2019 PDC World Darts Championship (inc. schedule of play in OP)

Is there no preliminary round games this year?

KevIRL wrote: »

a new format with 96 entrants. Top 32 in the world enter at round 2

That format sets up a few banana skins in that the lesser fancied players will have a game under their belt when the seeded players are going in cold, so to speak!

Dunno if that's gonna be more of a headwreck for me or for you guys wrt Fantasy World Champs but it sure means some things are gonna change :pac:
A bit early yet but drop me a PM if you guys have any suggestions on format for the Fantasy gig rather than clutter up this thread

nearly impossible not to qualify these days

Groups for the last qualifer. One to qualify from each group I believe

DRAW
GROUP 1
Justin Pike BYE
Richie Burnett v Ross Twell
Kirk Shepherd v John Part
Steve Hine v Mark Wilson
Andrew Gilding v Maik Langendorf
Adam Hunt v Terry Temple
Peter Jacques v Bradley Brooks
Gary Eastwood v Peter Hudson

GROUP 2
Mark Webster BYE
George Killington v Madars Razma
Joe Murnan v Mario Robbe
Prakash Jiwa v Mark Dudbridge
Zoran Lerchbacher v Ryan Harrington
Luke Woodhouse v Ryan Meikle
Jamie Cave-in v Dawson Murschell
Jamie Bain v Aden Kirk

GROUP 3
James Richardson v Robert Owen
Jimmy Hendriks v Eddie Dootson
Terry Jenkins v Scott Taylor
Lee Bryant v Titus Kanik
Kevin Painter v Paul Rowley
John Goldie v Chris Quantock
Darren Johnson v Ritchie Edhouse
Stephen Burton v Aaron Monk


Terry Jenkins, Jamie Caven, Mark Dudbridge and Andrew Gilding already out. John Part and Kevin Painter into next round

Part wins up against Richie Burnett next round. He's two wins away from qualifying now

Hunt and Burton through

KevIRL wrote: »

Kirk gets the last spot

100% record against Taylor in all their televised matches I think.
May just be him and Rob Cross who have that.

2018 William Hill World Darts Championship
Draw Bracket
Seeded Players Enter In Second Round
(1) Michael van Gerwen v Alan Tabern/Raymond Smith
(32) Max Hopp v Danny Noppert/Royden Lam
(16) Adrian Lewis v Simon Stevenson/Ted Evetts
(17) Raymond van Barneveld v Matthew Edgar/Darius Labanauskas
(8) Simon Whitlock v Ryan Joyce/Anastasia Dobromyslova
(25) Alan Norris v Steve Lennon/James Bailey
(9) James Wade v Krzysztof Ratajski/Seigo Asada
(24) Jelle Klaasen v Keegan Brown/Karel Sedlacek
(5) Daryl Gurney v Ross Smith/Paul Lim
(28) Jamie Lewis v Martin Schindler/Cody Harris
(12) Dave Chisnall v Josh Payne/Jeff Smith
(21) Kim Huybrechts v Robert Thornton/Daniel Larsson
(4) Gary Anderson v Paul Nicholson/Kevin Burness
(29) Jermaine Wattimena v Michael Barnard/Jose De Sousa
(13) Darren Webster v Vincent van der Voort/Lourence Ilagan
(20) Steve Beaton v Chris Dobey/Boris Koltsov
(2) Rob Cross v Jeffrey de Zwaan/Nitin Kumar
(31) Cristo Reyes v Ricky Evans/Rowby-John Rodriguez
(15) Jonny Clayton v Dimitri Van den Bergh/Chuck Puleo
(18) Stephen Bunting v Luke Humphries/Adam Hunt
(7) Mensur Suljovic v Ryan Searle/Stephen Burton
(26) James Wilson v William O'Connor/Yordi Meeuwise
(10) Michael Smith v Ron Meulenkamp/Diogo Portela
(23) John Henderson v Gabriel Clemens/Aden Kirk
(6) Gerwyn Price v Nathan Aspinall/Geert Nentjes
(27) Kyle Anderson v Jeffrey de Graaf/Noel Malicdem
(11) Ian White v Wayne Jones/Devon Petersen
(22) Steve West v Richard North/Robert Marijanovic
(3) Peter Wright v Toni Alcinas/Craig Ross
(30) Benito van de Pas v Mickey Mansell/Jim Long
(14) Joe Cullen v Brendan Dolan/Yuanjun Liu
(19) Mervyn King v Jan Dekker/Lisa Ashton

First Round
Alan Tabern v Raymond Smith
Danny Noppert v Royden Lam
Simon Stevenson v Ted Evetts
Matthew Edgar v Darius Labanauskas
Ryan Joyce v Anastasia Dobromyslova
Steve Lennon v James Bailey
Krzysztof Ratajski v Seigo Asada
Keegan Brown v Karel Sedlacek
Ross Smith v Paul Lim
Martin Schindler v Cody Harris
Josh Payne v Jeff Smith
Robert Thornton v Daniel Larsson
Paul Nicholson v Kevin Burness
Michael Barnard v Jose De Sousa
Vincent van der Voort v Lourence Ilagan
Chris Dobey v Boris Koltsov
Jeffrey de Zwaan v Nitin Kumar
Ricky Evans v Rowby-John Rodriguez
Dimitri Van den Bergh v Chuck Puleo
Luke Humphries v Adam Hunt
Ryan Searle v Stephen Burton
William O'Connor v Yordi Meeuwise
Ron Meulenkamp v Diogo Portela
Gabriel Clemens v Aden Kirk
Nathan Aspinall v Geert Nentjes
Jeffrey de Graaf v Noel Malicdem
Wayne Jones v Devon Petersen
Richard North v Robert Marijanovic
Toni Alcinas v Craig Ross
Mickey Mansell v Jim Long
Brendan Dolan v Yuanjun Liu
Jan Dekker v Lisa Ashton

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

No suprise really Lisa Ashton joins Anatasia and qualified today losing only 2 legs all day. Not sure why there is separate women's qualifiers for a mixed event. Women have to go through q school to get a tourcard.

To ensure women qualify for the tournament proper.

How is the schedule being done - Is the first round completed before the second round is started, or do they intermingle them at an early stage?
If its the former then its not great viewing really, presuming 8 sessions of 4 games then there'll be some very low profile sessions.

raiders11 wrote: »

https://www.dartsnewsofficial.com/the-2019-world-darts-championship-draw-schedule/?fbclid=IwAR134On8gVZgVDB4Z3gibS8G3oZLcgZN_1pTX7MZrAy56dZqrdndqyrjUMI

Interesting - going by that some players will have to play two best-of-5 sets matches in the same session.

@ healio - that's brill - thanks a million

hard to see past MVG v Anderson in the top half

the bottom is way open - could see clayton, price or mensur going deep there

Disappointing if MvG and Anderson can’t meet in the final

TbL