Draw for PDC World Darts Championship

[-Big Dan-]

ROUND ONE

Colin Lloyd (1) v Tomas Seyler (Ger)
Raymond van Barneveld (32, Ned) v Mitchell Clegg (Aus)
Mark Walsh (16) v Rico Vonck (Ned)
Barrie Bates (17 Wal) v Brian Cyr (Can)
Wayne Mardle (8) v Alan Caves
Dave Askew (25) v Martin Burchell
Denis Ovens (9) v Steve Smith
Alan Warriner-Little (24) v Alan Tabern
Adrian Lewis (5) v Anthony Fleet (Aus)
Wayne Jones (28) v Ian Branks
Andy Jenkins (12) v Bill Davis (USA)
Andy Smith (21) v Shi Yongsheng (Chi)
Roland Scholten (4) v Ron Miller (Can)
Alex Roy (29) v Richie Burnett (Wal)
Kevin Painter (13) v Colin Osborne
Wes Newton (20) v Tetsuya Wada (Jpn)
Phil Taylor (2) v Anton Pein (Aut)
Matt Clark (31) v Mick McGowan (Irl)
Chris Mason (15) v Wayne Atwood (Wal)
John Part (18 Can) v Alan Green
Peter Manley (7) v Dave Jowett
Steve Maish (26) v Wynand Havenga (SA)
Ronnie Baxter (10) v Adrian Gray
Bob Anderson (23) v Darren Webster
Terry Jenkins (6) v Mark Lawrence
Steve Beaton (27) v Gerry Convery (Can)
James Wade (11) v Warren French (NZ)
Lionel Sams (22) v Dave Ladley
Dennis Priestley (3) v Josephus Schenk (Ned)
Colin Monk (30) v Per Laursen (Den)
Mark Dudbridge (14) v John Kucynski (USA)
Andy Hamilton (19) v Gary Welding

[Panda]

Several seeds out in the first round! Bound to be more to follow...

[Matt Aloud]

i don't really see how Darts can be a sport

[Panda]

8 seeds out so far!

[-Big Dan-]

mconnor said:

i don't really see how Darts can be a sport

Maybe it isn't really, but it beats me how they snooker a sport as well.

[-Big Dan-]

Adrian Lewis just won a cracker of a match against Wayne Jones. Final score was 4-3.

[-Big Dan-]

Colin Lloyd vs. Raymond van Barneveld is coming up shortly!

[-Big Dan-]

The handbags are out between Phil Taylor and Chris Mason!

Clicky!

[Panda]

I saw Mason's comments in the paper before the match and as much as he denies it, it sounded purely like jealousy and sour grapes.

[Senior]

It was. Taylor gets all the attention of the camera's because he wins the tournament every year, kinda simple really

[Panda]

The dream final is on!

Barney and Taylor both won their semis 6-0!

[Matt Aloud]

subhuman said:

mconnor said:

i don't really see how Darts can be a sport

Maybe it isn't really, but it beats me how they snooker a sport as well.

same for Poker being on Sky Sports

[-Big Dan-]

It was an absolute corker of a match, the best final I've seen in years. For Barney to come back after losing the first 3 sets without even taking a leg shows just what he is made of, and he thoroughly deserves the title! The Lakeside World Championship won't even be able to compete with this one.

[Panda]

Indeed. The BDO looks very weak without Barney. Should still be an entertaining tournament though.

[-Big Dan-]

There are still some very decent players in the BDO, just no-one that stands out over and above anybody else.

[Panda]

I suppose if you take Taylor and Barney out of the PDC, there's not a lot between the two organisations but it's still a huge blow losing Barney.

I think Martin Adams is consistently the best player the BDO has now but he seems to lack the nerve to win a major title. He was outclassed by Barney a couple of years ago and bottled it completely against van Gerwen in the World Masters.