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2020 Grand Slam of Darts

  • 18-08-2020 2:57pm
    #1
    Kingp35
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    The qualification criteria for the 2020 Grand Slam has been announced. Unsurprisingly the BDO spots have been cut to only two places with Wayne Warren and Mikuru Suzuki being selected as their World Champions.

    Full criteria can be found here:
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=620

    The most interesting aspect of this tournament has always been the inclusion of both PDC and BDO players. With only two players from the BDO this year, it makes the Grand Slam far less interesting. This will also be the final year for BDO players to be invited unless the WDF can get their act together in 2021.


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  • #2
    Justin Credible Darts
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    Players already qualified

    Scotland - Peter Wright
    Wales - Gerwyn Price
    Belgium - Dimitri Van den Bergh
    England - - Luke Humphries
    Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
    England - Nathan Aspinall
    England - James Wade
    Australia - Damon Heta
    Scotland - Gary Anderson
    Czech Republic - Adam Gawlas
    England - Michael Smith
    England - Rob Cross
    South Africa - Devon Peterson


    Player champs winners in line to qualify

    England - Ian White
    Poland - Krzysztof Ratajski
    England - Ryan Searle
    England - Ryan Joyce



    Where is durrant, he had a whole year to qualify and still not made it yet ?
    I thought he was one of the best ?


  • #3
    Justin Credible Darts
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    add Dirk van Duijvenbode to the list


  • #4
    US2
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    Justin Credible Darts wrote: »
    add Dirk van Duijvenbode to the list

    Add Glen Durrant


  • #5
    Justin Credible Darts
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    Players already qualified

    Scotland - Peter Wright
    Wales - Gerwyn Price
    Belgium - Dimitri Van den Bergh
    England - - Luke Humphries
    Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
    England - Nathan Aspinall
    England - James Wade
    Australia - Damon Heta
    Scotland - Gary Anderson
    Czech Republic - Adam Gawlas
    England - Michael Smith
    England - Rob Cross
    South Africa - Devon Peterson
    England - Glen Durrant
    Netherlands - Dirk van Duijvenbode


    BDO Invites
    Wales - Wayne Warren
    Japan - Mikuru Suzuki


    Womens qualifier
    England - Lisa Ashton



    Player champs winners in line to qualify

    England - Ian White
    Poland - Krzysztof Ratajski
    England - Ryan Searle
    England - Ryan Joyce




    plus the winner of this weekend euro tour if not already qualified


  • #6
    US2
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    Fallon playing her twin sister Felicia in the quarter final.


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  • #7
    Justin Credible Darts
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    Players already qualified

    Scotland - Peter Wright
    Wales - Gerwyn Price
    Belgium - Dimitri Van den Bergh
    England - - Luke Humphries
    Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
    England - Nathan Aspinall
    England - James Wade
    Australia - Damon Heta
    Scotland - Gary Anderson
    Czech Republic - Adam Gawlas
    England - Michael Smith
    England - Rob Cross
    South Africa - Devon Peterson
    England - Glen Durrant
    Netherlands - Dirk van Duijvenbode
    Portugal - Jose de Sousa



    BDO Invites
    Wales - Wayne Warren
    Japan - Mikuru Suzuki


    Womens qualifier
    England - Lisa Ashton



    Player champs winners in line to qualify

    England - Ian White
    Poland - Krzysztof Ratajski
    England - Ryan Searle
    England - Ryan Joyce


  • #8
    Justin Credible Darts
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    Justin Credible Darts wrote: »
    Players already qualified

    Scotland - Peter Wright
    Wales - Gerwyn Price
    Belgium - Dimitri Van den Bergh
    England - - Luke Humphries
    Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
    England - Nathan Aspinall
    England - James Wade
    Australia - Damon Heta
    Scotland - Gary Anderson
    Czech Republic - Adam Gawlas
    England - Michael Smith
    England - Rob Cross
    South Africa - Devon Peterson
    England - Glen Durrant
    Netherlands - Dirk van Duijvenbode
    Portugal - Jose de Sousa



    BDO Invites
    Wales - Wayne Warren
    Japan - Mikuru Suzuki


    Womens qualifier
    England - Lisa Ashton



    Player champs winners in line to qualify

    England - Ian White
    Poland - Krzysztof Ratajski
    England - Ryan Searle
    England - Ryan Joyce


    Seems White, Rajski, Searle and Joyce are definitely in.......I hardly contain my excitement.

