Darts

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Morning sessions are done and at least 2 of the 12 seeds will be out with a few more with work to be done. USA was in this group and they play again shortly.

 

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final 16 are set

 

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1st 4 matches of the round of 16

France-South Africa
Sweden-Canada (12)
Australia (7) (defending champs)-Croatia
Scotland (4)-Phillipines

 

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last round of 16 matches

Wales (2)-Denmark
England (1)-Latvia
Netherlands (3)-Belgium (5)
Poland-(host) Germany

The Netherlands-Belgium match was amazing, here it is in it's entirety

 

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quarters
Australia-Belgium
Wales (2)-Sweden
Scotland (4)-France
England (1)-Germany

 

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Semi-final #1

 

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SF #2

 

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Finals

 

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Some good action this afternoon with more tonite







This 21 year old is going to be special, he curb stomped a high seed

 

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The quarterfinals were amazing, the semis less so and the final was nip and tuck the whole way.



van Duijvenbode was on fire early this year until he did this during a walk on 2 months ago



Tore his knee up requiring surgery.....still won the match. LOL

 

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The World Match Play is down to the quarterfinals. Of the 32 players in the tournament, 16 were from England and 6 of them made it to the quarterfinals, they have dominated this year and the amazing thing is the highest seed left in the 6 seed

Dobey
Aspinall-8 seed

Cullen-13 seed
Gurney

Searle-15 seed
Clayton-7 seed-Wales

Heta-14 seed-Australia
Humphries-6 seed

 

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hugely entertaining match in New Zealand. Most tournaments are in Europe and the fans got behind the Australian and it led to a great match with the Brit totally losing his cool

 

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Very young German becomes just the 2nd German to win a title.....and was at the German Open.....pretty cool stuff, beat Hall of Famers MVG and Peter Wright to win it.

...and his nickname is Pikachu.

 

[Andriano224]

I have always dreamed of attending the World Darts Championships.

 

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The Grand Slam of Darts are underway, one of the few tournaments where top women play alongside men. After all, there is no reason a woman can't be the best dart player in the world.

In round 1, 19-year old current World's Woman Champion Beau Greaves was matched up against World Match Play Champion and world #6 Nathal Aspinall, and it was quite a match



Today, she faced German Darts Champion Ricardo Pietreczko........the crowd was clearly behind Greaves



In addition, American Stowe Buntz has come from nowhere to qualify and in round 1 played multiple time World Champ Peter Wright. Ooof.

 

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American Stowe Buntz took on another World Champion in Steven Bunting today.......



Buntz seems like a good lad

 

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1/2 of the bracket is done and defending Champ Michael Smith is out. James Wade took him out and here are the group finalists:

A)Wade-Ratajski
B)Rock-Dobey, who beat Johnny Clayton in a winner take all
C)Humphries-Anderson
D)Price-Searle.......who closed out his match in style.

 

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Both women had win and advance matches last night

 

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1/2 of the bracket is done and defending Champ Michael Smith is out. James Wade took him out and here are the group finalists:

A)Wade-Ratajski
B)Rock-Dobey, who beat Johnny Clayton in a winner take all
C)Price-Anderson
D)Humphries-Searle.......who closed out his match in style.

Wade and Rock won, rather as expected but old man Anderson had a flash of brilliance to beat the tournament favorite Price. Humphries and Searle had a great match



Today, the American out of nowhere, Stowe Buntz takes on Andrew Gilding along with
Noppert-Bunting
MVG-Heta
Aspinall-Cross

I'll take Buntz/Noppert/MVG/Cross

 

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Buntz became the 1st American to make the quarterfinals of the Grand Slam with a rather easy win. Bunting had an easy win and MVG was awful against Heta who will play Cross who beat Aspinall 10-8 in the closest match of the day.

The quarters start today with

Rock-Wade
Humphries-Anderson

If you add Rock and Humphries ages together (50) they would be younger than Gary Anderson at 53, who makes 40 year old James Wade seem young as well. I'll pick Wade and Humphries. The crowd will be very much behind Wade and Anderson, we will see if they younger players do well as the "bad guy"

 

[ChiTownPhilly]

Finals

Suppose this must feel like a lonely thread- most times... but I hope there continues to be an audience for performances like this--

This was surgery without anaesthetic.

 

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Hey, looking at the horse racing thread, the board has a few lonely threads.

I don't mind though.
And on that note, the World Darts Championship starts tomorrow

202324-paddy-power-world-darts-championship-preview

 

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Just 3 matches today:

The lone American, Stowe Buntz kicks it off. If he can win his 1st round match, he will face #1 seed Michael Smith in the 2nd round.

 

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There is a 16 year old from Britain named Luke Littler who is called the best youngster ever.

Here is his 1st round match in the World Darts Championship. Wow.





Littler looks old enough to have a kid in college

 

[Jussi]

Littler 16 going on 20.