Winmau World Masters 29th Jan - 2nd Feb

The Preliminary rounds acting as a qualifier for the TV stages will have 2 boards streamed on pdc.tv. Players ranked 25th-56th on the OoM start at the last 64 stage and they will be joined by 32 qualifiers coming from the group stage. Group stage contains the remaining tour card holders, top 8 from 2024 challenge tour not already in the event, top 8 from 2024 development tour not already in the event, top 8 from womens series 2024, top from the Asian, Nordic, CDC and Australian tours and the top 4 from the ADC rankings.

Mickey Mansell, Keane Barry and Willie O Connor will start at the last 64 stage

Dylan Slevin, Steve Lennon, Dylan Dowling and Robyn Byrne will start at the group stage.

Yeah agree completely. The qualifying day is going to be very interesting. If I was to make a change to this it would be to only have the top 16 qualify automatically and double the amount of qualifer slots from the prelims.

I'd actually top 8 as the top 16 are getting seeded in everything now, thats more of an issue to resolve with the Euro Tours than these TV ranking tournaments though imo

Barney among 6 tour card holders who have not entered, this has bumped Dylan Slevin up a place in the qualifiers and as a result he wont have to play the preliminary round group stage.

Beau Greaves has also not entered which is a surprise

Turns out Dylan Dowling is not on the Dev Tour 2024 top 8 ranking players for this

MvG wont be in green for this event

https://x.com/Winmau/status/1884239020257075327

Steve Lennon loses his two group games 2-0 and is out

Robyn Byrne also with two 2-0 defeats

Aidan O Hara picked up a set against Boulton but loses that 2-1 and the other 2-0

pdc.tv streaming two of the boards today in the qualifiers, have to have a membership there though. The competition proper is being screen on ITV4 from tomorrow evening

L64 draws for Irish players

Dylan Slevin v Ryan Branley

Keane Barry v Thibault Tricole

Mickey Mansell v Brett Claydon

Willie O Connor v Danny Lauby

Top 8 qualify so 3 wins required.

Gurney, mansell and slevin through to last 16 and one win away from tournament proper.

Keane Barry out

Winmau world masters 8 qualifiers from today are - William O'Connor, Kevin Doets, Jermaine Wattimena, Bradley Brooks, Andy Beatens, Florian Hempel, Cameron Menzies, Willie borland

Belter of an opening match between rock and Wattimena

2 match darts gone for WOC but then takes out 151 to beat rob cross

10K in the bag for Willie this week and eases a lot of concerns about getting dragged into a tour card battle. Not safe yet but a great start

https://www.dartsrankings.com/postwch

Noppert beats Michael smith in the last game of the night. His winning darts greeted with complete silence from the crowd

Wade beats de decker 3-2 in the opener. Great match.