Ginge wrote:Will have to see what comes out, if its just the 128 TC holders then its fair enough, any more than that and it certainly very draconian.
It has to be those that can’t play on a stream, which is the TC holders. They haven’t band wes newton this year as an example.
The BDO rule change was to cover the women in the main, but also that they can’t guarantee how lakeside will be going forward. It’s allowing the 56 lakeside players an opportunity to dip their toe into the PDC without reprucution.
Ginge wrote:Will have to see what comes out, if its just the 128 TC holders then its fair enough, any more than that and it certainly very draconian.
But even if it's just the 128 then why bother? really the bad publicity alone makes it a silly decision especially since it is unnecessary.
As already said, what happens if all your Last 8 in an event are TC holders and you are streaming from the semis onwards and they all just pull out?
As already said they have to assert on the entry form that they can play on the stream or their entry is void, there are only 128 tour card holders and everyone knows who they are, if they can't play on the stream then they can't play at all but to make a rule banning them is silly. Far better to have the rule on the entry form that says "you must be able to play on a live stream if selected"
If you are a tour card holder, with guaranteed number of events that are guaranteed to pay out £x for no entry fee, why would you want to pay to enter one with, likely, a lower level of playing conditions and prize money anyway?
London Eye wrote:The so called new harmonious relationship between England and the BDO already under strain". Even Barry Hearn commended Des Jacklins decision to relax their position on the PDC and then straight away Tommy's lot deepen the divide again. What is the point of EDO streaming any way, it brings in no revenue, in fact it costs money, and it gets hardly any viewers and the quality is embarrasing. Rather than being a pro active outfit and drop the pointless streaming Tommy Thompson shows his true colours yet again, the most devisive man in darts since Martin Fitzmaurice.
Sounds to me as this would all be fine if the PDC stopped limiting it's players as to where and where not they can play. Not an EDO problem why should they change the way they organise events to fit in with the inflexible and restrictive ruling of the PDC. Maybe once the PDC come up to speed and stop this archaic bullying the EDO will relax their ruling.
nikkiboy wrote:I fail to see what the EDO has to gain from banning these guys, get people who enter the comps to certify that they will play on the stream or they don't play, that way it's the PDC preventing them from playing and the EDO have no comeback at all.
Paulyboy has made the point to me that if they're streaming events on stage from semis onwards and 4 tour card players get to the semis and then cannot play on the stream due to PDC rules then the sponsors of the EDO events would not be exactly chuffed. And it's a fair point.
Hearn has made noises about protecting the PDC brand but that's largely nonsense.
A PDC player winning an EDO event gives publicity to the PDC.
