Grand Slam of Darts 2022 12-20 Nov Wolverhampton

[ChrisW]

Barney in.

[ChrisW]

The 8 qualifiers:
Soutar
Wattimena
Barney
Edhouse
Schindler
Suljovic
Woodhouse
Gawlas

[1205]

Gawlas has had a big 2 days, getting a win in PC30 to make the WC, and now taking the final qualifying spot for the GSoD. That has been worth 12.5k in the TC race, and he's now in 61st. 1.75k above 64th. Gawlas, however, isn't in the PCF. so could be overtaken by a few players there.

Gawlas has pushed Kuivenhoven down to 65th in the TC race, and because is not in the PCF or WC, must qualify for the WC via the PDPA qualifier to have a chance of saving his card.

Zonneveld is 66th in the TC race, beat Wade in the qualifiers, but was beaten by Edhouse in the final match. But, Zonneveld has qualified for the PCF (L64 v Chisnall) and WC so has chances to retain his card.

On paper not as good a group of qualifiers as last year.

Van Barneveld and Schindler have qualified 2 years in a row.

3 qualifiers from last year, De Decker, Clemens and Stephen Bunting lost in the final games this year.

Top 32 players on the OOM who haven't qualified for the GSoD:
#5 Wade
#6 De Sousa
#11 Anderson
#19 Ratajski
#21 Bunting
#22 Dobey
#23 Clemens
#24 King
#25 Rydz
#26 Gurney
#27 Dolan
#28 Van der Voort
#30 Huybrechts
#32 Lewis

[Rout]

Wade gone.

Bottled it yet again.

[mc1958]

2022 Cazoo Grand Slam of Darts
Group Stage Draw
Group A
(1) Gerwyn Price
Dave Chisnall
Raymond van Barneveld
Ted Evetts

Group B
(8) Danny Noppert
Simon Whitlock
Mensur Suljovic
Christian Perez

Group C
(4) Michael Smith
Joe Cullen
Ritchie Edhouse
Lisa Ashton

Group D
(5) Rob Cross
Dirk van Duijvenbode
Martin Schindler
Adam Gawlas

Group E
(2) Peter Wright
Nathan Aspinall
Alan Soutar
Fallon Sherrock

Group F
(7) Jonny Clayton
Damon Heta
Jermaine Wattimena
Leonard Gates

Group G
(3) Michael van Gerwen
Ross Smith
Luke Woodhouse
Nathan Rafferty

Group H
(6) Luke Humphries
Ryan Searle
Josh Rock
Scott Williams

Saturday November 12
Afternoon Session (1300 GMT)
Groups A-D Opening Matches
Simon Whitlock v Mensur Suljovic (B)
Dirk van Duijvenbode v Martin Schindler (D)
Joe Cullen v Ritchie Edhouse (C)
Dave Chisnall v Raymond van Barneveld (A)
Rob Cross v Adam Gawlas (D)
Danny Noppert v Christian Perez (B)
Gerwyn Price v Ted Evetts (A)
Michael Smith v Lisa Ashton (C)

Evening Session (1900 GMT)
Groups E-H Opening Matches
Ross Smith v Luke Woodhouse (G)
Ryan Searle v Josh Rock (H)
Damon Heta v Jermaine Wattimena (F)
Nathan Aspinall v Alan Soutar (E)
Luke Humphries v Scott Williams (H)
Peter Wright v Fallon Sherrock (E)
Michael van Gerwen v Nathan Rafferty (G)
Jonny Clayton v Leonard Gates (F)

Sunday November 13
Afternoon Session (1300 GMT)
Groups A-D Second Matches

Evening Session (1900 GMT)
Groups E-H Second Matches

Monday November 14 (1900 GMT)
Groups A-D Third Matches

Tuesday November 15 (1900 GMT)
Groups E-H Third Matches

Wednesday November 16 (1900 GMT)
4x Second Round Matches

Thursday November 17 (1900 GMT)
4x Second Round Matches

Friday November 18 (1900 GMT)
2x Quarter-Finals

Saturday November 19 (1900 GMT)
2x Quarter-Finals

Sunday November 20
Afternoon Session (1300)
Semi-Finals

Evening Session (1900 GMT)
Final

https://www.pdc.tv/news/2022/11/07/2022 ... -confirmed

[1205]

Sherrock drawn in Wright's group again.

Williams has the bad luck to be drawn with Rock, but they're not in too bad a group with Humphries and Searle, neither of whom is in good form.

[Rout]

Can't even find a "group of death" in that shower of total shite.

[ChrisW]

Ritchie Edhouse going to do some damage.

[BlueSpark]

Fucking hell, load of shit there
RIP a once decent tournament

[1205]

Can't even find a "group of death" in that shower of total shite.

Group H is the stand-out group, especially with the short format.

[ChrisW]

Group G also could see an upset for MVG.

D could also be interesting but not that much tbh.

[Rout]

Can't even find a "group of death" in that shower of total shite.

Group H is the stand-out group, especially with the short format.

You might be right about floor form but I'm not sure a group of death can ever contain zero TV champions.

[ChrisW]

Can't even find a "group of death" in that shower of total shite.

Group H is the stand-out group, especially with the short format.

You might be right about floor form but I'm not sure a group of death can ever contain zero TV champions.

Didn't Fluke win something?

[1205]

Can't even find a "group of death" in that shower of total shite.

Group H is the stand-out group, especially with the short format.

You might be right about floor form but I'm not sure a group of death can ever contain zero TV champions.

Didn't Fluke win something?

He's a former World Youth Champion!

[Rout]

Ah yes, the under 75s. Forgot all about that.

[only85]

while one cant deny the calibre of wdf players has diminished cant help wondering if old matt porter hasnt cocked up here, after all this was set up by the old loveable hearn as a cross code event so he (hearn) had sole charge of things, now its just another meh, group stages yes but even so hardly a must watch event on the darting year anymore,

[meetthefeebles]

Fucking hell, load of shit there
RIP a once decent tournament

Aye. Garbage.

[meetthefeebles]

while one cant deny the calibre of wdf players has diminished cant help wondering if old matt porter hasnt cocked up here, after all this was set up by the old loveable hearn as a cross code event so he (hearn) had sole charge of things, now its just another meh, group stages yes but even so hardly a must watch event on the darting year anymore,

It was the only reason the tournament existed. It's purpose has ceased to be. So should this car-crash of an event.

[meetthefeebles]

Shaping up to be another blackout curtain/low-lighting job, this one. Can barely give tickets away, just like the last PDC major in the UK. Look at the clip of this for Tuesday's session:

[ChrisW]

It's lost it's main appeal. But at least it differs in some way.