PDC Q-School 2020

Kingp35 · 13-01-2020 1:15pm #1

With the demise of the BDO, this years Q-School will be extremely interesting. Both the UK and Euro Q-Schools are being held from the 16th-19th January meaning it starts this Thursday.

Confirmed entries so far for both can be found at the following links:

UK Q-School - https://t.co/rqqHWk81Di

Euro Q-School - https://t.co/A5UPsGbfo9

Some of the matches will be available to view on a Stream this year.

Kingp35 · 13-01-2020 1:19pm

Just to add to the above, here is the list of entrants from Ireland (ex. North) so far:

Allen, Devon
Balfe, Donal
Barry, Keane
Byrne, Shane
Cullen, Jason
Culleton, Niall
Delahunty, Jason
Fitzpatrick, Glenn
Forde, Dean
Geraghty, Keith
Hickey, Mark
Hunt, Rory
Hurley, Conor
Meaney, Michael
Murphy, David
O'Boyle, Martin
O'Shea, John
O'Toole, William
Quinn, Patrick
Vallely, Trevor

Healio · 13-01-2020 2:18pm

Kingp35 wrote: »

Just to add to the above, here is the list of entrants from Ireland (ex. North) so far:
Allen, Devon

Balfe, Donal

Barry, Keane

Byrne, Shane

Cullen, Jason

Culleton, Niall

Delahunty, Jason

Fitzpatrick, Glenn

Forde, Dean

Geraghty, Keith

Hickey, Mark

Hunt, Rory

Hurley, Conor

Meaney, Michael

Murphy, David

O'Boyle, Martin

O'Shea, John

O'Toole, William

Quinn, Patrick

Vallely, Trevor

Are any of these posters on our great forum?

sc86 · 13-01-2020 2:59pm

No streams , that idea was scratched

Kingp35 · 14-01-2020 11:47am

Mark Webster has pulled out of Q-School. I'm disappointed he's pulled out, maybe Sky had a word with him and he will be more involved with comms this year. Hopefully he does take the year to work on his game and gives Q-School a go next year.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1217026625575014400

US2 · 14-01-2020 1:28pm

Q School fast becoming one of my favourite darts events of the year. So much at stake. Wish it was streamed

Healio · 14-01-2020 1:45pm

US2 wrote: »

Q School fast becoming one of my favourite darts events of the year. So much at stake. Wish it was streamed

I know its not quite the same, but scoreboards will be here:

https://tv.dartconnect.com/events/pdc

diusmr8a504cvk · 14-01-2020 1:53pm

Kingp35 wrote: »

Mark Webster has pulled out of Q-School. I'm disappointed he's pulled out, maybe Sky had a word with him and he will be more involved with comms this year. Hopefully he does take the year to work on his game and gives Q-School a go next year.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1217026625575014400

Dartitis is a killer

boomdocker · 14-01-2020 4:52pm

Kevin Nutty Sewage wrote: »

Dartitis is a killer

The best of the co-commentators by a country mile
Could carve out a decent gig for himself with Sky, ITV i'd imagine

Stewball · 14-01-2020 8:50pm

Looking at the Q-School entry list.

Martin Adams
Paul Hogan
Leighton Bennett
Justin Thompson
Gary Stone
Adam Smith-Neale

are the only players from the last 32 of the BDO championship not competing this year.

sc86 · 14-01-2020 10:19pm

Some amount of ladies in it , be surprised if any get a card , mayby 1 max , there 60 averages arnt going to cut it

Stewball · 14-01-2020 10:32pm

Didn't Ashton just miss out last year?

sc86 · 14-01-2020 10:34pm

Yep , she has best chance when on song , but looks in poor form lately

Degag · 15-01-2020 12:29am

Think Sherrock has the best chance. If she can match her 90 odd averages from the PDC worlds she has a strong chance

sc86 · 15-01-2020 12:57am

Wayne warren listed to go but unsure he will

Hardest q school to get a card yet

Kingp35 · 15-01-2020 10:03am

Stewball wrote: »

Looking at the Q-School entry list.

Martin Adams
Paul Hogan
Leighton Bennett
Justin Thompson
Gary Stone
Adam Smith-Neale

are the only players from the last 32 of the BDO championship not competing this year.

