As a fan I have been watching darts since the very first World championships, and when the split occurred, the BDO became the unintentional annual comedy show, the gift that kept on giving, I would generally be laughing like a cunt at the levels of ridiculousness we saw, and instead of improving, it got progressively worse as Olly Croft was stabbed in the back by a bearded parasite and proven liar, before that cunt was ousted and got another cunt in a beard even if it looked like it was drawn on his face, and he did seem like a beard for Bo Selecta. I thought when the WDF took control I hoped that there would be some improvement, but knew better than to expect it and sure enough its just as bad today.
We had complete jobbers like Wayne Warren, Neil Duff etc rock up to win this clusterfuck, even their reigning champion only turned up cos he lost in the final of an PDC event that would see him at Ally Pally. Even before this shite started they fucked up the draw, where tonight we had a game between two munter jobbers in a qualifier to win a spot in another qualifier as the WDF made a mistake with the number of entries.
On the stream I saw one guy who called it Shakeside, which was apt and it stuck, not only was the camera on the board shaking like Michael J Fox using a blender, the angle of the board was wrong, and the outer ring number alignment was also off with the numbers not fully centered and putting aside the shaking, the angle, the number alignment , the quality was dog shit blurry, and then there was the audio, especially during the cringe worthy walk ons. We then had an ex con arrive in the chat to white knight these useless cunts telling us the camera team would not be there until tomorrow, then why stream this shit tonight ? Anyone who wanted to give the WDF a look for the first time would have laughed at this shit. I do not even laugh at it anymore, I just feel embarrassed, any new viewer would turn this shit off. You only get one chance to make a first impression. Even when the first dart was throw this was the visual, and it happened in more than one game
I put out a tweet with the averages stating how ridiculous this is to be calling this muck a world championship, and got this reply.
What company would spend money to sponsor this and be affiliated with this rubbish. I am sure there are kids streaming on social media with content more professional looking than this crap.
We got a solitary average over 90, and that was by the defending champion only there because he missed out on All Pally, and the runner up in this cluster fuck gets a mere 16k, in the PDC you are getting 15k for going out in the first round. Not that I watched Shane McGuirk's game, I opted to watch Modus instead, why wouldn't ? it had a higher standard, better players, better produced, more professional and will watch their champions night tomorrow over this WDF shit, and make no mistake it is dog shit.
I always do an Ally Pally / Lakeshite comparison in the averages, this year will do an ADC Global one as well, as we know Modus is already a higher standard than the WDF which I showed last year in the stats. So after Ally Pally and Modus the question is are the WDF behind the ADC too? I have buddies who are causal fans ask me when the darts are on, as they watch it on ITV, some on Sky, if any of them asked me tonight or over the next week I would not mention the WDF cos it a fucking embarrassment to the game..Imagine Barry Hearn once wanted to but the BDO for a million quid, a couple of years later he laughed in an interview saying what was he thinking.
THE PDC
As mentioned ealier I have been watching darts since the very first World championships and the bleakest period for me in terms of enjoyment was when Taylor became the most dominant player. It was like I was watching tv competitions to see who would lose to him in the final. On the rare occasion Taylor got knocked out ,every competition suddenly opened up and became vastly more interesting. I thought as a player Taylor was fantastic, I never really cared about him on a personal level even if some people despise him, for me it was all about his dominance making the game to predictable, so when Ando, Lewis and others started sharing trophies it made the game more appealing again. Sadly now those times seem back again as I feel I am watching competitions to see who can reach the final to lose to Kebab guzzler. Yes the squat lazy bloated cunt is a fantastic player, but the game is less better off with one solitary player dominating the game.
Thankfully due to his attitude, laziness, penchant for kebebs , junk food , vaping and sitting on his fat hole after he crawls out of the cot at the crack of noon his longevity in the game will be nowhere near what Taylor did, I give the fat fuck 5 years max before he burns out physically, gets diabetes, or just made so much money the desire ll be gone.
Heres another thing, I once remember Barry Hearn in an interview agree with PDC fan how Lakeshite was top heavy in the prize fund, the PDC used it as another way to take digs at the BDO, now they are doing the very same themselves. There is a million quid for the winner, the equivalent of winning 5 PD Matchplays. I know the world title is the pinnacle, but were I a pr I would rather win 5 Matchplays Majors for the same money as one event.
To put things into context, suppose Player X in 2026 wins the Masters, then follows that with winning 3 of the 4 original Majors, the UK Open, then the Matchplay, then the Grand Prix, then goes on and wins the European championships, followed by the Grand Slam, and finally the Players championships. Player X has won every single ranking event yet gts less money than Player Y who won the Worlds. How can that be right.
Again I would rather win the Masters, Uk open, Matchplay, Grand Prix, Grand Slam, Players finals and European Champs all in one year than win the Worlds. Yes its the pinnacle, but is it truly hat important ? I think not.
PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIPS & YOUTH FINAL
After the youth final I turned off the darts, I could not be bothered to watch the predictable, when comms would act like an Asp walk on was the greatest thing ever, before a fat chav wins the comp as Asp stands behind him grinning. Look at Littler and Asp, they look like two lads you see on the corner of any council estate. The one comp Littler did not win this year was the european championships, which was enjoyable, and even then Van Veen the winner had to depend on another player to dump out Littler, almost like how it was in the Taylor dominance era.
If Aspinall gets selected for the annual glorified invitation roadshow based on his final appearance in the Players championships finals, and thats the criteria, then by the same logic reaching the final of the UK Open, a more prestigious event should also get a player in, and reaching the final of the Matchplay, the biggest event in darts after the worlds must surely mean the player gets in also. James Wade got to the final of both the Matchplay and UK Open so Wade should also be a cert for selection if that the criteria. Whilst Wade deserves to bepicked, I as a Wade fan hopes he does not get
picked so I have no excuse to watch the monotonous non ranking boring
shit, if he is picked i might find myelf slightly interested in the
owest extreme. Sadly though the PDC do not follow the same criteria, as its different rules for different players, ask Cross, Smudger, Nicholson, Edhouse and De Deker who all not only reached the final of rankng events but won them, only not to be selected, to give you an idea of how Matchplay sports view things, I was watching the game between Gilding and Wade and in leg one, the stream then cut to board one to show Asinall's walk on. I shit thee not, a player's walk on was deemed more important than the actual game they were previously showing, You could not make this shit up. What would happen if Aspinall could no longer get the rights to his walk on tune. would he be deemed a lesser player ? Why should music that was simply selected by a player be more important than the actual game ?
Credit to Van Veen on defending his youth world champs, but a best of 11 is a fucking joke for a supposed world title, even if it is a youth comp. There was ample time for this be a best of 19 at the minimum. Both players deserved a longer match.
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.Lastly, as for the Worlds, always look forard to it, so have to make do with the Modus, and ADC for th moment and if you are a masochist there is the WDF.
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