That was the tournament that was

Round 5 didn't go great to be honest. We got the biggest bet in Joyce ,but missed on some close ones, Schindler coming from behind against Slevin particularly hurt given the odds in question, Searle not winning a thing is just a thing. As mentioned, wouldn't have been available to look at the last 16, and then the last 8 was chalky enough that there didn't look like anything would be that far off to really consider. Maybe we could have got a spot where we lay Humphries, but I doubt it. New FRH rankings:

1 Luke Humphries

2 Luke Littler

3 Michael van Gerwen

4 Stephen Bunting

5 Chris Dobey

6 Jonny Clayton (UP 1)

7 Rob Cross (DOWN 1)

8 James Wade (UP 4)

9 Dave Chisnall (DOWN 1)

10 Damon Heta (DOWN 1)

11 Danny Noppert (DOWN 1)

12 Mike de Decker (DOWN 1)

13 Josh Rock (UP 6)

14 Gerwyn Price (DOWN 1)

15 Dimitri van den Bergh (UP 2)

16 Ross Smith (DOWN 1)

17 Gary Anderson (DOWN 3)

18 Ryan Searle (DOWN 2)

19 Peter Wright (DOWN 1)

20 Ritchie Edhouse

Big winners were Wade with his final and Rock with his semi. Clayton's semi doesn't move him up a whole lot, but does give a bit of a bugger. Most of the quarter final losers were all right next to each other so don't really shift much. Littler with his win is now within 60k of Humphries, a good run in Belgium this weekend means with continued degradation being more of a thing for Humphries, he could cut the gap in half, continue playing like this then, assuming no massive cuts in events entered, he ought to be number 1 within a couple of months. Lower down, Ratajski gained a couple of spots but is still outside the top 32, Willie O'Connor is back in the top 50, Robert Owen is fairly close to that mark, but yeah, this event became chalky quickly so there's not a great deal going on. Should be back Thursday for Belgium thoughts, but I'm away for the weekend so I'll try to put everything in advance as much as I can.