2016 Players Championship ITV4

Head Wreck

It starts today. fancy someone other than MvG to win it. It's the last tournament before the worlds too so will see form for betting. Heres the schedule.

Friday November 25
First Round (Best of 11 legs)
Afternoon Session (12.45pm)
Main Stage
Joe Cullen v Steve Brown
Ian White v Keegan Brown
Chris Dobey v Mick McGowan
Jelle Klaasen v Simon Stevenson
Simon Whitlock v Matthew Edgar
Cristo Reyes v Berry van Peer
Christian Kist v Ricky Evans
Dave Chisnall v Kevin Painter

Stage Two
James Wilson v Vincent Kamphuis
Joe Murnan v Jermaine Wattimena
Justin Pipe v Andy Jenkins
Darren Webster v Jonny Clayton
Josh Payne v Mark Walsh
Vincent van der Voort v Andrew Gilding
Jamie Caven v Jamie Lewis
Robbie Green v Devon Petersen

Evening Session (7pm)
Main Stage
James Wade v Mervyn King
Gerwyn Price v Dimitri Van den Bergh
Mensur Suljovic v Raymond van Barneveld
Benito van de Pas v Brendan Dolan
Michael van Gerwen v Andy Hamilton
Gary Anderson v John Henderson
Peter Wright v Jason Wilson
Adrian Lewis v Robert Thornton

Stage Two
Steve West v Jan Dekker
Steve Beaton v Jeffrey de Graaf
Mark Webster v Terry Jenkins
Daryl Gurney v Ronnie Baxter
Kim Huybrechts v Mickey Mansell
Alan Norris v Michael Smith
Ronny Huybrechts v Rowby-John Rodriguez
Stephen Bunting v Ron Meulenkamp

Saturday November 26
Afternoon Session (12.45pm)
Second Round (Best of 11 legs)
Main Stage
Chisnall/Painter v Caven/J Lewis
Dobey/McGowan v Norris/Smith
Suljovic/van Barneveld v A Lewis/Thornton
K Huybrechts/Mansell v Gurney/Baxter
van Gerwen/Hamilton v van der Voort/Gilding
van de Pas/Dolan v Murnan/Wattimena
Wright/Jason Wilson v Wade/King
Bunting/Meulenkamp v Anderson/Henderson

Stage Two
Price/van den Bergh v Kist/Evans
James Wilson/Kamphuis v Klaasen/Stevenson
Whitlock/Edgar v D Webster/Clayton
West/Dekker v Pipe/A Jenkins
Payne/Walsh v Reyes/van Peer
Cullen/S Brown v R Huybrechts/Rodriguez
White/K Brown v M Webster/T Jenkins
Beaton/de Graaf v Green/Petersen

Evening Session (7pm)
Third Round (Best of 19 legs)
Main Stage
Chisnall/Painter/Caven/J Lewis v James Wilson/Kamphuis/Klaasen/Stevenson (Match 103)
Suljovic/van Barneveld/A Lewis/Thornton v Cullen/S Brown/R Huybrechts/Rodriguez (Match 98)
van Gerwen/Hamilton/van der Voort/Gilding v Payne/Walsh/Reyes/van Peer (Match 97)
Wright/Jason Wilson/Wade/King v Bunting/Meulenkamp/Anderson/Henderson (Match 102)

Stage Two
Price/Van den Bergh/Kist/Evans v West/Dekker/Pipe/A Jenkins (Match 99)
Whitlock/Edgar/D Webster/Clayton v Dobey/McGowan/Norris/Smith (Match 100)
van de Pas/Dolan/Murnan/Wattimena v K Huybrechts/Mansell/Gurney/Baxter (Match 101)
White/K Brown/M Webster/T Jenkins v Beaton/de Graaf/Green/Petersen (Match 104)

Sunday November 27
Afternoon Session (12.45pm)
Quarter-Finals (Best of 19 legs)
Winner Match 97 v Winner Match 98 (QF1)
Winner Match 99 v Winner Match 100 (QF2)
Winner Match 101 v Winner Match 102 (QF3)
Winner Match 103 v Winner Match 104 (QF4)

Evening Session (7pm)
Semi-Finals (Best of 21 legs)
Winner QF 1 v Winner QF2 (SF1)
Winner QF 3 v Winner QF4 (SF2)

Final (Best of 21 legs)

PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship Final
Berry van Peer v Corey Cadby
Best of 11 legs

Kingp35

Some very interesting draws in the first round. I like this tournament as you get to see some of the players that haven't made the other majors throughout the year.

