BDO 2015 World Championship

Devastator

BDO Vs NE1 conversations have been done to death so lets not turn this into a debate

So tournament kicks off tomorrow running for 8 days until the finals on Sunday week. BBC coverage is a shambles IMO, I can't find a preview on their website but heres 1 from sky!

http://www1.skysports.com/darts/news/12040/9629249

1st round schedule

Saturday January 3
Afternoon session (starts 1300 GMT)
Peter Sajwani v Sam Head (P)
Martin Adams v Jan Dekker
Martin Phillips v Madars Razmar
Evening session (starts 1830 GMT)
David Cameron v Michel Van Der Horst (P)
Eddy Sims v Cedric Waegemans (P)
Scott Mitchell v Tony O'Shea
Sunday January 4
Afternoon session (starts 1300 GMT)
Darryl Fitton v Paul Jennings
Ross Montgomery v Pip Blackwell
Seigo Asada v Brian Dawson (P)
Evening session (starts 1830 GMT)
Karel Sedlacek v Paul Coughlin
Mike Day v Jeff Smith (P)
Scott Waites v Sam Hewson
Monday January 5
Afternoon session (starts 1300 GMT)
Jim Widmayer v Rhys Hayden (P)
James Wilson v Peter Sajwani/Sam Head
Willem Mandigers v Daniel Larsson (P)
Evening session (starts 1830 GMT)
Jeffrey de Graaf v Seigo Asada/Brian Dawson
Remco van Eijden v Geert de Vos
Jamie Hughes v David Cameron/Michel van de Horst
Tuesday January 6
Afternoon session (starts 1300 GMT)
Robbie Green v Darius Labanauskas
Alan Norris v Willem Mandigers/Daniel Larsson
Gary Robson v Eddy Sims/Cedric Waegemans
Evening session (starts 1830 GMT)
Rick Hofstra v Jim Widmayer/Rhys Hayden
Glen Durrant v Karel Sedlacek/Paul Coughlin
Wesley Harms v Mike Day/Jeff Smith

Heres BTsports schedule for the darts, looks like little need to be messing about with bbc & their red button nonsense while they show a repeat of antiques roadshow on bbc2

• Saturday January 3: 6.30pm-10.00pm, BT Sport 2
• Sunday January 4: 6.00pm-10.00pm, BT Sport 2
• Monday January 5: 6.00pm-10.00pm, BT Sport 2
• Tuesday January 6: 6.00pm-10.00pm, BT Sport 2
• Wednesday January 7: 6.00pm-10.00pm, BT Sport 2
• Thursday January 8: 6.00pm-10.00pm, BT Sport 2
• Friday January 9: 5.30pm-10.00pm, BT Sport 2
• Saturday January 10: 6.30pm-9.30pm, BT Sport 2
• Sunday January 11: 4.30pm-8.30pm, BT Sport 2

Kingp35

I'll be cheering for Tony O'Shea like I've been doing for years now but he just doesn't seem to have the mental strength to win it. He usually saves his worst game of the tournament until the final. This is also Robbie Greens last tournament in the BDO as he has confirmed that he's making the switch.

The standard is no where near as good as the PDC but this for me makes it entertaining due to the missed doubles, tension etc. I'll be watching as much as I can.

Clareman

I enjoy the BDO, there are some very good players in it but you always think that you maybe able to play in it yourself some day

I think all of it is due to be shown via the red button

Devastator

Kingp35 wrote: »

I'll be cheering for Tony O'Shea like I've been doing for years now but he just doesn't seem to have the mental strength to win it. He usually saves his worst game of the tournament until the final. This is also Robbie Greens last tournament in the BDO as he has confirmed that he's making the switch.

From reading this O'Shea might be considering this his last year in the world champs too

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/darts/30039647

Kingp35

He's definitely coming to the end of his career anyway but there is no one in the tournament that O'Shea can't beat and unlike last year there is no player that really stands out. He has every chance of winning it but if you asked me to put my money on someone I would have to go for James Wilson. I think he's the one to beat.

