ChrisW wrote:Sounds like some fun was had in Turkey.
No Eurosport either, 77 men (17swedes) 23 ladies only paula,zoe and Rachel from top 20.
Minimum £500per person to attend this as must stay in venue hotel.
Personally I don't think A cats should be given where you have to stay at venue, but with only 100 attending and paying out 10k in singles ,I suppose you need hotel to sponsor prizefund .
WCDPA wrote:Just had email from Turkish darts org that this year's open will be an A cat event ! Great effort and better still finals day will be shown live on Eurpsport , well done Ali Bagci your hard work rewarded
"it's the same trolls spouting the same crap every other post.... you have to be some kind of sad act to watch nearly 8 hours of darts a day for 9 days just to post about how crap it is"
From facebook and written by the Scropain apparently. Sounds a bit exaggerated to my ears.
It's now 00.45 in Kemer Turkey, we have just played the singles, Sam Sam Hewson played in the last 16, an absolute wonderful man who tried to cheat at every opportunity, every antic he cud do , he did, including actually talking to Sam while he was throwing, Sam eventually won, and the room full of Turkish was in uproar, they put in a complaint about Sam, and said he was a cheat, but cud not say how he cheated. About 30 mins later Sam had to play another Turkish man in the semi final, it was obvious from the start that this man was after SAMs blood, quite literally, after each and every time the Turkish guy took his darts out the board, he walked up the oche and actually shoulder barged Sam several times, and all the time he did this he was calling Sam disgusting names in Brocken English, at one point the man stepped back from the ache saveral paces until he found Sam's foot, then stamped on it, Sam pushed the guy off him, the guy then turned around and shoved Sam so hard he flew past the next boards oche, at that, every Turkish man in the place surround Sam, at the time I was supporting Paula playing her quarter finals, I rushed over to Sam as he left the building, lots of things happened over the next 30 mins, including a telephone call from myself to sue and Wayne Williams to complain about the way the category A Turkish open was being run, I told the organisers that this Turkish man should be disqualified from the event, but all the organiser ( john Williams ) would say was, Sam has to play or forfeit the last 8, even after Boeing assaulted twice on the oche,Those of you who know Sam, know that this severely upset him, and a win at this point was unlikely, Sam agreed to play under duress and the inevitable happened, Sam lost 4-2, the wonderful smelly Turkish man was then mobbed by every Turk in the room, it was like watching the final scene in rocky where they all get into the ring and lift rocky up above their heads, I really don't think I have witnesses anything as wonderful in my entire life, it's completely ruined a fantastic week, I will be putting a letter of complaint into the BDO and WDF first thing Monday morning, the entire incident was handled totally wrong. Des
WCDPA wrote:Just had email from Turkish darts org that this year's open will be an A cat event ! Great effort and better still finals day will be shown live on Eurpsport , well done Ali Bagci your hard work rewarded
So what does your mate have to say about this?
Just as well it wasn't on Eurosport.
Haven't heard from Ali yet Dave but you know these Turks can be a tad temperamental at times
If reports true weren't the only place where there was a bit of edge on the oche.
ChrisW wrote:How come is MF getting in on the game when things like this happen Paul?
Is he representing Sam?
Is Sam Hewson a member of IDPA?
Who knows who is a member of the IDPA ? Or who is on their unelected boar, perhaps the Turkish lad is a member or an invitee!
Players need representation but one must ask if MF has enough respect/kudos left to be an effective advocate.
He readily admits that he spends hours scanning social media and forums looking for naughty people lol.
Surely as CEO of the IDPA he shouldn't be commentating on social media to he has asked the Turks and organisers for their version of events.
