylor (3) v Keita Ono/Alex Taragao
Kevin Painter (30) v Kim Viljanen/Sven Groen
Mervyn King (14) v Aleksander Oreshkin/Paul Lim
Jelle Klaasen (19) v Joe Cullen


Nothing too exiting there, it doesn't really get going until after Christmas.

Order of play out end of this week.

Can we stop all this nonsense and just give Michael Van Gerwen the trophy now..

jamesbere

Nothing too exciting , they're are some good looking match ups there. Wright v Brown
Terry Jenkins v Darin Young
Robert Thornton v Alan Norris
Mervyn King v Oreshkin/Lim (great to see Paul Lim back)
Benito van de Pas v Max Hopp
Andrew Gilding v Gerwyn Price
Jamie Lewis v Daryl Gurney

Love every single minute of the world's can't wait for it to start

ComfortKid

jamesbere wrote:

Nothing too exciting , they're are some good looking match ups there. Wright v Brown Terry Jenkins v Darin Young Robert Thornton v Alan Norris Mervyn King v Oreshkin/Lim (great to see Paul Lim back) Benito van de Pas v Max Hopp Andrew Gilding v Gerwyn Price Jamie Lewis v Daryl Gurney

Benito v Hopp and Gurney v Lewis are the only two matchs that could go either way in my opinion. None of the potential winners will have trouble. Wright will easily dispose of Brown.

Same though, I'll watch every single dart that's thrown.

jamesbere

Norris could catch out Thornton but only if he brushes up on his doubles.

The last two places for the pdpa qualifiers is on today, over 150 entries. just saw Paul Nicholson knocked out in first round.

ArmaniJeanss

Michael van Gerwen (1) v Thanawat Gaweenuntawong/Rene Eidams
John Henderson (32) v Darren Webster
Raymond van Barneveld (16) v Dirk van Duijvenbode
Stephen Bunting (17) v Jyhan Artut

Michael Smith (8) v Jeffrey De Zwaan
Steve Beaton (25) v Koha Kokiri
Ian White (9) v Dimitri Van den Bergh
Benito van de Pas (24) v Max Hopp

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Adrian Lewis (5) v Jan Dekker
Andrew Gilding (28) v Gerwyn Price
Kim Huybrechts (12) v David Pallett
Mensur Suljovic (21) v Jermaine Wattimena

Peter Wright (4) v Keegan Brown
Dean Winstanley (29) v Ronny Huybrechts
Dave Chisnall (13) v Rowby-John Rodriguez
Justin Pipe (20) v Christian Kist

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Gary Anderson (2) v PDPA Qualifier Runner-Up/Per Laursen
Jamie Lewis (31) v Daryl Gurney
Vincent van der Voort (15) v Loz Ryder
Brendan Dolan (18) v Kyle Anderson

James Wade (7) v Warrick Scheffer/John Michael
Wes Newton (26) v Cristo Reyes
Simon Whitlock (10) v PDPA Qualifier Winner
Jamie Caven (23) v Michael Rasztovits/John Michael

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Robert Thornton (6) v Alan Norris
Andy Hamilton (27) v Joe Murnan
Terry Jenkins (11) v Darin Young
Mark Webster (22) v Qiang Sun/Mick McGowan

Phil Taylor (3) v Keita Ono/Alex Taragao
Kevin Painter (30) v Kim Viljanen/Sven Groen
Mervyn King (14) v Aleksander Oreshkin/Paul Lim
Jelle Klaasen (19) v Joe Cullen

Kingp35

ComfortKid wrote: »

Benito v Hopp and Gurney v Lewis are the only two matchs that could go either way in my opinion. None of the potential winners will have trouble. Wright will easily dispose of Brown.

Same though, I'll watch every single dart that's thrown.

It never works like that. You will always see a few seeds being knocked out in Round 1. Christmas never really starts until the World Championships start!

