OK, penultimate Euro Tour coming up, we have this one in Basel then one next week in Maastricht, and we're done. Fairly big one looking at the Dortmund cutoff, it's going to take some work for those presently outside the cutoff to get anything done, but they've got an outside chance at least. Thankfully it's the last year of this utter bullshit. In terms of qualifiers, Bellmont we know about, Roman Wellinger is a completely new name who performed pretty well in the quali despite zero help from his opponents in terms of averages, Bruno Stoeckli has been here before and has a win at this level, against Dirk, meh, dunno about that, while Fehlmann was also here two years ago but didn't do much of anything. We don't have much of anything on the eastern Europe qualifier, although he's not a new name, while Haavisto we only have long data on, so let's get into what we can get into:
Zonneveld/Brooks - 46/51/57/52
O'Connor/Haavisto - 73 (Only long data on Haavisto)
Bialecki/Sedlacek - 50/48/47/48 (OF COURSE number 34 and 35 in the Euros race get drawn against each other)
Cullen/Bissell - 45/50/49/48
Menzies/Reyes - 63/56/54/58
Cross/Vandenbogaerde - 79/72/68/73
Gilding/Bellmont - 67/81/77/75
de Graaf/Lap - 67/65/66 (No short data on Lap)
Chisnall/Soutar - 53/37/45 (No short data on Soutar)
van Barneveld/Kuivenhoven - 45/44/45/45
Smith/Owen - 35/43/39 (No short data on Smith, but what there is sucks)
Doets/Kenny - 87/83/79/83
Surprising number of card holders who don't have short data, but heck, we just ticked over into a July-September dataset. I mention that specifically with Smith as his short data was really rough, talking 80-20 in favour of Owen. Looking back at what he's done since July, at least on the Pro Tour (he may have been in one or more Euro Tours but I'm just looking at DC), we had:
- 6-4 loss to Lishman averaging 81, then whitewashed by Griffin the day after
- Meh win over Ritchie before a big loss to Pilgrim averaging 76
- Beats Szaganski, looks alright against Crabtree, then steamrollered by Nijman
- Averages 81 in 6-5 loss to Hurrell
- Does alright against Lukeman then wins one leg against Schindler averaging 81 again
- Then most recently 2b2 70 averages. One he gets away with because Marvin Kraft was just as bad, but then only just broke 80 against Dirk, but the other he didn't win a leg against Bialecki, and the 76 average there wasn't brought down by bad doubling - he wasn't on a double once.
Yikes. Meanwhile in other news Matt Edgar has a seemingly short fuse with a very weird reaction to comment that his latest Youtube vid which had no need to be made was basically the entire length of the video too long. I mean the literal title is "should young player be allowed to play in youth championship". If that needs more than a one second response, then good lord.