Kingp35

Kingp35 wrote: »

This is also Robbie Greens last tournament in the BDO as he has confirmed that he's making the switch.

Christ. Again?

Someone should sit down with him and ask him to make up his mind!

Tony O'Shea has a tough enough first round match.

KevIRL

Are BT only showing evening sessions? Always enjoy this tournament, the crowd is a welcome change after the pdc event and while the averages may not be as high the games can often be close and exciting. Always the chance of something mad happening too like yer man not able to throw the dart as far as the board.

I assume the ref who can't pronounce 'hundred' will be there.

monkey9

Yeah, I'll be putting my money on James Wilson to win this one.

mike2084

KevIRL wrote: »

Are BT only showing evening sessions? Always enjoy this tournament, the crowd is a welcome change after the pdc event and while the averages may not be as high the games can often be close and exciting. Always the chance of something mad happening too like yer man not able to throw the dart as far as the board.

I assume the ref who can't pronounce 'hundred' will be there.

Yes BT are showing the evening sessions. BBC can only show these sessions delayed I think.

http://sport.bt.com/more-sport-hub/more-sport/bt-sport-lands-bdo-world-championship-rights-S11363949190081

alan partridge aha

James Wilson gets my vote too.

mdwexford

Also on the Wilson bandwagon.

The forum will be loaded if he wins.

ArmaniJeanss

KevIRL wrote: »

Are BT only showing evening sessions? Always enjoy this tournament, the crowd is a welcome change after the pdc event and while the averages may not be as high the games can often be close and exciting. Always the chance of something mad happening too like yer man not able to throw the dart as far as the board.

I assume the ref who can't pronounce 'hundred' will be there.

Needs to be posted every year, not so much for the missed dart as for the referees wonderful facial expression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNDv78Ze-zQ

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Bracket draw.
Robbie Green (16) Darius Labanauskas
James Wilson(1) Peter Sajwani/Sam Head
Gary Robson(9) Eddy Sims/Cedric Waegemans
Wesley Harms(8) Mike Day/Jeff Smith

Jeffrey de Graaf(12) Seigo Asada/Brian Dawson
Martin Phillips(5) Madars Razma
Remco van Eijden(13) Geert de Vos
Scott Mitchell(4) Tony O’Shea

Darryl Fitton(15) Paul Jennings
Alan Norris(2) Willem Mandingers/Daniel Larsson
Jamie Hughes(10) David Cameron/Michel van der Horst
Glen Durrant(7) Karel Sedlacek/Paul Coughlin

Ross Montgomery(11) Pip Blackwell
Scott Waites(6) Sam Hewson
Rick Hofstra(14) Jim Widmayer/Rhys Hayden
Martin Adams(3) Jan Dekker

Scorpion Sting

Haha that's gas, the ref's reaction is priceless! He only looks about 12 as well.

seanhynes

Seriously they have jan Dekker v Martin Adams scheduled at 1.45 and it's not on any TV channel what a farce

Devastator

jebforever wrote: »

Haha that's gas, the ref's reaction is priceless! He only looks about 12 as well.

Ain't that the same ref who says "hooonded"?

seanhynes wrote: »

Seriously they have jan Dekker v Martin Adams scheduled at 1.45 and it's not on any TV channel what a farce

Farce? What do you mean? Showing a repeat of bargain hunt on bbc is of utmost importance :rolleyes: joke!! Apparently BBC have 2 hours on bbc1 at 2:30

Scorpion Sting

Devastator wrote: »

Ain't that the same ref who says "hooonded"?

Not sure but you could be right.

Will I Amnt

In a hotel room, no red button option :mad:

Devastator

ohhhh look theres a holiday program on now when they could be showing some live darts.

it bemuses me why people pay their licence fee to that company

Devastator

Will I Amnt wrote: »

In a hotel room, no red button option :mad:

Just dug out an indoor aerial and it doesn't seem to even be on red button! some sound of music thing on it :mad:

Firewalkwithme

The very first leg and BBC mess up the scoring LOL What a start :-P

Will I Amnt

Devastator wrote: »

Just dug out an indoor aerial and it doesn't seem to even be on red button! some sound of music thing on it :mad:

Mine just changed the sound to mono from stereo :pac:
It's on BBC2 now anyway.

robman60

Great first set anyway, Adams looking fairly strong.

