Choke job from Snakebite too. Idk wtf darts he was using but they didn't seem to fly well for him.

First weekend of two UK Open qualifiers start today (for the pros at least, the amateurs have been going for a couple of weeks now and notably Hogan is back), interesting to see how those who've been doing crap and slipping down the rankings (Lewis, Wade) and the new guys do. Also is the Dutch Open on the BDO side, a tournament so large it starts at the round of 4096

MvG beat Smith in the first one, Wright and Lewis also getting chunks, the latter being a bit of a cock in one of his earlier round games and is under investigation lol

Cadby casually beat Cross then missed about ten match darts in a decider to Whitlock

Correct that, Lewis is suspended, what a knob

lollewis what did he do?

Some sort of incident in his match against Perales caused him to go on monkey tilt, there's brief bits on YouTube as the match was streamed

The best bit is he won the match anyway

Apparently they had to be forcefully separated by security staff. Guess Lewis started it.

Yeah, I've seen the YouTube of the last leg and Lewis seemed incredibly rustled

Kind of excited about something called DartConnect which the PDC are using for a bunch of their tournaments, if it's as good as a load of other darts nerds are making out on twitter then it could be the equivalent of understat.com, giving you the betting advantage you've always wanted. Just need to be able to look things up on a PC as their mobile site seems crap and then hope that if they have the data I want I can write a script to get what I need

The Lewis thing was ****ing weird. Watched the video and the best I could gather was that it looked like he tilted at the dude having a bit of dartitis and playing slowly, Lewis rushed him and eventually stepped on the back of Perales heels as he was finishing his third dart. Perales turned and said something and Lewis was a dong about it.

Cross out before the money again, this time to Jamie Hughes - fish on a heater confirmed

Not to brag but me and my bud threw an 18 darter the other night. I think best we've performed ever.

Nice. I just got my first dart board a month ago.

Still trying to get my first 180, had the first two 5 times so far.


Best 501 is 21 darts currently thanks to a two dart checkout from 89!

Nice! My best finish the other day was hitting shots I wasn't aiming for. I think I hit triple 16 aiming for triple 19, triple 17 while also aiming for triple 19, then miraculously hitting triple 7. (120), I could have been a real man and gone for 60, 60, but I was drunk and when I'm drunk the lower side of the board is easier. Sunruning the wrong triples ftw!

Rob Cross might be bad now.

He actually was second only to MvG in averages on the floor last week. Sure he lost all three games...

Cross lost in the semi final today to Ando, seems fine. Virtual final though given the other semi was de Zwaan against whatever a Jason Lowe is. De Zwaan won that, I was saying a couple of years ago he seemed to be legit, he looked to be getting it late last year and this seems to back things up, maybe try some sort of making the worlds prob bet?

Not entirely sure how that works

Still looking to get past a 160 out which I've done three or four times

Lol 20 typo

Where do you think he ranks right now?

Dunno, but he made the final of qualifier five, losing to Cadby

It's a game of mm, if you don't have confidence you'll look bad

Ratajski won the last qualifier, draw has been made for the main event:

First Round
Andrew Davidson v Michael Burgoine
Rene Eidams v Andrew Johnson
Michael Barnard v Rileys Aberdeen Qualifier
Lee Evans v Dimitri Van den Bergh
Dan Read v Joe Davis
Bradley Brooks v Chris Quantock
Paul Nicholson v Terry Jenkins
Kirk Shepherd v Adam Hunt
Rileys Wolverhampton Q2 v Mark Rice
Simon Tate v Michael Rasztovits
Liam Kelly v Luke Humphries
Mark Walsh v Alex Roy
Robert Rickwood v Rene Berndt
Daniel Lee v Harry Ward
Rileys Wolverhampton Q1 v John Part
Mickey Mansell v Ryan Meikle
Rileys London Victoria Q1 v Ian Jopling
Benjamin McClelland v David Airey
Chris Lacey v Rileys Coventry Qualifier
Ryan Harrington v Richie Burnett
Ricky Evans v Rileys South Benfleet Qualifier
Mick McGowan v Dirk van Duijvenbode
Cody Harris v Tony Mitchell
Craig Winstanley v Mark Craddock
Andy Hamilton v William O'Connor
Martin Atkins v Rileys Liverpool Qualifier
Rileys Norwich Qualifier v Paul Hogan
Cristo Reyes v Benito van de Pas
Ron Meulenkamp v Rileys Nottingham Qualifier
George Killington v Andy Jenkins
Jason Mold v Prakash Jiwa
Darren Johnson v Rileys London Victoria Q2

