Grand Slam of Darts

It seems to be above board, in that Dobey was the next in line via number of Players Championship events won which is the second level of qualification.

Jesus Wade is plumbing new depths of crap!!!

TbL

Today was very enjoyable.

Tonight looks a bit dull though. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Commentator: "It's a hard game to call"

MvG was 1/12 with the bookies ffs!

Poor fare so far this evening, every game seems to be 5-0 or 5-1, hopefully the last few games liven things up

Schindler his usual self but Rafferty looks a decent player.

Ashton played well but big John just played better

Tidy darts from Sherrock there

Sherrock played class though. She never gave him a chance

Nice match between Brooks and Rusty. Great pace of play and they hit plenty of 180's. Just a bit ropey on the doubles which was understandable

Class darts from Rowby John

Most of the players are aware that the GSOD is not run in the same manner as the other PDC events. It was originally sold as PDC v BDO.

To be fair to him Aspinall hasn't complained about it yet. He has about 40 tournaments a year so its a long way away from the years before Hearn got involved.

It was a bit odd that Wade and Gando were moaning about the BDO being included before. It helped them build their reputation and a lot of the BDO players switched anyways. They were slightly fortunate they were there just before the PDC pro tour got extremely tough.

Hard to see, but Smith is seemingly doing his best to make it a reality 😅

How on earth did Sherrock do that? That was unreal! and 170 to win it out after 4 legs on the spin! Just class :D

Especially after blowing the first leg

It's kind of an anomaly the way it's worked out in his case, but I don't think it means there's a flaw with the qualifying.

Like either winning or runner-up in any of the last 10 TV tournaments would have got him a place. Or winning just 2 of the 30 floor events. It's actually pretty mad that he's maintained a ranking of 9 without fulfilling either of those criteria. Clearly he's had lots of quarter/semi appearances along the way, which will continue to get him into the TV stage of all the other events. This one is like a 'Champion of Champions' event rewarding those who binked an actual win, even if some of the wins are in dubious events/challenger series.