World Cup of Darts 2019

[thegentle]

The official line is that the Swiss team's management fucked up. Alrighty then...

[cannibal]

The official line is that the Swiss team's management fucked up. Alrighty then...

what is the source of this, or you pulling skweezit and just making it up?

[JH01]

time to expand to more teams next year.

There's more than enough shite turning up each year already.

[sennafan24]

From JC's blog:

However what audio I did listen to this weekend it seemed the notion of Barney being MVG's partner in the World Cup is looking more likely as if the comms were trying to break the news gently to fans so there wont be any uproar with questions like why is the dutch asshole getting an undeserved spot ??? Again....remember without the World Cup Barney would not have qualified for a couple of Grand Slam of Darts.

If the PDC give the spot to Barney over Jermaine Wattimena then they are acknowledging that ranking is not the criteria,, which already seems to be the case as there were reports Magnus Caris is representing Sweden and Magnus has not played for a year.

So if ranking is no longer the criteria, then why should Gary Anderson play with Peter Wright .MVG had Klaasen removed from the Dutch team when he did not want to partner with him, so why can't Ando have his choice of partner ?
Why can't Rob Cross as the England #1 decide on his partner. Surely Cross would rather team with James Wade who has been the most successful English player of the last year than having to team with Michael Smith who has never won a major, flopped in the PL and is well out of form.

I know the PDC World Cup is a mickey mouse joke of a comp but having different rules for different countries not only makes the comp a bigger joke, it makes the PDC look fucking ridiculous and like they are making it up as they go along.

[The Thorn]

*placeholder for Beppe seething*
though we haven't seen him lately, hope all's well mate

[Rogg]

Wattimena gets the nod. Oh but all the tears.

[Rogg]

https://www.pdc.tv/news/2019/05/13/2019 ... -announced

2019 BetVictor World Cup of Darts


(Seed 1) England - Rob Cross & Michael Smith
(Seed 2) Scotland - Gary Anderson & Peter Wright
(Seed 3) Wales - Gerwyn Price & Jonny Clayton
(Seed 4) Netherlands - Michael van Gerwen & Jermaine Wattimena
(Seed 5) Australia - Simon Whitlock & Kyle Anderson
(Seed 6) Northern Ireland - Daryl Gurney & Brendan Dolan
(Seed 7) Belgium - Kim Huybrechts & Dimitri Van den Bergh
(Seed 8) Austria - Mensur Suljovic & Zoran Lerchbacher

Brazil - Diogo Portela & Artur Valle
Canada - Dawson Murschell & Jim Long
China - Xiaochen Zong & Qingyu Zhan
Czech Republic - Pavel Jirkal & Karel Sedlacek
Denmark - Per Laursen & Niels Heinsøe
Finland - Marko Kantele & Kim Viljanen
Germany - Max Hopp & Martin Schindler
Gibraltar - Dyson Parody & Antony Lopez
Greece - John Michael & Veniamin Symeonidis
Hong Kong - Royden Lam & Kai Fan Leung
Hungary - Pal Szekely & Janos Vegso
Italy - Andrea Micheletti & Stefano Tomassetti
Japan - Seigo Asada & Haruki Muramatsu
Lithuania - Darius Labanauskas & Mindauskas Barauskas
New Zealand - Cody Harris & Haupai Puha
Philippines - Lourence Ilagan & Noel Malicdem
Poland - Krzysztof Ratajski & Tytus Kanik
Republic of Ireland - Steve Lennon & William O'Connor
Russia - Boris Koltsov & Aleksei Kadochnikov
Singapore - Paul Lim & Harith Lim
South Africa - Devon Petersen & Vernon Bouwers
Spain - Cristo Reyes & Toni Alcinas
Sweden - Dennis Nilsson & Magnus Caris
United States of America - Darin Young & Chuck Puleo

[Randall]

I really did think the pdc would do the dirty on Jermaine

[The Ginge Reaper]

Common sense prevails.

[The Thorn]

I thought it'd be Barney too. They picked the top ranked players everywhere if I'm correct. Good decision tbf

[The Ginge Reaper]

I am sure he can go and drown his sorrows by shagging some 17 year old slip of a girl in Tenerife, or wherever he spends most of his time these days.

[Rogg]

I really did think the pdc would do the dirty on Jermaine

They left out the reigning champ instead.

[Randall]

I really did think the pdc would do the dirty on Jermaine

They left out the reigning champ instead.

The 3rd ranked Scot must be the most aggrieved

[The Ginge Reaper]

Someone on the PDC Twitter page moaning they didnt pick Wade you really cant please all the people all of the time can you?

[Rogg]

Someone on the PDC Twitter page moaning they didnt pick Wade you really cant please all the people all of the time can you?

Heh, nope. When the seeded nations' players are all picked on pure merit I think it's time to stop moaning for at least a few seconds.

[Rogg]

A potential QF catastrophe match of Price and Gurney while Clayton and Dolan just potter about quietly like humans. Draw will be made on Thursday.


England (1) v Austria (8)
Netherlands (4) v Australia (5)
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Scotland (2) v Belgium (7)
Wales (3) v Northern Ireland (6)

[Fiss Plaps]

For some reason I thought Smith had played in this before. Then I remembered who partnered Cross last year.



No wonder they didn't win.

[Safc]

To be honest Wales are the only top 8 team who have 2 in form players Poland,Ireland,Japan look the dark horses to me

[The Thorn]

It's bound to be more open than ever. Can't split the top 4 really, and there's every chance of a surprise finalist too. I agree with Poland, Ireland and Japan being dark horses, possibly the Philippines and the Czech too.

[tungsten tossers]

For some reason I thought Smith had played in this before. Then I remembered who partnered Cross last year.



No wonder they didn't win.

No dumb Dave or Swiss chizzy this year..
A chizzy free world cup