    Winner of this weeks Euro tour and the winner of the Winter Series also gets a spot, providing they are not already qualified obviously


  • #9
    US2
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    Justin Credible Darts wrote: »
    Seems White, Rajski, Searle and Joyce are definitely in.......I hardly contain my excitement.

    Winner of this weeks Euro tour and the winner of the Winter Series also gets a spot, providing they are not already qualified obviously

    Is it true someone from the webcam darts qualifies too? Absolutely farcical if so


  • #10
    Justin Credible Darts
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    US2 wrote: »
    Is it true someone from the webcam darts qualifies too? Absolutely farcical if so


    doubt it.


    I would imagine if they were short they would use the home tour players first before that webcam nonsense.


    They could also increase the numbers of qualifiers from the slam qualifier that is coming up.


    chizzy who is currently in the top 10 still has not qualified


  • #11
    US2
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    Justin Credible Darts wrote: »
    doubt it.


    I would imagine if they were short they would use the home tour players first before that webcam nonsense.


    They could also increase the numbers of qualifiers from the slam qualifier that is coming up.


    chizzy who is currently in the top 10 still has not qualified

    That's what I meant by home tour. That's basically a webcam set up in the kitchen yet could qualify you for a major tournament ?


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  • #12
    Justin Credible Darts
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    ah right, if that home tour which i have not seen is webcam rubbish, then absolutely should they not get a slam spot

    If they are short, take players from the yearly "pro tour oom"


  • #13
    Kingp35
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    I think this all shows that the PDC definitely need to change the qualification criteria for this!


  • #14
    Justin Credible Darts
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    the bdo beggars should be dumped out.,

    either its a proper pdc ranking or its an invitation
    at the moment its a mix of both and a joke


  • #15
    Justin Credible Darts
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    Players already qualified

    Scotland - Peter Wright
    Wales - Gerwyn Price
    Belgium - Dimitri Van den Bergh
    England - - Luke Humphries
    Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
    England - Nathan Aspinall
    England - James Wade
    Australia - Damon Heta
    Scotland - Gary Anderson
    Czech Republic - Adam Gawlas
    England - Michael Smith
    England - Rob Cross
    South Africa - Devon Peterson
    England - Glen Durrant
    Netherlands - Dirk van Duijvenbode
    Portugal - Jose de Sousa
    England - Joe Cullen

    BDO Invites
    Wales - Wayne Warren
    Japan - Mikuru Suzuki

    Womens qualifier
    England - Lisa Ashton


    Player champs winners

    England - Ian White
    Poland - Krzysztof Ratajski
    England - Ryan Searle


  • #16
    Justin Credible Darts
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    .......


  • #17
    Justin Credible Darts
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    Is the GSoD wiki page wrong

    if you look at the floor championships winners it only has Ratajski and White.
    Yet Ryan Searle and Ryan Joyce won pc comps as well.

    if you include those 2 that would make the 32 players.
    I can only speculate they are being left off in case the World Cup provides 2 players

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Grand_Slam_of_Darts


  • #18
    Justin Credible Darts
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    interesting tweet by the pdc tonight
    Seems they have not confirmed the other euro tour winners, and Player champs winners among those qualified


    https://twitter.com/OfficialPDC/status/1323310593336627204



    full story here

    https://www.pdc.tv/news/2020/11/02/cullen-latest-confirmed-qualifier-grand-slam-darts


  • #19
    US2
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    Justin Credible Darts wrote: »
    interesting tweet by the pdc tonight
    Seems they have not confirmed the other euro tour winners, and Player champs winners among those qualified


    https://twitter.com/OfficialPDC/status/1323310593336627204



    full story here

    https://www.pdc.tv/news/2020/11/02/cullen-latest-confirmed-qualifier-grand-slam-darts

    They have to wait to see who makes the final of the world cup is it ?


  • #20
    Justin Credible Darts
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    if you read the pdc article linked with that post it says there will be at least one player that will qualify via the world cup.

    but there was 3 euro tour winners, of which cullen was one.
    4 player champs winners, who in "my opinion" are far more deserving of a spot than some qualifier who gets to the last 8 of a trimmed down qualifier.

    surely winning a full 128 pro tour players champ is more deserving, than some player who rocks up to a qualifier and reaches the last 8


  • #21
    US2
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    Really suprising these players haven't qualified yet


    Highest ranked players yet to qualify for the 2020 Grand Slam

    #7 Daryl Gurney
    #10 Dave Chisnall
    #12 Ian White
    #14 Krzysztof Ratajski
    #15 Mensur Suljovic
    #16 Jonny Clayton
    #18 Chris Dobey
    #19 Adrian Lewis
    #20 Simon Whitlock


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  • #22
    Kingp35
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    The floor qualifiers were on yesterday with a truly ridiculous 8 players qualifying for this tournament based on a one off floor tournament. At least we got a few decent qualifiers from it.

