Roebuckio wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:30 pm

PreciesJJ wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 7:55 pm

Roebuckio wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:50 pm

PreciesJJ wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:40 pm

Roebuckio wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:34 pm 32 cards
63/64 - Barney back in pot
25/26 playing year 2/2 - Bain back in pot
4 Dev & 4 CT

Bain will keep his, Barney his will go to Alcinas.

Alcinas is at euro Q school, Bain has surrendered and also left MDA , the information is readily available on the PDPA website !
PDPA already confirmed that RVBs card is in the pot.

Missed about Bain, my apologies.

The PDPA has the top 64 still as TBC, so Alcinas could still get his card.

So 31 cards it is - Alcinas must have been pushed up to 64th

Dannyboy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:10 pm Surprised Ana hasn't gone?

Can understand the overseas guys not going, but what's the excuse for the UK based men's players? Considering the BDO will be dead and they cannot pay their players?

clemy1989 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:13 pm Surely with the numbers attending its time to look at restricting the pro tour to include a higher number, or run a challenger tour prem and div 1 based on finishing spots on the q-school oom. Potentially run a promotion and relegation system at the end of the year.

Dannyboy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:15 pm 853 entries in total. Wow. To think you can go back about 8-10 years and Q School was barely scraping just over 100 entries.

This means that the PDPA will have nearly 1000 members this season.

trotter01 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:37 pm

Roebuckio wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:30 pm

PreciesJJ wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 7:55 pm

Roebuckio wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:50 pm

PreciesJJ wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:40 pm

Bain will keep his, Barney his will go to Alcinas.

Alcinas is at euro Q school, Bain has surrendered and also left MDA , the information is readily available on the PDPA website !
PDPA already confirmed that RVBs card is in the pot.

Missed about Bain, my apologies.

The PDPA has the top 64 still as TBC, so Alcinas could still get his card.

So 31 cards it is - Alcinas must have been pushed up to 64th

That was always going to be the case I'd heard.. like I said previously the PDPA had jumped the gun on saying Barney's card would go to QS... I think its the right decision

clemy1989 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:24 pm I'm sure they could add another 64 tour cards. Players ranked 65 down play in the 1st round of Pro tour events top 64 get a bye to round too. Rankings updated after each event.

Dannyboy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:10 pm Surprised Ana hasn't gone?

Can understand the overseas guys not going, but what's the excuse for the UK based men's players? Considering the BDO will be dead and they cannot pay their players?

meetthefeebles wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:20 pm Bazza wants nothing to do with 800 or so pub players. Not remotely interested. There's no money in it for him and it potentially pollutes his product - there's no point spending years moving the 'pub game over the road' and making sure that his product only had the best players on the telly if suddenly he has all those pub players in his organisation.

Hearn does want the BDO to survive, in largely it's current form. It keeps the pub players out, except in January when he wants all their q-school entry fees

ssjsa wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 8:15 pm Really surprised to see that Danny Baggish is not amongst the entries.

Dannyboy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:16 pm

clemy1989 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:13 pm Surely with the numbers attending its time to look at restricting the pro tour to include a higher number, or run a challenger tour prem and div 1 based on finishing spots on the q-school oom. Potentially run a promotion and relegation system at the end of the year.

I've suggested before that the top 128 in the Q School OoM should get a Challenge Tour card (top ups feeding each other where spaces allow), with increased prize money and the the remaining 700 play on a seperate Open Tour, run in conjunction with the many, many opens played across the country.