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Post by Fiss Plaps » Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:51 am

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Post by Rogg » Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:01 pm

Fiss Plaps wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:51 am Here we go: the WDF announcement: https://www.dartswdf.com/2020/01/17/wdf ... -for-2020/
  • a ‘World Masters’ style multi-board event
  • an end of season finale in the traditional format of a staged ‘World Championship’ type event

Fairly clear what they're up to here. The BDO will be rattled as fuck.
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Post by The Thorn » Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:07 pm

Will the mushrooms defect to the new official world championship I wonder?
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Post by Randall » Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:08 pm

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Post by Fiss Plaps » Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:19 pm

Rogg wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:01 pm
Fiss Plaps wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:51 am Here we go: the WDF announcement: https://www.dartswdf.com/2020/01/17/wdf ... -for-2020/
  • a ‘World Masters’ style multi-board event
  • an end of season finale in the traditional format of a staged ‘World Championship’ type event

Fairly clear what they're up to here. The BDO will be rattled as fuck.
And so they should be. Only tournaments they should have any interest in whatsoever is the BICC/Gold Cup and even then the EDO/SDO etc. might override them.

The WDF should have done this years back.
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Post by Rogg » Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:23 pm

Most interesting. Can this page be used to form a new thread on the future of the amateur game? Mods!!
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Post by Randall » Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:27 pm

Rogg wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:23 pm Most interesting. Can this page be used to form a new thread on the future of the amateur game? Mods!!
Splitting or just renaming?
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Re: Wdf announcement- future of the bdo

Post by Randall » Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:29 pm

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Post by Rogg » Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:30 pm

Randall wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:27 pm
Rogg wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:23 pm Most interesting. Can this page be used to form a new thread on the future of the amateur game? Mods!!
Splitting or just renaming?
I'm not sure how to do the 1st so pick the 2nd please?
Splitting, I'm afraid. We'll still need this thread as it is to laugh at the comedy fireball that was the BDO.
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Post by Randall » Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:31 pm

Rogg wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:30 pm
Randall wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:27 pm
Rogg wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:23 pm Most interesting. Can this page be used to form a new thread on the future of the amateur game? Mods!!
Splitting or just renaming?
I'm not sure how to do the 1st so pick the 2nd please?
Splitting, I'm afraid. We'll still need this thread as it is to laugh at the comedy fireball that was the BDO.
I seem to have fucked it up.
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Re: Wdf announcement- future of the bdo

Post by Randall » Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:34 pm

Are we still here?
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Re: Wdf announcement- future of the bdo

Post by Rogg » Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:40 pm

Randall wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:34 pm Are we still here?
let's have a look.

I think you've done it!

Change it to 'future of the amateur game' tho, seeing as the BDO doesn't have one.
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Re: WDF Announcement of New Ranking Criteria (So Long BDO?)

Post by Randall » Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:43 pm

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Re: WDF Announcement of New Ranking Criteria (So Long BDO?/Randall is a senile old tosser)

Post by Randall » Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:15 pm

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Post by whereisman » Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:31 pm

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Re: WDF Announcement of New Ranking Criteria (So Long BDO?/Randall is a senile old tosser)

Post by The Ginge Reaper » Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:48 pm

Interesting picture posted elsewhere

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Despite dumping the BDO points, the Dutch Open has had 16 more men enter it this year.
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Re: WDF Announcement of New Ranking Criteria (So Long BDO?/Randall is a senile old tosser)

Post by cannibal » Fri Jan 17, 2020 3:53 pm

but, but, ...BDO ranking points are so valuable to events and the turn outs....your telling me that was a lie too!
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Re: WDF Announcement of New Ranking Criteria (So Long BDO?/Randall is a senile old tosser)

Post by Zeyes » Fri Jan 17, 2020 4:16 pm

99%+ of players on the continent haven't given a shit about BDO points for a long, long time. Ironically it was mostly tournament organizers who still bought into the propaganda, the guys staging the German Open were still insisting as little as three years ago that the BDO ranking status was increasing the attractiveness of their tournament weekend. (But even they finally stopped talking about that since then.)

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Re: WDF Announcement of New Ranking Criteria (So Long BDO?/Randall is a senile old tosser)

Post by Zeyes » Fri Jan 17, 2020 4:19 pm

On the actual topic, I'm still of the mind that a Lakeside-style championship is completely surplus to requirements for the WDF. They should just focus on doing the World Masters well and give world championship status to that. But that would require some out of the box thinking rather than just trying to continue the status quo under different ownership...

I'm also relatively skeptical that they'll actually be able to pull off the staging of these major events in 2020 already without making a hash of it.

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