PDC Asian Championship (October 5-8) - Japan

[oche balboa]

1st qualifiers have been known

023 PDC Asian Championship
Confirmed Qualifiers (Asian Tour Order of Merit Top 16)
Lourence Ilagan
Tomoya Goto
Paolo Nebrida
Reynaldo Rivera
Man Lok Leung
Lok Yin Lee
Jun Matsuda
Paul Lim
Rosendo Lubaton
Nitin Kumar
Xiaochen Zong
Alexis Toylo
Christian Perez
Mohd Nasir Jantan
Haruki Muramatsu
Mitsuhiko Tatsunami


Further Qualifiers
Xicheng Han - China Mainland Qualifier
Shailender Singh Dixit Thakur - Indian Qualifier
Jemel Ching Modesto - Philippines Qualifier
Yuan Lun Han - Taiwan Qualifier
Cher Kai Ang - Singapore Qualifier
Chaiyan Ball Paiaree - Thailand Qualifier
Hasan Haji Jafaar - Bahrain Qualifier
JinWook Lee - South Korean Qualifier
Altantulhuur Myagmarsuren - Mongolian Qualifier
Jenn Ming Tan - Malaysian Qualifier
Royden Lam - Hong Kong Qualifier
Kam Weng Cheng - Macau Qualifier
Hussain Ali - UAE Qualifier
Rizwan Ahmed - Pakistan Qualifier
Andersen Tjoeng - Indonesian Qualifier
Sho Okano - Japanese Qualifier

2023 PDC Asian Championship
Prize Money
Winner - $15,000
Runner-Up $7,000
Semi-Finalists - $5,000
Quarter-Finalists - $3,000
Last 16 - $2,000
Second in Group - $1,500
Third in Group - $1,000
Total - $100,000

Format
Asian Series Events 1-4 - Best of seven legs (no seedings)
Round Robin (Last 48) - Best of nine legs (top 16 players from 2023 PDC Asian Tour seeded one per group)
Last 16 - Best of nine legs
Quarter-Finals - Best of 11 legs
Semi-Finals - Best of 11 legs
Final - Best of 13 legs

The last 16 spots will be filled by qualifiers which will be held on the 5-6th October

[The Thorn]

Thanks Oche shame Baseem Mahmood didn't qualify

[The Thorn]

Also has Asada been playing the tour at all?

[thegentle]

Also has Asada been playing the tour at all?

Yep, he played about half the events, I seem to recall hardly foreigners played the Filipino weekend, and there was another weekend which clashed with a big soft-tip event

[Rogg]

[Rogg]

Aha. The winning dart. I thought he was never going to throw the first one. Malt will be considering the case carefully.

[TheMalteseDart]

Looks like a solid player

[DeepFriedRat]

Why are all Asian players dead slow and stop?

[TheMalteseDart]

Their throws tend to seem very schooled, I think a lot of the top players have been coached and therefore have these set routines where as if you’re self taught there’s a lot more wild variation

[thegentle]

Good for him! As for Asada, not much harm done I hope, he still has the Asian Series to qualify for this, might not be the end of the world to get warmed up before the big event

[oche balboa]

Opening post updated

[thegentle]

Good luck to everyone of course, but in particular to the national qualifiers, let's hope they blaze a trail for their countries, I'd love nothing more than a Macanese vs an Indonesian in the final of the Worlds

[Rogg]

The whole of the Japan final is here.

[thegentle]

Bump. Kicking off with qualifiers for this on Thursday (I presume overnight on Wednesday British time?), still plenty of big names who haven't qualified yet

[TheMalteseDart]

Kai Fan Leung is playing, don't want him at the PDC Worlds tbh

[The Thorn]

Kai Fan Leung is playing, don't want him at the PDC Worlds tbh

WDF needs him more

He is a strange player, can post some obscene averages but he never lived up to his potential

[thegentle]

Kai Fan Leung is playing, don't want him at the PDC Worlds tbh

I presume he's no longer based on Merseyside then?

[Safc]

Kai Fan Leung is playing, don't want him at the PDC Worlds tbh

I presume he's no longer based on Merseyside then?

He played the WDF at Bridlington the other weekend

[thegentle]

Kai Fan Leung is playing, don't want him at the PDC Worlds tbh

I presume he's no longer based on Merseyside then?

He played the WDF at Bridlington the other weekend

Yep, realised that he'd qualified for the Lakeside lol, some effort he's making then, kind of hope he does make it even if he's already got a place at a Worlds lined up already

[Cooking with Sandra]

Mon KFL!