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SolidSCB wrote: ↑Tue Jan 08, 2019 1:01 pm Watch out for young DImitri van den Bergh on the development tour. Don't let the receeding hairline and five o'clock shadow fool you, this young prospect could really pull up some trees this year and is even worth a shout each way at making the youth final later this year.

Rogg wrote: ↑Tue Jan 08, 2019 11:56 am January 26-27: Challenge Tour 1-4
April 30-01: PDC Players Championship 13 & 14
May 11-12: Challenge Tour 5-8

I think that alone shows the importance of the first batch of Challenge Tour events at the end of the month. It's almost a Q-School sequel.
Huge incentives on this tour now and the field could be incredible.

We'll soon see how serious certain players are. Would Durrant and Waites do the CT if they fail Q-School? What you reckon?

Rogg wrote: ↑Tue Jan 08, 2019 11:56 am We'll soon see how serious certain players are. Would Durrant and Waites do the CT if they fail Q-School? What you reckon?

cannibal wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 12:35 am No surprise really, he pretty much gave the tour a pass last year too. Good for the Champ darts circuit if he shows up. Guessing he will spend some time messing with the soft shit and his game will go no where but in the shitter.

cannibal wrote: ↑Tue Jan 08, 2019 11:35 pm

Rogg wrote: ↑Tue Jan 08, 2019 11:56 am We'll soon see how serious certain players are. Would Durrant and Waites do the CT if they fail Q-School? What you reckon?

Can't imagine them slogging thru CT. why would they? Not sure exactly what the rule is or will be for players doing CT and chasing BDO points. If it is the case they can't compete on the Pro Tour then they go full bore back to BDO as they will have a good start on those precious BDO points for 2020 or the winners invite back.

Better odds of them getting TV time via the BDO than slogging thru CT and trying to qualify the long way round for PDC events. Better odds they get into the PDC GSOD and the UK open via the BDO routes as well.

cannibal wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 5:08 pm I thought they had a limit or some restriction on BDO players who played PDC events. Pro Tour is the ET and the PC events. The CT and DT are not Pro Tour events.

cannibal wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 5:58 pm The new rules still include that one must be a member of the BDO or one of its associates in order to play a ranking event. So technically a PDC tour card holder could compete in ranking events. The PDC tho has a restriction on players who hold tour cards playing in others events TV or streamed, they have to get permission to be on the stream or TV for those. Still a murky proposition for any player that wants to play both codes, they are going to have to jump thru some hoops to be able to do it. I suspect the PDC isn't going to allow any PDC tour card holder to play in one of the BDO majors especially the Lakeshite. No way in hell is the PDC allowing that.

HalloweenJack wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 6:11 pm

cannibal wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 5:58 pm The new rules still include that one must be a member of the BDO or one of its associates in order to play a ranking event. So technically a PDC tour card holder could compete in ranking events. The PDC tho has a restriction on players who hold tour cards playing in others events TV or streamed, they have to get permission to be on the stream or TV for those. Still a murky proposition for any player that wants to play both codes, they are going to have to jump thru some hoops to be able to do it. I suspect the PDC isn't going to allow any PDC tour card holder to play in one of the BDO majors especially the Lakeshite. No way in hell is the PDC allowing that.

In the past didn’t the BDO world champ get an automatic PDC tour card?