2019 Asian Tour

[thegentle]

First weekend starts early tomorrow UK time from Korea. All of last season's top 5 will be there but a few big names are absent:
https://tv.dartconnect.com/eventplayers/pdcasia19t01

[skweezit]

and it starts,
shoot well Mikuru Suzuki.
rock the darts world!

[skweezit]

and it starts,
shoot well Paul Lim
going for his 24th appearance at a world championship.
(12 WDF, 11 PDC)

[thegentle]

100 AVERAGE KLAXON:
Malicdem throws 75 darts in a 5-0 win in his second game. No 9-darter from him though...yet!

[skweezit]

Suzuki wheelies into the top 32 (bye +2 wins)
All the other "name" players are also advancing.
suppose I should get to bed. got a tournament to run tomorrow.

[skweezit]

gonna guess -

ilagan vs hon
malicdem vs lim
asada vs perez
lam vs enomata

- make the quarters

[thegentle]

Lourence Ilagan vs Yong (Thanawat) Gaweenuntavong
Kevin (Kai Fan) Leung vs Paul Lim
Prince Shek vs Christian Perez
Royden Lam vs Kazuki Hagane

[thegentle]

A few surprises in there, 5 or 6 of that group are familiar to me (not sure if Christian Perez is the guy who was at the Worlds a few times)

[thegentle]

Ilagan 5-4 Gaweenuntawong
Lim 5-2 Leung
Shek 5-4 Perez
Lam 5-1 Hagane

Semis:
Ilagan-Lim
Shek-Lam
Steady performances from the big three left in the draw, in particular Lim and Ilagan

[thegentle]

So yeah, that apparently was that good ol' Christian Perez. Prince Shek is also known as Ho-Shin, formerly of the Hong Kong World Cup team last year

[thegentle]

Paul Lim vs Royden Lam in the first final of the year. Methinks there'll be more finals to come for these two

[thegentle]

Lam wins the first final of the year, 5-4 in an absolute cracker, 98 average for Lam, 105 for Lim! Went 3-0 up on Lim but then Lim came roaring back, was on a 9 darter at one stage and even missed 77 for the match, until Lam finished with a flourish on 101 to win the match

[skweezit]

headline: "No Flim-Flam from Lim-Lam."
some serious throwing in the finals there.

both averaged in the 90's, overall, in the tournament.

these first six tournies will help decide who gets into the world cup.
would be nice if Korea gets an invite this year.

[thegentle]

108.9 average from Lim just now! Safely through to the last 16, AFAIK, the only big name eliminated so far is Malicdem, who lost to Leung Kai Fan (Kevin)

[thegentle]

Asada out to Alexis Toylo

[thegentle]

Paul Lim survives match darts from fellow Lakeside legend Mikuru Suzuki on the way to the semis where he faces Ilagan. Leung up against Higuchi in the other semi

[tungsten tossers]

Paul Lim wins final 5-2

[thegentle]

Paul Lim wins final 5-2

Against Leung, who he beat along the way to the final yesterday too. Also beat him at the 2018 Worlds, Kev must be sick of the sight of the old legend!

[skweezit]

there's a special kind of "in the zone" that is relatively rare in darts.
I've seen raymond van barneveld do it.
I've seen mensur suljovic do it.
somebody else did it not too long ago. the name evades me, though I remember the comm mentioning this unique stat.


anywho, mikuru suzuki just did it (against paul lim)
she had disproportionately more high turn scores of 140 or better (11) than she did of scores between 100-139 (4)
and for that she gets one of my "how about that?" awards.

[DartJack Horseman]

Wow this is something:
https://members.dartconnect.com/history ... 61e2670318
34 avg
consecutive visits of 3, 7 and 14
shame they don't show avgs fro Romanian Darts Open

but it surely is not so bad in Romania as this:
https://members.dartconnect.com/history ... 61e26703bc
38 vs 37 avgs