2017 PDC World Championship 15th December- 2nd January - Alexandra Palace, London

[armchairfan]

Prize Money
W £350,000
RU £160,000
SF £80,000
QF £38,000
L16 £25,000
L32 £17,000
L64 £10,000
Prelim £4,500


Order of Merit

1 1499000 Michael van Gerwen 17000
2 597500 Gary Anderson 17000
3 449250 Peter Wright 17000
4 418500 Adrian Lewis (+1) 17000
5 371750 James Wade (+1) 17000
6 339750 Phil Taylor (-2) 17000
7 326500 Dave Chisnall 10000
8 324250 Mensur Suljovic 17000
9 294500 Jelle Klaasen (+1) 10000
10 283750 Robert Thornton (-1) 17000
11 282250 Michael Smith 17000
12 259000 Ian White (+2) 17000
13 256000 Kim Huybrechts 10000
14 243500 Benito van de Pas (+1) 17000
15 236500 Raymond van Barneveld (-3) 17000
16 208750 Simon Whitlock (+1) 17000
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17 197500 Terry Jenkins (+1) 17000
18 190750 Alan Norris (+3) 17000
19 185250 Stephen Bunting (-3) 10000
20 182000 Gerwyn Price (-1) 10000
21 171750 Mervyn King (+1) 17000
22 158750 Daryl Gurney (+2) 17000
23 156750 Brendan Dolan 17000
24 154500 Mark Webster (+1) 17000
25 153750 Vincent van der Voort (-5) 10000
26 143000 Justin Pipe 10000
27 141250 Steve Beaton 17000
28 132000 Joe Cullen (+1) 17000
29 120000 Jamie Caven (+1) 10000
30 118750 Kyle Anderson (-2)
31 113250 Jamie Lewis 17000
32 107250 Andrew Gilding (+2) 17000

33 104750 John Henderson (-1) 10000
34 100750 Cristo Reyes (-1) 17000
35 99250 Darren Webster 17000
36 96250 James Wilson 10000
37 88750 Joe Murnan (+3) 10000
38 81500 Christian Kist 10000
39 81000 Robbie Green (+4) 10000
40 77500 Rowby-John Rodriguez (+1) 10000
40 77500 Max Hopp (-2) 10000
42 76000 Chris Dobey (+5) 17000
43 75750 Steve West (+2) 10000
44 70250 Keegan Brown (-7)
45 68250 Kevin Painter (+1) 17000
46 67750 Josh Payne (+2) 10000
47 67250 Ronny Huybrechts (-3) 10000
48 65000 Ricky Evans (+1) 10000
49 64500 Jermaine Wattimena (+1) 10000
50 63500 Devon Petersen (+2) 10000
51 60750 Dimitri van den Bergh (+2) 10000
52 54250 Jonny Clayton (+8) 17000
53 53500 Andy Hamilton (-11)
54 46500 David Pallett (-4)
55 41500 Jan Dekker (+1)
55 41500 Dirk van Duijvenbode (+1)
57 39000 Jeffrey de Zwaan (+1)
57 39000 Andy Boulton (+1)
59 37750 Wes Newton (-5)
60 34750 Jeffrey de Graaf (+10) 10000
61 32500 Andy Jenkins (+4)
61 32500 Mick McGowan (+11) 10000
63 31750 Ron Meulenkamp (+10) 10000
64 30250 William O'Connor (+4)
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65 30000 Mark Frost (+11) 10000
66 27000 Magnus Caris (+14) 10000
67 26250 Mickey Mansell (-5)
68 25750 Dean Winstanley (-13)
69 25500 James Richardson
69 25500 Wayne Jones (-6)
71 25000 Jyhan Artut (-7)
72 23500 Stuart Kellett (-6)
73 23000 Ronnie Baxter (-12)
74 22750 Andy Smith (-7)
75 21750 Nathan Aspinall (-2)
76 21000 Simon Stevenson (+6) 4500
77 20250 Darren Johnson (-2)
78 19750 Matthew Edgar (-1)
79 19250 Nathan Derry (-1)
80 17750 Berry van Peer (-1)
81 16750 Nigel Heydon
82 16500 Mark Walsh
82 16500 Vincent Kamphuis
84 16000 Paul Nicholson (-13)
85 15250 John Michael (+38) 10000
86 14750 Jamie Robinson (-1)
87 14500 Dragutin Horvat (+40) 10000
88 14000 Zoran Lerchbacher (+42) 10000
89 13750 Jason Wilson (-2)
90 12750 Mike Zuydwijk (-2)
91 12000 Kim Viljanen (+63) 10000
92 11750 Jim Walker (-3)
93 11500 Yordi Meeuwisse (-3)
94 11250 Steve Brown (-3)
95 11000 John Bowles (+20) 4500
95 11000 Johnny Haines (-3)
97 10750 Matt Clark (-4)
97 10750 Mike de Decker (-4)
97 10750 Tony Newell (-4)
100 10500 Jason Lovett (-4)
101 10250 Peter Hudson (-4)
101 10250 Jerry Hendriks (+98) 10000

