[Darts] 2024 PDC World Darts Championship 🎯180🎯

the time has finally come, the new edition of the world darts championship begins at alexandra palace on december 15 - and lasts until the grand final in london on january 3, 2024.
the pairings for the 1st and 2nd rounds of the 2024 world darts championship were drawn yesterday. in the first round of this 31st pdc world championship, the qualifiers from the protour order of merit will meet the 'international representatives' at the Ally Pally in london. in round 2, the winners will play against the top 32 from the order of merit, who are automatically seeded for round 2.

here are the most important duels in the 2nd round:

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Michael Smith (1) - Kevin Doets/Stowe Buntz
Michael van Gerwen (2) - Keane Barry/Reynaldo Rivera
Luke Humphries (3) - Lee Evans/Sandro Eric Sosing
Peter Wright (4) - Jim Williams/Norman Madhoo
Gerwyn Price (5) - Connor Scutt/Krzysztof Kciuk

here's the full schedule for the 2023/24 paddy power world darts championship season, which kicks off on friday, december 15
you can read everything else at the following link: https://www.pdc.tv/news/2023/11/29/202324-paddy-power-world-darts-championship-schedule-play

defending champion Michael Smith only narrowly escaped his first big surprise of the tournament. the englishman had to go the full distance against world number 66 Kevin Doets, but ultimately prevailed 3:2.
before that, Simon Whitlock, 2010 world championship finalist, had already had big problems. the australian only just came through with a 3:2 win against Paolo Nebrida from the philippines.
you can see all the other results in the graphic:

on day 2, former champion Gary Anderson got off to a successful start at the world darts championship in london. in a duel between veterans, the 'flying Scotsman' defeated australian Simon Whitlock 3-0 late on saturday evening. GA won the most important darts title in the world in 2015 and 2016 and is also one of the favorites this year.
as usual, you can find all the other results in the graphic

the favorites all prevailed in the afternoon session of the third day. turbo thrower Ricky Evans defeated Simon Adams 3-0, Noman Madhoo also had no chance against Jim Williams and Darren Penhall against last year's world championship round of 16 finalist Joe Cullen. Matt Campbell also prevailed 3-2 against filipino Lourence Ilagan.
for the 'queen of the palace' Fallon Sherrock, the wc tournament is already over. the 29-yo lost 3-1 todDutchman Jermaine Wattimena in the evening session and was eliminated in the first round for the third time in a row.

day 4 saw the first big surprise of the world darts championship. Man Lok Leung unexpectedly beat dutch european championship semi-finalist Gian van Veen 3-2 on monday evening and will now face world championship semi-finalist and german #1 Gabriel Clemens on thursday evening.

there were three surprises in the midday session on tuesday (day #5). Tomoya Goto won against veteran Ian White - and Ritchie Edhouse lost again after a match dart. the biggest sensation came in the last match of the session: James Wade was the first seeded player to be eliminated.
at the end of tuesday, Michael van Gerwen proved ice-cold against Keane 'the dynamite' Barry and demolished the irishman 3-0 in no time at all. 'mighty mike' checked out a magnificent 167 once and excelled with a checkout rate of 60 percent (nine out of 15). KB, on the other hand, only made two out of 16.

on wednesday there was again a lot going on at the world darts championship - and in the evening there was another surprise. the two-time scottish world champion Peter Wright lost his first match against Jim Williams with 0-3
in the first two matches of the evening session, the favored players prevailed. Richard Veenstra from the netherlands won 3-0 against Ben Robb from new zealand and Ryan Joyce (england) prevailed 3:1 against Alex Spellman (usa)

Quote from: cygan on December 21, 2023, 09:11:47 AM

Didn't expect that Wright would loose but he played extremely bad, his average was only 84 and he missed a lot of doubles also. Will be an interesting world championship as there is not 1 clear favorite for the title. People as Price, Van Gerwen, Anderson, Smith all stand a chance in winning the title again.

Quote from: babygun on December 21, 2023, 04:08:36 PM

For me Peter Wright is one of the most fun players to watch, but yesterday he had very poor game and with such averages it would be difficult to win. Williams deserved to win, while Wright got eliminated early like last year.
Currently Scott Williams leading vs Danny Noppert (7th World Ranking), so we may have another big surprise.
Agree that there is no clear favorite to win this year

DARTS!, looking for information any sport, I come as an attaché of Team FmBEt /BSFL, ( Wink

) anyway, cool atmosphere these PDC, It is made for fans who like drink Beer without the importance of who wins, haha, well, no!, the emotion of the winner is always there for the fans.
By the way for the curious fans thre is a streamingl "free" on youtube (live).

