European Tour 2021

[Bram_1900]

Blimey.

Bomber is spot on.

maybe bram noticed mvg has won fek all this year and thought there must have been no tournaments, rather than the twelvety-hundred there have been and that mvg is more finished than a ham sandwich in ethiopia

If you're a frequent visitor on here you know I only care about Steve Beaton. But apart from that: due to the fact that they take 4 PCs at once there are far more weeks without darts and it feels like a bloody boring period on that part. And yeah there have been PL darts, but thats more of the same names.

[waddle147]

I prefer the 4 or 5 Players Championships crammed together tbh. No reason to ask players to travel for 15 Pro Tour weekends a year when they could play all those tournaments across 7 or 8 weeks.

[Little Lonely Garry]

I prefer the 4 or 5 Players Championships crammed together tbh. No reason to ask players to travel for 15 Pro Tour weekends a year when they could play all those tournaments across 7 or 8 weeks.

I do as well prefer it that way.

I enjoyed the PL more this ear than almost any other in years, due to the block sessions , none of this drip feeding a night a week

[oche balboa]

I'm in favour of block sessions

[The Jolly Man]

I prefer the 4 or 5 Players Championships crammed together tbh. No reason to ask players to travel for 15 Pro Tour weekends a year when they could play all those tournaments across 7 or 8 weeks.

It also frees up more weekends for euro tour style events that are more fan and tv friendly.

[1205]

I prefer the 4 or 5 Players Championships crammed together tbh. No reason to ask players to travel for 15 Pro Tour weekends a year when they could play all those tournaments across 7 or 8 weeks.

It also frees up more weekends for euro tour style events that are more fan and tv friendly.

They'll go back to the regular PC weekends once COVID is done.
Every day over 2 would add a weekday.

[ChrisW]

3 ET associate qualifiers have been scheduled for the 5th July following the European CT weekend.
UK Aug 9th.
Also the Tour card holder qualifiers will follow Super Series 5 July 9th.

PDC Nordic & Baltic qualifiers Johan Engström, Andreas Harrysson and Dennis Nilsson keep their 2020 places.

[ChrisW]

Two ET events confirmed:

Sept 3-5 Hungarian Darts Trophy (ET1) Papp László Sportaréna, Budapest
Sept 24-26 Gibraltar Darts Trophy (ET2)

[ChrisW]

2021 European Tour Events 1-2
Seeded Players (enter in second round)
1. Joe Cullen
2. Jose de Sousa
3. Peter Wright
4. Michael van Gerwen
5. Gerwyn Price
6. Michael Smith
7. Jonny Clayton
8. James Wade
9. Devon Petersen
10. Krzysztof Ratajski
11. Dirk van Duijvenbode
12. Damon Heta
13. Danny Noppert
14. Brendan Dolan
15. Mensur Suljovic
16. Nathan Aspinall

Events 1-2 Tour Card Holder Qualifier Entries
Lisa Ashton
Danny Baggish
Keane Barry
Steve Beaton
Aaron Beeney
Gary Blades
William Borland
Andy Boulton
Bradley Brooks
John Brown
Keegan Brown
Steve Brown
Stephen Bunting
Dave Chisnall
Brett Claydon
Gabriel Clemens
Rob Cross
Mike De Decker
Geert De Vos
Jeffrey De Zwaan
Chris Dobey
Glen Durrant
Matthew Edgar
Ritchie Edhouse
David Evans
Ricky Evans
Ted Evetts
Adam Gawlas
Andrew Gilding
Daryl Gurney
Andy Hamilton
Jason Heaver
Florian Hempel
John Henderson
Max Hopp
Peter Hudson
Jamie Hughes
Luke Humphries
Adam Hunt
Kim Huybrechts
Peter Jacques
Jake Jones
Wayne Jones
Ryan Joyce
Krzysztof Kciuk
Nick Kenny
Mervyn King
Jelle Klaasen
Martijn Kleermaker
Boris Koltsov
Boris Krcmar
Maik Kuivenhoven
Darius Labanauskas
Harald Leitinger
Steve Lennon
Zoran Lerchbacher
Kai Fan Leung
Adrian Lewis
Eddie Lovely
Jason Lowe
Martin Lukeman
Jack Main
Mickey Mansell
Gordon Mathers
Mark McGeeney
Ryan Meikle
Ron Meulenkamp
John Michael
Scott Mitchell
Joe Murnan
Ryan Murray
Geert Nentjes
Jesus Noguera
William O'Connor
Josh Payne
Justin Pipe
Madars Razma
Callan Rydz
Martin Schindler
Ryan Searle
Karel Sedlacek
Steffen Siepmann
Jeff Smith
Ross Smith
Alan Soutar
Alan Tabern
Ciaran Teehan
Derk Telnekes
Raymond van Barneveld
Dimitri Van den Bergh
Vincent van der Voort
Berry van Peer
Scott Waites
Jermaine Wattimena
Darren Webster
Steve West
Ian White
Simon Whitlock
Lewis Williams
James Wilson
Luke Woodhouse
Jon Worsley
Niels Zonneveld

