After a week away following the conclusion of the Premier League, the PDC circus moves onto Germany for the only doubles tournament on the calendar with the World Cup of Darts. The format has slightly changed from previous years with there only being eight seeds now instead of sixteen.
England (read: Stoke's Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis) retained their title last year with a fairly simple win over Scotland. The Scottish twosome that time - Gary Anderson and Peter Wright - has been split, with PL failure Robert Thornton replacing Clownman for "personal reasons". It is far more likely, however, that Wright has had to withdraw following the comments his hambeast wife made to both Snackpot and Gando following their 7-2 match in the last week of the PL. The Twitter rage from Coco the Cow over the supposedly "fixed match" - which was in no way helped by her husband's inability to beat Raymond van Barneveld and throw his playoff chances down the toilet, oh no - has cost Panto Pete when he has strongly improved recently, and was even tolerable in Dubai last week!
Nevertheless, the number two seeds still have a job to do, with them facing New Zealand in the opening round. With Taylor tormentor Rob Szabo failing to qualify this year, debutant Cody Harris is the Kiwi who teams up with MVG mauler Warren Parry to face the World and World GP champions. Let's hope there's no terrible haka from them this year.
Speaking of Michael van Gerwen, his inability to play with new Dutch number two Jelle Klaasen owing to an incident related to sending dick pics to retarded girls has resulted in Barney retaining his pairing from last year. despite his With professional Jack Osbourne impersonator Boris Koltsov and batshit insane Aleksandr Oreshkin representing Russia, this could be a tricky task for the third seeds if they're not up to scratch.
All first round matches are pairs with the best of 9 legs (first to 5) going through.
Coverage starts from 7:00pm UK time on Sky Sports 1.
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>Tonight’s matches - Round One (best of 9 legs doubles)
Hungary v Thailand
USA v Philippines
Norway v Gibraltar
Denmark v Sweden
Belgium (7) v Poland
Scotland (2) v New Zealand
Netherlands (3) v Russia
Australia (6) v Germany
>Tomorrow’s matches - Round One (best of 9 legs doubles)
Czech Republic v China
Greece v Canada
Republic of Ireland v Hong Kong
South Africa v Singapore
Northern Ireland (4) v Japan
Wales (5) v Finland
England (1) v Spain
Austria (8) v Italy
>Full preview
http://www.pdc.tv/news/article/1owfn86vrq0oi1cg2fetpp1z2c/title/betway-world-cup-of-darts-preview
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>Seeded Nations
1 - England - Phil Taylor & Adrian Lewis
2 - Scotland - Gary Anderson & Robert Thornton
3 - Netherlands - Michael van Gerwen & Raymond van Barneveld
4 - Northern Ireland - Brendan Dolan & Daryl Gurney
5 - Wales - Mark Webster & Gerwyn Price
6 - Australia - Simon Whitlock & Kyle Anderson
7 - Belgium - Kim Huybrechts & Ronny Huybrechts
8 - Austria - Mensur Suljovic & Rowby-John Rodriguez
>Unseeded Nations
Canada - John Part & Ken MacNeil
China - Yuanjun Liu & Wenge Xie
Czech Republic - Michal Kocik & Pavel Drtil
Denmark - Per Laursen & Daniel Jensen
Finland - Kim Viljanen & Marko Kantele
Germany - Max Hopp & Jyhan Artut
Gibraltar - Dyson Parody & Manuel Vilerio
Greece - John Michael & Ioannis Selachoglou
Hong Kong - Ting Chi Royden Lam & Scott MacKenzie
Hungary - Nandor Bezzeg & Patrik Kovacs
Italy - Daniele Petri & Michel Furlani
Japan - Keita Ono & Haruki Muramatsu
New Zealand - Warren Parry & Cody Harris
Norway - Robert Wagner & Cor Dekker
Philippines - Gilbert Ulang & Alex Tagarao
Poland - Krzysztof Ratajski & Mariusz Paul
Republic of Ireland - William O'Connor & Mick McGowan
Russia - Aleksandr Oreshkin & Boris Koltsov
Singapore - Paul Lim & Harith Lim
South Africa - Devon Petersen & Graham Filby
Spain - Cristo Reyes & Antonio Alcinas
Sweden - Magnus Caris & Daniel Larsson
Thailand - Thanawat Gaweenuntawong & Attapol Eupakaree
USA - Darin Young & Larry Butler
Favourite darts event of the year, even if I am going to miss tomorrow night and the first hour tonight due to work. Keep us informed /180/.
