Quote Originally Posted by Mark TKO View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Fenster View Post
Over the past 3 years Waites has won the Grand Slam of Darts, which includes ALL the top PDC players, lost in a final to Taylor, BEAT Taylor in the round robin this year, and ended up losing to MVG who was averaging a ridiculous 105+ average over 30+ legs.

The overall standard of that BDO championship was shocking (not one player hit a 100+ average or even a 170 checkout, let alone a 9 darter) but Waites has already proven he can beat the big boys.
so why hasn't he moved across then ?

He probably needs players to push him more to raise his game now. O'Shea was 79 average at one point yesterday.

Strange isn't it. Taylor averaged 92 in his first round match at PDC and immediately a lot of people were writing him off
When they move across they have to first qualify for the main tour and then start every tournament in round 1. There's no guarantee you will get to play in the world championship let alone any other TV major.

Loads switch every year from the BDO to the PDC and loads end up back in the BDO (Bunting, Green, Eccles etc from this Lakeside comp). Look what happened to Ted Hankey this year (couldn't get near winning a floor tournament let alone qualify for TV).

If you play darts as a secondary profession, as guys like Waites do, and pick up £100,000 and qualify for £100,000 PDC tournaments, it can't be a simple decision to give that up to start again from scratch.