Leighton Bennett is not old enough to go yet, minimum age to enter Q-School is 16 and Bennett has just turned 14. You also have to be 16 to play on the PDC Development Tour. It's to do with child protection and labour laws.

Kingp35 · 15-01-2020 1:28pm

There's over 850 entries with 31 cards (yet to be confirmed I think) on offer! That's some amount of entries.

I see Peter Manley is one of the entrants, no chance of it happening but it would be great to see one dart back the tour winding people up.

diusmr8a504cvk · 15-01-2020 1:30pm

Kingp35 wrote: »

There's over 850 entries with either 30 or 32 cards (yet to be confirmed) on offer! That's some amount of entries.

I see Peter Manley is one of the entrants, no chance of it happening but it would be great to see one dart back the tour winding people up.

I think I saw lately that he has gone every year since he lost his card, which doesn't look good!

peteeeed · 15-01-2020 7:31pm

Full list 853, time to get on the steroids, stamina needed

https://www.live-darts.com/pdc-darts-news/q-school/pdc-q-school-2020-entries/

Kingp35 · 16-01-2020 10:09am

The PDC have stated that no alcohol is permitted in the venue which will definitely effect some of the players, especially the old school lads. I've no idea how Wayne Warren will cope!

sc86 · 16-01-2020 10:59am

hes now pulled out

Kingp35 · 16-01-2020 11:31am

Live scores can be found at the below links throughout the next four days.

Kingp35 wrote: »

UK Q-School - https://t.co/rqqHWk81Di

Euro Q-School - https://t.co/A5UPsGbfo9

boomdocker · 16-01-2020 11:50am

I see Beau Greaves got a tough draw vs Damon Heta

Kingp35 · 16-01-2020 11:51am

boomdocker wrote: »

I see Beau Greaves got a tough draw vs Damon Heta

It's on now. Suzuki drew another woman in Kirsty Chubb. Sherrock on now too.

Kingp35 · 16-01-2020 12:07pm

A player called Jeremy Dolan just averaged 32.7 in a 5-0 loss. That surely is the worst ever recorded PDC average. I mean if you threw at the board blind folded you would average higher than that!

boomdocker · 16-01-2020 12:21pm

Fair bit of luck involved in these early draws
Matthew Dennant, who had match darts against Duzza last year just beaten by Richie Burnett , averaging 93 - and that over the best of 9 legs

On a quick glance, he would have won 90% of games with that average so unlucky to be out so early on

jamesbere · 16-01-2020 12:40pm

Kingp35 wrote: »

A player called Jeremy Dolan just averaged 32.7 in a 5-0 loss. That surely is the worst ever recorded PDC average. I mean if you threw at the board blind folded you would average higher than that!

He didn't get below 200 in any leg, that's shocking

jamesbere · 16-01-2020 1:11pm

Keane barry out, missed darts to win.

Kingp35 · 16-01-2020 1:14pm

jamesbere wrote: »

Keane barry out, missed darts to win.

He was 4-3 up. Also finished with an 88 average compared to an 81 average.

Going to be tough for him now.

jamesbere · 16-01-2020 1:16pm

Kingp35 wrote: »

He was 4-3 up. Also finished with an 88 average compared to an 81 average.

Going to be tough for him now.

Still has a few more days. If he can up that average a small bit he'll have a chance

boomdocker · 16-01-2020 1:23pm

The Assett won, averaging just under 100

Some lad (or lady?) call Feung averaged 107 in his game

diusmr8a504cvk · 16-01-2020 1:24pm

boomdocker wrote: »

The Assett won, averaging just under 100

I'm not sure if there's a dart player I dislike more than Paul Nicholson.

Kingp35 · 16-01-2020 1:33pm

boomdocker wrote: »

The Assett won, averaging just under 100

Some lad (or lady?) call Feung averaged 107 in his game

So far his decision not to enter last year and to focus on getting his game back is working. I'm not a big fan of his but would like to see him back on the tour because more 'characters' are needed.

Feung us supposedly from Hong Kong, plays on the PDC Asian Tour.

hawkwing · 16-01-2020 1:44pm

Kingp35 wrote: »

So far his decision not to enter last year and to focus on getting his game back is working. I'm not a big fan of his but would like to see him back on the tour because more 'characters' are needed.

