Stephen Bunting is obvious one of the best players out there and have seen him play in the PDC´s UK open, where he started of brilliant, but when he faced a even more brilliant Peter Wright in the later stages it was all over for him.
I used to watch the BDO very often, when Ritchie Burnett and Steve Beaton won and when the rise of Barney started (cause I am obvious Dutch) but say after Jelle Klaassens win and when a lot of Dutch BDO player made the step to the PDC, I went along and of course with the first Barney-Taylor WC final there I almost never looked back again. Except when I heard Kist was in the BDO final couple years back I watched again.
I am a very dedicated darts fan and have watched almost all tv tourneys on PDC last couple of years, after this years MVG win I have watched a couple of BDO games and besides that lakeside has one of the biggest traditions in darts the games I watched werent of great quality tbh.
I really love when it is the Grand Slam Of Darts when the better BDO players play against the PDC players, but think it would be better to just have one big dart family.
Prolly will take a look at the semis and final, cause often thats where the better BDO players will come (except for the Waites upset of course)