Head Wreck

Kingp35 wrote:

Some very interesting draws in the first round. I like this tournament as you get to see some of the players that haven't made the other majors throughout the year.

One of my favourites aswell. I wish we had an option of which stage to watch though as they'll most likely show as many 'top' players as possible live.

ArmaniJeanss

Anyone else noticed that Wades walk-on music is always different on ITV4.
Same tune obviously, but ITV4 start it from 'guess who just got back today' and do the whole first verse, whereas in Sky tournaments they just play the chorus line 'the boys are back in town' about 10 times and no other lyric?
ITV4>>>Sky in this case.

gramar

Has to be the worst stage backdrop on the tour.

gitzy16v

No Taylor??

ArmaniJeanss

gitzy16v wrote: »

No Taylor??

Not good enough, didn't qualify.

gitzy16v

I knew he didn't play much of the smaller tournaments but thought he might be in top 64...guess not.

ArmaniJeanss

gitzy16v wrote: »

I knew he didn't play much of the smaller tournaments but thought he might be in top 64...guess not.

Yeah, quite surprising really, £8K winnings was the effective cut-off for T64 and he ended up with just under £4K.
20 events with £10K to winner (£6K RU, £3K SF, £2.2K QF etc) it really shouldn't be that difficult to qualify even playing just a select few events. Actually quite careless of him.

gitzy16v

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Yeah, quite surprising really, £8K winnings was the effective cut-off for T64 and he ended up with just under £4K.
20 events with £10K to winner (£6K RU, £3K SF, £2.2K QF etc) it really shouldn't be that difficult to qualify even playing just a select few events. Actually quite careless of him.

He getting on though isn't he,maybe he's not bothered any more.

Sultan of Bling

9 darter for Alan Norris v Michael Smith.35k for him, unless someone else does it.

gramar

These breaks after 5 legs are a pain in the hole.

Dolan struggling here...he'll do well to turn it around.

Head Wreck

Daryl Gurney looks to be getting knocked out here thank god, what a d!ck!

Head Wreck

Anderson knocked out 6-5 against Ron Muelenkomp (something like that)

gramar

A dose of the jitters there from Webster after a mini comeback from Kist before he got it together.
He had some excellent finishes in that match.

mdwexford

Another MVG/Wright final in the offing it seems.

mdwexford

Nearly crowed him.

Anything to say about that Ally Dick?

Wrights bottle from 9-7 down to pull it out of the bag.

raiders11

Great last couple of legs in the Wright v Huybrechts game.....Wright showed balls of steel, the double 8 in the last leg with last dart in hand.....but when 9-8 down and Huybrechts had the darts and started with a 180, ye thought that was it but fair due to Wright, he followed with a 180, that won it for him in my eyes, Huybrechts only got 58 then and Wright was in

Head Wreck

We won't be seeing Ally Duck until January because Peter Wright is going to win this tournament.

Sultan of Bling

Mvg 5-0 down after 1st interval v Webster. Still only 1-3 to win.

Make that 6-0. Sensational.

Head Wreck

Webster won't get another leg

Sultan of Bling

7-6 Webster. Mvg won 6 in a row from 6-0 down. 7 all now and Mvg has just been attacked on stage!!!!!!!! (By a wasp)

Sultan of Bling

8-7 Webster at the final interval. Looked like mvg was going to demolish the demolition man at 6 all. Webster was starting to miss big singles and darts were way of the mark. Credit to him though, he seems to have steadied the ship. You feel if mvg can raise his game by another 10% he should get over the line.

Sultan of Bling

Webster misses double top on 160. Mvg gets double 4. 8 legs apiece

Sultan of Bling

Mvg breaks for a 9-8 lead. Mvg ahead for the first time in the game. He has had 20 missed doubles.

gramar

Thought he had it after 10.

Sultan of Bling

11-8 mvg with a 144 check out. Webster will never get a better chance. He will be hurting tomorrow. Great effort though. He showed his 5-0 win over Taylor in the gsod last week was no fluke.

crasy dash

Great match really enjoyed it nice to see Mvg having a battle.

Webster played great all weekend very unlucky there.

gramar

Chizzy looks very relaxed.

Sultan of Bling

Gutsy 101 checkout from snakebite there after chizzy missed the bull for the match.

gramar

Sultan of Bling wrote: »

Gutsy 101 checkout from snakebite there after chizzy missed the bull for the match.

Great finish under the cirsumstances. Chizzy got the jitters but saw it through in the end.

gramar

Corey Cadby certainly has the physique to be a top player.

gitzy16v

gramar wrote: »

Corey Cadby certainly has the physique to be a top player.

