The penultimate day of action at European Q-School is complete with Florian Hempel joining the PDC Tour for the first time alongside returnee, Geert Nentjes and fellow debutant but former World Trophy winner, Geert de Vos.
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But with one more day to go before the Tour Card holders are fully confirmed, the Order of Merit has been updated.
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Currently sitting well placed at the top of the standings are Martin Schindler who leads Zoran Lerchbacher by a solitary leg but with both on eight points. Both are seemingly likely to gain Tour Cards no matter what tomorrow.
Boris Koltsov is seemingly on the verge also sitting on seven points. While not fully confirmed, a point or two tomorrow would mean it would be secure for the Russian who will finally make his PDC Tour debut as a Tour Card holder.
While Raymond van Barneveld is currently fourth helped partly by Florian Hempel winning today, a first round exit earlier to Stefan Bellmont has derailed the five-time World Champion ever so slightly.
An early exit tomorrow could see him anxiously looking over his shoulder especially if today's results are anything to go by.
John Michael is level with him while Luc Peters, Niels Zonneveld and Lorenzo Pronk occupy the final positions. For the initial trio, they all had superb days and find themselves in Tour Card spots.
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But with the likes of Kevin Doets who reached the latter stages today as well as capable operators in Gino Vos, Richard Veenstra, Michael Unterbuchner and Mario Vandenbogaerde among a large contingent on four points just outside, a Barney exit could spell trouble for the doyen of Dutch darts.
As a result tomorrow not only sees the battle for an outright Tour Card but the always interesting conclusion to the Order of Merit. Who will take their place on the PDC ProTour?
European Q-School Final Stage Order of Merit after Day Three
Rank - Name - Points - Leg +/- (source dartsrankings.com)
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1 Martin Schindler 8 +15
2 Zoran Lerchbacher 8 +14
3 Boris Koltsov 7 +18
4 Raymond van Barneveld 6 +13
5 John Michael 6 +11
6 Luc Peters 5 +10
7 Niels Zonneveld 5 +8
8 Lorenzo Pronk 5 +6
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9 Kevin Doets 4 +11
10 Gino Vos 4 +8
11 Richard Veenstra 4 +6
12 Davy Proosten 4 +5
13 Mario Vandenbogaerde 4 +4
14 José Justicia 4 +4
15 Michael Unterbuchner 4 +3
16 Ryan De Vreede 4 -4
17 Benito van de Pas 3 +8
18 Adam Gawlas 3 +7
19 Rusty-Jake Rodriguez 3 +6
20 Wesley Plaisier 3 +6
21 Michal Smejda 3 +6
22 Michael Rasztovits 3 +3
23 Christian Bunse 3 +1
24 Rene Eidams 3 +1
25 Pero Ljubic 3 -1
26 Patrick van den Boogaard 3 -2
27 Vincent Van der Meer 3 -4
28 Jeroen Mioch 2 +3
29 Robert Marijanovic 2 +3
30 Arsen Ballaj 2 +2
31 Toni Alcinas 2 0
32 Maikel Venema 2 -1
33 Rowby-John Rodriguez 2 -1
34 Jens Ziegler 2 -2
35 Lukas Wenig 2 -3
36 Kevin Blomme 2 -3
37 Sebastian Bialecki 2 -3
38 Matt Campbell 2 -5
39 Jan Dekker 2 -5
40 Daniele Petri 2 -9
41 Christian Kist 1 +5
42 Robbie Knops 1 +4
42 Patrick Tringler 1 +4
44 Dragutin Horvat 1 +3
45 Davyd Venken 1 +1
46 Rients Visser 1 0
47 Jandirk de Groot 1 0
48 Moreno Blom 1 -1
49 Sebastian Steyer 1 -1
50 Eric Boyer 1 -1
51 Veijo Viinikka 1 -2
52 Steven Noster 1 -2
53 Sergio Krassen 1 -2
54 Niko Springer 1 -2
55 Kai Gotthardt 1 -3
56 Claus Bendix Nielsen 1 -3
57 Danny van Trijp 1 -3
58 Franz Roetzsch 1 -4
59 Gary Mawson 1 -4
60 Ricardo Pietreczko 1 -5
61 Brian Raman 1 -6
62 Maikel Verberk 1 -7
63 Johan Engstrom 1 -8
64 Patrik Kovacs 1 -8
65 Kevin Costantini 0 0
65 El Abbas El Amri 0 0
65 Sven Fiedler 0 0
65 Levy Frauenfelder 0 0
65 Dominique Goldberg 0 0
65 Toon Greebe 0 0
65 Michael Hausler 0 0
65 Jerry Hendriks 0 0
65 Roland Hol 0 0
65 Christian Jentschke 0 0
65 Andreas Toft Jorgensen 0 0
65 Arjan Konterman 0 0
65 Chris Landman 0 0
65 Remo Mandiau 0 0
65 Erik Meulenmeesters 0 0
65 Daniel Meyer 0 0
65 Marco Obst 0 0
65 Michael Plooy 0 0
65 Nico Schlund 0 0
65 Michael Seemann 0 0
65 Veniamin Symeonidis 0 0
65 Eimardo Van Engelen 0 0
65 Mikel van Maastrigt 0 0
65 Gijsbert Van malsen 0 0
65 Steve Wollener 0 0
90 Martijn Dragt 0 -1
90 Thomas Junghans 0 -1
92 Jiri Brejcha 0 -2
92 Leonard Gates 0 -2
92 Sebastian Pohl 0 -2
92 Owen Roelofs 0 -2
92 Michael Stoeten 0 -2
92 Egor Tvorogov 0 -2
92 Jeffrey Van Egdom 0 -2
99 Gillian Koehoorn 0 -3
100 Jeffrey De Graaf 0 -3
100 Jimmy Hendriks 0 -3
100 Nico Kurz 0 -3
100 Ivan Springborg Poulsen 0 -3
100 Thibault Tricole 0 -3
100 Gian van Veen 0 -3
106 Stefan Bellmont 0 -4
106 Ronny Huybrechts 0 -4
106 Willem Mandigers 0 -4
109 Kenny Neyens 0 -4
109 Laurent Toussaint 0 -4
111 Marko Kantele 0 -5
111 Kay Smeets 0 -5
111 Jeremy van der Winkel 0 -5
114 Patrick Bulen 0 -5
114 Sven Hilling 0 -5
114 Jaimy van de Weerd 0 -5
117 Karsten Koch 0 -6
117 Stefan Nilles 0 -6
117 Philip Van Gasse 0 -6
120 Jitse Van der Wal 0 -7
121 Marcel Gerdon 0 -7
121 Stefan Taferner 0 -7
123 Andrew Beeton 0 -9
124 Mindaugas Barauskas 0 -10
125 Damian Mol 0 -13
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