>no Parody/Duo combo for Gibraltar
Was a big fan of the Hungarian team a few years back who were utter shit.
Disappointed Paul Nicholson's not playing for Straya this year, enjoyed his feud with the Huybrechts lads last year.
![darryl-fitton-champion[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/YLPnYer.png "darryl-fitton-champion[1].png")
Elsewhere in the world of darts, the BDO's long-awaited #NewEra finally got underway over the Bank Holiday Weekend with the seeded legplay (wait, don't they hate that?) World Trophy.
Dave screened the event with a more than adequate display that was actually a pretty good standard.
What was not a good standard was the play on show. With just 19 averages above 90 in the entirety of the men's tournament, and only 2 above 100, it is safe to say the BDO should refrain from calling themselves professional any more.
As for the so called "New Era", it was Stockport bottlejob Darryl Fitton, 54, who won his first ever UK televised major in a turgid 13-9 affair against Aussie qualifier Peter Machin who averaged an atrocious-in-a-major-final 81 to Dazzler's not-that-much-better 87.
This will be fun. I'm curious to see how the atmosphere will be in Germany. I hope German fans won't be too embarrassing. For the matches: It will be fun to see Aleksandr Oreshkin tonight, and tomorrow based Royden Lam.
>>68044379
>Paul Nicholson's not playing for Straya this year, enjoyed his feud with the Huybrechts lads last year
Why can't Nicho and Kimmy just feud themselves off the TV screen? Never liked them, never will. I felt so bad for Shitlock that he had to deal with that idiot Nicho during that game, and pretty much everything about Kimmy is just annoying, even without that game against Wolfie.
And we're on now!
>>68044889
>Why can't Nicho and Kimmy just feud themselves off the TV screen?
well Nicho isn't on telly any more so...
Artut getting BTFO by Mardle
>>68044959
Mission 50% complete.
>>68044530
Would have liked to have seen this, coverage was supposed to be half decent by all accounts, so hopefully they might make a go of it. I forget, is it BT sport that have picked up the BDO worlds?
Also lol at clownman and his missus
Thanawat doing better on the checkouts than he did at the Worlds.
Oh man, I haven't been in these threads in a long time. Guess this is as good a time as any.
Pretty interesting that they're starting out with doubles now. This should be fun.
Beautiful 105 from Bezzeg.
>>68045101
German TV just said that he's a truck driver who came to the game somewhen in the 90s by chance, because a local pub team was missing a player, so they asked him if he wanted to help out.
>16
>D20
>D6
Oh World Cup, how I love you.
Where's the shitty finishing I was expecting from these guys? Oh, there it is.
>pulling the double twice in a row
>have multiple chances to go 3-1 up
>end up 3-2 down
>magyarorszag
Some of this looks slightly better than when I play pub darts, and that's not good at all. At least when I miss the big number, I sometimes shank it into a further away triple, like pulling a shot at 19 into T17.
>that face
wew
>German fans singing "There's only one Phil Taylor"
>>68045376
better than
>There's only one Andree Welge
>>68045376
Germans love Phil Taylor for some reason. Like, more than English fans. I don't get it.
You think that new Unicorn they are using board is good? Until now, I played the Eclipse Pro, and compared to the Winmau Blade4, it's really crap, so I'm not planning on buying a Unicorn board anytime soon.
![ButlerYoung15[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/OKcpjsx.jpg "ButlerYoung15[1].jpg")
IT'S TIME
U S A
U S A
U S A
USA USA
>>68045505
>Larry Butler was the runner-up in the 2015 BDO World Masters
And here I thought the fucker didn't do shit since like 1994.
>BDO
Oh right.
>>68045505
who /daddycool/ here?
>>68045292
Played a practice match with a teammate of me this week, got raped by an >80avg. Guy could have easily competed in the last match. But well, practice is one thing, gameplay is much more difficult, and playing on stage is probably pure adrenaline.
Also: Time for freedom!
>le look up at the darts man
oh god not again
>all these BDO mentions
barry will be mad
sue perkins playing for the phillipines here.
Deta's arrers are ridiculous. Also lol at this lezzer looking philipino, would give some of the munters in the womens game a run for a calender spot.
>>68045653
top kek
>>68045665
But is he better looking than known lesbians Gary Anderson and Kevin McDine?
>>68045689
>125 left
>bull
>bull
ahahahaha oh wow
How does Larry Butler get a spot here? Another case of the PDC just making up the rules/allocation spots as they go along?