PTH2009

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Michael van Gerwen (1) v Thanawat Gaweenuntawong/Rene Eidams
John Henderson (32) v Darren Webster
Raymond van Barneveld (16) v Dirk van Duijvenbode
Stephen Bunting (17) v Jyhan Artut

Michael Smith (8) v Jeffrey De Zwaan
Steve Beaton (25) v Koha Kokiri
Ian White (9) v Dimitri Van den Bergh
Benito van de Pas (24) v Max Hopp

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Adrian Lewis (5) v Jan Dekker
Andrew Gilding (28) v Gerwyn Price
Kim Huybrechts (12) v David Pallett
Mensur Suljovic (21) v Jermaine Wattimena

Peter Wright (4) v Keegan Brown
Dean Winstanley (29) v Ronny Huybrechts
Dave Chisnall (13) v Rowby-John Rodriguez
Justin Pipe (20) v Christian Kist

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Gary Anderson (2) v PDPA Qualifier Runner-Up/Per Laursen
Jamie Lewis (31) v Daryl Gurney
Vincent van der Voort (15) v Loz Ryder
Brendan Dolan (18) v Kyle Anderson

James Wade (7) v Warrick Scheffer/John Michael
Wes Newton (26) v Cristo Reyes
Simon Whitlock (10) v PDPA Qualifier Winner
Jamie Caven (23) v Michael Rasztovits/John Michael

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Robert Thornton (6) v Alan Norris
Andy Hamilton (27) v Joe Murnan
Terry Jenkins (11) v Darin Young
Mark Webster (22) v Qiang Sun/Mick McGowan

Phil Taylor (3) v Keita Ono/Alex Taragao
Kevin Painter (30) v Kim Viljanen/Sven Groen
Mervyn King (14) v Aleksander Oreshkin/Paul Lim
Jelle Klaasen (19) v Joe Cullen

No Paul Nicholson ???

Kingp35

PTH2009 wrote: »

No Paul Nicholson ???

Knocked out in the First Round of the PDPA Qualifiers. Colin Lloyd, Colin Osbourne, Devon Peterson and Mark Dudbridge a few others knocked out.

Ronnie Baxter missed the 11am sign in deadline so also out.

John Part failed to qualify too.

marklazarcovic

wright v brown could be slippery for the snake :P

Firewalkwithme

Adrian Lewis (5) v Jan Dekker

It wouldn't surprise me to see Lewis lose this. I all depends on whether he turns up on the day.

PTH2009 wrote: »

No Paul Nicholson ???

Why is this a surprise? He's useless these days, lost all his confidence.

paulie21

Kevin Painter probably be whinging he is on Taylor's side of draw again

paulie21

Ricky Evans won the final qualifer beat Steve West in final 5-2

statto25

I cant wait for John McDonalds attempt at announcing "Thanawat Gaweenuntawong" to the stage!

jamesbere

statto25 wrote: »

I cant wait for John McDonalds attempt at announcing "Thanawat Gaweenuntawong" to the stage!

Thanawat gaweenuntawooooooooonnnnnnnnnggggggg!

ComfortKid

paulie21 wrote:

Ricky Evans won the final qualifer beat Steve West in final 5-2

Fair play to Ricky, he hasn't qualified for anything in a while. Love watching him.

jamesbere

Wonder what odds you would get for Paul lim to hit a 9 darter, would be some sight.

Gotya

Its like buying money backing van gerwen this year for the world champion!!.


Edit: 7/4 seems to be the biggest price on offer.

ComfortKid

Gotya wrote:

Edit: 7/4 seems to be the biggest price on offer.

Great odds if your lumpling on. Some great eachway betting too, almost any of the top ten players could get to the final.

When can we find the draw chart so we can see who possibly plays who in the latter stages?

ArmaniJeanss

ComfortKid wrote: »

Great odds if your lumpling on. Some great eachway betting too, almost any of the top ten players could get to the final.

When can we find the draw chart so we can see who possibly plays who in the latter stages?

My post number 5 above has the full bracket draw. Copy it into the OP if you want.

Gotya

ComfortKid wrote: »

Great odds if your lumpling on. Some great eachway betting too, almost any of the top ten players could get to the final.

When can we find the draw chart so we can see who possibly plays who in the latter stages?

I wasn't gambling back when taylor was unstoppable years ago, what kinda price would he have been at the start of the world's back then? (I don't know if you know the answer to that either, so if anyone does??)

Van Gerwen gonna pay for the new year I can't see anyone beating him, he is just too consistent compared to all the top players at the moment. Even when pushed, he finds them 10-11-12 darters and just finds a way to win.

