The standard of the BDO players is nothing like as good as the PDC, but I would take the atmosphere at Frimley Green over that at Ally Pally every time. Ally Pally is basically a giant piss up taking place in a hangar, with 5,000 beer boys all singing football songs and ignoring the darts match taking place up the stage.
Can't blame them really. They're all shit faced and the action up on stage is a ¼ mile away for most of them, so they can't see it anyway. While at the Lakeside/Frimley Green, you can actually see people in the crowd watching the darts. Big difference.
Agree with this. Lakeside is a superb day out, and I'll go back one day...but I have no desire to go to Ally Pally. The chant of 'Stand up if love the darts' is cringe-worthy. It'd be like us on Saturday singing 'Ra-ra-ra-ra Football' or somesuch. Besides which it's the original. Love it.