The 2026 Mr Vegas Grand Slam of Darts gets underway on Saturday, as Luke Littler begins his pursuit of a third consecutive title in Wolverhampton.The newly-expanded 48-player tournament will take place at WV Active Aldersley from 14-22 November, as the sport’s biggest names go head-to-head for the iconic Eric Bristow Trophy and £1m in prize money.Coverage starts at 1:00pm UK time on Sky Sports Main Event, with the evening session from 7:00pm UK time on Sky Sports +.All games in the group stage are the best of 9 legs (first to 5).>Today's games (1:00pm start)[15] Luke Woodhouse v Tom Sykes (J)[16] Jermaine Wattimena v Lisa Ashton (B)[9] Stephen Bunting v Raymond Smith (D)[13] Ryan Searle v Charlie Manby (F)[8] Josh Rock v Tommy Morris (C)[12] Wessel Nijman v Adam Sevada (H)[11] Nathan Aspinall v Maik Kuivenhoven (P)[5] Jonny Clayton v Anton Ostlund (G)>Tonight's games (7:00pm start)[4] Gerwyn Price v Joe Hunt (E)[7] James Wade v Cam Crabtree (K)[6] Ross Smith v Rusty-Jake Rodriguez (O)[10] Michael van Gerwen v Henry Coates (L)[2] Luke Humphries v Paolo Nebrida (I)[1] Luke Littler v Beau Greaves (A)[3] Gian van Veen v Carl Sneyd (M)[14] Chris Dobey v Jan Schmidt (N)>Tournament previewhttps://www.pdc.tv/news/2026/november/13/2026-mr-vegas-grand-slam-of-darts-preview/>Full groups and explanation of new group stage formathttps://www.pdc.tv/news/2026/november/09/littler-drawn-greaves-zonneveld-at-mr-vegas-grand-slam/
News from the past few weeks:>Players Championship Finals draw; Littler, Aspinall, Rock and Joyce the biggest names to miss Mineheadhttps://www.pdc.tv/news/2026/november/05/2026-ladbrokes-players-championship-finals-draw-confirmed/>Tommy Morris - Poole's thinner and balder version of Ricky Evans - becomes sixth non-Tour Card holder to win a ranking eventhttps://www.pdc.tv/news/2026/november/05/Morris-breaks-new-ground-with-Players-Championship-34-triumph/>Littler expected 'pub players' on Netflix show, not the likes of Fallon, Mitchell Lawrie, and other semi-professionalshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/darts/articles/ckpqrjnj3y0qo>Winmau replaces the notorious Blade X board a mere 10 months after introduction with the Blade 7Thttps://www.pdc.tv/news/2026/november/13/winmau-blade-7t-becomes-official-dartboard-of-the-pdc-stage/>Two-time major champion Dimitri Van den Bergh to lose his Tour Card after not entering the Belgium/Netherlands or Tour Card Holder qualifiershttps://www.nieuwsblad.be/sport/darts/dimitri-van-den-bergh-zal-profstatuut-verliezen-nadat-hij-afzegt-voor-wk-kwalificaties/164436365.html>WDF Worlds field, draw and schedule confirmed...https://dartswdf.com/news/2026-wdf-world-championships-fieldshttps://dartswdf.com/news/2026-wdf-lakeside-world-championship-drawshttps://dartswdf.com/news/2026-wdf-world-championships-playing-schedule...until both Jack Drayton (Development Tour) and Paul Krohne (PDC Europe Super League) qualified for Ally Pally. Oh, and Lakeside starts the same night as the Players Championship Finals. Good work, lads.
And here's the groups in picture form.It will work the exact same way as the World Cup of Darts Group Stage:>Today: Seed v Player 3>Tomorrow: Player 2 v Loser of Saturday match>Monday/Tuesday: Player 2 v Winner of Saturday matchAlso with only one player from each group progressing, there is no chance of a repeated match-up at any point.
good afternoon SearlesI bought myself some panini pdc shit and out of 13 packs that I opened I got completely Smithed
Time for the late year /180/ power hours, best time of the year!>Two-time major champion Dimitri Van den Bergh to lose his Tour Card after not entering the Belgium/Netherlands or Tour Card Holder qualifiersSad, but about time, he clearly is fucked and needs a full reset. If he still is drinking as heavy as people said he was, he needs to stop.Great news from the German Super League: Finally, FINALLY Krohne kino is on the Ally Pally menu, as Paul Krohne staged an unlikely comeback from 0-6 down in the final against sweaty youngster Jan Schmidt Lightning to win this years Super League in a last leg decider with 8-7, securing his spot at the worlds. I watched most of the games, and it was nice to see that there are plenty of young players around, and those two clearly were the best. Krohne was a menace throughout the tournament, going 9-1 in groups, surviving a poor showing against Dragutin Horvat in the quarters and raping Cube in the semis, while Jan Schmidt looked unplayable for most of the later stages, steamrolling the - until then - undefeated Marcel Hausotter 7-1 in the semis and going up 6-0 against Krohne, before running out of gas, and then clearly losing his head when Krohne suddenly started to get going. Schmidt will have another chance of securing his spot in the world youth final against Cam Crabtree at the end of the PCF tournament. If he loses, for reasons I once knew but have forgotten, Leon Weber will get a spot instead. I'd rather see Lightning, though I do not fancy him against Crabtree.Very happy with the outcome. I've been saying this since I saw Krohne fist play two or three years ago: He's talented, and he is the only German player who actually has swag. I don't want to overhype him, otherwise everybody might wonder what I was on to when he jobs out like a smug cunt, averaging 78, against international qualifier Rim Bounce Clang from Malaysia.Some more news from Super League to come... if I can solve those captchas...
