2024 Masters

[thegentle]

Not the most glamorous event, and the carrot of Premier League qualification has been removed, but for many, it is still a great chance to get their season off to a flyer by picking up some silverware and qualifying for the Grand Slam. Top 24 qualify, top 8 seeded to round 2, 9-24 face each other in round 1

https://www.dartsrankings.com/postwch
Standings at the minute, top 22 set in stone, but you'd expect some pullouts so Schindler can probably pencil in a Masters debut too.

Humphries jumps to #1 if he reaches the final of the Worlds
Cross jumps to #4 if he wins his semi, though could drop to #7 if he loses to Littler and Scott Williams wins the Worlds
Williams qualifies if he reaches the final (23rd if he loses to Cross, 24th if he loses to Littler), 6th if he beats Littler in the final, 7th if he beats Cross (pushing Wright down to 9th in either case)
Littler can only qualify if he wins, in which case he would jump up to 9th

[thegentle]

Humphries #1 seed, Peter Wright guaranteed to be seeded through to round 2, Schindler guaranteed a top 24 spot, only possible change is whether Littler jumps in ahead of Ratajski

[The Thorn]

Owen Bates deserves an invite

[Emulsfier]

Owen Bates deserves an invite

Now you can stop posting.

[The Thorn]

Owen Bates deserves an invite

Now you can stop posting.

Never baby

[TheMalteseDart]

[The Thorn]

Semis

Humphries v Searle
Schindler v Smith

[Cooking with Sandra]

Sigh.

[The Thorn]

Schedule is out for this great event

[Deadshot]

This'll tide me over until the UK Open...

[Lexington]

Which player will take the PDC bribe to be 'sick' so they can shoehorn Luke in ...

[The Thorn]

Which player will take the PDC bribe to be 'sick' so they can shoehorn Luke in ...

Littler is 7th reserve so unless there is a virus outbreak this will not happen

[Lexington]

Which player will take the PDC bribe to be 'sick' so they can shoehorn Luke in ...

Littler is 7th reserve so unless there is a virus outbreak this will not happen

Don't give Matt Porter any ideas.....

[Randall]

The event seems a little hollow without him to be fair

[Rogg]

It will be a bit like when Barney wasn't at the Matchplay in his debut year. He'd just won the UK Open.

[Randall]

It will be a bit like when Barney wasn't at the Matchplay in his debut year. He'd just won the UK Open.

Hammer beat him in qualifying

[Rogg]

It will be a bit like when Barney wasn't at the Matchplay in his debut year. He'd just won the UK Open.

Hammer beat him in qualifying

'Andrew Hamilton'

There was no 1-year pro tour OoM in those days. The Matchplay was Top 28 plus 4 qualifiers.

[thegentle]

It will be a bit like when Barney wasn't at the Matchplay in his debut year. He'd just won the UK Open.

It was only in 2008 that they changed the qualification system to include ProTour qualifiers, rewarding consistency rather than the faintly ridiculous situation of one of the two best* players in the world not being there because someone had a good day in a qualifier

*obviously not reflected in the rankings at the time!

[thegentle]

Schedule is out for this great event

Amazed nobody has pulled out yet, particularly Dirk. Mind you, he is also yet to pull out of the World Series event neither

[The Thorn]

Littler will be in every TV event for about 30 years. We will be ok