2020 Q School

[Black Velvet]

Can still follow scores on MK Darts Facebook if everyone is still having trouble with DCTV.

Nice, works great.

[Ginge]

Can still follow scores on MK Darts Facebook if everyone is still having trouble with DCTV.

fekkin hell

My eyes!

DartConnect possibly blaming this for the outage on twitter.

Surely its just someone with 32 tabs open, dont see how it can be crippling the whole system, no different to 32 people watching 1 game each

[NvH]

Can still follow scores on MK Darts Facebook if everyone is still having trouble with DCTV.

fekkin hell

My eyes!

DartConnect possibly blaming this for the outage on twitter.

That's harsh. Frank Branscombe is clearly at fault here.

[Ginge]

Can still follow scores on MK Darts Facebook if everyone is still having trouble with DCTV.

Nice, works great.

Indeed, dont see the issue. You dont have to stare at it all the time.

[spaceman70]

Can still follow scores on MK Darts Facebook if everyone is still having trouble with DCTV.

fekkin hell

My eyes!

DartConnect possibly blaming this for the outage on twitter.

Surely its just someone with 32 tabs open, dont see how it can be crippling the whole system, no different to 32 people watching 1 game each

The only other explanation is the BDO have taken it over.

[brainim]

Painter 4-1 up who was it thinking of having an outside bet on him?

[spaceman70]

Painter 4-1 up who was it thinking of having an outside bet on him?

Masticman.

[brainim]

Sherrock v Nicholson starting

[Ginge]

Hope and Pride playing each other, I see.

[topcat24]

The scoring page of each board works OK it is just the menu and other parts which are down, which is strange as normally you would get a whole outage unless they are on different servers

[NvH]

The scoring page of each board works OK it is just the menu and other parts which are down, which is strange as normally you would get a whole outage unless they are on different servers

Stranger than coming back from the dead?

[bateleven]

Mitchell 3-1 down.

[Ginge]

The scoring page of each board works OK it is just the menu and other parts which are down, which is strange as normally you would get a whole outage unless they are on different servers

Stranger than coming back from the dead?

[Ginge]

Scott Mitchell was 3-1 down but just broke back I think to make it 3-2.

EDIT - no, seems the break was the 6th leg, so its now 3-3

[1205]

McKinstry v Williams has started.
Williams won the bull and the first leg in 18 darts with McKinstry having been unable to take out 81 with 6 darts.
McKinstry going crazy with his scoring again in leg 2. 86 after 9 darts, and took 7 darts from there.

Cruel draw for both of them. Q School really needs some kind of seeding.

No it doesn't.
Leaving aside the nightmare of how you'd actually go about seeding it, it is by it's very nature supposed to be cut-throat.

The PDC seeds all but one event (UK Open) they have. They obviously don't want it to the cut-throat.
Some of the qualifiers have rankings on:
PDC OOM
PDC Challenge Tour OOM
BDO rankings
WDF rankings if they wanted to as well.

If it were winner takes all (e.g. Women's PDC World Championship qualifiers), it wouldn't be such a problem because theoretically the best player will win.
But with multiple winners each day and more people qualifying through a table, the random draw increases the negative impact of luck.

[brainim]

Mitchell 3-1 down.

i have it level now at 3-3

[Ginge]

Mitchell just been broken, Wilson leads 4-3

[NvH]

I'm fine with an open draw. Firstly, they have 5 chances to qualify (finish in the top two in any of the four days and if that doesn't work can still make it through the table). Second, how would you go about seeding a competition with players from different codes? Not just PDC, BDO, but also bedroom masters like DBG?

It's unworkable IMO.

[Ginge]

Wilson misses 3 match darts to beat the farmer, goes to a decider

[bateleven]

Mitchell survives 3 match darts to level at 4-4