2018 Greatest Show on Earth

[Zeyes]

The notoriously unreliable Asian qualifying seems to have stabilized a bit - the company the PDC has partnered with in China was also doing one of the other Asian qualifiers last year (in Taiwan), and this time they're even doing two others (in Taiwan for North/East of Asia and in Thailand for South/West). Especially the South/West stuff always seemed to be a total mess, with different promoters every year. Might improve now.

[gcjdavid]

The Tom Kirby Memorial Matchplay coming on the last day of the World Grand Prix.

[Randall]

I connors only chance seemingly

[The Ginge Reaper]

I connors only chance seemingly

Yes, you cant play in both the area qualifier and the PDPA one qualifiers. I remember one year Scholten dodged the official PDPA one and played one of the European ones. Didnt work

[Randall]

A pdc major winner hardly anyone would remember.
More famous for blowing it against Taylor in the PL.

[The Thorn]

O'Connor should win this.
Would be nice if it was on TV, it's before the final anyway, stage and everything is set, they probably have 3-4 hours of broadcast time as well.
Would be a great warmup as the final could be over in as little as an hour.

[Randall]

Wasn't shown last year of memory serves

[Rogg]

O'Connor should win this.
Would be nice if it was on TV, it's before the final anyway, stage and everything is set, they probably have 3-4 hours of broadcast time as well.
Would be a great warmup as the final could be over in as little as an hour.

I agree, that would be nice. Final night needs fleshing out somehow. Sometimes the final will be so short you might as well play it on semi-final night.

[Randall]

Last years final was over in an hour wasn't it?

[Rogg]

Last years final was over in an hour wasn't it?

Not sure. MVG went 3-0 up in the blink of an eye. Massacre darts. Things were fairly even after Anderson woke up.

[Randall]

Pretty sure it was

[Rogg]

Eastern European Qualifier today?

So we have the incredible situation of a player (not just any player, the actual world masters champ) - who's already qualified for Lakeside - entering a PDC Worlds qualifier to try and make Ally Pally instead.

Whether he comes through it or not, I can't work out which outcome would kill off the most shrooms.

[Randall]

I imagine a few of today's entrants were at the masters?

[The Thorn]

I imagine a few of today's entrants were at the masters?

Some from Poland and Hungary definitely were.
Haven't seen the draw for today's qualifiers yet so don't know who is in.

[Randall]

Imagine clemens will be playing.
Interested to see how they go as a comparison.

[The Thorn]

Imagine clemens will be playing.
Interested to see how they go as a comparison.

He'll be playing in the Central Europe qualifier, this is the Eastern European one.

[Randall]

Imagine clemens will be playing.
Interested to see how they go as a comparison.

He'll be playing in the Central Europe qualifier, this is the Eastern European one.

Poland and Germany being neighbouring countries suggested they would have played in the same one to me.
Oh well.

[The Thorn]

The draw in case anyone's interested. Hard first round for Ratajski but would be a big surprise if he didn't win this thing.

Marian Sket bye
Karoly Greksa bye
Karel Sedlacek v Benjamin Pratnemer
Attila Mucsi v Dejan Kovacevic
Petr Rouc bye
Janos Vegso bye
Danijel Bartolic v Vivien Czipo
Zoltan Mester v Sandor Almasi
Janos Szabo bye
Adrian Michna bye
Alan Ljubic v Roman Benecky
Boris Krcmar v Witold Lewandowski
Jozsef Rucska bye
Mitja Habjan bye
Oliver Ferenc v Patrik Kovacs
Nandor Bezzeg v Miklos Posfai
Zsolt Meszaros bye
Albert Nemeth bye
Ante Vranjeka v Szilagyi Csaba
Tonci Restovic v Krzysztof Ratajski
Istvan Berta bye
Tytus Kanik bye
Lajos Vereczkey v Peter Strbik
Pero Ljubic v Hrvoje Halozar
Pal Szekely bye
David Rosi bye
Michal Smejda v Sandor Ballo
Istvan Nyiregyhazki v Frantisek Hampula
Miso Stankovic bye
Gabor Takacs bye
Tamas Alexits v Abonyi Adam
Krzysztof Kciuk v Domagoj Voloder

[Randall]

What's the format?

[The Thorn]

What's the format?

Best of 11 legs.
It may go up in the final rounds, I'm not sure about that.