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i can't answer this definitively, but i can make some suggestions. firstly, these are essentially just glorified qualifiers for TV events which double as helping the lesser players on tour make a living, but they aren't really considered that significant. they weren't even streamed until the past decade or so. most casual fans don't even know they exist and getting an audience in might be difficult. i'm assuming they're currently quite cheap to run and they would need to sell a lot of tickets to justify opening them up into more of a spectacle. they're held on weekdays when most people are at work anyway and there's no room on the calendar to put most of them on weekends. the logistics of presenting it to an audience would also be tricky given that they have to get through 7 rounds containing 128 players in a single day, using loads of stages simultaneously. maybe the uk open could be used as a template but it'd need to be even more condensed into a short time period, and even with the uk open it's hard to follow most of the games. the venues they're currently held at wouldn't cater for turning this into a public event as they're pretty small, so they'd need to hire much bigger venues 30 times in places around the country. it just probably isn't feasible. i also suspect the players don't really want to play in front of drunk audiences in every single domestic tournament, they already have the euro tour, world series and majors for that. the players championship is basically a way for players to demonstrate they're ready to make the step up to those levels of competition.12:33
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fact is, the majority of people don't agree with you (read i.e. any reddit post on the subject, where the consensus is the likes of mardle and dawson are the best out there). personally i'll miss oatley but i consider most of the others to be dinosaurs with the combined personality of a cardboard box. warriner-little's "THE BULL" gimmick is affected and cringeworthy and he's never had the charisma for a commentary job.18-01-2026 04:37
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i'm going to assume he said 15 major finals, not 50. in any case, van veen spanked him in the worlds and beat him in the other major final he played, so he absolutely has a case for being better than him right now, even if legacy wise he's still far behind for now.18-01-2026 04:30
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can you not at least attempt to proof read these recaps? the whitlock scutt one in particular is both inaccurate and mindbogglingly unreadable16-12-2025 01:47
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beating price and rock isn't really luck is it, especially given he made the quarters the two previous years as well. dominated the pro tour last year as well, he was hardly the most dubious of the premier league picks, had a better case than aspinall and price did if we're going purely by merit rather than personality. i think everyone knows he won't get in next year's so you aren't really arguing against anybody on that front.14-11-2025 01:49
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colt
kirk bevins, not kurt28-09-2025 03:25
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colt
he wouldn't even need to play better to get higher averages either, averages against higher quality opponents are automatically inflated as you inevitably throw a lower percentage of your darts at a double.12-08-2025 12:25
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really wish we had a better darts news site that didn't peddle these shameless out-of-context clickbait titles.18-07-2025 21:32
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i also didn't see littler kicking off about this issue when it was his fans whistling and putting off opponents, which was happening on the regular during his first year on tour. humphries had to deal with it basically every time they played each other.16-06-2025 13:18
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it actually benefits humphries to agree with you as it'll mean he's on a list of three rather than four who've done it. that said, the premier league is by far one of the most difficult tournaments to win so i don't personally disparage that achievement too much, especially for players who've qualified by right rather than invitation (although i'd argue winning the league phase is probably more of an achievement than winning the playoffs).01-06-2025 01:14