Feung us supposedly from Hong Kong, plays on the PDC Asian Tour.

No fun drawing Feung in that form

Huntergonzo · 16-01-2020 2:00pm

Couple of things if someone could help or direct me please.

1. How many players have entered Q School (UK abroad) and how many tour cards are on offer?

2. How does a player win a tour card?

3. What is the format of the competition/competitions?

4. Is it the top 64 in the world who automatically retain their cards?

5. Do yous think the the PDC should expand the amount of cards on offer given its massive popularity or do you think that would inflate the field too much?

6. Do you think Q-School should be televised as it would create great drama or do you think that would put too much pressure on many inexperienced players? (inexperienced as in never played on live tv before).

VillaMad · 16-01-2020 2:54pm

Huntergonzo wrote: »

Couple of things if someone could help or direct me please.

1. How many players have entered Q School (UK abroad) and how many tour cards are on offer?

2. How does a player win a tour card?

3. What is the format of the competition/competitions?

4. Is it the top 64 in the world who automatically retain their cards?

5. Do yous think the the PDC should expand the amount of cards on offer given its massive popularity or do you think that would inflate the field too much?

6. Do you think Q-School should be televised as it would create great drama or do you think that would put too much pressure on many inexperienced players? (inexperienced as in never played on live tv before).

Most of your questions can be answered here

The top 64 order of merit automatically retain their cards. If you qualify today, you get a 2-year card, so in any one year you can have over well over a hundred with tour cards for the upcoming year which is plenty enough.

They should have had some sort of stream to go through the matches this weekend but because it is so manic, it probably would have been difficult.

VillaMad · 16-01-2020 3:00pm

Fallon Sherrock and Lisa Ashton both through to the Third Round. Sherrock faces Paul Nicholson in the next round.

John O'Shea and Jason Cullen also through.

boomdocker · 16-01-2020 3:17pm

A few 'names' out already in the Euro Q School,

Unterbuchner, Mandigers, Van Duivenboode, van Teregoouw, Cody Harris, Christian Kist, Jose Justicia

boomdocker · 16-01-2020 3:23pm

'MK Darts' on Facebook has a live stream of live scores from all 32 boards - handy

diusmr8a504cvk · 16-01-2020 3:31pm

boomdocker wrote: »

A few 'names' out already in the Euro Q School,

Unterbuchner, Mandigers, Van Duivenboode, van Teregoouw, Cody Harris, Christian Kist, Jose Justicia

Van Tergouw is a bit of a myth.

boomdocker · 16-01-2020 3:37pm

Looks like Sherrock just missed match darts against the Asset
4-2 up though so should get across the line

VillaMad · 16-01-2020 3:45pm

boomdocker wrote: »

Looks like Sherrock just missed match darts against the Asset
4-2 up though so should get across the line

She takes it 5-4.

boomdocker · 16-01-2020 3:46pm

Sherrock wins 5-4
Quite the game
She was averaging 98 after 5 legs , 2 100+ checkouts
Asset came back, she missed the bull for the big fish at 4-3 and Asset checked out 72 to level
She played great final leg , had six darts from 68 checkout out, won handy enough

jamesbere · 16-01-2020 3:47pm

VillaMad wrote: »

She takes it 5-4.

Great result

sc86 · 16-01-2020 4:12pm

jim willians out at last 128

mackeire · 16-01-2020 4:25pm

Kingp35 wrote: »

The PDC have stated that no alcohol is permitted in the venue which will definitely effect some of the players, especially the old school lads. I've no idea how Wayne Warren will cope!

What's the reason for this?

Kingp35 · 16-01-2020 4:28pm

mackeire wrote: »

What's the reason for this?

Trying to be more professional. The PDC don't like players drinking at events although I'm not sure how strict they are. Definitely only water is allowed while you're playing.

Another 107 average from Leung!

VillaMad · 16-01-2020 4:36pm

Sherrock out in the last 64. Lost 5-4 to Darryl Pilgrim.

VillaMad · 16-01-2020 4:43pm

Lisa Ashton continues to win. She is through to the last 32.

Kingp35 · 16-01-2020 4:47pm

Andy Hamilton still going and into the L32 after beating Alan Norris.

boomdocker · 16-01-2020 5:14pm

Any of the Irish lads still going?

PDC Q-School 2020

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