2018 PDC World Championship- Alexandra Palace, London-14th December 2017- 1st January 2018

[ChrisW]

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[ifm]

Lol did the LDO do those posters?

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[Ginge]

They should have used the same person who did this one

[ifm]

They should have used the same person who did this one

Post the LDO one for comparison

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[Ginge]

Going to have to find one!

[ifm]

Going to have to find one!

Whinge pretending he doesn't have it in his dossier, there.


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[footballafc]

Still wonder how they are planning to fill the invitational places in the tournament. 24 feels too many for me. Don't see why the 4 places for the Europeans have been taken away - the players that qualified via that route had usually played most of the tour and weren't far short of qualifying via the standard 16 ProTour places (I know that there is the argument that if they were good enough they should've qualified via top 32 OOM or top 16 ProTour). Having looked at the players that have qualified that way over the last few tournaments, some of them have used it as a springboard to better things (Suljovic qualified that way in 2015, Wattimena in 2016). Perhaps more deserving than, say, giving four spots to the PDPA qualifier last year...

Personally would be in favour of inviting the winners (and possibly the runners up) of the Challenge and Development tours. Also thought that they could invite the highest ranked player on the main OOM without tour card (Lerchbacher, Ratajski and Jacques currently in line to qualify so would go to Peter Hudson - £15,500 on the pro tour without a tour card is decent going).

We know that they won't do wildcards so having a third of the field qualify mainly through one off qualifiers seems a bit much to me. Either way, it'll still be a great tourney.

[26scored]

Still wonder how they are planning to fill the invitational places in the tournament. 24 feels too many for me. Don't see why the 4 places for the Europeans have been taken away - the players that qualified via that route had usually played most of the tour and weren't far short of qualifying via the standard 16 ProTour places (I know that there is the argument that if they were good enough they should've qualified via top 32 OOM or top 16 ProTour). Having looked at the players that have qualified that way over the last few tournaments, some of them have used it as a springboard to better things (Suljovic qualified that way in 2015, Wattimena in 2016). Perhaps more deserving than, say, giving four spots to the PDPA qualifier last year...

Personally would be in favour of inviting the winners (and possibly the runners up) of the Challenge and Development tours. Also thought that they could invite the highest ranked player on the main OOM without tour card (Lerchbacher, Ratajski and Jacques currently in line to qualify so would go to Peter Hudson - £15,500 on the pro tour without a tour card is decent going).

We know that they won't do wildcards so having a third of the field qualify mainly through one off qualifiers seems a bit much to me. Either way, it'll still be a great tourney.

I think the 4 additional places for Europeans were totally fair. The UK players have a massive advantage as the pro tour events are all in England. People like Hopp or Van den Bergh, who are definitely good enough to play the WC, qualified via that route in 2017. Also it helps with the progress of darts in mainland Europe.

They should have either kept the 4 places for European players, or simply have 20 players qualify through the Pro Tour OoM.

I really hope there will be no more than 2 PDPA qualifiers, but I reckon it'll be 3 or 4.

[oche balboa]

Who would be the 4 leading Europeans?

[26scored]

Who would be the 4 leading Europeans?

I'm a bit confused as different sources have slightly different qualification tables.

Looks like Dirk van Duijvenbode, Jeffrey de Graaf, Martin Schindler and Mike de Decker at the moment. Ratajski could miss out on the Worlds as well.

For comparison, the next 4, currently not qualified British players are Steve Lennon, Robbie Green, Chris Quantock and Ryan Searle.

Both bunch of players look much better than the dross that is going to come out of the PDPA qualifiers. Not even talking about international, that's a different matter.

[Ginge]

Ratajski would not be one of the best 4 Europeans not qualified?!

That doesn't sound right, hasn't he won about £20k this year?

[26scored]

Ratajski would not be one of the best 4 Europeans not qualified?!

That doesn't sound right, hasn't he won about £20k this year?

He's won £19k, 16th place is at £18.5k at the moment.
Only qualified for 1 of the 2 ET events and obviously won't play the PC's in Dublin
He's far from safe right now.

[26scored]

Ratajski would not be one of the best 4 Europeans not qualified?!

That doesn't sound right, hasn't he won about £20k this year?

He's won £19k, 16th place is at £18.5k at the moment.
Only qualified for 1 of the 2 ET events and obviously won't play the PC's in Dublin
He's far from safe right now.