>125
>double bull
>double bull
>can't finish
This guy.
>>68045702
>Kevin Painter not pictured
>>68045716
guessing nobody else wanted to play
>>68045716
Two top ranked players from each country lad.
Says alot for yank darts that larry butler is still one of the best.
Anyone watch the BDO comedy show on Dave at the weekend?
>>68045789
parts of it
demonstrated why fordham and hankey should never be on TV again
>>68045789
Aye, caught some of it.
Who won the meat draw?
>>68045765
Was reading that they have changed this rule this year, basically to allow for the fact that MVG wont play with pedo-darter.
>>68045815
At least Australia has a new darting hero to look up to.
Part that got me was that the Womens prize for coming second was £2000
>>68045839
Understandable on mvg's part.
>>68045839
I thought Suarez pulled out of his own volition like Snakeshite did?
Darts is coming home lads, who will be able to stop us?
>1/14 on doubles
>american accuracy
>>68045894
diabetes
>>68045894
Autism and Diabetes
>>68045851
>Fitton
RIP the BDO
Didn't know Irving played darts
>>68045869
Well so the statement released by him and the PDC goes, likewise with Snakeshite, but i think i read on tsod/doublefinish they had changed that rule as well. Maybe not, their threads were full of speculation and conjecture as you can imagine.
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>>68045934
>maybe I... suck ya dick???
>need 19s
>nearly hit 16
>ulang
Sending the markers to sleep is this
this is going 5-4 and you know it
butler is playing utter shit tonight
>those darts at D20
>USA
>butler nearly dropping his darts
what the fuck was that
>USA losing to the Philippines
There's a political joke in there somewhere.
>the city of america
GILBERT
>USA chant dies as quickly as it starts
>then the team itself dies
Bloody hell.
LGTSS
>American darts
>Yooessayy
IT'S PARODY TIME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FccnoYGWpwQ
>>68046585
fucking kek
hope gibraltar go far
>>68046585
Amazing
>>68046585
>Showing off against Autism
What could possibly go wrong?
GIB RAL TAR
Did I miss anything cool yet?
>Norway getting carried by a Dutchman
Hello moneywasters, i give you a gift to bet this month.
>>68046906
Wagner's Austrian.
>comms
Also, since it's Norway, a reminder of their contribution of darts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNDv78Ze-zQ
We miss you, Rune.
>>68046971
Remember watching that David match live. The PDC players on Twitter were pissing themselves.
>>68047002
I remember when he hit that double T20, gestured to the crowd, and then the third fell out.
Glorious scenes.
Dat 114
old Gibraltar lad is dragging this team down
This Cor Dekker ain't half bad.
Manuel a shit
>>68047197
Poor guy, I feel bad for him.
>>68047208
Looks really solid - just like his physical appearance.
>>68047197
>>68047309
He was a lot better last year.
Real shame.
https://youtu.be/NJIrbw3vBeM
This was just great
>mfw I forgot this was on and came back from a BBQ
>WAGNER
C H O K E
DAT VILERIO THIRD DART
>>68047383
Not missed much apart from MURRIKA being utter shite.
>cor dekker
yeah this guy is totally not dutch at all, pure norwegian, just like his not-austrian team mate robert wagner.
I just realized that at the rate this is going, Germany will still be playing at midnight German time. You'd think the host nation would get better placement.
>>68047383
Oh hey, good to see you again.
>>68047408
They're still going to make it.
>implying it isn't the eagle's year
>>68047470
y-you too
LIKE MY STYLE CAN'T GET ENOUGH
Counted the legs of the last 2 games. Best leg was 16. Didn't count the first leg of both games though, because german TV has the unhealthy habit of extending the commercial breaks well into them.
Usa-Phi:16-21-16-16-21-19-19
Nor-Gib: 21-18-18-23-24-17
>>68047470
Germany actually have a decent shot at an upset. Exciting.
>>68047500
Uhh... they lost.
>one of Per Laursen or Magnus Caris will be in Round 2
kill me
>>68047602
Is it really an upset when I'm already seeing Whitlock choking it away in my mind's eye?
BASED MAGNUS
>>68047610
Oh lol, for some reason I thought the WC has group stages.
>eric back
>watching scandinavian cloggers
oh jesus
Cucks vs Pastry Cooks
>Magnus Caris
PO-PO-PO-POKER FACE
>>68047656
dang I remember making that image. miss the /bonkers/ era.
>Bristow in commentary
Fantastic.
