2024 World Cup of Darts (27-30 June)

[HalloweenJack]

Are there any dart players in Greenland ?

[thegentle]

Good idea, I'd like to see more qualifiers, maybe have teams with tour card holders/Worlds qualifiers get through automatically, and then qualifiers for the rest

[thegentle]

I wonder if there'll be any changes to this in light of players gaining and losing tour cards. Doubt South Africa will lose their spot, but what about Spain? Now without a tour card holder for the first time in a long time, and I don't think we'll see lots of them plying their trade on the Challenge Tour

[The Thorn]

I wonder if there'll be any changes to this in light of players gaining and losing tour cards. Doubt South Africa will lose their spot, but what about Spain? Now without a tour card holder for the first time in a long time, and I don't think we'll see lots of them plying their trade on the Challenge Tour

With the expansion Spain should be fine. They will be competitive

[Dfc180]

I wonder if there'll be any changes to this in light of players gaining and losing tour cards. Doubt South Africa will lose their spot, but what about Spain? Now without a tour card holder for the first time in a long time, and I don't think we'll see lots of them plying their trade on the Challenge Tour

I think Spain still have enough half decent players to warrant a team, I'm not sure who you put in instead

[Rob Singleton]

If Uncle Barry and co have their heads screwed on they'll use their clout and create a wild card entry. Whilst giving England 2 teams in Humphries and Belly as seeds.

Their marketable draw is the wild card entry for teenage pairing of Littler and Bennett. The media will be all over it with the 16 and 18 year olds. I vote Yes for the wild card!

The forum will be divided on this one

[The Thorn]

If Uncle Barry and co have their heads screwed on they'll use their clout and create a wild card entry. Whilst giving England 2 teams in Humphries and Belly as seeds.

Their marketable draw is the wild card entry for teenage pairing of Littler and Bennett. The media will be all over it with the 16 and 18 year olds. I vote Yes for the wild card!

The forum will be divided on this one

No, I'm pretty sure everyone will think it's a crap idea

[Rob Singleton]

If Uncle Barry and co have their heads screwed on they'll use their clout and create a wild card entry. Whilst giving England 2 teams in Humphries and Belly as seeds.

Their marketable draw is the wild card entry for teenage pairing of Littler and Bennett. The media will be all over it with the 16 and 18 year olds. I vote Yes for the wild card!

The forum will be divided on this one

No, I'm pretty sure everyone will think it's a crap idea

I'm learning, it's all about the post count

[The Thorn]

If Uncle Barry and co have their heads screwed on they'll use their clout and create a wild card entry. Whilst giving England 2 teams in Humphries and Belly as seeds.

Their marketable draw is the wild card entry for teenage pairing of Littler and Bennett. The media will be all over it with the 16 and 18 year olds. I vote Yes for the wild card!

The forum will be divided on this one

No, I'm pretty sure everyone will think it's a crap idea

I'm learning, it's all about the post count

+1

[thegentle]

dartsrankings.com published a nifty race for this last year, obviously they don't have one yet, but right now we have 14 countries with two or more tour card holders, with 16 countries slated to be seeded (the top 4 countries, likely to be England, Netherlands, Wales and Scotland, get a bye to round 2, 5-16 seeded in the group stage)

USA have two players starting from scratch, Radek starting from scratch for Poland, Tricole starting from scratch and Labre starting from a very low base for France

Portugal, Latvia, Canada, Croatia, Philippines, Denmark, Sweden, Italy and New Zealand currently have one tour card holder each, though it's impossible for another Filipino to appear on the OoM by then, very unlikely we'll see a Portuguese, Canadian or Italian. Unlikely but not impossible we see a Croat or Latvian qualify for a Euro Tour, not impossible we see Robb get on the ProTour via the Challenge Tour, probably more likely to see another Dane or Swede to accompany Reus and Jeffrey

Finland, Hungary and Lithuania don't have any tour card holder, but they each have multiple players who could feasibly make a Euro Tour or possibly have a run during a Challenge Tour

Unless we see 2 players from Switzerland or Spain pound the Challenge Tour and get on the ProTour, they will lose their seeding (unfortunately for the Swiss, and also the Hungarians, their Euro Tour event takes place after the World Cup)

[The Crow]

If Uncle Barry and co have their heads screwed on they'll use their clout and create a wild card entry. Whilst giving England 2 teams in Humphries and Belly as seeds.

Their marketable draw is the wild card entry for teenage pairing of Littler and Bennett. The media will be all over it with the 16 and 18 year olds. I vote Yes for the wild card!

The forum will be divided on this one

No, I'm pretty sure everyone will think it's a crap idea

+1

[The Thorn]

Portugal should be Jose Marques. Other jobbers who had played with Jose DS were shit

Latvia should be Zhukov please. Much better than the other jobber (Mustafejevs?)

Canada is interesting it will probably be Jake Taylor or Jim Long based on CDC. They could be good provided that Campbell has less than 13 pints.

