2020 Greatest Show on Earth

[thegentle]

John Part said it best at the start of the match:

"There's a point where you're so scarred, you're not afraid of getting cut anymore"

He was so screwed in his first game, everything else must have come as a bonus too!

[Rogg]

John Part said it best at the start of the match:

"There's a point where you're so scarred, you're not afraid of getting cut anymore"

Twas good that.

Knowing you'll have to play extremely well for 2 hours in the knowledge of how many times you've fallen horribly at the finishing line before. Takes something.

[Rogg]

MVG misses 3 to save set 6 and Wright wins it. Last dart 80. 4-2.

4-3. Bugger me. MVG won't win another. He's about to go apeshit again tho as I remember it.

[phil the great]

John Part said it best at the start of the match:

"There's a point where you're so scarred, you're not afraid of getting cut anymore"

Very smart man Party, loved that line, how much worse could it have got for Wright? He'd lost 10 finals, and a World final among them, over the moon for him it's made my month, was as ready as I ever could be for MVG to win and until 6 3 I never believed Wright would actually do it, the only other final that I loved more was when Taylor won in 2013, what a way to start off the decade of darts!!

[phil the great]

MVG misses 3 to save set 6 and Wright wins it. Last dart 80. 4-2.

4-3. Bugger me. MVG won't win another. He's about to go apeshit again tho as I remember it.

If someone had told me at 4 3 Wright that MVG wouldn't win another set I'd have told them to fuck off and that they didn't know what they were talking about, I can barely believe the win considering the pressure and the occasion but the score is ridiculous, good job I didn't bet on the score would never have thought of that 7 3 Wright score!

[Rogg]

Deciding leg of set 8 is amazing. -ly bad. Tense. MVG gets a dart at tops for the set and misses. Wright 50 in two darts. 5-3 vs.

Wright just doesn't miss doubles to let his opponent in. Killing legs stone dead time and time again.

[Rogg]

MVG misses 3 to save set 6 and Wright wins it. Last dart 80. 4-2.

4-3. Bugger me. MVG won't win another. He's about to go apeshit again tho as I remember it.

If someone had told me at 4 3 Wright that MVG wouldn't win another set I'd have told them to fuck off and that they didn't know what they were talking about, I can barely believe the win considering the pressure and the occasion but the score is ridiculous, good job I didn't bet on the score would never have thought of that 7 3 Wright score!

I'm watching the rerun and I'd still be telling them to fuck off. It is amazing.

[Fiss Plaps]

Just to interrupt Rogg's rerun play-by-play: great graph from Ochepedia showing the difference between the two MVG-Wright finals.



The difference between maiden major finalist Wright and two-time major winner Wright is astounding. 2020 MVG, despite playing better overall, was far more erratic than 2014 MVG.

[Nigel Cheeseman-Blenkinsop]

MVG misses 3 to save set 6 and Wright wins it. Last dart 80. 4-2.

4-3. Bugger me. MVG won't win another. He's about to go apeshit again tho as I remember it.

If someone had told me at 4 3 Wright that MVG wouldn't win another set I'd have told them to fuck off and that they didn't know what they were talking about, I can barely believe the win considering the pressure and the occasion but the score is ridiculous, good job I didn't bet on the score would never have thought of that 7 3 Wright score!

Like most people on here , it's actually YOU that needs to fuck off because YOU dont know what you're talking about.
Theres not a person on here predicted ANYTHING correctly bar me of course.
If you told me on Monday that the next day was Tuesday , I'd get a second opinion.

[Rogg]

Remember Wright's three at d5. Wire, mile away, in. A cunt's checkout.

Yet another last leg decider. MVG starts 180 on the Wright throw... Randall panics. 177 to leave 100! ...Misses tops and d10. Wright yet another last dart kill. 6-3.

MVG leaves the stage and has to come back. The set score really doesn't reflect much. Set after set going 3-2. MVG has missed dart/s to win I think 3 of Wright's first 6.

[Rogg]

Bins d12 for the niner as usual. The pace of this now. Wright the least frantic looking/sounding of anyone.

[Rogg]

Immaculate 60-16 to break. Bring it home laddie. Hello finish line you old cunt.

[thegentle]

Remember Wright's three at d5. Wire, mile away, in. A cunt's checkout.

Yet another last leg decider. MVG starts 180 on the Wright throw... Randall panics. 177 to leave 100! ...Misses tops and d10. Wright yet another last dart kill. 6-3.