I lost a mouthful of Heineken you fcuk lol

statto25

Well that's that. 25 titles for MvG this year. If he takes this form and can apply it to the set format of the World's he will take some stopping. He's a different level at the minute.

shocksy

yawn :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

darts becoming boring and predictable again.

gramar

shocksy wrote: »

yawn :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

darts becoming boring and predictable again.

A procession. It was over before it began.

statto25

shocksy wrote: »

yawn :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

darts becoming boring and predictable again.

Unfortunatly it is but you have to credit VanGerwen. He's absolutely flying at the minute. If you forget its a match between two players and look at Michaels scoring and finishing its epic. He makes it look so simple.

mdwexford

When he really turns it on he's impossible to live with.

A few players have had him worried lately but they almost seem afraid to finish him off. Definitely an aura of invincibility about him at the moment.

PTH2009

mdwexford wrote: »

When he really turns it on he's impossible to live with.

A few players have had him worried lately but they almost seem afraid to finish him off. Definitely an aura of invincibility about him at the moment.

kind of sick of seeing him win everything :D but hes a class act and is still only 27 (has about 30-35 years left imo)

8 Major PDC final wins so far this year. Ill be shocked if he doesnt win the world championship but anything can happen in the World championships

gramar

PTH2009 wrote: »

kind of sick of seeing him win everything :D but hes a class act and is still only 27 (has about 30-35 years left imo)

8 Major PDC final wins so far this year. Ill be shocked if he doesnt win the world championship but anything can happen in the World championships

I doubt MvG will stay going 30 more years. The money nowadays means he just doesn't have to. There's more to it than money I know but hard to see it him competing that long to be honest.

sc86

mvg was not at his best at the weeknd
darren webster should have bet him ffs

another awfull tournament
think the sport has peaked again, only 1 way its going now sadly

gramar

sc86 wrote: »

mvg was not at his best at the weeknd
darren webster should have bet him ffs

another awfull tournament
think the sport has peaked again, only 1 way its going now sadly

It does seem that way. It's gone beyond saturation point.

Kingp35

Unfortunately I have to agree. The sport needs a big World Championship to get it going again. All of the terrible non-ranking tournaments need to be scrapped too and replaced with a new major.

sc86

the grand slam was much better when it was on itv and played with afternoon and evening games
it was my fav tournament with the bdo lads invited
no sky hype rubbish
now its just another event

they have fcuked up other unique events and made them bland

raiders11

Kingp35 wrote: »

Unfortunately I have to agree. The sport needs a big World Championship to get it going again. All of the terrible non-ranking tournaments need to be scrapped too and replaced with a new major.

Problem with the World Champs, it's totally dragged out, 15 Dec to 2 Jan:eek:

As has been said already, too much darts on tv.... and them bloody breaks, a game just seems to be hotting up and off they walk:mad:

ArmaniJeanss

Ad breaks are a curse obviously.

May not apply to the people who stream it but for anyone with UPC or Sky and a recorder box I've found by far the best way is to record it and let the program be started for around an hour about before you start watching.
Can then skip through the ad breaks, quirky analysis, pointless interviews and just watch the darts. Usually have caught up by around the middle of the last game in a 4 game session.

Don't do this if you are partial to an in-running bet and liable to forget you aren't live!

mdwexford

Breaks don't bother me.

The contant weekend non ranking events do though.

All those European tour events and stuff, you'd be sick of the sight of the top 8 guys.

Never thought I'd agree there's too much darts on but it really is over saturated at this point. The Worlds almost ties Cheltenham for my fav sporting event of the year and this year I'm not nearly as looking forward to it as normal.

sc86

i would imagine the players are the same
sick of playin micky mouse events every weeknd

DEFTLEFTHAND

This is a good documentary about the PDC players life on tour. It was shot during the Gibraltar Trophy this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQwOT2TGBU0

It's a good time to be a darts pro in the PDC, there's never been such money in the game. The likes of golf pros and tennis pros tour year round, and nobody complains of oversaturation of those sports.

mdwexford

Without a doubt it's good for the players being able to earn cash.

If they were ranking tournaments that every player had a chance to qualify for it would be one thing. It's the meaningless exhibition things with the same 8 players I find boring at this stage.

Kingp35

The tour is great and long may it continue. Every tour event is a ranking event and open to all players with a tour card.

As mdwexford said, it's the rubbish non-ranking events that are televised that need to be stopped. There are 11 non-ranking televised tournaments on throughout the year. That is insane!