{"id":5934,"date":"2021-09-11T23:07:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T23:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/2021\/09\/column-hr312-belgium-kod-by-austria-yanks-bye-bye-7-seeds-advance\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T22:21:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T22:21:31","slug":"column-hr312-belgium-kod-by-austria-yanks-bye-bye-7-seeds-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/2021\/09\/column-hr312-belgium-kod-by-austria-yanks-bye-bye-7-seeds-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"Column #HR312  Belgium KO\u2019d by Austria, Yanks Bye-bye, 7 Seeds Advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saturday, September 11, 2021<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Column HR312<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Belgium KO’d by Austria, Yanks Bye-bye, 7 Seeds Advance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the first time since 2016 that all seeds advanced to the round of 16. \u00a0For those seeded\u00a0teams that didn\u2019t look good the experts\u2019 said, \u201cThey\u2019ll play better in singles.\u201d \u00a0Most did play better except for Belgium.\u00a0 How were the players at doubles? \u00a0Never seen so many D10s, D6s and d1s. \u00a0Horrid.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>First Session <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#5 Northern Ireland over\u00a0Portugal<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>2-0.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Northern Ireland took 8 straight legs.\u00a0\u00a0Gurney was smoke\u2019en with a pair of T80\u2019s, T71 and 3-T40\u2019s. de Sousa averaged only 85.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Northern Ireland’s Brendan Dolan<\/strong>\u00a0defeated Jose Marques 4-0 never breaking a sweat.\u00a0 Marques had one shot at a double.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Daryl Gurney<\/strong>\u00a0was seen sipping a pint in the practice room.\u00a0 It worked.\u00a0 As he defeated Jose de Sousa 4-0 averaging 97.\u00a0 Considering 5 match darts, the average is misleading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#1 England beat South Africa 2-0.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>England’s James Wade\u00a0<\/strong>(99 average) beat Carl Gabriel 4-1.\u00a0 Wade played great but had to as Gabriel was in every leg.\u00a0 At 3-1 it\u00a0could well have been 3-2 but, alas, Gabriel messed up 68.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>England’s Dave Chisnall<\/strong>\u00a0defeated Devon Petersen 4-2.\u00a0 This was a \u201cif I’da\u201d for Devon Peterson and South Africa.\u00a0 As in the doubles, Peterson had more fallouts than a bridegroom on his wedding night.\u00a0 Down 2-1 Peterson had a bull bounce out for the leg.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#7 Australia beat the USA 2-nil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Australia’s<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Simon Whitlock<\/strong>\u00a0over Dan Lauby 4-3.\u00a0 Down 3-nil, Lauby won three on the trot to level at 3.\u00a0 His roll included a \u201cBig Fish\u201d out (T70) against the darts only to get rolled in the decider.\u00a0 Whitlock had an 11-darter and 4-T80\u2019s.\u00a0 Great match.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Australia’s Damon<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Heta<\/strong>\u00a0over Chuck Puleo 4-2.\u00a0 Heta in change all the way after losing the first leg but could have been 3-all.\u00a0 (ODC NOTE: The TV announcer is a jackass.\u00a0 He called Damon Heta \u201cThe Heat.\u201d The only “Heat” is Dennis \u201cThe Heat\u201d Ovens.\u00a0 Also, Annette: the ODC was wrong – Puleo was on the team as Baggish couldn\u2019t travel.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Austria<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>beat<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>#4 Belgium 2-0.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Austria’s Mensur Suljovic<\/strong>\u00a0spanked Kim Huybrechts 4-1 to become the first non-seeded player to win a singles.\u00a0 Huybrechts averaged 108+ with 3-T80\u2019s. Suljovic was just shy of 108.\u00a0 So much for averages. \u00a0<strong>Austria’s Rowby-John Rodriguez\u00a0<\/strong>beat Dimitri Van den Burg 4-2.\u00a0 Van den Burg played terrible (missing 11 doubles).\u00a0 This and Rowby John less so.\u00a0 They traded breaks level at 1 with Rowby John winning two and moving to 3-1.\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Second Session<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#6 Scotland beat Poland 2-0.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scotland’s Peter Wright<\/strong>\u00a0took the measure of Krzysztof Kciuk 4-3 when he achieved the first brake of throw in the game. \u00a0Kciuk had one at tops for the match.\u00a0 <strong>Scotland’s John Henderson<\/strong>\u00a0overcame Krzysztof Ratajski 4-2.\u00a0 Big John won the first leg in 23 darts, then the second in less.\u00a0 Henderson missed 15 darts at doubles – so, he’s no longer 0-4 against Ratajski.\u00a0 Neither player was comfortable with doubles.\u00a0 \u201cWelcome to the C league finals.\u201d\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#8 Germany vs. Japan: 2-1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gabriel Clemens\u00a0<\/strong>eked a \u201cW\u201d despite missing 25 doubles against\u00a0Matsuda Jun 4-2.\u00a0 Jun didn\u2019t show up for the first two legs (66 average), then came back to level with a 187 check.\u00a0 In the 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0leg he had a dart but Clemens’ pair of T80s allowed him to steal the leg.\u00a0 In the decider Jun had a dart to extend.