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Tim Pusey will produce it World Darts Championship debut on Alexandra Palace At the end of this year but it turns out that pdc has banned him due to the risqué nature of his nickname.
The 33-year-old qualified for the world championship He topped the Australian Darts Association Tour rankings in September, winning consecutive titles heading into the final weekend in Victoria.
However, his nickname of ‘The Magnet’ will no longer grace his shirt at Ally Pally after it was blocked by the PDC, which reserves the right to “prohibit offensive, obscene or inappropriate nicknames”. When ‘The Magnet’ is combined with his nickname Pussy, it is considered a pun that violates those standards.
talked to pussy tungsten tales Podcast and explained the situation with a laugh.
“I don’t have anything like that on my shirt,” he said. “I need to find a new nickname and maybe we should put it in a survey and get something.
“It’s hard because anything can be changed (laughs)… I don’t have anything at the moment and the mantras can be colourful!”
Given the propensity for rowdyness among the Ally Pally crowd, PDC owners have probably made a good call to ban the nickname. During a tournament in Wollongong earlier this year, the Australian was serenaded with the slogan: ‘Oh pussy we love you.’
This is not the first time that the PDC has prevented a player’s cheeky nickname from appearing on shirts at the World Championship. In 2023, current world number 80 Owen ‘The Master’ Bates arrived at Ely Pally and his tag was duly banned.
Incidentally, Bates has reached the World Championship for the second time after finishing third on the PDC Development Tour this year, so will return to North London.
This year’s edition has been the biggest event in darts Expanded to 128 players, Who will compete from 11 December to 3 January. The prize fund has also increased and the total amount now stands at £5 million, with the winner’s check doubled to £1 million.
And Pusey admitted the increased prize money would certainly come in handy when traveling through Australia for the tournament.
“Yeah, it definitely helps! I came so close in 2018, I missed the final and blew a few match darts, but we won’t talk about that,” he said.
“I’m stoked, it took a while to really set in, it’s kind of been on the back burner. It’s just about getting excited and preparing, before since the last event we haven’t had darts for three months, but now we’re playing every weekend and hopefully it’s all there to give in December.”