MVG leaves the stage and has to come back. The set score really doesn't reflect much. Set after set going 3-2. MVG has missed dart/s to win I think 3 of Wright's first 6.

Dart 2 at the 5s is the hardest, at least with the third you can attack it more. Part of a general theme of Wright bossing the third dart in hand:

[Rogg]

I won't spoil the ending but a bleak mini inflatable Sid for MVG to take home and incinerate. Suitably a last dart kill for the title. The first one drew a pound of sawdust out the board.

Rod Studd was emotional. A lot of people have lived it all with Wright down the years. Beautiful tbf.

[Nigel Cheeseman-Blenkinsop]

I won't spoil the ending but a bleak mini inflatable Sid for MVG to take home and incinerate. Suitably a last dart kill for the title. The first one drew a pound of sawdust out the board.

Rod Studd was emotional. A lot of people have lived it all with Wright down the years. Beautiful tbf.

The result isn't gonna change you fuckin idiot.

They PRE film

Not RE film

[Rogg]

Remember Wright's three at d5. Wire, mile away, in. A cunt's checkout.

Yet another last leg decider. MVG starts 180 on the Wright throw... Randall panics. 177 to leave 100! ...Misses tops and d10. Wright yet another last dart kill. 6-3.

MVG leaves the stage and has to come back. The set score really doesn't reflect much. Set after set going 3-2. MVG has missed dart/s to win I think 3 of Wright's first 6.

Dart 2 at the 5s is the hardest, at least with the third you can attack it more. Part of a general theme of Wright bossing the third dart in hand:

Definitely a theme. Mardle said Wright was 'stifling' MVG. Leg 1 turned out to be a massive misrepresentation of what was coming, thank Rod.

[phil the great]

I won't spoil the ending but a bleak mini inflatable Sid for MVG to take home and incinerate. Suitably a last dart kill for the title. The first one drew a pound of sawdust out the board.

Rod Studd was emotional. A lot of people have lived it all with Wright down the years. Beautiful tbf.

yeah, and they actually feel the heartbreak first hand and I could tell they didn't really expect him to win, the realisation that he really could on the night, and the joy of seeing him doing it was massive.

[Rogg]

Only 9 have ever won it but that's now 8 different winners of the last 14.


1994 - Dennis Priestley def Phil Taylor 6-1
1995 - Phil Taylor def Rod Harrington 6-2
1996 - Phil Taylor def Dennis Priestley 6-4
1997 - Phil Taylor def Dennis Priestley 6-3
1998 - Phil Taylor def Dennis Priestley 6-0
1999 - Phil Taylor def Peter Manley 6-2
2000 - Phil Taylor def Dennis Priestley 7-3
2001 - John Walton def John Part 7-0
2002 - Phil Taylor def Peter Manley 7-0
2003 - John Part def Phil Taylor 7-6
2004 - Phil Taylor def Kevin Painter 7-6
2005 - Phil Taylor def Mark Dudbridge 7-4
2006 - Phil Taylor def Peter Manley 7-0

2007 - Raymond van Barneveld def Phil Taylor 7-6
2008 - John Part def Kirk Shepherd 7-2
2009 - Phil Taylor def Raymond van Barneveld 7-1
2010 - Phil Taylor def Simon Whitlock 7-3
2011 - Adrian Lewis def Gary Anderson 7-5
2012 - Adrian Lewis def Andy Hamilton 7-3
2013 - Phil Taylor def Michael van Gerwen 7-4
2014 - Michael van Gerwen def Peter Wright 7-4
2015 - Gary Anderson def Phil Taylor 7-6
2016 - Gary Anderson def Adrian Lewis 7-5
2017 - Michael van Gerwen def Gary Anderson 7-3
2018 - Rob Cross def Phil Taylor 7-2
2019 - Michael van Gerwen def Michael Smith 7-3
2020 - Peter Wright def Michael van Gerwen 7-3

[thegentle]

Only 9 have ever won it but that's now 8 different winners of the last 14.

Can't quite call it the Ally Pally era, let's go with the 'modern PDC era'?

[Rogg]

Only 9 have ever won it but that's now 8 different winners of the last 14.

Can't quite call it the Ally Pally era, let's go with the 'modern PDC era'?

It's over now but the set of 14 was surely the Barney era.