BDO world championships

[rambler14]

The crowd turned on hankey again and hankey had a fight with the referee when he didn't do anything about it

[carrickharp]

Mark Webster v Simon Whitlock in the final, Webster to win I think it should be a good final!!!

[ramsfan]

webster is a class act, coolness personified, the way he takes out the big out shots is fantastic, should be a good final, my money is def on webster

[Rovers fan]

fantastic final, i was gutted for the wizard though! double10 was websters saviour.

[TheBoss]

I put some money on Webster before the tournament, 9/1 was very tempting then and I was proved right

[passinginterest]

Out of curiosity here's a comparison of the averages form the quarter finals onwards:
Quarters:
PDC
Manley - 31.42 v Shepard - 29.90
Part - 31.60 v Wade - 30.49
Taylor - 30.77 v Mardle - 30.73
Painter - 29.17 v Lewis - 28.76

BDO:
Webster - 30.89 v Fitton - 31.06
Thornton - 30.75 v Adams - 29.96
Whitlock - 31.56 v Hankey - 28.91
Woods - 31.07 v Waites - 30.10

Semis
PDC
Painter - 30.65 v Part - 30.95
Mardle - 30.79 v Shepherd - 29.59

BDO
Webster - 32.07 v Adams - 31.79
Whitlock - 30.88 v Woods - 29.70

Final
PDC
Part - 30.95 v Shepherd - 28.37

BDO
Webster - 30.69 v Whitlock - 31.31

28 180s in the BDO final (44 legs) against 15 in PDC (40 legs).

Highest average in each round in bold. Difference in standard? Little or nothing, more depth in PDC, but, it's people who never played darts, or have very little knowledge of the game that write off BDO as "pub darts". I appreciate not mush criticism has come from here but I've read plenty of it in other places.

Sources: http://www.bdodarts.com/world_pro2008men.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/othe...ts/7186345.stm
http://www.planetdarts.tv/page/World...204060,00.html
http://www.planetdarts.tv/page/World...202565,00.html
http://www.planetdarts.tv/page/World...201520,00.html

[TheBoss]

Yes, they are smiliar this year, the PDC players did not perform to their best and that is a true statement. In the BDO/WDF, the players were near their limit which made a good tournament compard to previous ones.

[DaveyCakes]

Cracking final, but the star of the tournament was undoubtedly анавстасия доьромйслова

[gilberto_eire]

Cracking final, but the star of the tournament was undoubtedly анавстасия доьромйслова

[Roadend]

The Russian bird?

[DaveyCakes]

Aye, Anastasia Dobromyslova

[ramsfan]

and see lives in wales and plays on same county darts team as webster
wonder what odds you would got for double

[bennocelt]

webster is a class act, coolness personified, the way he takes out the big out shots is fantastic, should be a good final, my money is def on webster

yeah he is brilliant, good variety of shots
but man is he dull (and from wales)
im sorry but i like my darts players to be fat, ugly, and smelling of beer it gives me hope