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12-21-2014 , 10:17 AM

#5426

royalblue

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for ones in a row, solid work

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12-21-2014 , 10:21 AM

#5427

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Originally Posted by The Brickie

Only the BBC would ever give Adams a platform, because their budget doesn't extend to forking out for the rights to cover real darts.

Or, from next year, any darts, as BT Sport bought Lakeside IIRC

edit - misread the article, they're sharing it from this year. Still...

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12-21-2014 , 10:23 AM

#5428

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Yeah well BT blew all their money on the Champions League rights.

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12-21-2014 , 10:25 AM

#5429

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Originally Posted by royalblue

that's now five bounce outs in 20 minutes, wtf

looking at some of them, i don't think they're actually bounceouts - nicholson looks like he's using an extremely thick flight setup, and benito's angle of attack also allows for a ton of opportunities to kill all the pace of an incoming dart. they're more dropouts, whereby a deflection slows the dart enough that it doesn't stay in. there was one i think, when benito went for cover on 19's, but it's really hard to get a true bounceout on modern boards with no staples and ultra-thin wiring systems

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12-21-2014 , 10:27 AM

#5430

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Originally Posted by sixfour

LOLOLOLOL NICHOLSON

edit - as an aside, following 64 would now put you in profit somehow

indeed it does

too bad I burned my money betting the under on corners yesterday, lol me

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12-21-2014 , 10:33 AM

#5431

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Originally Posted by sixfour

Haven't watched every match or been keeping track but it seems to me that a lot more darts are jumping out of the board in this tournament than is usual.

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12-21-2014 , 10:36 AM

#5432

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Why the feck are BT Sports punting money into the BDO?

Doesn't make any sense... they realise that the PDC is where it's at... and they'd actually get people watching it if it was the PDC.

Adams is an idiot. The sooner Hern buys the BDO and unifies it into one, the better.

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12-21-2014 , 11:10 AM

#5433

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The rights to the BDO are probably free, but lighting/cameramen etc cost money.

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12-21-2014 , 11:24 AM

#5434

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checks score

sees they both need double 1

good one to miss i think but would have liked to have least seen some of deano's game before going out for plop/arse

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12-21-2014 , 11:24 AM

#5435

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epic duel of double futility

srsly both missed the double 1 three times. Easily ten shots for each

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12-21-2014 , 11:27 AM

#5436

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Originally Posted by royalblue

epic duel of double futility

srsly both missed the double 1 three times. Easily ten shots for each

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Originally Posted by sixfour

This could easily be the worst match of the first round... this is the bathroom break game of the day

did warn you

taylor could be even shorter than mvg for the next round and mvg is 1/40

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12-21-2014 , 11:29 AM

#5437

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Originally Posted by The Brickie

The rights to the BDO are probably free, but lighting/cameramen etc cost money.

ha true

The winner of the BDO gets £100k, the sponsorship and extra money from PDC events must be worth a decent bit more though.

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12-21-2014 , 11:36 AM

#5438

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Eh I was quite entertained

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12-21-2014 , 11:36 AM

#5439

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Originally Posted by kingweed

Because sports content is really hard to find, and at times anything will do, particularly in the UK and Australia where you can't rely on sportscenter type programs covering the 15 baseball games of the day, the eight basketball games, the six hockey games, and all the previews of the upcoming week of NFL.

The value of free BDO content is a heap better then how much it would cost to pry the rights from Sky. Maybe it will not rate fantastically, but its probably better than just repeats of old news.

I agree with unifying the top league, but I am curious as to how the money distributions will change once the PDC is the only top flight.

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12-21-2014 , 11:46 AM

#5440

sixfour

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Mardle correctly using the term progress to the mean, oh wow

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12-21-2014 , 11:47 AM

#5441

sixfour

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SEVEN

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12-21-2014 , 11:48 AM

#5442

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Yah, I guess that makes sense.

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12-21-2014 , 11:49 AM

#5443

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Agree Eric and Wayne have been fantastic commentators throughout, I think Part has been decent tbf as well

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12-21-2014 , 12:00 PM

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I feel a little uncomfortable when they discuss players' financial situation, and whether they might have to pack the game in. :s

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12-21-2014 , 12:03 PM

#5445

sixfour

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Jones was moaning about that when he was still in the top 16

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12-21-2014 , 12:05 PM

#5446

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He only made £19k in prize money in the last year tho.

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12-21-2014 , 12:09 PM

#5447

sixfour

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Now watching plop, how did jones win a set

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12-21-2014 , 12:12 PM

#5448

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Great .. this reminds me of the last time i backed Winstanley to beat Jones ... Jones put in a great performance and hardly missed a double.

I was hoping Jones had since regressed to a complete nothing by now.

Does anyone win easy with this betting lark ?