Another week and another non ranking pdc weekend exhibition, its like it is week after week of this bullshit, from the Premier League, to the US, Nordic and Polish Master. Admittedly the World Cup from a spectator viewpoint has more interest to me than any other non ranking event and not because of any national identity bullshit, but from how the dynamics of the players and how they gel together.
be it rivalry or past animosity between them like Belgium or teams where you have an experienced player weighed down with jobber who will either cost hm badly of step up for the occasion. But in the end even winning this means nothing, even the PDC who cite other non ranking events like the Masters as "Premier Event" do not count a World Cup winner as a premier event winner. When the organisation running the event care so little for it, why should anyone else ?
The faster the Matchplay, Grand Prix etc get going in the business end of the year the better. The PDC calendar is a joke, if you exclude the UK open the first six months of the year are a complete disaster. I get it the Players championships and European champs can only be held after those said events are concluded, but perhaps organize the Slam so that all the winners of one calendar year play in the slam at the conclusion of year along with those that qualify via finals etc from the year previous and the event takes place the following February.
Something needs to be done, where you have 6 months of meaningless shit, bar the UK Open but you can have 2 ranking televised events 5 days apart in November with the Grand Slam and Players championships finals, and the worlds starts just a month later. By having so many ranked events that close, it devalues them, The whole PDC schedule needs an over haul.
Last week the PDC sent out an email for feedback on the Premier League, and unusually I decided to take their stupid survey, and the very first question was if I watched it on TV, which I did not as I do not have sky sports, and as I have said numerous times in the past will never again pay for it. I did catch opening and closing night and the odd night in between. I ticked the box I did not watch it on tv and the survey ended as it seems it is only interested in those that actually watched, so here is the retarded logic in this.
Surely the PDC is a business, and as a business it would be imperative for them to grow said business by attracting new customers and viewers right ? After all those who are already watching will watch any shit, and the PDC already have those people, so would it not be incumbent upon them to find out why those people on their email list did not watch it ?
Or at the very minimum in their survey find out why not, what was their reason for not tuning in, or ask what improvement of changes could be made in order for you to want to watch. They are catering solely to the people they already know will watch anything, surely the PDC would want more viewers ?
The PDC has been a breath of fresh air to the game and the do so much good for the game, but that certainly does not mean everything they do is great, far from it, from giving too much control to the DRA Nazi Party, countless worthless non ranking exbos, favouritism to certain players over more deserving players, tournament calendar etc all needs to be called out.Lastly on the world Cup, Sky had the logo fo "Kick it out" on the screen throughout the night. This is just retarded. Firstly if you are not a racist, why do you need that blatant tokenism since it does not apply to you, and if you a racist, that logo wont suddenly make you realize it is wrong and cease being one. It serves no other purpose but to virtue signal.
As for the games, good to see Italy, Taiwan and the lesser countries get the upsets