    Final Matches
    Ricky Evans 5-2 Steve Beaton
    Adam Hunt 5-2 Peter Jacques
    Krzysztof Ratajski 5-2 Mickey Mansell
    Ryan Joyce 5-2 Jason Lowe
    Dave Chisnall 5-4 Brendan Dolan
    Simon Whitlock 5-3 Matthew Edgar
    Justin Pipe 5-1 Ryan Searle
    Gabriel Clemens 5-0 Rowby-John Rodriguez


  • #23
    ThebitterLemon
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    Kingp35 wrote: »
    The floor qualifiers were on yesterday with a truly ridiculous 8 players qualifying for this tournament based on a one off floor tournament. At least we got a few decent qualifiers from it.

    Final Matches
    Ricky Evans 5-2 Steve Beaton
    Adam Hunt 5-2 Peter Jacques
    Krzysztof Ratajski 5-2 Mickey Mansell
    Ryan Joyce 5-2 Jason Lowe
    Dave Chisnall 5-4 Brendan Dolan
    Simon Whitlock 5-3 Matthew Edgar
    Justin Pipe 5-1 Ryan Searle
    Gabriel Clemens 5-0 Rowby-John Rodriguez


    Justin Pipe :(

    Horrible to watch

    TbL


  • #24
    paulie21
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    Group A
    (1) Michael van Gerwen
    Joe Cullen
    Gabriel Clemens
    Adam Hunt

    Group B
    (8) Gary Anderson
    Simon Whitlock
    Ryan Searle
    Adam Gawlas

    Group C
    (4) Michael Smith
    Krzysztof Ratajski
    Jose De Sousa
    Lisa Ashton

    Group D
    (5) Rob Cross
    Dave Chisnall
    Luke Humphries
    Justin Pipe

    Group E
    (2) Peter Wright
    Ian White
    Devon Petersen
    Dirk van Duijvenbode

    Group F
    (7) James Wade
    Glen Durrant
    Jermaine Wattimena
    Damon Heta

    Group G
    (3) Gerwyn Price
    Jonny Clayton
    Ryan Joyce
    Mikuru Suzuki

    Group H
    (6) Nathan Aspinall
    Dimitri Van den Bergh
    Ricky Evans
    Wayne Warren


  • #25
    paulie21
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    Some really tough groups there to call


  • #26
    ThebitterLemon
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    Group E in particular looks tough

    TbL


  • #27
    Dillonb3
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    Good draw for the neutral, Group E and Group F the groups of death.

    Group C could be messy if someone slips up against Ashton.

    Cross can't afford any slip ups in his group


  • #28
    boomdocker
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    Looks great
    Who is Adam Gawlas - never heard of him, how did he qualify?


  • #29
    US2
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    paulie21 wrote: »
    Group A
    (1) Michael van Gerwen
    Joe Cullen
    Gabriel Clemens
    Adam Hunt

    Group B
    (8) Gary Anderson
    Simon Whitlock
    Ryan Searle
    Adam Gawlas

    Group C
    (4) Michael Smith
    Krzysztof Ratajski
    Jose De Sousa
    Lisa Ashton

    Group D
    (5) Rob Cross
    Dave Chisnall
    Luke Humphries
    Justin Pipe

    Group E
    (2) Peter Wright
    Ian White
    Devon Petersen
    Dirk van Duijvenbode

    Group F
    (7) James Wade
    Glen Durrant
    Jermaine Wattimena
    Damon Heta

    Group G
    (3) Gerwyn Price
    Jonny Clayton
    Ryan Joyce
    Mikuru Suzuki

    Group H
    (6) Nathan Aspinall
    Dimitri Van den Bergh
    Ricky Evans
    Wayne Warren

    Hard to predict any of those groups specially with the short format. Looking forward to it


  • #30
    Dillonb3
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    boomdocker wrote: »
    Looks great
    Who is Adam Gawlas - never heard of him, how did he qualify?

    18 year old Czech player. Qualified via finalist of the 2020 PDC world youth championship, deffo player to keep an eye on in the future


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  • #31
    US2
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    Dillonb3 wrote: »
    18 year old Czech player. Qualified via finalist of the 2020 PDC world youth championship, deffo player to keep an eye on in the future

    I thought Keane Barry is the world youth champion but it's actually a middle aged man Luke Humphreys.


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