Spoilers for Friday October 14th 2011

[Thomas Carey]

This is what Nikki needs on Monday to get each seed:

Lose/less than 93 for seed 6
93+ for seed 5 (ahead of Dave Taylor)
107+ for seed 4 (ahead of Jayne Wisniewski)
110+ for seed 3 (ahead of Carl Williams)
215+ for seed 2 (ahead of Graeme Cole)
226+ for seed 1 (ahead of Mark Deeks)

The last two are pretty unrealistic, but seeds 5-3 are achievable, so we'll just have to wait.

Also - Mark, Graeme and Carl have qualified to the finals. If Nikki loses/get less than 107 on Monday Jayne will also qualify.

Good luck Nikki.

[Graeme Cole]

Not sure where to put this, as it doesn't really deserve its own thread, so I'll put it here.

"Interesting" fact: all the current top eight seeds faced at least one crucial conundrum in their heats. If this is still true come the finals, it'll be the first time this has happened since Series 46.