The Future of the PDC World Championship - Expansion to 128 confirmed for 2025/6

[oche balboa]

The 96 man field has worked absolutely fine, despite my initial cynicism.

So you are a no for 128

[vizIIsto]

Ship it to the Saudis.

[willem0000]

I think they will add some Tour card holders, because for some players its just makes sense to NOT be a Tour card holder, and that hurts the PDC. And maybe some stratigically spots to fuck the WDF. Maybe even late wildcards to their high ranked players/more known players/German players (to keep the WDF out of Germany). Players like Matthew Edgar, Paul Lim or other former tour card holder probably will attract some attention, but if you can hand them a wilcard, there will hardly be any atttention for Lakeside.

More games means more gambling rights, so it will be only a matter of time.

[Cooking with Sandra]

Fuck sake I love jobbers but 96 is perfect in the current landscape. 128 will reward utter failure

Even with 96 there’s a lot of international qualifiers you know are gonna get spanked 3-0 in sets

If you add more internationals you could have 2 of them playing

Imagine Alexis Toylo v Leonard Gates or Darius Labanauskas v Jesus Noguera

Classic first round battles

Or have 64 seeds.

Christ.

[The Thorn]

For next 32 places I would

16 international
8 Pro Tour
4 WDF
4 woman/trans woman

[Randall]

They aren't going to invite wdf players

[The Thorn]

They aren't going to invite wdf players

All WDF players are basically PDC players at this point

[Randall]

They aren't going to invite wdf players

All WDF players are basically PDC players at this point

They exclude a rour card holder in favour of someone from outside its going fo cause problems

[The Ginge Reaper]

The 96 man field has worked absolutely fine, despite my initial cynicism.

So you are a no for 128

Correct, the 96 works because you don't have the strongest 32 (in theory) playing minnows straight off the bat, and when they do play a minnow at least it's one who has won a game.

[oche balboa]

They aren't going to invite wdf players

Cardless are more or less are WDF Players

[sennafan24]

They aren't going to invite wdf players

All WDF players are basically PDC players at this point

They exclude a rour card holder in favour of someone from outside its going fo cause problems

[The Thorn]

They aren't going to invite wdf players

Cardless are more or less are WDF Players

[thegentle]

They aren't going to invite wdf players

All WDF players are basically PDC players at this point

They exclude a rour card holder in favour of someone from outside its going fo cause problems

If you still can’t make the Worlds even with this new expansion then I don’t think you can complain at a WDF player getting invited lol

[Randall]

They aren't going to invite wdf players

All WDF players are basically PDC players at this point

They exclude a rour card holder in favour of someone from outside its going fo cause problems

If you still can’t make the Worlds even with this new expansion then I don’t think you can complain at a WDF player getting invited lol

They can because all places should go to tour card holders

[The Thorn]

They aren't going to invite wdf players

All WDF players are basically PDC players at this point

They exclude a rour card holder in favour of someone from outside its going fo cause problems

If you still can’t make the Worlds even with this new expansion then I don’t think you can complain at a WDF player getting invited lol

They can because all places should go to tour card holders

Now that's a new idea

[Randall]

All WDF players are basically PDC players at this point

They exclude a rour card holder in favour of someone from outside its going fo cause problems

If you still can’t make the Worlds even with this new expansion then I don’t think you can complain at a WDF player getting invited lol

They can because all places should go to tour card holders

Now that's a new idea

Clearly they have this already for the ladies event which a lot of card holders probably don't like

[Rogg]

BARRY HEARN says the main draw of the PDC World Darts Championship will increase to 128 players for the 2025/26 edition.

https://www.thesun.ie/sport/14216701/ba ... 1732029124


32 more players.
8 more sessions.
4 more days.
25,000 more tickets.

[Cooking with Sandra]

May as well just give it to the tour card holders and fuck all the qualifiers off.

[Dfc180]

Bigger doesn't always mean better

[Randall]

Its clearly to many