Conclusion, mighty mike is unbeatable and will get his hands back on the Sid Waddell trophy, put the outside farm on him

Are the world's finishing on the 4th of January?

Degag

Kingp35 wrote: »

It never works like that. You will always see a few seeds being knocked out in Round 1. Christmas never really starts until the World Championships start!

Definitely, there are normally quite a few shocks in the first round.

Cartoon_Head wrote: »

It wouldn't surprise me to see Lewis lose this. I all depends on whether he turns up on the day.

Dekker is muck. I can count in 1 hand the amount of times I've seen him with an average above 80

Gotya wrote: »

I wasn't gambling back when taylor was unstoppable years ago, what kinda price would he have been at the start of the world's back then? (I don't know if you know the answer to that either, so if anyone does??)

About 1/2 if memory serves me.

PTH2009

can see MVG winning it but a surprise winner would not be a big surprise.

marklazarcovic

I've slated Lewis before for various reasons but I think he has turned a corner and copped on a bit,could be worth a shout ,if he's on top firm he is hard to beay

Firewalkwithme

Degag wrote: »

Dekker is muck. I can count in 1 hand the amount of times I've seen him with an average above 80

Yes he is but Lewis is inconsistent, he could end up beating himself.

Kingp35

Degag wrote: »

Dekker is muck. I can count in 1 hand the amount of times I've seen him with an average above 80

In fairness to Dekker he has managed to qualify for the World Championships in his first year in the PDC and he did it without having a tour card. That's pretty impressive. It will take a huge performance for him to beat Lewis but if Lewis has one of his off days where he averages low 90's then Dekker could definitely take him.

ComfortKid

2015/16 WILLIAM HILL WORLD DARTS CHAMPIONSHIP
SCHEDULE OF PLAY
PRELIMINARY & FIRST ROUNDS
(P) Denotes Preliminary Round
Thursday December 17 (7pm-11pm)
Andy Boulton v Per Laursen (P)
Jamie Lewis v Daryl Gurney
Peter Wright v Keegan Brown
Gary Anderson v Boulton/Laursen

Friday December 18
Afternoon Session (1pm-5pm)
Qiang Sun v Mick McGowan (P)
John Henderson v Darren Webster
Justin Pipe v Christian Kist
Mark Webster v Sun/McGowan

Evening Session (7pm-11pm)
Thanawat Gaweenuntawong v Rene Eidams (P)
Brendan Dolan v Kyle Anderson
Kim Huybrechts v David Pallett
Michael van Gerwen v Gaweenuntawong/Eidams

Saturday December 19
Afternoon Session (1pm-5pm)
Kim Viljanen v Sven Groen (P)
Steve Beaton v Koha Kokiri
Ian White v Dimitri Van den Bergh
Kevin Painter v Viljanen/Groen

Evening Session (7pm-11pm)
Keita Ono v Alex Tagarao (P)
Simon Whitlock v Ricky Evans
Vincent van der Voort v Laurence Ryder
Phil Taylor v Ono/Tagarao

Sunday December 20
Afternoon Session (1pm-5pm)
Michael Rasztovits v Rob Szabo (P)
Andy Hamilton v Joe Murnan
Mensur Suljovic v Jermaine Wattimena
Jamie Caven v Rasztovits/Szabo

Evening Session (7pm-11pm)
Aleksandr Oreshkin v Paul Lim (P)
Stephen Bunting v Jyhan Artut
Raymond van Barneveld v Dirk van Duijvenbode
Mervyn King v Oreshkin/Lim

Monday December 21 (7pm-11pm)
Warrick Scheffer v John Michael (P)
Robert Thornton v Alan Norris
Michael Smith v Jeffrey De Zwaan
James Wade v Scheffer/Michael

Tuesday December 22 (7pm-11pm)
Dean Winstanley v Ronny Huybrechts
Wes Newton v Cristo Reyes
Dave Chisnall v Rowby-John Rodriguez
Terry Jenkins v Darin Young

Wednesday December 23 (7pm-11pm)
Andrew Gilding v Gerwyn Price
Benito van de Pas v Max Hopp
Adrian Lewis v Jan Dekker
Jelle Klaasen v Joe Cullen