Cube also was at Super League, looking pretty good, and was unfortunate to run into a red hot Krohne in the semis. With a little more luck he might have made the final, but it wasn't meant to be. He now is Daddy Cube, since he became a father at the beginning of the year, and he clearly is storing power in his body, fattening up again after losing weight to become Fitcube in the last few years.
Honorable mention to Lukas "Big Nut" Nussbaum. For some reason comms said he would run into problems with his nick in England. Well, he was in no danger of winning the tournament, so problems weren't.
>>158603431I followed the scores of that Super League final, absolutely incredible choke from Schmidt. Krohne hitting an 11-darter at 0-6 was serious balls.>If he loses, for reasons I once knew but have forgotten, Leon Weber will get a spot instead.Crabtree originally qualified through the Development Tour, and the World Youth Champion is the "highest ranked" International Qualifier (pic related). Therefore his Development Tour spot would go to the next in the Order of Merit which like you say is Leon Weber.There was a really funny scenario that would have come into play had Schmidt won last night: https://twitter.com/dartingupdates/status/2121369879643074712>Jan Schmidt wins the PDC Europe Super League Final against Krohne, qualifying for the World Championships>Paul Krohne goes to the WDF World Championship, where his opening match is on the 28th November>Jan Schmidt wins the PDC World Youth Championship Final against Crabtree, and takes that spot for the World Championship>The Super League spot is then passed down to Krohne as the runner-up, but he has already played at Lakeside>What happens here...?
Then there was this absolute unit, who didn't win much, but comms for some reason were constantly hyping him up. Imagine him playing Gaga on stage.
If you look close enough, you can see a certain German Pokemon enthusiast in the background.>>158603500Yeah, it was a great tournament, I vastly prefer those to for example PL evenings. In fact, I even prefer looking at Q-school boxscores to the PL. Schmidt looked like a man on a mission, until he crumbled. But even then, after losing 6 straight, he broke Krohne to regain a 7-6 lead, before immediatly getting broken back. And then there was the decider, where he looked the most miserable I have ever seen any player on a stage, after Krohne started with 140 and 180. It will be interesting to see how much time he needs to recover from this, that clearly was a huge mental blow.What was nice to see that absolutely everybody was very friendly with each other, despite the rivaly. Even players from different generations were all handshaking, hugging and giving props to their opponents when they were beaten. Even Krohne and Schmidt, who clearly are different characters, hugged each other before the decider.>What happens here...?Spot goes to the Lakeside winner, who will have no trouble winning the PDC worlds with that enormous trebles on those new Blade 7T.
>>158603424kek, looks like you got the "Shanghai flush" there, mate.
Afternoon lads, looking forward to a very comfy session
>>158603415Sky will desperately be hoping for some of the seeds to lose today because otherwise that Sunday line-up is looking dire.
Sorry but who the fuck is this
>>158603393>>Two-time major champion Dimitri Van den Bergh to lose his Tour Card after not entering the Belgium/Netherlands or Tour Card Holder qualifiersFinished at 32, insane.
>>158603741Jenna Brooks, who usually does rugby league for Sky Sports. I'd never heard of her either until I searched her name.
>>158603753He's just like me
please joe let me come to another pro tour joe up the iow boys joe
Hi
>>158603786Imagine this shit for the next two years
>Sykes has a German Wikipedia page but not an English one
>>158603789Alri Damo
>Woodhouse has the first matchYou could say we are having morning Wood today.
>>158603797From what I remember there's an extremely overzealous Wikipedia admin who has batshit insane rules on what qualifies for a valid Wikipedia darts page.
Cool Hands Luke Woodhouse
>>158603826It's the same with porn stars
>>158603794Uuuuup the Joe boy bit of badger and bread
>>158603797we're a bunch of autists. the amount of pornatars who have a page in German and Spanish but not in english should give an impression of how bad it is
Why is the number ring so tiny on this board
>shithouse
>>158603826Is this the insane Ke$ha fan who went on a spree of deleting darts wiki pages a few years ago?
