The BDO Unofficial & Unregulated World Darts Championships 4-12 Jan 2020 Indigo at the O2

[Skewball]

Right, so this is the position:
Des has been clearly waiting on some revenue to come I this week (probably Eurosport from what I have heard). He will pay players tomorrow or next day and yes, it will be a higher amount, quite a bit more, maybe over £100k in total.

But then he really will have drained the last of the piggy bank and the BDO really is now living day to day with no money - with no more big amounts to come in from Eurosport etc.
To even to attempt to run the WDT sponsors are required. But crucially by using Eurosport money now to pay the players Des gets 3 or 4 months runway with very little expenditure required. He just needs to new money in to run each comp that comes along.

So next stop for the BDO survival bus is WDT discussion............

[Paddy McGinty]

Right, so this is the position:
Des has been clearly waiting on some revenue to come I this week (probably Eurosport from what I have heard). He will pay players tomorrow or next day and yes, it will be a higher amount, quite a bit more, maybe over £100k in total.

But then he really will have drained the last of the piggy bank and the BDO really is now living day to day with no money - with no more big amounts to come in from Eurosport etc.
To even to attempt to run the WDT sponsors are required. But crucially by using Eurosport money now to pay the players Des gets 3 or 4 months runway with very little expenditure required. He just needs to new money in to run each comp that comes along.

So next stop for the BDO survival bus is WDT discussion............

Where's the 600K Skewy? I know a bits been spent on Comps but where is the rest gone?

[Ginge]

Begs the question why pay them more then, he told them 4 weeks ago what they are getting. Stick to that and use the rest sensibly.

[Baron Von Marlon]

Begs the question why pay them more then, he told them 4 weeks ago what they are getting. Stick to that and use the rest sensibly.

Because he wants to be soon as a saviour/hero?

[Skewball]

Right, so this is the position:
Des has been clearly waiting on some revenue to come I this week (probably Eurosport from what I have heard). He will pay players tomorrow or next day and yes, it will be a higher amount, quite a bit more, maybe over £100k in total.

But then he really will have drained the last of the piggy bank and the BDO really is now living day to day with no money - with no more big amounts to come in from Eurosport etc.
To even to attempt to run the WDT sponsors are required. But crucially by using Eurosport money now to pay the players Des gets 3 or 4 months runway with very little expenditure required. He just needs to new money in to run each comp that comes along.

So next stop for the BDO survival bus is WDT discussion............

Where's the 600K Skewy? I know a bits been spent on Comps but where is the rest gone?

I will tell you tonight

[Skewball]

Begs the question why pay them more then, he told them 4 weeks ago what they are getting. Stick to that and use the rest sensibly.

Because he wants to be soon as a saviour/hero?

I agree with you both. Paying more is completely unnecessary, keep back a war chest for later in the year.
But Des is a a narcissist so wants to white knight it.

[Baron Von Marlon]

And if it's true that there is no money left, it could allow him to resign on a positive and let someone else take the fall

[Paddy McGinty]

And if it's true that there is no money left, it could allow him to resign on a positive and let someone else take the fall

Resign on a positive?

There is no fall........

[Deleted User]

I assume you remembered what that was ffs. £127k to the men (23/10/5/4/3/2/1.5), £26.5k to the women (10/4.5/2/1/0.5)

I'm hearing from a normally quite reliable source that they're getting some money from Eurosport.

Around 130K going straight in the pot to make the total about £282K

This way they hope to look like heroes pulling it out of the fire.

If this is true (and I remain sceptical) it's still a huge deflection from the farce that has gone before and a huge "look at me" moment for Des and not what they should do with such a windfall.

Just pay out the revised amount and put the rest into shoring up the BDO and making sure future events happen.

[Deleted User]

Paid in the "next few days" apparently and known about by the committee since the Indigoat was on I'm now hearing.

[Ginge]

So pay out a bigger amount and hope everyone forgives him. Absolutely pathetic stuff.

[Deleted User]

So pay out a bigger amount and hope everyone forgives him. Absolutely pathetic stuff.

Seems to be the plan.

Why this couldn't have been announced at the time one can only speculate.

I'll believe it when I see it. But source is right more often than wrong.

[Ginge]

So pay out a bigger amount and hope everyone forgives him. Absolutely pathetic stuff.

Seems to be the plan.

Why this couldn't have been announced at the time one can only speculate.

Waiting 4 weeks make it look like he is a bigger saviour?

[bovvered]

Absolutely crazy if he does that

[Deleted User]

Absolutely crazy if he does that

I'm still cynical, myself. Just passing on what I was sent by email.

[Rout]

Theres no doubting that there will be some who will be annoyed if it gets paid. Whether they care to admit it or not. Which is odd.

[Ginge]

Theres no doubting that there will be some who will be annoyed if it gets paid. Whether they care to admit it or not. Which is odd.

Part of me actually hopes nobody gets a penny, as nothing will change very quickly unless something catastrophic happens like this. Obviously this isnt fair to the 57 players who forked out to qualify to play in it....

On the more sensible side, suddenly doubling the money when you have already written to them telling them what they are getting seems plain daft. Not as if these players have other options until after the next Worlds, they aint going anywhere.

[Deleted User]

Theres no doubting that there will be some who will be annoyed if it gets paid. Whether they care to admit it or not. Which is odd.

Part of me actually hopes nobody gets a penny, as nothing will change very quickly unless something catastrophic happens like this. Obviously this isnt fair to the 57 players who forked out to qualify to play in it....

On the more sensible side, suddenly doubling the money when you have already written to them telling them what they are getting seems plain daft. Not as if these players have other options until after the next Worlds, they aint going anywhere.

Well, the ones with Tour Cards have options.

[Ginge]

Theres no doubting that there will be some who will be annoyed if it gets paid. Whether they care to admit it or not. Which is odd.

Part of me actually hopes nobody gets a penny, as nothing will change very quickly unless something catastrophic happens like this. Obviously this isnt fair to the 57 players who forked out to qualify to play in it....

On the more sensible side, suddenly doubling the money when you have already written to them telling them what they are getting seems plain daft. Not as if these players have other options until after the next Worlds, they aint going anywhere.

Well, the ones with Tour Cards have options.

Well, yes, but I was on about the others (obvs)

Hamilton (as an example) has already said he expects nothing, so using coffers to suddenly double what he was told in an official email doesnt seem the best use of funds. Surely the players have resigned themselves to getting £23k, £10k, 5k, whatever.

[The Crusader]

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