ET8 round two

Small pickup today. Had some small fliers not work, main hit was Hurrell simply not scoring against Bialecki in what looked like a really promising spot but just wasn't to be, still, at least was on a couple of very strong plays that ended up in whitewashes. I do have to laugh at the PDC's write up saying that Aspinall is an "old adversary" of Kevin Doets. Which is pundit speak for having one really good game at the worlds and then otherwise having barely played each other. It's hardly a Taylor/Barney level of rivalry, is it? Still, it's getting on for two in the morning now and I have no idea why so let's just get the projections out. Maybe the hottest seed right now against maybe the strongest non-seed is first game on. What an absolute shitshow.

Wessel Nijman v Krzysztof Ratajski - 60/60/65/62

Luke Woodhouse v Andrew Gilding - 63/60/54/59

Mike de Decker v Jimmy van Schie - 49/48/58/52

Daryl Gurney v Ricky Evans - 52/45/48/48

Damon Heta v Karel Sedlacek - 61/62/62/62

Ryan Searle v Dirk van Duijvenbode - 49/51/50/50

Dave Chisnall v Joe Cullen - 41/40/46/42

Jermaine Wattimena v Justin Hood - 46/43/50/46

Danny Noppert v William O’Connor - 47/52/55/51

Chris Dobey v Sebastian Bialecki - 73/72/76/74

James Wade v Niels Zonneveld - 52/49/53/51

Stephen Bunting v Cameron Menzies - 53/53/65/57

Nathan Aspinall v Kevin Doets - 48/51/56/52

Gian van Veen v Dimitri van den Bergh - 76/79/80/78

Martin Schindler v Ryan Joyce - 59/60/59/59

Ross Smith v Niko Springer - 62/65/67/65

Wow, that is a TON of close matches. The only ones that have someone better than 2-1 either way are the van Veen one (understandable given how much of a disaster DvdB has been) and the Dobey one (which maybe might be closer if Bialecki plays like he did yesterday again). Regardless, this looks like it might be the most competitive set of Euro Tour games I think I've ever seen. Vamos.