Philippines Toylo might be the frontrunner with Nebrida in second place based on Asian Tour. They will be competitive with any pairing

Croatia it should be Grvabac hopefully

Denmark should be Big Vlad fingers crossed

Sweden is a tough one they have great depth about 7-8 competitive players. Favourites will be Lukasiak, Nilsson and Dirty Harry. But watch out for Ostlund, Tingstrom, Larsson, Engstrome as well

Italy you never know with them but probably will be one of Petri, Rollo, Micheletti or Dante

New Zealand needs to be Ben Robb if PDC fuck this up I will be massively pissed off

Switzerland Bellmont has to be there no question. Other place will be between Walpen and Junghans. I would give Walpen the nod think he is a slightly better player although Junghans gave a great account of himself at Lakeside.

Finland it pains me to say it but old fart Kantele is still their best player. Other lad should be the same as last year maybe. Teemu Harju has not lived up to my expectations although I wouldn't mind if he was given the chance

Lithuania should be the same as always

Hungary if I'm being honest I still fancy Kovacs, Jagicza and Major over Szekely. Kovacs has to be in the team. The other player should be either Major or Jagicza. Jagicza is probably a bit better but Major proved himself on stage and provided Hungary a history making moment

[thegentle]

Portugal should be Jose Marques. Other jobbers who had played with Jose DS were shit

Latvia should be Zhukov please. Much better than the other jobber (Mustafejevs?)

Canada is interesting it will probably be Jake Taylor or Jim Long based on CDC. They could be good provided that Campbell has less than 13 pints.

Philippines Toylo might be the frontrunner with Nebrida in second place based on Asian Tour. They will be competitive with any pairing

Croatia it should be Grvabac hopefully

Denmark should be Big Vlad fingers crossed

Sweden is a tough one they have great depth about 7-8 competitive players. Favourites will be Lukasiak, Nilsson and Dirty Harry. But watch out for Ostlund, Tingstrom, Larsson, Engstrome as well

Italy you never know with them but probably will be one of Petri, Rollo, Micheletti or Dante

New Zealand needs to be Ben Robb if PDC fuck this up I will be massively pissed off

Switzerland Bellmont has to be there no question. Other place will be between Walpen and Junghans. I would give Walpen the nod think he is a slightly better player although Junghans gave a great account of himself at Lakeside.

Finland it pains me to say it but old fart Kantele is still their best player. Other lad should be the same as last year maybe. Teemu Harju has not lived up to my expectations although I wouldn't mind if he was given the chance

Lithuania should be the same as always

Hungary if I'm being honest I still fancy Kovacs, Jagicza and Major over Szekely. Kovacs has to be in the team. The other player should be either Major or Jagicza. Jagicza is probably a bit better but Major proved himself on stage and provided Hungary a history making moment

The spots are always at the 'discretion' of the PDC, but it's not as if they just pick them at a whim, it's based on main OoM/regional tours (with countries unlikely to be represented on either of those holding qualifiers).
I don't know if Jose Marques is playing seriously these days, if he is, obviously he's the preferred partner for Jose de Sousa, though I suspect he'll have to come through a qualifier
On paper, Latvia should be Zhukov, but it depends whether he can get on the Euro Tour, or if not, be the top Latvian on the Nordic/Baltic Tour
Fairly confident at least one Swede will play on the Euro Tour before the cutoff (I hope Ostlund does it), though for Denmark, if Vlad doesn't, who else can?
The only player in New Zealand who comes close to Robb is Puha, so I don't think there's much danger of the dream team not happening there
Think Jeff Smith will be doing the CDC this year, but I'm not sure if the CDC use the yearly ranking or a rolling ranking to decide their spots
Asia is similar, though I think they use a rolling ranking, at the moment Nebrida and Toylo are the main contenders to partner Perez, Ilagan needs to wake up
For Hungary, I suspect it'll come down to a qualifier like before, for their sake you'd hope Kovacs doesn't bottle it like he did in the World Series qualifier

[The Thorn]

Hungarian Super League will decide the World Cup qualification. 32 player field, played over 4 weekends, plus the final on May 19

[danhanp]

Are they saturating it by opening it up to more countries? I think a balance between singles & doubles, similar to Davis Cup format in Tennis would work

[TheMalteseDart]

Are they saturating it by opening it up to more countries? I think a balance between singles & doubles, similar to Davis Cup format in Tennis would work

Last years one was the most fun one ever and that was because it was doubles all the way through, wouldn’t reverse that now. In terms of numbers, there’s a lot of rubbish in there atm but with the short format games there’s a big chance of upsets in the group stage phase

[Greipel]

Székely vs Végső is on now.

[Greipel]

Végső-Székely 5-0

[The Thorn]

Végső-Székely 5-0

That means Vegso would have got a card at Q-School if he played

[Greipel]

Only two losses for Major during the whole series yet.