The crowd was abysmal, , it was so bad when a taxi pulled up on the Saturday with some "fanatics" the crowd doubled.
As for the standard, on the Saturday Casey Gallagher averaged a pathetic 60.12. Only in the atrocious bdo could an average that appalling not only win a game, she actually whitewashed her opponent Trina Gulliver with a 60 average.....let that sink in.. winning a match to Nil with a 60 average. The bulldyke averaged 53...yes 53. Trina Gulliver threw 62 darts at treble 20 in that match, and 28 of them landed outside the 20 segment altogether. That includes two treble 12s, and a third dart that fell out of single 12.
Saturday night prime time viewing was Bo Selecta against the BDO IT Specialist Laura Turner. It started with a 27 darter, and followed by a 23 darter. In the next leg Bo Selecta had 97 left and bust it, which was hilarious as that was one of her highest scores and it would not count, In the fourth leg Bo had a visit in the middle of the leg with a score of 5, and being a televised game it was no surprise Bo Selecta lost, the only surprising thing was she managed to average as high as 62. Has she ever won a game on TV ever ?
Priscilla Steenbergen averaged in the 50s against her girlfriend Aileen de Graaf. Most people on forums were actually surprised De Graaf was a lesbian, because she was once chucking shit darts while pregnant in the past, but not me I was not surprised she was a lesbian, I am more surprised when I find out any of them are straight. By the time bobby George in a bra beat Joan Armatrading, sorry, I mean Maria O Brien beat Deta Hedman on prime time Saturday night, the comp has 16 averages in the 70s or under.It had 4 averages in the 60s or under, and had 2 averages in the 50s. This is the shit the BDO served up on tv on a Saturday, and they wonder why no one gives a flying fuck and even their own fanatics cannot be arsed to put their hand in their pockets.
As for the Mens game, Kleermaker is utter shit and lost with a 75 average, Mandigers who won his first game with a 75 average lost his second game with another 75 average. The PDC youth tour is better than this standard, and this is supposed to be the best of the BDO. People can spin shit all they want it was absolutely abysmal shit.
Sebastian Steyer, a euro jobber who has got battered on the PDC Euro tour by the likes of Chris Dobey has no problems in the bdo....what a surprise. He knocked out Warty Montgomery, and followed that with a victory over the fat farmer Scott Mitchell who tried his tactics yet again trying to slow the game down but it failed. Steyer reached the semi final of this "Major" winning his quarter final with a 78 average. Even the comms had to admit the game was awful. Who in their fucking right mind would pay money to attend this shit ?
The afternoon session on the Sunday was without doubt the worst session of darts I have ever witnessed in my decades of watching darts. Deplorable would be a word that would be too kind to describe it. Of the 16 players and 8 games, only 2 players managed to hit an average in the 90s, and both of them were just that, a 90 average. Half of the cunts averaged in the 70s. This is supposedly the cream of the BDO. Pathetic.
On to the Sunday evening session. In the Munters semi finals Lisa Ashton reached the final with an average in the 70s. Veenstra beat Steyer in an awful semi final. Veenstra winning average was 80.01, Steyer added yet another average in the 70s. Even Chris Mason could not find a way to bullshit people or hide how bad it was. The four semi finals saw just one single player average over 90, and that was Williams who averaged 92.57.
The second highest average in all four semi finals was a mere 82 by Aileen de Graaf, and she lost.
When 82 is the second highest average in 4 semi finals you realize how shit the bdo is.
It was hardly a shock when the next average in the 70s came in an actual final.
Thats right a 70s average in a final of a so called "Major"
Lisa Ashton won that final and mostly will be remembered for the mistakes by the new female ref, who only got the job for political correctness reasons, after the other refs walked out. Ashton hit a 180 and the ref called 135, and that was not her only mistake either.
That left the Mens final, surely in a final of a so called Major the mythical 90 average barrier would be broken ?
Not a fucking chance, in typical bdo horseshit, an 85 average was enough to lift a title.
On the Sunday there were 2 finals, 4 semi finals and 8 quarter finals of the men and munters, of the 28 averages on the day, only 3 of them broke the 90 barrier, and 2 of them were by Jim Williams....just 3 averages over 90 in a whole complete day of darts.....you could not make this up.
By the time this financial disaster, disgrace to the game of darts and outright horseshit in a dark room, only on as a vanity project had finished there was 28 averages in the 70s or less, TWENTY FUCKING EIGHT.
There was 4 averages in the 60s or less
There was 2 averages in the 50s.
Any causal fan of darts who had the misfortune of turning this shit on, will admit this does more damage to the game. It was truly appalling. no amount of spin or bullshit can alter these statistical facts.