The difference between the crowds at BDO and PDC events is so noticeable. The BDO crowd actually seem to be interested in darts.

dirkmeister

Adams and Dekker throwing some pretty impressive stuff so far.

Edit: The camera work on doubles is terrible, the dart is in the board before they show where it is.

jamesbere

Cracking match, impressive from dekker. How come he is not ranked? Did he have a poor year

Lovely Bloke

yeah, how is Dekker not ranked.

Cake Man

I'm just curious but why do the BDO, knowing they wouldn't have the same popularity, coverage or draw the same crowds as the PDC have their championships at the same time as the PDC?
Would they be not better off doing it another time of the year and secure all the coverage? I suppose the BDO usually have their sessions on during the day, PDC in the night?

Lovely Bloke

jaysis, Adams was lucky there

jamesbere

Dekker should of won that set

wilhelm roentgen

Adams was a tad lucky there, Dekker blew that third set

dirkmeister

Dekker had a slight chance with the 90 checkout there but only scored 22...a very good match all the same.

alan partridge aha

Adams played solid game, dekker has had a bad year, saw him in the GSOD and he was demolished in his 3 games.

Cake Man

Cake Man wrote: »

I'm just curious but why do the BDO, knowing they wouldn't have the same popularity, coverage or draw the same crowds as the PDC have their championships at the same time as the PDC?
Would they be not better off doing it another time of the year and secure all the coverage? I suppose the BDO usually have their sessions on during the day, PDC in the night?

BDO always had greater tv crowds, down to the whole BBC v Sky thing.

The two tournaments did not overlap before, PDC final a few days later this year, can't remember why.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Dekker looked really off and distracted in the last set, the 6 darts missed at double in the previous looked like it got to him.

Will I Amnt

[Deleted User] wrote: »

PDC final a few days later this year, can't remember why.

Not at all, it's scheduled for the same day every year, the day before I go back to work

alan partridge aha

94.11 avg for Adams decent enough for a 1st round. Dont know what % checkout was.

alan partridge aha

Are Deta's darts spring loaded.

alan partridge aha

Devastator wrote: »

Ain't that the same ref who says "hooonded"?




Farce? What do you mean? Showing a repeat of bargain hunt on bbc is of utmost importance :rolleyes: joke!! Apparently BBC have 2 hours on bbc1 at 2:30

Better than that gravelly voiced guy on PDC in fairness.

alan partridge aha

152 checkout from Deta tasty stuff.

Will I Amnt

alan partridge aha wrote: »

Better than that gravelly voiced guy on PDC in fairness.

Ah come off it, Russ Bray is easily the best scorer.

seoirsem

Ashton hits 156 check-out and Tony Green blurts out 'Just when you thought it was all over, we're still there!!!!!'. She's ahead in the match and ahead in the leg!???WTF

alan partridge aha

Will I Amnt wrote: »

Ah come off it, Russ Bray is easily the best scorer.

Maybe but his voice is gank

DEFTLEFTHAND

Entertaining game there from the women.

Devastator

Cake Man wrote: »

I'm just curious but why do the BDO, knowing they wouldn't have the same popularity, coverage or draw the same crowds as the PDC have their championships at the same time as the PDC?
Would they be not better off doing it another time of the year and secure all the coverage? I suppose the BDO usually have their sessions on during the day, PDC in the night?

BDO brass still consider themselves the only true darts organisation and think this 'coverage' is adequate enough for a world championship.

Deleted User wrote: »

The two tournaments did not overlap before, PDC final a few days later this year, can't remember why.

last few years they've overlapped by few days.

Ya know the BBC's coverage really puts me off, its just has a whole stuck in the 80s theme to it from their dodgy match buildups, missing darts which are thrown, Tony Green(!),Bobby George,Murphy or Murray whatever ya call the 'presenter' to generally offering a pitiful amoun of live darts. I think if BTsport took it over they could really improve it and draw more interest in the tournament.