[armchairfan]

Tour Card Race

No more changes to the top 64 are possible.

The following 32 players have lost their tour cards.

Players highlighted in red began the year inside the top 64.

Alan Tabern
Andy Smith
Curtis Hammond
Darren Johnson
Dean Winstanley
Haruki Muramatsu
Jamie Robinson
Jason Lovett
Jason Wilson
Jim Walker
John Part
Johnny Haines
Jyhan Artut
Ken MacNeil
Lee Palfreyman
Magnus Caris
Mark Frost
Matthew Edgar
Mickey Mansell
Mike Zuydwijk
Nathan Aspinall
Nathan Derry
Nigel Heydon
Paul Milford
Paul Nicholson
Prakash Jiwa
Ronnie Baxter
Stephen Willard
Steve McNally
Stuart Kellett
Tony Richardson
Wayne Jones

[Dannyboy]

What good reason is there to have darts on between Christmas and New Year?

One very good reason - there's very little sport/talent shows on between Christmas and New Year and as such, the competition will get higher viewing figures.

[DavidB]

What good reason is there to have darts on between Christmas and New Year?

One very good reason - there's very little sport/talent shows on between Christmas and New Year and as such, the competition will get higher viewing figures.

Forgetting all the live football then ???

[malcy93]

Why not ? What good reason is there to have darts on between Christmas and New Year? Ticket sales is not an answer as it'll sell out anyway. And as you've said before the PDC can dictate what they want, even sell it to another broadcaster.

I said 5-6 matches in a session early doors. Come round two yes 4 x 7 set matches are fine.

What has BDO and long sessions got to do with this???

Did you listen to Hearn's 2017 tour press conference, linked to in another thread here.

The TV companies globally so not just Sky want it this time of year. TV money calls the shots these days not the 3,000 per session who buy tickets they are minor thought.

There is little competing live sport to fill their sports channels. In UK we have football on Boxing Day and New Year plus some overseas cricket but little else that fills every evening. Plus the TV as Hearn said like the party atmosphere with the crowd (then adding my view, pissed up yobs who are there to drink not watch darts).

[Rout]

Why are the fanboys now talking about pdc darts like it's just filler? It's the second most watched sport you know!

[devosteve]

I like having the 3 day break. And TV filler or not the pdc would be foolish to lose the 'Christmas vibe' they have linked to their event.

its dominated my TV viewing over the last 7 nights.

roll on this evening. Man, Ebenezer Scrooge is alive and kicking on here. But he posts under a different name. But which one?

[Ginge]

I like having the 3 day break. And TV filler or not the pdc would be foolish to lose the 'Christmas vibe' they have linked to their event.

its dominated my TV viewing over the last 7 nights.

roll on this evening. Man, Ebenezer Scrooge is alive and kicking on here. But he posts under a different name. But which one?

Aye Xmas wouldn't be the same without the darts. It's a good job David isn't in charge if it, if he has his way it would all be done and dusted by the 23rd December and we would all be bored shitless in that period between Xmas and New Year.