>Bristow on commentary
oh boy
>>68047680
>for some reason I thought the WC has group stages.
They last did in 2013.
Changed to straight knockout in 2014.
SWEDEN GETTING B T F O
sweden get it together holy shit
>>68047470
Probably want to keep the audience in the room till the end
![Daniel%20Larsson%203-4a%20Herrsingel[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/kbsu3sk.jpg "Daniel%20Larsson%203-4a%20Herrsingel[1].jpg")
>Daniel Larsson is 34 years old
>Caris
Ich kann es genau hören!
DAT JENSEN
>>68047911
Just one year younger than Dean lol
>>68048049
Larsson looks like a fucking caveman.
>>68048049
Dean Winstanley the Taribo West of the PDC tour.
Just letting you know I'm watching and enjoying this.
Beating Sweden never ever gets old.
>100% checkout rate
A rarity.
Sweden once again utter shit.
Jensen looks like a very promising prospect for Danish darts.
Good stuff from Daniel Jensen
Haha, time for Huybrechts
>The Belgium Blast
Bit inappropriate, mate.
>>68048645
top kek
Man, Ronnie looks a lot older with that goatee.
Or did he always have one and I just never noticed?
>eric pissed already
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>>68048717
It's always been there.
>>68048717
Yeah he always did, and he is fucking old that's why he looks old mate
>>68048774
Fuck me. Shows how much I pay attention.
>waffleboy overcelebrating a bull finish against eastern european jobbers
oh boy time for this again
>>68048939
>manlets
>>68048939
Urgh.
>>68048939
I hope Wolfie comes back for the Grand Slam this year. He was brilliant value.
Neat D9
>that "tops" attempt
POLAN YES
>1 when you need tops
GJGE
>Ronny
>poland not stronk
Mardle lying out his arse about Thornton
Gando and The Thorn up next.
Who is Scotland's number one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ExEFwAGwyA
>>68049599
>they will never show this montage again
>no scottish_national_anthem.wav
THAT 125!
NO
FEAR
>>68049620
Probably Sky's best montage, in all honesty.
>Shitland
HAGGIS SHAGGERS ON SUICIDE WATCH
>gary jobberson
Old Kiwi sort of looks like a dog.
>mfw Thornton got in ahead of Snakeshite
>>68049985
Snakeshite is currently being his wife's bitch
>if Scotland lose, the top quarter of the draw would be NZ/Norway/Belgium/Hungary
holy fuck
>Shitland
>>68050019
Isnt he always? I get the impression that he is actually cuckolded
>Thorny
WHIT A 124 FAE WEE RAB
>>68050093
yes but even moreso this week
DAT FUCKING 124
ITS COMING HOME LADS!
Absolute clutch from Anderson.
How has Harris not qualified for the Worlds before?
>>68050047
Got to fancy Belgium out of that, even if Scotland claw this back i reckon it would be close.
DAT 95
Scotland turning up now
>>68050194
http://www.dartsdatabase.co.uk/PlayerDetails.aspx?playerKey=3944
BDO player by the looks of things
>>68050258
Yeah, I'd seen he'd played in the Auckland Masters before.
Just a shame his game went to bits at the crucial moment.
>scotland win
>paddypower scotland advert played
bravo sky
>nyaaargh
>>68050319
>mfw that advert makes me realise I'd probably fuck Michelle McManus these days
>the new zealand accent
nearly as bad as a thornton interview
Can't trim the foreskin
>>68050391
and here is a thornton interview
obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRwgNtv29ig
>>68050433
Oh those Russians!
>9-darter trailing
Stop it Wayne.
>>68050456
RA-RA-RASPUTIN
inb4 barney keeps throwing scores under 60 and makes michael buttmad
nice glasses, oreshkin
WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB
>44
IT'S OVER AUTISM IS FINISHED
So Oreshkin's basically rocking the Full Whitlock?
Does Oreshkin have gunnar vision?
>he actually called him the Russian Whitlock
I'd forgotten how bizarre Oreshkin's throw is.
>>68050669
>Russia beats Netherlands on the wings of a Diabeetus breakdown
>Straya crashes out against Germany because Straya
>hfw
Barney looks ill.
>>68050734
Get the insulin
>>68050436
Why is mvg on drums?
Oreshkin has reverted to the "unable to score" mode that he demonstrated against Merv at the Worlds.