SECOND ROUND
Saturday December 26 (6pm-10pm)
Whitlock/Evans v Caven/Rasztovits/Szabo
Chisnall/Rodriguez v Pipe/Kist
G Anderson/Boulton/Laursen v J Lewis/Gurney

Sunday December 27
Afternoon Session (1pm-5pm)
Smith/De Zwaan v Beaton/Kokiri
White/Van den Bergh v van de Pas/Hopp
Van der Voort/Ryder v Dolan/K Anderson

Evening Session (7pm-11pm)
van Barneveld/van Duijvenbode v Bunting/Artut
Wade/Scheffer/Michael v Newton/Reyes
van Gerwen/Gaweenuntawong/Eidams v Henderson/D Webster

Monday December 28
Afternoon Session (1pm-5pm)
Thornton/Norris v Hamilton/Murnan
Jenkins/Young v M Webster/Sun/McGowan
K Huybrechts/Pallett v Suljovic/Wattimena

Evening Session (7.30pm-11.30pm)
A Lewis/Dekker v Gilding/Price
Wright/Brown v Winstanley/R Huybrechts
Taylor/Ono/Tagarao v Painter/Viljanen/Groen

Tuesday December 29
Afternoon Session (1pm-5pm)
King/Oreshkin/Lim v Klaasen/Cullen
THIRD ROUND
Smith/De Zwaan/Beaton/Kokiri v White/Van den Bergh/van de Pas/Hopp
Wade/Scheffer/Michael/Newton/Reyes v Whitlock/Evans/Caven/Rasztovits/Szabo

Evening Session (7pm-11pm)
A Lewis/Dekker/Gilding/Price v K Huybrechts/Pallett/Suljovic/Wattimena
G Anderson/Boulton/Laursen/J Lewis/Gurney v van der Voort/Ryder/Dolan/K Anderson
van Gerwen/Gaweenuntawong/Eidams/Henderson/D Webster v van Barneveld/van Duijvenbode/Bunting/Artut

Wednesday December 30 (7pm-11pm)
Wright/Brown/Winstanley/R Huybrechts v Chisnall/Rodriguez/Pipe/Kist
Thornton/Norris/Hamilton/Murnan v Jenkins/Young/M Webster/Sun/McGowan
Taylor/Ono/Taragao/Painter/Viljanen/Groen v King/Oreshkin/Klaasen/Cullen

Friday January 1
QUARTER-FINALS
Afternoon Session (1pm-4.30pm)
TBC

Evening Session (7.30pm-11pm)
TBC

Saturday January 2 (8pm-11.30pm)
SEMI-FINALS
TBC

Sunday January 3 (7pm-10pm)
FINAL

A Shaved Duck?

marklazarcovic wrote: »

I've slated Lewis before for various reasons but I think he has turned a corner and copped on a bit,could be worth a shout ,if he's on top firm he is hard to beay

To be honest i wouldnt trust lewis to not indulge to much in the christmas cheer to stay focused over a long tournament like this.

The man looked like death warmed up against MVG the other day..

paulie21

Lovely the darts are on Stephens and New Years Day

PTH2009

hope chizzy does well. he has played badly in previous world championships

DEFTLEFTHAND

Cartoon_Head wrote: »

Yes he is but Lewis is inconsistent, he could end up beating himself.

Dekker in fairness to him has had a good season, winning the Challenge Tour Order of Merit and securing a full tour card in the process. If he's on good form and Adrian starts messing it could get interesting alright.

ComfortKid

I see the SkySportsDarts channel is up and running on channel 407.
I was hoping they'd show some new footage from the archive but it's the same games over and over.

gramar

For those of you who fancy a bet here's a preview from Sportinglife...

http://www.sportinglife.com/darts/news/article/2/10099708/pdc-world-championships-preview-and-betting-tips-time-to-wade-in

Artfu1Dodger

Will upc have sky sports darts. It's replacing the f1 channel on sky and upc never had that.

ArmaniJeanss

Artfu1Dodger wrote: »

Will upc have sky sports darts. It's replacing the f1 channel on sky and upc never had that.