As for making the sessions longer, there is a reason why most broadcasters insist on sessions being as long as they currently are.

[Rout]

So it's not a valid discussion point that a darts event to find one world champion out of 72 people takes longer to complete than an event where 11,000 people compete for around 900 medals in 28 different sports.

David. You troll!!! Stop trolling!

[BOOM]

Just for the sake of completenes, here's the list of players who have won a prelim then got through the 1st round:

Gurney
Petersen
Laursen
Reyes
Extercatte
Stein
Bowles
Munch (though he didn't complete his 1st round game as Ovens pulled out after a set)

[Zeyes]

Only got in at 10 so zoomed thru the games. Got the feeling a 2nd rate night?

As has been evey session so far.

Fek off, two of the games on Saturday night went the distance and we're fantastic high quality affairs.

Looking forward to DavidB in a few weeks, heralding the great entertainment delivered by some Lakeside match that finished 3-0 with averages of 88 and 79...

[only85]

lets not mince words here the tournament was padded out imo with so many players over so long cos a gap in the market was spotted,( the pre xmas wind down & office outing/ party do) & between xmas & new year (the somewhere to go & carry on the xmas partying), & if we stop at home on tv (theres something on that looks good fun to watch), also for sky its live sport to show for long hours ie tv filler thats isnt soccer or cricket. look at bt sport / premier sport how much is repeated during the daytime, well done all round i say

[Ginge]

So it's not a valid discussion point that a darts event to find one world champion out of 72 people takes longer to complete than an event where 11,000 people compete for around 900 medals in 28 different sports.

David. You troll!!! Stop trolling!

Reduction in numbers in the event is a different discussion point to the dates that the event is on.

Do you think the event should be done and dusted by the 23rd, regardless if the event has 32 players in it or 72?

[Zeyes]

Considering the BDO has trouble finding channels that want to show BDO darts for more than a couple of days at a time, maybe this "save time by scheduling things more like the Olympics and have a dozen competitions concurrently" idea could be interesting to them. Everything's online nowadays anyway, just give people the choice of 8 streamed match boards... Meanwhile, Sky, ITV and the PDC will probably continue to be okay with showing tournaments in mostly linear fashion.

[only85]

Considering the BDO has trouble finding channels that want to show BDO darts for more than a couple of days at a time, maybe this "save time by scheduling things more like the Olympics and have a dozen competitions concurrently" idea could be interesting to them. Everything's online nowadays anyway, just give people the choice of 8 streamed match boards... Meanwhile, Sky, ITV and the PDC will probably continue to be okay with showing tournaments in mostly linear fashion.

, over the past few years setanta/espn/eurosport/btsport/dave/premier sport, have one thing in common, they have shown bdo darts, there is a market out there & channels willing to show it on, the evidence is there to see, the issue is marketing / developing a product/ business development (broadcasters want certainty,all except auntie have adverts to sell latched onto the product shown or programme sponsored by) this is where the bdo have been & still are severely lacking in my view

[mshaw2]

Let's compare the PDC to the BDO!!!

[DavidB]

Let's compare the PDC to the BDO!!!

I wasn't, it's the PDC fanboys Zeyes and Ginge who do that!

[Ginge]

Let's compare the PDC to the BDO!!!

I wasn't, it's the PDC famous Zeyes and Ginge who do that!

r u ok babez?

[DavidB]

So it's not a valid discussion point that a darts event to find one world champion out of 72 people takes longer to complete than an event where 11,000 people compete for around 900 medals in 28 different sports.

David. You troll!!! Stop trolling!

Reduction in numbers in the event is a different discussion point to the dates that the event is on.

Do you think the event should be done and dusted by the 23rd, regardless if the event has 32 players in it or 72?

No it's not necessarily - cut the players who are invited and the event won't last as long, simples!

[DavidB]

Let's compare the PDC to the BDO!!!

I wasn't, it's the PDC famous Zeyes and Ginge who do that!

r u ok babez?

Fine hun, you?