>A fucking shed
>Woodlouselmao what a twat
>"best" Luke jobs to a random ginger kid
>>158603952Yes, utter lunatic
>>158603897the ring is standard sized. the entire field is bigger to cover the bigger trebles
>Netflix special 'Beat Luke Woodhouse' ends earlier than expected
>>158603966
>>158603966kek
For some reason I thought top 2 qualified from the groups. I think just because every change they’ve made for years is to protect the big boys at all moments.Suddenly a lot more hype for the group stages than I was half an hour ago
Who's got the bigger tits here
Don't think granny is getting out of this one
>>158604011Wattimena. Dude got to be the fattest cunt on tour.
Wattimena reminds me of Slurms MacKenzie
I wanna see a Wattimena spergout
>>158604037kek. I can absolutely see that
>>158604033That would be Ryan ‘so fat the stage creaks’ Joyce
>>158603973He had some interesting comments on Beat Luke Littler
>that visit from Ashtonlol
>>158604056You think he plays Tetris with the food he tries to fit into his stomach?
>women
She's just like me
>GashtonHoly fuck
on a different note I got myself a new board since Target Tor was on a 30% sale. Great board, way better than the koto one I had
Theres only one jermaine wattimena
Does Wattijobba even realize he could have been sent packing 5-0 already if he was playing somebody competent?
This is back to the glory days of women's darts, when they were throwing averages of 62 at 1pm on BBC 2.
>>158604114>then a 112 finishCan't wait for more of this at Lakey
Wattimena vs What a menopause
>Cunting v Ray Smith up nextC'mon GuruI remember years back when he had to beat Merv at the Worlds to win a Tour Card and knock Hopp off Tour, and Sport1 had the idea to have Hopp commentate on the match
What I enjoy about women in darts is everyone calling them equals and how capable they are and yet patronise the fuck out of them for even being able to hit the board
Should never have kicked the tranny out of darts, xhe'd have given Jermaine a game.
>>158604106Nice to see you dartcounterlad
Yes can't wait to see all the same Christmas ads for the next six weeks
>>158604155AIslop Beatles Amazon ad has big go-away heat with me, ngl
I am the worst darts player in this general
>People are calling you the Bogeyman of group DNo they fucking aren’t kek
Not sure if anyone saw the absolute chaos of the Polish Worlds qualifier yesterday:>285(!) players for one spot, tournament started 5:00pm Polish time>neither Polish Tour Card Holder who entered (Filip Bereza & Tytus Kanik) made it to the last 32>halfway through the tournament someone accidentally set off a fire alarm in the hotel>the final between Dawid Herberg and Radek Szaganski started at 2:30am (!!)>Herberg won 6-4 at 3:00am (!!!) to qualify for Ally Pally
>Macklemore walk-on songCan't believe Barry Hearn said "from the river to the sea" so explicitly.
>>158604162probably. I suck hard but I'm still better than you
>>158604200Makes it sound like he has no hope as well, can easily get through that group if Bunt/Menzies both lose their heads
>>158604148I just played a game against a pinoy and I got literally cheated kek>losing 2-1, in the deciding leg>he's got 88 to go>throws T20>then the game ends before he even throws a second dart
Feel for Ray Smith here, would have won the opening match in the other groups with this performance
Unlucky Rayberto Carlos
alri guys, gotta go can't watch the arrers anymore. Won't make it for the evening session either. Probably. Shitpost as hard as you can so know wassup just by reading the thread.
>Manby>>158604162Based.
Sheeesh these last few legs are not bussin fr fr
come on darting jesus
Manbaby very fortunate Blind Man decided to keep throwing at 20s on 166, probably should have lost the leg
Not gonna lie, this afternoon session is hard going. Great preparation for a month's time when we're all struggling through a Tuesday afternoon Nitin Kumar/Cor Dekker match.
>>158604552If he had a US fan club it could be the North American Manby Love Association
>>158604607We WILL be there for Connor Scutt v Anton Ostlund
>Boyby
Fucking based Searle
Based Searle! Also captcha-success rate slowly dropping below 0.5>>158604608kek>>158604607>struggling Already pumped only reading that, my boy Nitin got this, Dekkerfags fuck off.
Rock v Morris could be over in about 10-15 minutes; Ricky got whacked 6-0 by Morris in the final Players Championship of the year and the match lasted 9 minutes: https://recap.dartconnect.com/matches/6aec9c87abb72121edbe4277
This guy sounds like Tyson Fury
>scooter jumpstyle walkonYeah, this guy fucks
FUCK THE POPE AND THE IRA
Can’t believe they gave away Big Mens’ walkon :(
>>158604731>Overexcited lesser known player spergs out on his walkonShould be nicknamed Milhouse.
>34Feeling good about my hairline right now ngl
>prods