As I said earlier, this was the worst quality televised event I have ever witnessed in decades of watching darts. Nothing came close. Factor in the fact that what few people were there were players partners, and those with free tickets in a dark room, battling it out with pub standard darts for a prize fund of peanuts. The whole thing was joke and an embarrassment to the game.
I hope it was a financial disaster for the BDO just for spite for them going ahead with an event that everyone knew would bomb.
As for those that stupidly bought a ticket, well they wont again when they know they can just turn up and be given free ones to try make the deserted hall look busier.
Check out this post from a "fanatic" posted on facebook, a rare "fanatic" in that he was one who actually put his hand in his pocket. Putting aside his obvious lack of education when it comes to spelling, grammar,let alone syntax, he makes a valid point, and suspect he is going to be another fanatic who will not be putting his hand in his pocket ever again to support the bdo, and who can blame him.
Been up to Blackburn for the world trophy since Thursday but Iam just little pissed of brought my tickets from the box office witch cost me £28-50 a day £25 for the ticket then they changed me a £2 booking fee and £1-50 handling charge so total cost was £28-50 witch I don’t mind so total cost for the 3 days was £85-50 but on the Saturday afternoon I was sat on a table with a man and is to sons and he said to me have I got tickets for the rest of the weekend I said yes but why do you want to no that he said because b d o have been giving free tickets out so they can fill the room up for the tv I said how do you know that he said because I have as many tickets as you want and then he handed me some and said just give them away if you want so I go to most tournaments and watch and once again I have been sticked up last year was the same at Preston I thought the new board of the b d o was going to change but it don’t look like it emailed them last year when this happened but no reply let’s see this time when I email them if I get a reply"
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Meanwhile in the proper darts in the PDC The Euro tour went ahead, and unlike the BDO there were no averages like the shit in the BDO. No 70 averages in a final, no averages in the 50s or 60s,players had no problem reaching 90 or more in the semi finals over a longer distance.
Combover Joe Cullen missed 2 match darts to beat Krusty in his match and even after Krusty missed a match dart himself, combover misses another three match darts and Krusty won 6-5. Ladyboy Rodriguez also has chances to beat Krusty, and he too shit himself, Krusty was certainly riding his luck all weekend up to that point. Oddly Krusty Wright played his best game of the weekend, hit 10 maximums and averaged 103 in his next game against an MVG who had hit a 106 average in his game against Ricky Evans, but Krusty's 103 was not good enough as MVG won 7-6 and set up a final against Manure Suljovic, and what a great final it was too, none of that bdo final shit averages either, proper darts as we have come to expect in the PDC as Suljovic won a classic 8-7.
So Mensurs win at home in Vienna meant he is currently the 16th player to qualify for the Grand Slam of darts, and knocks Jamie Hughes out of contention.
This brings me to my next point. I criticize the PDC for the lack of Major ranking events at the start of the year, and the length of the Premier League, and how certain players like that cunt Barney gets preferential treatment, but my biggest gripe with the PDC has always been the Grand Slam of Darts.
Putting aside the fact the PDC allow two faced hypocrite cunt and begging bastards in it like prostate hole Adams and the Scottish midget with a history of groping tv presenters, the scum of the BDO have no place in the Grand Slam in my opinion.
The selection process has so many flaws as well.
First of Jamie Hughes who has been knocked out of contention at the moment due to Mensur's Euro tour win last weekend, also won a euro tour.
He won a proper ranking event, on a big stage in front of thousands,, yet that might not be enough for Hughes to qualify. Yet some useless fucker can rock up to a Grand Slam qualifier to an empty leisure centre, get a lucky draw, in an already depleted field get to a last 8 in a non ranking comp in front of nobody and qualify for the slam
Surely Hughes who won a proper streamed event in front of thousands would be a better addition than some jobber who only made a last 8 in an empty hall.
Even Glen Durrant won 2 events, Fatpot, Jonny Clayton, Jeffrey de Zwaan, Chizzy and Ratajski all won a players championship this year, surely those players that actually won an event, should take precedent over players who might reach a last 8 in a depleted field.
Give me Durrant, Fatpot etc over some shower of jobbers like Kirk shepherd, Barrie Bates, or other useless fuckers in the lower half of the PDC only there to make up the numbers.
The whole point of the Grand Slam is to see the best of the best, instead we are getting some of the best, mixed with lucky jobbers that reach a last 8, and then compounded by added the begging scum of the BDO who contribute nothing to the event, in fact, they lower the standard of it.
Wait til the thing starts and you have matches like Gary Jobson from the bdo versus Wayne Jones who reached the last 8 in a qualifier. How do players of that ability make the Grand Slam more appealing ?
As for this weekends euro tour, will discuss that in next weeks blog.
And lastly,I thought I share this post on twitter from The-bore Fagwell who thought the atrocious shit in the bdo was "quality darts".
I bet he did his watching on a stream, no chance of that cunt actually attending.