Earlier in the month Sky said all sessions will also be live on one of the regular stations.

paulie21

Thornton @66/1. Is there something I'm missing or is that very generous. On opposite side to MVG

ComfortKid

paulie21 wrote:

Thornton @66/1. Is there something I'm missing or is that very generous. On opposite side to MVG

Could not believe that when I saw it yesterday, I assumed he was playing MvG early on.. Worth a punt the man only beat MvG in a major final 2 months ago

Chesty08

Wade looks like the value & best bet for me based on current form & draw

13/5 to win his quarter
8/1 to reach final
20/1 to win

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Cant see past MVG & thinking do I do a big bet on MVG & small bets on Wade(as above).... Or just MVG

marklazarcovic

ComfortKid wrote:

Could not believe that when I saw it yesterday, I assumed he was playing MvG early on.. Worth a punt the man only beat MvG in a major final 2 months ago

He's always 'sick' though

marklazarcovic

Mcg has not one a sets based tournament since he last won the world's!! Wow ,hadn't realised that

Kingp35

paulie21 wrote: »

Thornton @66/1. Is there something I'm missing or is that very generous. On opposite side to MVG

He has had a few injuries and illnesses over the last few months so his preparation etc. hasn't been the best.

Article on it here (apologies that it's The Sun!):
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/6808732/Robert-Thornton-the-unluckiest-man-in-darts-ready-for-action-at-the-Ally-Pally.html

Here is tonight's schedule of play along with my highly scientific predictions:

Thursday December 17 (7pm-11pm)
Andy Boulton 2-0 Per Laursen (P)
Jamie Lewis 2-3 Daryl Gurney
Peter Wright 3-0 Keegan Brown
Gary Anderson 3-0 Boulton/Laurse

Chesty08

marklazarcovic wrote: »

Mcg has not one a sets based tournament since he last won the world's!! Wow ,hadn't realised that

Do not be putting that in my head

StephenHendry

ComfortKid wrote: »

I see the SkySportsDarts channel is up and running on channel 407.
I was hoping they'd show some new footage from the archive but it's the same games over and over.

afaik as I know you can still watch all the games on the regular ss channels, I was watching some old darts games on yt last night, the 1988 bdo wc games which included highlights of the 1r, 2r qf's etc

ComfortKid

marklazarcovic wrote:

Mcg has not one a sets based tournament since he last won the world's!! Wow ,hadn't realised that

There's only two tournaments with the set format and he played in final and semi final of the last two so I wouldn't look in to that too much.

naughto

Is brown the fella that almost quite and was going back painting and can't preform when on the TV

Took up sky's offer of 20 euro for ss now to get rid of the misses for a bit of peace

gramar

Kingp35 wrote: »

He has had a few injuries and illnesses over the last few months so his preparation etc. hasn't been the best.

Article on it here (apologies that it's The Sun!):
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/6808732/Robert-Thornton-the-unluckiest-man-in-darts-ready-for-action-at-the-Ally-Pally.html

Here is tonight's schedule of play along with my highly scientific predictions:

Thursday December 17 (7pm-11pm)
Andy Boulton 2-0 Per Laursen (P)
Jamie Lewis 2-3 Daryl Gurney
Peter Wright 3-0 Keegan Brown
Gary Anderson 3-0 Boulton/Laurse

I just looked up Per Laursen to see if it was who I thought it was. It was.
I remember him from other years and the World cup. He's not very good at all.

I may have discovered why he's back though...typing in his name
the word 'daughter' came up and having a look at her she's a bit on the good looking side.

ComfortKid

naughto wrote:

Is brown the fella that almost quite and was going back painting and can't preform when on the TV

Don't think it's Keegan Brown anyway, he's not a painter and he performs OK on TV, he's just not as good as the top 16 players

DJ90

Smith or Chizzy to go all the way I reckon

ArmaniJeanss

I'm struggling to garner much enthusiasm for the first round, may wait until the second round starts on the 26th.

Firewalkwithme

naughto wrote: »

Is brown the fella that almost quite and was going back painting and can't preform when on the TV

Took up sky's offer of 20 euro for ss now to get rid of the misses for a bit of peace

I believe you are thinking of Brendan Dolan.

jamesbere

At last it's back on, love the world championship.

Lewis v gurney should be a good match and brown will push Wright but I'm thinking 3-1 to Wright there.

marklazarcovic

browns a lab tech,and much better than dolan i think