2023 PDC World Cup of Darts

[Rogg]

Woah there. Pairs throughtout. That's what people wanted.

[Rogg]

Starting on doubles?

As in pairs.

[Safc]

Great news this.

No pointless best of 7 singles

[Rogg]

Iceland, Ukraine and Bahrain debuts.

[Rogg]

Was it you Thorny who wanted to see Iceland in the World Cup?

[The Ginge Reaper]

Starting on doubles?

Fucking hell!!

[Randall]

Oh

[The Ginge Reaper]

Great news this.

No pointless best of 7 singles

This. I might actually bother watching it now.

[Rogg]

The group stage guarantees 2 games for everyone. They used to have it back in the day too.

[The Ginge Reaper]

12 games each session on the Thursday night, Friday afternoon and Friday night then.

Might still be BO7 tbf.

[Emulsfier]

The frenchies have emerged.

[Rogg]

12 games each session on the Thursday night, Friday afternoon and Friday night then.

Might still be BO7 tbf.

Tis bo7 for the groups. https://www.pdc.tv/news/2023/03/09/worl ... -announced


Format
Group Stage - Best of seven legs
Second Round - Best of 15 legs
Quarter-Finals - Best of 15 legs
Semi-Finals - Best of 15 legs
Final - Best of 19 legs
All games will be played in a Doubles format.

[TheMalteseDart]

There'll be some massacres results wise but long term this is good, I wonder if even further into the future they open up more qualifiers for different regions. The likes of Malaysia in Asia and Greece in Europe will feel they've got the ability to be in the top 40 countries at darts

[The Ginge Reaper]

12 games each session on the Thursday night, Friday afternoon and Friday night then.

Might still be BO7 tbf.

Tis bo7 for the groups. https://www.pdc.tv/news/2023/03/09/worl ... -announced


Format
Group Stage - Best of seven legs
Second Round - Best of 15 legs
Quarter-Finals - Best of 15 legs
Semi-Finals - Best of 15 legs
Final - Best of 19 legs
All games will be played in a Doubles format.

Four first to 8 games in each session doesnt seem value for the fans.

[Greipel]

Kovács Patrik (1) - Major Nándor (8)
Strbik Péter (4) - Prés Nándor (5)
Jagicza Gábor (2) - Végső János (7)
Papp Rajmund (3) - Sárai Levente (6)

[Rogg]

There'll be some massacres results wise but long term this is good, I wonder if even further into the future they open up more qualifiers for different regions. The likes of Malaysia in Asia and Greece in Europe will feel they've got the ability to be in the top 40 countries at darts

Yeah some of those best of 15 pairs games will be monstrous and it's why I, and maybe only I, approved of the mini singles games format. Twill take a while but as you say the idea is that the game grows into it.

[The Ginge Reaper]

Probably why it's only BO15.

[The Ginge Reaper]

A question though - how do they decide which group winners go on to play the mega 4?

Surely its got to be a random draw with those four teams one to a quarter?

[TheMalteseDart]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_P ... arts_teams

Found this mildly interesting for someone who hasn't followed darts as long as most here. I didn't realise France had appeared once before, back in 2014, with Jaques Labre.

The only other countries with 1 appearance only being Slovakia and Slovenia

[Randall]

Is it Smith and Humphries for England?