6th BDO World Darts Trophy 30 Aug - 1 Sep Blackburn

[trotter01]

At the end of the day it's the crowds that have generated media interest in the PDC which in turn attracts the sponsors.. If there was nobody watching the PDC events then TV would not be interested and sponsors would not come..

I still think long term the BDO needs crowds.. The TV will not continually broadcast anything without crowds and atmosphere.. People need to come out and start attending eventually

[Si Robin]

Not really the same though is it.

Snooker dont have constant shots of the crowd, its a shot of the table and they know a shot of a table has a million people in China watching, the world seniors at Scunthorpe the other year had an average of over 100,000 streams from China.

Darts with rows and rows of empty seats looks awful, look at last year and how much they tried to hide it and Duzza even brought up how bad it was.

Eurosport knows this but I imagine the top and bottom of this is they are paying nothing for 3 days of tv when they dont have anything else to show.

When i tune in to watch the darts.....I want to watch the darts....not a crowd of people, I can see that anytime down town on a Saturday night.... Seems like you quantify a good game of darts by the amount of folk watching.....very sad, stick to the plastic side of darts if that's what turns you on.....

For someone who claims to have absolutely no interest in the crowd and what is going on away from the stage when the darts is on, you've been known to get awfully worked up about flying pints of piss on a Thursday night.

That';s because the camera often shows the crowd holding up their silly signs......I don't want to be seeing that. You're the sort of guy who goes to a football match and watches the crowd all night.... the bigger the crowd the better the match eh?

The bigger the crowd the better the atmosphere though. When you support a lower league football team and they play someone from a higher league and thus you get a bumper crowd the event is more enjoyable.

I have to disagree Devo - as a supporter of a lower league team, there's nothing more frustrating than big cup draws at home. All the fairweather fans come out of the woodwork and people who don't go end up sitting in the wrong seats, or standing in areas where regulars will stand. Stewards tend to be bigger jobsworths than usual.

Ultimately, this impacts on the atmosphere in a negative manner as opposed to a positive.

[Case]

1181

[nikkiboy]

1181

Number of darts missed at doubles during last year's ladies WDT?

[Case]

1181

Number of darts missed at doubles during last year's ladies WDT?

Close.

[ChrisW]

[markymark]

The snooker in China, crowd or not, also has the top players involved the TV viewers will have heard of.

[ChrisW]

Much better prize money too.

[Ginge]

Much better prize money too.

From a sponsor.

[BlueSpark]

Much better prize money too.

From a sponsor.

[ChrisW]

For bluespark

[ILAD]

Hmm which one?

[BlueSpark]

For bluespark

Go on Paula bring the points home

[ChrisW]

Loves a bit of Paula.

And finally the last preview.

[Deleted User]

The snooker in China, crowd or not, also has the top players involved the TV viewers will have heard of.

And no session of prime time viewing completely filled with far lower quality ladies snooker.

[ChrisW]

The snooker in China, crowd or not, also has the top players involved the TV viewers will have heard of.

And no session of prime time viewing completely filled with far lower quality ladies snooker.

On Freesports isn't it?

[Deleted User]

The snooker in China, crowd or not, also has the top players involved the TV viewers will have heard of.

And no session of prime time viewing completely filled with far lower quality ladies snooker.

On Freesports isn't it?

Only until it's time to show some pre-recorded rallying from Norway.

[oche balboa]

David Owen is really upset he didn't get the gig

[Deleted User]

David Owen is really upset he didn't get the gig

Hnnnnnnnnnnnggg!!!

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