It's the age at the start of the year, DVDB was young enough then.

That said, there's a whole huge cluster**** of a discussion on Twatter right now as to what the heck is going on with the last worlds qualifying spots, and it seems as if they're rigging the draw so that the Pro Tour qualifiers will get the other qualifiers (not actually listed in any rules anywhere, just Hearn saying that's how it's going down), and as such it's correct for both the world youth finalists to throw the final

lol mvg, as usual

Seedings for the worlds look to give us the following last 32 if everyone wins:

MvG/Hopp
Lewis/Barney
Whitlock/Norris
Wade/Klaasen
GAndo/Wattimena
DWebster/Beaton
Gurney/JLewis
Chisnall/KHuybrechts
Cross/Reyes
Clayton/Bunting
Suljovic/Wilson
Smith/Hendo
Wright/van de Pas
Cullen/King
Price/KAndo
White/West

Won't speculate beyond that as to what's going on as everything else is a terribly disorganised mess that wouldn't be out of place in the BDO

There's a tout on Twitter who'll be crowing about that as he'll tell all and sundry about how you should be laying MvG to win a tournament ante-post and how he's thousands of GBP up because of it. Meh...chinny reckon but good for you, fella.

https://twitter.com/progambler47/sta...20800089649152
https://twitter.com/progambler47/sta...88038568386565
https://twitter.com/progambler47/sta...58223553527810

I wouldn't want to be backing MvG at such short odds to win the WC, he's currently a best-priced 6/4, but the general volatility this year in that PDC events have been 'shared out' yet MvG has won the most events means this fella is either lying or he's got lucky to lay MvG in certain events and get away with it.

https://www.sportinglife.com/darts/n...-season/139627

Strange in the space of a week both Gary and MvG losing in finals after beating each other in the semi to all but give them the title.

Worlds going to be brilliant.

Is the format out for the World this year (in terms of sets etc)
I would assume

96. 3 sets
64. 3 sets
32. 4 sets
16. 4 sets
8. 5 sets
4. 6 sets
2. 7 sets

If it was as described the line for ROW/women advancing would have to only be around 6 of 32

I've seen that guy and he seems like a tool but at least he's right that MvG is generally too short, I think I've only backed him twice this year, both times vs Anderson

As an aside I'd take Hunt, Razma and Burton to win the last three spots

Hunt - yes
Burton - yes
Razma - loses deciding leg in final, bastard

Draw:

(1) Michael van Gerwen v Alan Tabern/Raymond Smith
(32) Max Hopp v Danny Noppert/Royden Lam
(16) Adrian Lewis v Simon Stevenson/Ted Evetts
(17) Raymond van Barneveld v Matthew Edgar/Darius Labanauskas
(8) Simon Whitlock v Ryan Joyce/Anastasia Dobromyslova
(25) Alan Norris v Steve Lennon/James Bailey
(9) James Wade v Krzysztof Ratajski/Seigo Asada
(24) Jelle Klaasen v Keegan Brown/Karel Sedlacek
(5) Daryl Gurney v Ross Smith/Paul Lim
(28) Jamie Lewis v Martin Schindler/Cody Harris
(12) Dave Chisnall v Josh Payne/Jeff Smith
(21) Kim Huybrechts v Robert Thornton/Daniel Larsson
(4) Gary Anderson v Paul Nicholson/Kevin Burness
(29) Jermaine Wattimena v Michael Barnard/Jose De Sousa
(13) Darren Webster v Vincent van der Voort/Lourence Ilagan
(20) Steve Beaton v Chris Dobey/Boris Koltsov
(2) Rob Cross v Jeffrey de Zwaan/Nitin Kumar
(31) Cristo Reyes v Ricky Evans/Rowby-John Rodriguez
(15) Jonny Clayton v Dimitri Van den Bergh/Chuck Puleo
(18) Stephen Bunting v Luke Humphries/Adam Hunt
(7) Mensur Suljovic v Ryan Searle/Stephen Burton
(26) James Wilson v William O'Connor/Yordi Meeuwisse
(10) Michael Smith v Ron Meulenkamp/Diogo Portela
(23) John Henderson v Gabriel Clemens/Aden Kirk
(6) Gerwyn Price v Nathan Aspinall/Geert Nentjes
(27) Kyle Anderson v Jeffrey de Graaf/Noel Malicdem
(11) Ian White v Wayne Jones/Devon Petersen
(22) Steve West v Richard North/Robert Marijanovic
(3) Peter Wright v Toni Alcinas/Craig Ross
(30) Benito van de Pas v Mickey Mansell/Jim Long
(14) Joe Cullen v Brendan Dolan/Yuanjun Liu
(19) Mervyn King v Jan Dekker/Lisa Ashton

Cross could be ****ed

Just for people's information on that, I'm now done all of the charts and have done writeups for half the players, I'm going to shoot to get everything done by Thursday which I've got off work, and will obv link things up here when it's done. Apparently written 10k words already

GENTLEMEN, YOU HAVE ONE WEEK:



I have the preview done, I just need to work out how the **** to use dropbox. Everyone likes 68 page PDF's, don't they?

If anyone has been trying to access the site over the last 24 hours I've bought a new domain and the redirect is botched, try tungstenanalysis instead

edit - download the preview at https://www.dropbox.com/s/8hn4xetgby...eview.pdf?dl=0 - view it like a book obviously

Somehow missed off the budget for your players, it's 180 like last year

will send 4th place team this evening

Pretty excited for the WC, hope that MVG can win it again.

Although I guess the first round is always a bit underwhelming.

Who are you guys rooting for ?

Wanting an MvG/Ando semi and a new finalist from the other half. I'd like Suljovic or Smith to bink it but I can't look past whoever takes that first semi final

Still a couple of days to get your fantasy lineups in, people leaving it until the last minute I guess. I've run the predictions for rounds one and two but until this Internet outage sorts itself I can't post

Pretty nice (downloadable) preview you wrote there by the way, good job.

Out of curiosity, are you a big betting man yourself or do you 'just' provide information to other gamblers ?

Not massively, I just try to analyse for entertainment and to pick up a few quit here and there

http://www.tungstenanalysis.com/2018...-bets-and.html

First round bets and early second round leans are up. Benito van de Pas is the favourite against Mickey Mansell. Words fail me.

In for darts wil send tomorrow

IN with an all continental team (I believe). Haven't followed darts at all this past year, should be good.

...anyone up for some casual sidebetting?

Leggooooooooooooo

Today probably the day I'm most looking forward to for Round 1.

Hoping for some awkwardness in the Dekker vs Ashton match and a tight match between De Zwaan vs Cross.

Cross put on 5 stone after winning world's apparently. Lol...

For any Americans that want to watch the entire world championship is on bbcamerica.com/darts for free.

Harris on crack, tries 17-bull out for 67 to break and throw for the match, then in the next leg busts 134 somehow

Harris looks like the small guy that you go and pick out of a group of guys to beat up to look tough, only to have him completely **** you up.