Sly sports have a couple of knobs doing commentery but apart from the 2 of them their overall coverage of darts is superb

alan partridge aha

Devastator wrote: »

BDO brass still consider themselves the only true darts organisation and think this 'coverage' is adequate enough for a world championship.



last few years they've overlapped by few days.

Ya know the BBC's coverage really puts me off, its just has a whole stuck in the 80s theme to it from their dodgy match buildups, missing darts which are thrown, Tony Green(!),Bobby George,Murphy or Murray whatever ya call the 'presenter' to generally offering a pitiful amoun of live darts. I think if BTsport took it over they could really improve it and draw more interest in the tournament.

Sly sports have a couple of knobs doing commentery but apart from the 2 of them their overall coverage of darts is superb

Ya at the Lakeside a few years ago and the most modern picture I saw of acts who appeared there was Hale and Pace. The whole place is stuck in the 80s, you could however get Curry and Chip on a plate, a pint and watch the darts. Lovely jubbly.

Go Harvey Go

So BT Sport's coverage is largely the same as that of its predecessor ESPN UK - Ray Stubbs as host, a pretty lady as reporter, the same commentators as the BBC.

Which means, of course, that it's not much different to the Beeb's coverage.

This is the fifth consecutive BDO World Championship that Vassos Alexander has commentated on - and still he's like a rabbit in headlights.

Tony Green, meanwhile, is well past his prime now. Time for him to do the honourable thing and retire, I think.

mike2084

To be fair I stopped watching the PDC semi when Taylor got on top and switched to the Mitchell-O'Shea game, glad I did :-)

jonnny68

mike2084 wrote: »

To be fair I stopped watching the PDC semi when Taylor got on top and switched to the Mitchell-O'Shea game, glad I did :-)

im not the standard is poor to be bluntly honest, ill watch it alright but it rreally doesn't have a patch on the PDC

Devastator

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

So BT Sport's coverage is largely the same as that of its predecessor ESPN UK - Ray Stubbs as host, a pretty lady as reporter, the same commentators as the BBC.

Which means, of course, that it's not much different to the Beeb's coverage.

This is the fifth consecutive BDO World Championship that Vassos Alexander has commentated on - and still he's like a rabbit in headlights.

Tony Green, meanwhile, is well past his prime now. Time for him to do the honourable thing and retire, I think.

If BTsport had full coverage they would throw everything at it. The shows they put on for other sports are pretty good like beyond the octagon for ufc, balding has had some good guests on for interviews. They've got like all round sports show I think on Sat or Sun mornings which is good. They've various boxing shows on aswell. I think if they got more of the BDO or even maybe some PDC events in future then they'll really p their game.

BTsport is by far better than what espn had on before as a channel

Go Harvey Go

Devastator wrote: »

If BTsport had full coverage they would throw everything at it. The shows they put on for other sports are pretty good like beyond the octagon for ufc, balding has had some good guests on for interviews. They've got like all round sports show I think on Sat or Sun mornings which is good. They've various boxing shows on aswell. I think if they got more of the BDO or even maybe some PDC events in future then they'll really p their game.

BTsport is by far better than what espn had on before as a channel

And if they had full coverage, they would have their own commentary team.

...Which, come to think of it, would probably include Vassos, since he is one of their presenters.

(I'm sure he's a great guy, and a big darts fan too - but commentating on the sport is still something he needs to work on.)

sc86

alan partridge aha wrote: »

94.11 avg for Adams decent enough for a 1st round. Dont know what % checkout was.

thats first 9 average is it not?
thats normally what bdo use
not overall average

MikeSD

robman60 wrote: »

Great first set anyway, Adams looking fairly strong.

The difference between the crowds at BDO and PDC events is so noticeable. The BDO crowd actually seem to be interested in darts.

This just sums up BDO vs PDC. People have to point out aspects like the BDO's crowd to justify its existence.