Will there be a darts boom in Japan after Mikuru Suzuki win today?

[ChrisW]

Can you answer either of my questions? Actually there were three if you include my post from about 13 mins ago. I genuinely dont know the answer to any of them.

An excitable Paul Nicholson was waxing lyrical about Suzuki after her win and said 'Take the Darts Trophy to Japan, Why Not?"

So Paul Nicholson is the "expert" in question?

Must be him or Adams as they were the only 2 on stage I think. Adams had a perplexed look on his face.

[DavidB]

Nicho has been to Japan several times to play soft tip and knows Suzuki.

[Ginge]

14k watching her game on Youtube and that was a worldwide figure. Someone remind me what the population of Japan is?

[Mensur Suljovic Fan]

Can you answer either of my questions? Actually there were three if you include my post from about 13 mins ago. I genuinely dont know the answer to any of them.

No TV outside of these places. I watched most of the afternoon sessions on the YT stream, there was was usually anywhere between 3-8k watching at a time (with Suzuki's games being towards the higher end of this), though I can't remember off the top of my head how many were watching her final. It's fairly consistent with any streamed event with Japanese interest, there's a noticeable rise in viewers, but nothing spectacular

[Mensur Suljovic Fan]

Something trending on Twitter doesnt mean a load of Japs are now going to go out and start playing darts. Was in trending on Twitter in Japan? Someone asked was it even on telly in Japan, nobody has answered. Was it?

It was only available in Japan via You Tube.
I heard there was 14,000 viewers on you tube during that (or another Suzuki match)

I don't remember the final figures off the top of my head, but none of the figures from the afternoon sessions before that reached that

[Ginge]

So then...it wasnt on telly in Japan, and there were probably 10k (as an absolute max) watching it in Japan on YouTube at the time.

And this all means there will now be a darts boom in Japan.

I must admit, this is very bizarre logic.

[ChrisW]

Something trending on Twitter doesnt mean a load of Japs are now going to go out and start playing darts. Was in trending on Twitter in Japan? Someone asked was it even on telly in Japan, nobody has answered. Was it?

It was only available in Japan via You Tube.
I heard there was 14,000 viewers on you tube during that (or another Suzuki match)

I don't remember the final figures off the top of my head, but none of the figures from the afternoon sessions before that reached that

I didn't see it to be honest only read someone said the highest number of viewers was achieved during the Suzuki match and that it was a lot more than during any other match.

[ChrisW]

Something trending on Twitter doesnt mean a load of Japs are now going to go out and start playing darts. Was in trending on Twitter in Japan? Someone asked was it even on telly in Japan, nobody has answered. Was it?

It was only available in Japan via You Tube.
I heard there was 14,000 viewers on you tube during that (or another Suzuki match)

I don't remember the final figures off the top of my head, but none of the figures from the afternoon sessions before that reached that

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[ChrisW]

Would be curious if it starts hitting some newspapers in Asia now through AP etc.

[Ginge]

Would be curious if it starts hitting some newspapers in Asia now through AP etc.

No, we have established newspaper coverage is irrelevant.

[ChrisW]

Did a quick scan on press reader and found three hits in Asia from this morning's papers.

[Ginge]

A whole three hits on a continent with a population of 4.46bn, you say?

[ChrisW]

A whole three hits on a continent with a population of 4.46bn, you say?

Sorry I missed some it was actually 7 from different countries in Asia. Didn't find anything from Japan. But my press reader is not good in Japan has only 1 newpaper.

[Ginge]

A whole seven hits on a continent with a population of 4.46bn, you say?

[ChrisW]

Here's a few not doing them all.

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[Zeyes]

If it wasn't for social media the people of Japan would never have heard about Naomi Osaka's US Open victory.

[Ginge]

"London"

[ChrisW]

"London"

via France

[BlueSpark]

The darts companies should be working overtime, making all these steel tip darts that will be bought over there.

[Ginge]

The darts companies should be working overtime, making all these steel tip darts that will be bought over there.

All the Japs too busy playing tennis mate, 125 million of them been playing it non-stop since September.