Whoopsie

I was going to post this lunchtime (or there abouts) with what I'm saying here, along with who I think will win through and who I'd want to win through the Grand Slam qualifier. However, despite a combination of:

- only best to five

- no need to play the quarters onwards

- people already pre qualified eliminate at least one, if not closer to two, round of 128 games

The PDC in their infinite wisdom started the thing an hour early, so when I went to look at the draw at just gone twelve, half expecting the board assignments to still be processing, we're under way. Oh well, I guess it is a logistics things in needing every second to set up for that UK worlds qualifier tomorrow. Oh wait.

If I was going to pick a "think will win, then want to win", I'd have gone the following:

O'Connor, Veenstra

Woodhouse, Dennant

de Decker, Scutt

Nijman, Warner

Noppert, Williams (Jim)

Joyce, Sedlacek

Smith (Ross), Taylor

Wattimena, van Duijvenbode

We'll see how close we are. Anyway, I said I'd give an FRH update after the last PC so here we are:

1 Luke Littler

2 Luke Humphries

3 Stephen Bunting

4 Jonny Clayton

5 Michael van Gerwen

6 Gian van Veen (UP 7)

7 James Wade (DOWN 1)

8 Danny Noppert (UP 1)

9 Josh Rock (DOWN 2)

10 Gerwyn Price (DOWN 2)

11 Chris Dobey (DOWN 1)

12 Ross Smith (DOWN 1)

13 Damon Heta (DOWN 1)

14 Nathan Aspinall (UP 4)

15 Martin Schindler (UP 1)

16 Mike de Decker (DOWN 2)

17 Jermaine Wattimena

18 Gary Anderson (DOWN 3)

19 Ryan Searle

20 Cameron Menzies (NEW)

Big climbers are obviously van Veen, although Noppert's fine run keeps him in the top 10. Aspinall's move is down to that Euro Tour rather than anything else, while Cammy takes advantage of Rob Cross' bang average form (and Cross isn't just out of the top 20, he's down to 25, although everyone in that slot is pretty close. As for those Pro Tours, Dobey looked pretty damned good in the one he won, while Woodhouse is still waiting for a first title after being denied by Nijman who continues to improve solidly. We're now done with the floor events, so barring someone getting snookers we know the 80 players from the OOM and Pro Tour list, and that's also settled up a bunch of the Challenge Tour and Dev Tour questions. So glad that van den Herik made it, and after cruelly missing out on it last year, van der Velde making it as well is also really welcome.

Also it seems as if the World Masters is on. Who's to say that the WDF do a shit publicity job?