[Little Lonely Garry]

Hungary and Gibraltar are hardly hotbeds of darts, but better than no Euro tour

[malcy93]

The problem is the two countries they want these events in Netherlands and Germany have some of the toughest Covid entry restrictions for those coming from the U.K.

Not sure if they would give darts a pass on the quarantine requirements that football seems to get.

There may be some hope for Germany as with Merkel in U.K. visiting Boris she is now talking about double vaccinated people being exempt the quarantine period with appropriate negative tests, but that isn’t in place yet.

Haven’t heard anything about Netherlands. There it’s just no to entry, not even a quarantine option.

Hence unsurprising PDC Europe are going to other countries. They could actually look at new cities in places like Barcelona or more in Eastern Europe where they are more welcoming. However probably wherever they go players would need to be double vaccinated to reduce risk of entry to country issues.

[ChrisW]

Richard Veenstra qualifies for ET1 (Hungary) from the ET qualifier.
Kenny Neyens for ET2 (Gibraltar)
Danny van Trijp for ET3 (TBC)

[1205]

Fun fact for today.
In ET1 and ET2 Jamie Hughes drew Lisa Ashton and Aaron Beeney and lost both games.

[Little Lonely Garry]

durrant out, battered by florian hempel
Barney ouut
waites out

[Little Lonely Garry]

Barney failed to qualify beaten by Geert Nentjes
Durrant failed to qualify....beaten by Florian Hempel
Waites out....beaten by Madars Razma

Also out, Dimitri, Ian Shite, Bunting , Scott Mitchell, Merv King and Chizzy

[Little Lonely Garry]

Qualifier 2 underway, and already Durrant is out off Euro tour 2.

He loses this time to Wayne Jones.

Who was it again that said when durrant would start defending money he would fall away.....why it was me.
And dont give me the covid excuse either

[Little Lonely Garry]

Hungarian Darts Trophy (ET1) Tour Card Holder Qualifiers:
Ross Smith, John Michael, Lewis Williams, Geert De Vos, Rob Cross, Keegan Brown, Joe Murnan, Simon Whitlock, Daryl Gurney, Darren Webster, Steve Beaton, Jake Jones, Alan Soutar, Madars Razma, Luke Humphries, William Borland, Adrian Lewis, Bradley Brooks, Vincent van der Voort, William O'Connor, Boris Krcmar, Florian Hempel, Geert Nentjes, Keane Barry

[BlueSpark]

Qualifier 2 underway, and already Durrant is out off Euro tour 2.

He loses this time to Wayne Jones.

Who was it again that said when durrant would start defending money he would fall away.....why it was me.
And dont give me the covid excuse either

It wasn’t just you

[1205]

Qualifier 2 underway, and already Durrant is out off Euro tour 2.

He loses this time to Wayne Jones.

Who was it again that said when durrant would start defending money he would fall away.....why it was me.
And dont give me the covid excuse either

It wasn’t just you

Everybody was predicting that he'd reach 3 major semi-finals, and win the Premier League, and then immediately have a spectacular collapse in form.

[BlueSpark]

Just been drilled 6-0 by Lukeman and had an average in the 70s