Random Dart Stuff

[PT13]

In snooker, it's more complicated. The World Championship, UK Championship and the Masters are the triple crown. The Masters is non-ranked however, and it's usually ranking majors only that are counted among the major total unless people count the Triple crown events only as the major total.

So in Triple Crown count, O'Sullivan has 23 and Hendry has 18. In ranking events, O'Sullivan has 41 and Hendry has 36.

The UK Championship up to 1992 felt much bigger, when the finals were best of 31 frames over two days. I remember the Hendry vs. Davis (1989, 1990) and White vs. Parrott (1991, 1992) finals very well, and they felt almost as big as World Championships. UK Championship finals didn't feel quite the same once they moved to best of 19 frames over one day from 1993, and from that point on they felt closer to the Masters than the World Championship.

Alex Higgins' 16-15 win over Steve Davis in the 1983 UK Championship final (after being 0-7 down) is possibly his finest moment, even above his 2 World Championship wins and the 1982 World semi final against Jimmy White. Higgins beat his arch rival Davis on a big stage, who he despised. Alex was a sort of mentor to Jimmy White and Stephen Hendry for much of the 1980s, and he later saw Hendry as having sold out for looking to Davis' winning dominance and professional attitude as an example. Alex fell out with Jimmy a lot too. While Jimmy maintained a strong flamboyance as a snooker player, he often clashed with Alex because he (Jimmy) refused to go any further down the dark road of alcohol, gambling and cocaine. Jimmy pulled back from that brink, while Alex went over the edge and beyond. Stephen Hendry combined a cool, ruthless professional edge and concentration with very bold attacking play, and he'd screw into the pack of reds instead of stunning into them (something new), and he looked to heavy break building on a regular basis, which changed snooker. For years, other players struggled to keep up with the way that Hendry was playing snooker.

Steve Davis had been a good all-rounder, extremely patient and amazing at safety play in particular. Stephen Hendry was something much different. The 1990 World Championship final between Hendry and White, which Hendry won 18-12, only took just over 6 hours in total, about 12 minutes per frame.

If you had said in the 1990s that Ronnie O'Sullivan would smash Stephen Hendry for longevity, people would have laughed in your face. O'Sullivan seemed destined to crash and burn at some point in an Alex Higgins style.

[HalloweenJack]

In snooker, it's more complicated. The World Championship, UK Championship and the Masters are the triple crown. The Masters is non-ranked however, and it's usually ranking majors only that are counted among the major total unless people count the Triple crown events only as the major total.

So in Triple Crown count, O'Sullivan has 23 and Hendry has 18. In ranking events, O'Sullivan has 41 and Hendry has 36.

The UK Championship up to 1992 felt much bigger, when the finals were best of 31 frames over two days. I remember the Hendry vs. Davis (1989, 1990) and White vs. Parrott (1991, 1992) finals very well, and they felt almost as big as World Championships. UK Championship finals didn't feel quite the same once they moved to best of 19 frames over one day from 1993, and from that point on they felt closer to the Masters than the World Championship.

Alex Higgins' 16-15 win over Steve Davis in the 1983 UK Championship final (after being 0-7 down) is possibly his finest moment, even above his 2 World Championship wins and the 1982 World semi final against Jimmy White. Higgins beat his arch rival Davis on a big stage, who he despised. Alex was a sort of mentor to Jimmy White and Stephen Hendry for much of the 1980s, and he later saw Hendry as having sold out for looking to Davis' winning dominance and professional attitude as an example. Alex fell out with Jimmy a lot too. While Jimmy maintained a strong flamboyance as a snooker player, he often clashed with Alex because he (Jimmy) refused to go any further down the dark road of alcohol, gambling and cocaine. Jimmy pulled back from that brink, while Alex went over the edge and beyond. Stephen Hendry combined a cool, ruthless professional edge and concentration with very bold attacking play, and he'd screw into the back of reds instead of stunning into them (something new), and he looked to heavy break building on a regular basis, which changed snooker. For years, other players struggled to keep up with the way that Hendry was playing snooker.

Steve Davis had been a good all-rounder, extremely patient and amazing at safety play in particular. Stephen Hendry was something much different. The 1990 World Championship final between Hendry and White, which Hendry won 18-12, only took just over 6 hours in total, about 12 minutes per frame.

If you had said in the 1990s that Ronnie O'Sullivan would smash Stephen Hendry for longevity, people would have laughed in your face. O'Sullivan seemed destined to crash and burn at some point in an Alex Higgins style.

The ranking title thing is misleading as there were far less ranking titles in the 80s
The U.K. championship initially wasn’t a ranking event.

[Randall]

The uk has been massively downgraded

[oche balboa]

Jack Main won the Golden Palm Spring Festival which featured a number of PDC Tourcard holders

(http://www.dartsforwindows.com/draws/li ... ourid=4574)

[TheMalteseDart]

Jack Main won the Golden Palm Spring Festival which featured a number of PDC Tourcard holders

(http://www.dartsforwindows.com/draws/li ... ourid=4574)

So the ban is just PDC events only? Strong field that

[Safc]

Jack Main won the Golden Palm Spring Festival which featured a number of PDC Tourcard holders

(http://www.dartsforwindows.com/draws/li ... ourid=4574)

So the ban is just PDC events only? Strong field that

Ban will be anything DRA regulated.

These sort of opens are not DRA regulated

[oche balboa]

Yep. its not on stream either so he's free to play in them unlike a certain PDC Tourcard holder

[tungsten tossers]

MANAGER OF LUKE LITTLER OPENS UP ABOUT HIS 'TWO DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES': "HE'S QUITE SHY AND HUMBLE"

https://dartsnews.com/pdc/manager-of-lu ... and-humble

[Randall]

MANAGER OF LUKE LITTLER OPENS UP ABOUT HIS 'TWO DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES': "HE'S QUITE SHY AND HUMBLE"

https://dartsnews.com/pdc/manager-of-lu ... and-humble

Needs to nip that in the bus

[tungsten tossers]

MANAGER OF LUKE LITTLER OPENS UP ABOUT HIS 'TWO DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES': "HE'S QUITE SHY AND HUMBLE"

https://dartsnews.com/pdc/manager-of-lu ... and-humble

Needs to nip that in the bus

[Randall]

Oh ffs

[tungsten tossers]

Stat of the Week: The best treble 19 hitters in world darts

[Randall]

Littler seems rarely to miss it

[Potter's Lake]

Szagger being third is hilarious, maybe he should just stay down there. No Razma is surprising too.

[tungsten tossers]

Szagger being third is hilarious, maybe he should just stay down there. No Razma is surprising too.

I thought Razma would be there..
Pretty solid on T19

[Rogg]

Happy birthday to Jeff the Swan. Only 28 still.

[Randall]

Happy birthday young man

[ChrisW]

If I had known I'd have baked a cake.

[Rogg]

One of those Oranjebar things is happening now. A few familiar Dutch players including a couple of card holders Roelofs and Gian.


https://tv.dartconnect.com/event/oranje ... 02/matches

[sennafan24]

I don't recall this.