Second Round
Mold/Jiwa v Nathan Rafferty
Hamilton/O'Connor v Jermaine Wattimena
Vincent van der Voort v Lacey/Rileys Coventry Qualifier
Mike Norton v Raymond van Barneveld
Richard North v Nicholson/T Jenkins
L Evans/Van den Bergh v Chris Dobey
Dave Chisnall v Eidams/Johnson
Stuart Kellett v McClelland/Airey
Danny Noppert v Harrington/Burnett
Jason Lowe v Johnson/Rileys London Victoria Q2
Robert Owen v Davidson/Burgoine
Alan Norris v McGowan/Van Duijvenbode
John Goldie v Rileys Norwich Qualifier/Hogan
Vincent Kamphuis v Shepherd/Hunt
James Richardson v Rickwood/Berndt
Kelly/Humphries v Wayne Jones
James Wilson v Gerwyn Price
Maik Langendorf v Tate/Rasztovits
Antonio Alcinas v Walsh/Roy
Mansell/Meikle v Winstanley/Craddock
Keegan Brown v Killington/A Jenkins
Stephen Bunting v Brooks/Quantock
Rileys London Victoria Q1/Jopling v Geert Nentjes
Lee/Ward v Ted Evetts
Meulenkamp/Rileys Nottingham Qualifier v Read/Davis
Harris/Mitchell v Barnard/Rileys Aberdeen Qualifier
Reyes/Van de Pas v David Evans
Jose Justicia v Joe Cullen
Nathan Aspinall v Rileys Wolverhampton Q2/Rice
Carl Wilkinson v R Evans/Rileys South Benfleet Qualifier
Atkins/Rileys Liverpool Qualifier v Rileys Wolverhampton Q1/Part
Andrew Gilding v Gabriel Clemens

Straight to round 3 are van Gerwen, M Smith, Ratajski, Cadby, Cross, G Anderson, Wright, Gurney, K Huybrechts, de Zwaan, D Webster, King, Lerchbacher, Henderson, Beaton, A Lewis, S West, J Lewis, Pallett, Wade, Pipe, Klaasen, Edgar, Clayton, Hughes, Stevenson, Whitlock, Prins, Thornton, White, Schindler and K Anderson.

Big LOL for the highest ranked players not to qualify:

Suljovic (although he didn't attempt to qualify), Kist, M Webster, Dekker, R Huybrechts, Dolan, Green, Painter, Lennon, Jacques

Not so big LOL for the highest ranked players not to make the money straight off the bat:

Chisnall, van Barneveld, Price, Norris, van de Pas, Cullen, Bunting, Reyes, Wilson, van der Voort

van Gerwen wins first Players Championship of the season beating lolwade in the final, seems like he was going for bull at every opportunity to troll

Getting the data off dartconnect is taking way too long, need to find a way to automate it but I've got 2/6 UK Open qualifiers in my database now, thankfully the PC events are half the size and will take half the time so they don't build the backlog too much. Looking at some of the players in earlier rounds I'm now convinced that if I did Q-school I'd be better than 50% to win a leg. Part got bagelled by someone that only finished one leg in six visits lol

I did it finally... Middle dart was the last one too didn't think it would fit but it got in there somehow

grats