Sorry, misunderstood
What I wrote above is about him qualifying for the Worlds
He would be in the top 4 Europeans, he's not one of them because he is qualified at the moment

[Ginge]

Ratajski would not be one of the best 4 Europeans not qualified?!

That doesn't sound right, hasn't he won about £20k this year?

He's won £19k, 16th place is at £18.5k at the moment.
Only qualified for 1 of the 2 ET events and obviously won't play the PC's in Dublin
He's far from safe right now.

Yeah that's 16th place out of everyone outside the top 32 on the main OoM.
If they bring back the top 4 Europeans in the one year list not already qualified (after taking the top 16 out) he would easily get in.

EDIT - aha, just seen your extra post.

[Rafaldarts180]

Anyone knows about South African qualifier? Looks like it would be the last chance to see Devon at Worlds. Last year there wasn't place for Africans, but maybe this year will be...

[mik252]

Diogo Portela has won the Central and South American qualifier, beating Brazil World Cup of darts teams mate, Alexandre Satin, 6-1 in the final

[ssjsa]

With minimum money added to tentative major qualifiers, Snakebite is closing rapidly on Ando for the #2 seeding. Data courtesy of Burton.

[The Jolly Man]

Diogo Portela has won the Central and South American qualifier, beating Brazil World Cup of darts teams mate, Alexandre Satin, 6-1 in the final

2017/2018 William Hill World Darts Championship
South & Central American Qualifier
First Round
Bruno Holfman bye
Guilherme Soares bye
Alexandre Sattin 6-1 Fabio Porto
Luis Miguel bye
Eric Babosa 6-0 Rafael Agueria
Samuel Oliveira 6-2 Marlon Araújo
Troy Bhujhawan 6-0 André Concalves
Edson Chaves bye
Sudesh Fitzgerald 6-1 Burno Angel
Anderson Viera bye
Artur Valle 6-2 Rodrigo Pitombeira
Rodrigo Pena bye
Diogo Portlea bye
Roberto Wentz 6-2 Kevin Jacob
Lallchand Rambharose 6-4 Renan Soares

Second Round
Bruno Holfman 6-0 Guilherme Soares
Alexandre Sattin 6-4 Luis Miguel
Eric Babosa 6-3 Samuel Oliveira
Troy Bhujhawan 6-0 Edson Chaves
Sudesh Fitzgerald 6-0 Anderson Vieira
Artur Valle 6-0 Rodrigo Pena
Diogo Portela 6-0 Roberto Wentz
Lallchand Rambharose beat

Quarter-Finals
Diogo Portela def Lallchand Rambharose (Guyana)
Sudesh Fitzgerald (Guyana) def Artur Valle (Brazil)
Alexandre Sattin def Bruno Holfman
Troy Bhujhawan (T&T) def Eric Barbosa

Semi-Finals
Diogo Portela def Sudesh Fitzgerald
Alexandre Sattin def Troy Bhujhawan

Final
Diogo Portela 6-1 Alexandre Sattin

[Ginge]

Hearn has confirmed on Twitter that the 4 Euro spots won't be added back in.
So where are these 4 spaces going to be used?

[Rafaldarts180]

Draw for East Europe Qualifier (Last 64):
Marian Sket bye
Karoly Greksa bye
Karel Sedlacek v Benjamin Pratnemer
Attila Mucsi v Dejan Kovacevic
Petr Rouc bye
Janos Vegso bye
Danijel Bartolic v Vivien Czipo
Zoltan Mester v Sandor Almasi
Janos Szabo bye
Adrian Michna bye
Alan Ljubic v Roman Benecky
Boris Krcmar v Witold Lewandowski
Jozsef Rucska bye
Mitja Habjan bye
Oliver Ferenc v Patrik Kovacs
Nandor Bezzeg v Miklos Posfai
Zsolt Meszaros bye
Albert Nemeth bye
Ante Vranjeka v Szilagyi Csaba
Tonci Restovic v Krzysztof Ratajski
Istvan Berta bye
Tytus Kanik bye
Lajos Vereczkey v Peter Strbik
Pero Ljubic v Hrvoje Halozar
Pal Szekely bye
David Rosi bye
Michal Smejda v Sandor Ballo
Istvan Nyiregyhazki v Frantisek Hampula
Miso Stankovic bye
Gabor Takacs bye
Tamas Alexits v Abonyi Adam
Krzysztof Kciuk v Domagoj Voloder