2018 BDO World Championship

paulie21 · 06-12-2017 8:38pm #1

6th-14th January

Seen video of draw can only remember a few

Mark McGeeney v Martin Adams
Glen Durrant v Gary Robson or Penigran Mohamed
Ross Montgomery v Scott Waites

Ultimate Seduction · 06-12-2017 8:45pm

paulie21 wrote: »

6th-14th January

Seen video of draw can only remember a few

Mark McGeeney v Martin Adams
Glen Durrant v Gary Robson or Penigran Mohamed
Ross Montgomery v Scott Waites

Ross v Waites only game that looks interesting. Crazy how Danny Noppert, last years runner up had to do a preliminary round. He's my bet to win it out anyway along with Menzies

sc86 · 07-12-2017 3:15pm

draw was some farce

only the bdo could do that
even the players didnt know

advertised draw was at 7
was at 5pm i think

joke

Ultimate Seduction · 07-12-2017 3:41pm

sc86 wrote: »

draw was some farce

only the bdo could do that
even the players didnt know

advertised draw was at 7
was at 5pm i think

joke

The BDO didn't even know about it. They were still saying it was on at 7pm after it had been on the channel 4 website. It's like they do this stuff on purpose. Pure comedy.

ArmaniJeanss · 08-12-2017 3:31pm

wiki link with draw and bookmakers odds.

Also @paulie (and I don't mean this in a having-a-pop way) I think as you create a lot of the event threads you should make it a template to always put in a link to the draw in the OP. wiki draw is handy as it'll be getting continuously updated as matches take place. Good to have as much info in the OP as possible.

buster180 · 08-12-2017 5:42pm

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Ross v Waites only game that looks interesting. Crazy how Danny Noppert, last years runner up had to do a preliminary round. He's my bet to win it out anyway along with Menzies

They must have changed the rules this year. I always thought the four semi-final players were guaranteed automatic qualification for the next two years .

Ultimate Seduction · 08-12-2017 6:27pm

buster180 wrote: »

They must have changed the rules this year. I always thought the four semi-final players were guaranteed automatic qualification for the next two years .

Happened to Jeff Smith after getting to the 2015 final too. Scandalous really.

raiders11 · 18-12-2017 1:40am

paulie21 wrote: »

6th-14th January

Seen video of draw can only remember a few

Mark McGeeney v Martin Adams
Glen Durrant v Gary Robson or Penigran Mohamed
Ross Montgomery v Scott Waites

Can only remember a few?? Fair play to ye for remembering Penigran Mohamed:D

Inquitus · 28-12-2017 6:36pm

Surely this has to be nearing the end of its useful life? The prize pool has remained static since 2010, ergo it has diminished in real terms, the quality of the promotion, materials, press team is at an all time low, count the typos in the below tweeted promotional material:

They are using pics of Barney to sell tickets:

Surely it just needs to be put out of its misery now?

Ultimate Seduction · 28-12-2017 7:37pm

Inquitus wrote: »

Surely this has to be nearing the end of its useful life? The prize pool has remained static since 2010, ergo it has diminished in real terms, the quality of the promotion, materials, press team is at an all time low, count the typos in the below tweeted promotional material:

They are using pics of Barney to sell tickets:

Surely it just needs to be put out of its misery now?

I see it as a County players tournament. Its a good experience for County players being on stage and tv. I like it and think it should stay just drop the World Championship out of it.

Inquitus · 28-12-2017 7:55pm

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

I see it as a County players tournament. Its a good experience for County players being on stage and tv. I like it and think it should stay just drop the World Championship out of it.

That's a reasonable angle to take, instead they insist on advertising it thus:

Ultimate Seduction · 28-12-2017 7:57pm

What tv channel is it going to be on btw?

OldMrBrennan83 · 28-12-2017 7:58pm

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Inquitus · 28-12-2017 8:04pm

Patww79 wrote: »

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Last shown on the BBC in 2016, Channel 4 last year, 2017, and ongoing. BT Sports showing some as well, not sure if that's just the final, some of it is only available on BDO youtube channel as well apparently.

millhouse · 28-12-2017 8:20pm

Channel 4 will show live coverage of the afternoon games and BT sports will cover the evening games up to the final . It's always now seen as the poormans darts even though it was the original world championship and it is very much the breeding ground for all the future PDC stars. We will be spoiled by all the 180's and big check outs on sky and then these plumbers and brickies come along and throw 26 and 41 to beat the band. It does improve in the latter stages but for constant continual quality Sky is your only man.

OldMrBrennan83 · 28-12-2017 8:32pm

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Ultimate Seduction · 28-12-2017 8:42pm

Patww79 wrote: »

BT rules me out of watching as I've got Virgin. Used to love it back in the day on the BBC but it was definitely more level pegging with the PDC even only 10 years ago.

All went downhill after Barney switched really.

millhouse · 28-12-2017 9:36pm

Glen Durrant is a quality player in the BDO. Could hold is own in the PDC. Jamie Hughes and Danny Noppert also very capable on their day but after that it's the same regular pub players .

liam7831 · 28-12-2017 9:41pm

I really miss bobby George from the commentary

Sultan of Bling · 28-12-2017 9:43pm

millhouse wrote:

Glen Durrant is a quality player in the BDO. Could hold is own in the PDC. Jamie Hughes and Danny Noppert also very capable on their day but after that it's the same regular pub players .

Cameron Menzies a decent player too.

29-12-2017 8:04pm

Inquitus wrote: »

Surely this has to be nearing the end of its useful life? The prize pool has remained static since 2010, ergo it has diminished in real terms, the quality of the promotion, materials, press team is at an all time low, count the typos in the below tweeted promotional material:

Christ that's amateur. It's like they've given up.

Deeper Blue · 29-12-2017 10:15pm

That poster isn't real surely? It's hilariously bad

ebbsy · 02-01-2018 12:27pm

Inquitus wrote: »

Surely this has to be nearing the end of its useful life? The prize pool has remained static since 2010, ergo it has diminished in real terms, the quality of the promotion, materials, press team is at an all time low, count the typos in the below tweeted promotional material:

They are using pics of Barney to sell tickets:

Surely it just needs to be put out of its misery now?

sc86 · 02-01-2018 3:33pm

full list of fcuk ups here

https://justincredibledarts.blogspot.ie/

DEFTLEFTHAND · 02-01-2018 5:42pm

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

I see it as a County players tournament. Its a good experience for County players being on stage and tv. I like it and think it should stay just drop the World Championship out of it.

BDO run it on behalf of the World Darts Federation, the official world governing body of darts.

It's not just a bunch of county players, it incorporates players from all the WDF regions.

I know it's silly but the PDC World title is not recognised by the WDF.

Ultimate Seduction · 02-01-2018 5:48pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

BDO run it on behalf of the World Darts Federation, the official world governing body of darts.

It's not just a bunch of county players, it incorporates players from all the WDF regions.

I know it's silly but the PDC World title is not recognised by the WDF.

The majority of players playing at Lakeside play county darts in the UK. Standard wise it's on a par with good county darts in the UK.

I didn't mean to say it's actually a county darts tournament. Although WDF it is not a world championship it's an amature championship, they all still have regular day jobs

Atlantic Dawn · 02-01-2018 11:03pm

Why does the BDO hold zero tournaments in Republic Of Ireland? They seem to have them pretty much everywhere else France, Romania, Spain, Gilbraltar, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Finland, Denmark, Slovakia etc.