2022 Asian Championship

[Safc]

groups AND last 16 tomorrow.

Thank you my friend

[Zeyes]

Group games are best of 9, not 7.

[Zeyes]

Not quite sure how Asada has been playing (though he seemed to play well in the qualifier yesterday), but I think having to go down this route might help him as it's all extra match practice, which everyone in the entire region has missed out on recently. Lam probably got the best of both worlds through qualifying automatically at the last opportunity, although on paper you'd say Asada is better

Professional darts in Japan has been back up at near pre-Corona levels for at least a year now, I really don't think lack of match practice is an issue for Asada or any of the other Japanese players anymore.

[thegentle]

Even steel-tip, Zeyes? Obviously there hasn't been Asian Tour stuff, and I can't say I've seen much WDF stuff over there. Is there any other steel-tip tour that they have there?

[Zeyes]

There's the decentralized online D-Tour since late 2020 that's being played on the same FIDO bristle board machines as the Asian Series was just now, and they've had three WDF-ranked tournaments in Japan this year. But that aside - high-stakes darts in Japan means soft-tip for the most part, and always has. I don't know why you'd want to brush aside the copious amounts of play time they get there. Asada versus Yamada (or whoever) on a Winmau board isn't going to be any tougher for either of them than Asada versus Yamada on a Dartslive machine.

[skweezit]

a quick peek at the stream and dartconnect to see who's thrilling and spilling in the group stage...

please supply your own exclamation points.

paul lim made it in
royden lam out.
edward foulkes out
christian perez in. he put out siego asada.
gunner is in the decider vs shingo enomata down 3-2

[skweezit]

actually shingo has lost a match already, so gunner could and still make it in...

[skweezit]

could lose and still get in

[skweezit]

shingo wis 5-3. both he and gunner avg.'d 95
total legs won
shingo 7
ilagan 8
lourence is in

[skweezit]

got a 104+ avg from Yoshihisa Baba
harith lim is in that group. both have won one. it's head cutting time between them.

[skweezit]

wonder what happened to that Parks guy?
think he was from korea?
another korean, Kim, Yong-Seok, has made it through.

[skweezit]

the most boring group it seems, maybe slow would be a better description, is featured on the stream currently.
I may have to get the melon-baller and scoop my eyes out.

[skweezit]

I came in looking to get my year's supply of "ghost darts" thrown
I have, I'm happy to say.

[skweezit]

mikuro "baby shark" suzuki has won her first

[skweezit]

another pinoy has made it through.
Alain Abiabi

[skweezit]

the pinoys get two more through.
Rodolfo Escaros jr. and Paolo Nebrida

[skweezit]

mikuro is getting clobbered. down 4-0

[skweezit]

I'm done.

[Ross, Bob]

Impressive mate.

[Safc]

Last 16

Kim Yong Seok
Paul Lim
Rodolfo Escaros Jr
Chaiyan Paiaree
Akito Yamagata
Jun Matsuda
Paolo Nebrida
Christian Perez
Yuichiro Ogawa
Yoshihisa Baba
Yuki Yamada
Alain Abiabi
Look Yin Lee
Lourence Ilagan
Toro Suzuki
Yutaka Sunakawa

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Royden Lam
Edward Foulkes
Seigo Asada
Mikuru Suzuki
Harith Lim

All out