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Actually think Taylor is probably good value at Evs to win the World's next month.

Am going to pin my hopes on Lewis to stop him though, think sets format suits him.

Yeah given form seems actually a good bet. In long format I don't see anyone beating him unless they play as well as Adrian did today for example. Even then might lose, like he did today...

idk, he'd play wright in the last 16 who clearly has the game to beat him in best of 7 sets. barney potentially in the quarters. enough first round banana skins are out there. that said mvg could have rounds 3/4 against anderson/chizzy and adie could have king/lolwade before they meet each other

Not sure I understand, why would that be? What is his record vs Phil?

he's only played one match in recent history, the uk open semi. set play is ultra high variance, it'd only be best of 4 sets, the same distance where he was 2-0 up over MvGOAT last year. and wright's been playing a LOT better since then. i'm not saying he would, but to say he'd be without a shot is LOL

I'm just wondering why you are singling him out as as a potential banana skin over others? Of course people can beat Phil, probably at least 10-12 players could but he will still win the World half the time at least no?

because i'm looking at the seedings and right now he'd play phil in round 3. i could say chizzy could, as he's done so before, but as he's on the other half of the draw it's moot. and i also think he's probably the player you'd least like to face outside of the top 8. other than barney, who's also conveniently in phil's quarter.

Anyone watching the darts? These unicorn boards suck so many bounce outs

Lewis against van Gerwen starting.

Could be a good match.

Just give Taylor the money already.

ORLY?

lol taking every last bit of Taylor's acting ability to play the gracious loser right now. Doesn't want one bit of MVG's banter.

the give taylor a quarter of a million world championship draw is out:

(1) taylor vs (unranked) szabo/(138) moss
(34) m smith vs (115) lim/(unranked) hashimoto
(14) wright vs (39) cullen
(23) t jenkins vs (256) laursen/(unranked) mcgarry

(10) newton vs (69) vos/(206) lam
(25) part vs (100) michels
(8) thornton vs (62) hopp
(24) lloyd vs (unranked) b anderson

(4) whitlock vs (60) r smith
(33) walsh vs (84) komula
(20) painter vs (72) seyler
(22) nicholson vs (27) kellett

(6) hamilton vs (91) welge/(367) barbero
(28) burnett vs (38) winstanley
(13) k huybrechts vs (35) r huybrechts
(16) white vs (116) k anderson

(2) van gerwen vs (335) lerchbacher/(unranked) ward
(30) jones vs (54) mcdine
(12) dolan vs (unranked) lindskjold/(unranked) santos
(18) g anderson vs (59) dudbridge

(5) chisnall vs (46) henderson
(31) m webster vs (44) suljovic
(9) van barneveld vs (37) j lewis
(17) caven vs (29) klaasen

(3) a lewis vs (51) d smith
(32) van der voort vs (125) clark
(15) king vs (107) young
(21) baxter vs (64) evans

(7) wade vs (40) d webster
(26) a smith vs (48) brown
(11) pipe vs (41) monk
(19) beaton vs (157) petersen/(145) latif sapup

numbers indicate current sixfour world rankings which are exponentially better than the pdc's own efforts. chances of lolwade = very good!

Hoping for a lolwade for sure

I'm in. London now

Can't find schedule of play can someone post full schedule of play here when they can so I can possibly find tickets for Whitlock/Nicholson/either Anderson (Kyle Beau or Gary) plz

The schedule isn't released till later on today Ash.

Ash
Whitlock plays he's 2nd round game on the 22nd

Part 2

Christmas officially starts today

Let's go Lewis though!

This is gonna be awesome!

there's potential for lol part in this one

Possible lol Taylor. Just losing a set is already lol

Oh I think we can loltaylor when instead of giving his opponent some credit like 99% of decent human beings would do he decides to say that this 48 year old builder from New Zealand who no ones even heard of had an unfair advantage cos he played a prelim.

Jfc gtfo fatty go Lewis or mvg

Richie

Taylor being his usual ****y self!

Bam Bam Bigelow was impressive against Cullen

I loooove Phil Taylor but I am a Kiwi and that first set was just something else!! Can't wait til I am on that stage.