I want to see Oreshkin vs Pipe (rip)
I love how the russian wizard holds his hands after releasing the dart
fucking magic
Russ is about to have a bust up with foreskin
>>68050822
>1 set
>5 hours
>>68050822
I miss Pipe, the slow madman.
Justin Credible Darts definitely doesn't, he fucking hates him.
NETHERLANDS CHEATED
RUSSIA WINS BY DEFAULT
BASED JACKPOT AND POWER
WORLD CUP DARTS - COMING HOME
EUROS - COMING HOME
>>68050769
>koltsov waving his finger at russ
lolwut?
>aim for D10
>miles left
>aim for D5
>bust score
>foreskin
>>68050895
It's time for the real showdown. Who can shit it away harder - Barney or Oreshkin?
Foreskin has to be the biggest memeplayer i have ever seen
>crowd cheering every time foreskin throws
wew
based german fans
Think Russ Bray knows he's in a losing battle with the crowd lol
>average of 82
lol
This is extra strong lel
MvG and RvB should really join on with the cheering
As much as that was hilarious, thank fuck it's over.
EASY. Its coming home lads
>Letting Russia get 3 on you
World cup best cup desu
>Carly will never ask you to get yer mobile out
STRAYA REPRESENTED BY 100% ACTUAL AUSTRALIANS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER
OH BOY
TIME FOR CHOKING
>tfw no CUBE for Germany
>>68051134
they finally watched our sport
HEEEEEY HEY BABY OH AH
Oh god, Straya pls.
I didn't expect you to be THIS shit! Please, I don't want to have to turn this off to preserve my sanity!
So it turns out that shitty colouring in Shitlock's hair was done on his own accord.
State of Anderson's neck
Fuck me
>Sieg heil if you love the darts
Remember when Whitlock was one of our guys?
RIP in peace
>>68051334
He's still my guy!
...and I hate every waking second of it. Somebody save me from this hell.
>>68051355
He'll never recover from the curse of Hankey.
>>68051375
never has one match killed a player so quickly
>>68051414
well, apart from wayne losing 3-0 to artut
>MANAGING TO HIT D1 WHEN AIMING FOR BIG 1
THIS IS WHY YOU ARE A JOBBER, JYHAN
>>68051375
Feels like the audience getting rowdy might be giving him flashbacks.
But it looks like he might not be doing terribly right now? Is there room for hope?
Schade Deutschland alles ist forbei
>whitlock missing match darts
WILL THE CURSE OF RAPID RICKY STRIKE AGAIN?
>>68051461
>getting your hopes up
Maybe because it's Australia he somehow turns up but I feel like there's little hope for him individually
>>68051489
It's the Germans heckling him, I'm telling you. He's getting his 'Nam flashbacks.
Isn't it nice to see Shitlock with a player that isn't mentally fragile?
>that D16 attempt
holy fuck
Fuck me, that was a thriller there for a while.
Straya/Denmark will probably be just as terrible.
Oh well, see you tomorrow lads.
Unlucky Germany. Needed Nicholson in that team and it would have been more of a balance.
>>68051548
See you, m8. Goodnight, /180/.
OHNE DEUTSCHLAND FAHR'N WIR ZUM EM
#REKT #SAVAGE #THEWAR
And that D8 closes out the opening day of the World Cup.
In terms of the seeds, there were no real shocks as all of them advanced 5-3 or better.
Belgium had the easiest ride as Poland offered zero resistance apart from one leg, with the Huybrechts' 92 average by far the best of the night.
Netherlands were tormented by both the German crowd and the glacial pace of madman Russian Aleksandr Oreshkin but managed to get through after a number of terrible scores from the Nut negated the good work of his countryman Boris Koltsov.
New Zealand have unearthed another potential Kiwi star as Cody Harris performed excellently against Scotland and had to push both Gando and Wee Rab to their limits, with a crucial 95 and a brutal 124 from each Scotsman respectively cancelled out Harris's opening 125 out. There's certainly a future for him and for NZ darts if more like him get through.
The hosts lost to a steelier Australia as Kyle Anderson provided a backbone for Simon Whitlock after years of being saddled with an easily swayed fool. Jyhan Artut blobbing a shot at big 1 in typical style gave the match to the lads from Down Under.
In the non-seed fixtures, Thailand recorded a sub-70 average to lose to Hungary, the USA delivered their worst performance in years to go out to the Philippines, and two potential Scandi performers were unearthed in Dutch-born Norwegian Cor Dekker and Dane Daniel Jensen.
See you at 7:00pm UK time tomorrow for part 2 of round 1.