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t.\u00a0 <strong>Yoshihisa Baba <\/strong>laid a hiding on Max Hopp 4-0.\u00a0 In leg l, Baba won the race to double 1.\u00a0 Following that, he used 118 and 125-check to move up one away and converted.\u00a0 Quoting Wayne Mardle on Max Hopp’s game, “A stinker.\u201d Doubles:<strong> Germany took the doubles 4-2.<\/strong>\u00a0 Max Hopp smelled better in the pairs.\u00a0 Not Chanel# 5 but also not Saturday night at Tim\u2019s Bar Beer in Pattaya.\u00a0 He got his grove back when he tossed a 168 to set up a double.\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#3 Netherlands vs. Singapore –\u00a02-0.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael van Gerwen <\/strong>over\u00a0Paul\u00a0Lim\u00a04-0.\u00a0 MVG started with a T80 and never slowed down.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Dirk van Duijvenbode <\/strong>squeezed out a 4-3 win over Harith Lim.\u00a0van Duijvenbode won only because someone had to.\u00a0\u00a0<u>Jackass announcer alert<\/u>.\u00a0 With the match level at 3 and Lim with darts the jackass said, \u201cCan Lom hold to even?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#2 Wales vs. Lithuania<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gerwyn Price was workman like <\/strong>beating Mindaugas Barauskas 4-2.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Darius Labanauskas <\/strong>beat Jonny Clayton 4-2.<strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Doubles: Wales escapes 4-3 as Lithuania\u2019s\u00a0Darius Labanauskas was brilliant in a losing cause.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Semi-finals &amp; final<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First Session action starts at 8 a.m. EDT (5 a.m. PDT)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before the Cazoo World Cup started the Old Dart Coach promised a buffet of glorious, delectable items for your consumption.\u00a0 To this point it\u2019s been the more like what\u2019s left for the last customer in the Golden Corral.\u00a0 Today, it\u2019s Tomahawk Steak, caviar and the finest of the brewery\u2019s art.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of Day 3, what once was a buffet of 32 teams has been narrowed down to but four choices.\u00a0 The big darting fish have devoured the small.\u00a0 It is the nature of things.\u00a0 For 24-teams it\u2019ll be “wait until next year\u201d while for the surviving four the cup is within reach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#5 Northern Ireland vs. Austria.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Northern Ireland pair return to the quarters since they were semifinalist in 2016 – breaking 4 first or second round exits.\u00a0 Northern Ireland makes its first visit to the quarters.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Mensur Suljovic &amp; Rowby-John Rodrigues make their fourth visit (2016, 2017, 2019) to the quarters.\u00a0 Upset alert – if Rowby- John settles down.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#1 England vs. #8 Germany.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For England it\u2019s business as usual as they\u2019ve been here with one exception in 2019 when Michael Smith and Rob Cross represented.\u00a0 Those two are gone.\u00a0 The German crowd was strangely silent in their battle and struggle against Japan.\u00a0 The Germans aren\u2019t scoring and not doubling which means a loss yet again, just as was the case against England in 2015.\u00a0 England rolls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#2 Wales vs. #7Australia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Aussie pair returns to the quarters.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>They are playing with passion for the late Kyle Anderson.\u00a0 England’s\u00a0flat.\u00a0 As the ODC said, \u201cWales is there to be beat.\u00a0 Take #7 Australia.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#6 Scotland vs. #3 Netherlands.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Scotland duo have erased the memories of their second place exit from the World Cup last year. MvG looked good but Dirk van Duijvenbode not so much.\u00a0 The winner of this one will depend on how Henderson and Dirk van Duijvenbode play.\u00a0 MvG will perform.<\/p>\n<p>Only a fool would predict the final outcome (but, alas, one must).\u00a0 The format: 2-sinlgles, one double and reverse singles with the first to 4 the winner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Austria<\/strong> over #5 Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#1 England<\/strong> over #8 Germany.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#7 Australia<\/strong> over #2 Wales<\/p>\n<p><strong>#3 Netherlands<\/strong> over #6 Scotland<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Semis<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Austria<\/strong> over England<\/p>\n<p><strong>Netherlands<\/strong> over Australia<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Final<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Netherlands wins!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stay thirsty my friends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first time since 2016 that all seeds advanced to the round of 16… 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He goes back decades with the legends and knows where the skeletons are buried (just ask any of the ADO and WDF old-timers!).  Here are four well-known facts about the Old Dart Coach: 1) he is a Republican, 2) he loves the ladies, 3) he can drink most anybody under the table, and 4) he throws darts as bad as Dartoid."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6213,"href":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions\/6213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}