Nice thread, a mirage in the desert "traditional sports" of this board, now!, the important thing with what names for a place in the title.

on day 8, the 'eggplant king', as Dirk van Duijvenbode is known, lost 3-1 to the croatian Boris Krcmar.
earlier in the day, Brendan Dolan from northern ireland narrowly defeated his compatriot Mickey Mansell 3-2 in a real thriller, winning the decisive eleventh leg in the fifth set. portugal's José de Sousa lost 3-1 to the swedish outsider Jeffrey de Graaf.
in the evening session, germany's Florian Hempel defeated 'dreammaker' Dimitri van den Bergh 3-2 - the belgian missed three match darts in the process...
all other results can be found in the graphic

Quote from: cygan on December 23, 2023, 08:33:02 AM

What a loss of Van Den Bergh! He was 2-0 up in sets, Hempel was in bad shape and not throwing good and even the commentators thought this would be a walkover. Suddenly Hempel scored better and Van Den Bergh missed way too many doubles and eventually even lost. Also watched the match of van Barneveld, one of my favorite players. He looked in pretty good shape, was good at the doubles so hopefully he can get far this tournament.

I see that nobody isn't talking about Littler. He is just 16 years old, before tournament probably nobody didn't even knew his name, but now this teenager is already in third round what is impressive. He beat veteran Andrew Gilding in 2nd round, next he will face Matt Campbell and have good chance to go further.

Quote from: babygun on December 23, 2023, 03:13:29 PM

Wasn't able to watch darts yesterday, but from what I see, it's incredible how Van Den Bergh lost and Hempel made comeback. Winning first 2 sets, having 3 match darts and still lose the game, sounds amazing.

the elimination of the seeded players at this year's world darts championship continues apace - yesterday it was northern ireland's Josh Rock who lost 1-3 to Berry van Peer from the netherlands.
and Nathan 'the asp' Aspinall was also eliminated yesterday - he lost to Ricky Evans in three sets and hardly had a chance.

I have a dartboard in my house that's just gathering dust, can anyone explain to me how the scoring works here and how to determine who wins? I'm trying to impress my friends when they come here this New Year or before the New Year to celebrate and have a drink with me and eat some food. Does the scoring goes higher the closer you are to the bullseye or the farther you are?

Quote from: blckhawk on December 24, 2023, 10:17:04 AM

okay, let me explain the rules to you so that you can have a lot of fun with your buddies on new year's eve Cool

each player has three darts, which he throws at the target in immediate succession. depending on the tournament mode, the score is counted backwards from 501 or 301. the points of the fields hit by the player are subtracted, then it is the next player's turn to throw their three darts. only darts that remain in the board are scored. only the first player to reach exactly 0 wins: if the player scores more points than necessary, he has overthrown. it is then the opponent's turn again and they can try to win the game. if it is now the turn of the player who 'busted' (overthrew) the board, he starts again with the score he had before his last throw.
the 'double out' mode is the most popular. to finish and win a round of darts, the double ring must be hit and 0 points scored.
in 'straight out' mode, any field can be thrown to end the round as long as the player reaches 0 points. beginners are recommended to start with this variant first.

Quote from: LTU_btc on December 23, 2023, 07:48:24 PM

Litter is amazing indeed, great talent and his average in the first round (106) was simply amazing; one day this kid will become world champion for sure!

Quote from: LTU_btc on December 23, 2023, 07:48:24 PM

The funny thing was that nobody gave Hempel any chance after the 2-0, you would have a nice amount of money by betting on him at that time lol. Another sensation yesterday with Aspinall being kicked out by Evans, we already had a lot of surprises this world championship.

64 matches have been played at the 'Ally Pally' so far, and 31 are still to be played. the following seeded players have already been knocked out of the tournament:

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(4) Peter Wright
(6) Nathan Aspinall
(7) Danny Noppert
(12) Dirk van Duijvenbode
(13) James Wade
(15) Dimitri Van den Bergh
(20) Andrew Gilding
(23) Josh Rock
(25) José de Sousa
(30) Callan Rydz
(31) Kim Huybrechts

the closest to a nine-darter was Scott Williams. the englishman missed double 18 on his last throw against Danny Noppert
and this is what the pairings look like after christmas:

Michael Smith won vs Madars Razma 4:1, but it wasn't that easy as it may look. In 4th set Razma was leading 2:0 and was close to make set result 2:2, but then he made some misses and lost his throw. And player like Michael Smith don't forgive such mistakes.
Michael Van Gerwen didn't had any problems against his countrymen Richard Veenstra and beat him 4:0. Journey of teenager continues - Luke Littler eliminated Matt Campbell. Only match todaay where all 7 sets were needed was between Scott Williams and Martin Schindler. It ended with Williams win, who was underdog here.