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The Premier League 2013 will be played every Thursday from 7. February to 16. May in a new format and with more players:
Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis, James Wade, Michael van Gerwen, Simon Whitlock, Andy Hamilton,
Wes Newton, Raymond van Barneveld, Andy Hamilton and Robert Thornton.
Participants, Schedule, Results Tournament Information |
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19. March
Tommy Cox reacts to Dartoid's column:
A conversation with Tommy Cox 
Adam "Thorn" Smith on a cruise:
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane - Part 4 
Plans and Resolutions for the New Year:
The New Year |
| Interview with Paul Lim |
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Paul Lim is some kind of a "global" darts player and a "global legend" as well. Though almost 60 by now he still plays a lot of tournaments around the world.
To the Interview |
17. May
Today in in Düsseldorf the European Darts Open - the third event of the PDC European Tour 2013 - will begin.
The complete first round will be played in an afternoon and an evening session on two stages today.
Yesterday in Düsseldorf the European and the Host Nation Nationale Qualifier for the tournament took place. By the European Qualifier qualified among others Dutchmen Jerry Hendikrs and Bobby Biemans, Belgian Ronny Huybrechts and Austrian Mensur Suljovic. The four German Qualifiers are Max Hopp, Jyhan Artut, Tomas Seyler and Andree Welge. Those four will all play tonight on the main stage.
The tournament will be streamed live by the PDC.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
In a thrilling final Michael van Gerwen defeated reigning champion Phil Taylor with 10:8 and got his second
PDC Major Title. Van Gerwen had already been throughout the Premier League season the best and most consistent player.
In the last leg of the final he had to fear for the title - Taylor had a big chance to draw 9:9. But the young Dutch
threw a great 132 bullseye finish for the win.
Before the final two high-class but a little bit onesided semi-finals were played. Phil Taylor defeated Raymond van Barneveld with 8:4, Michael van Gerwen prevailed with the same result against James Wade.
Report Final and Semi-finals
Michael Smith won the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship title.
He defeated in a final he dominated Ricky Evans on the big stage of the O2 Arena in London 6:1.
Report
16. May
Tonight in the O2 Arena in London this years Premier League Play-Offs will be played.
In the semi-finals Michael van Gerwen and James Wade and Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld will meet.
The betting companies see Michael van Gerwen as favorit for the title.
After the semi-finals the final of the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship between Michael Smith and Ricky Evans take place. After that the Premier League final will be played.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Table
As in one of the Darts Performance Centre's blogs this week Dartoid's newest column is about numbers - better: one billion.
How much is it and how to illustrate a darts fan???
One Billion Darts
The Darts Performance Centre previews not only the Play-Off but the PDC Unicorn
World Youth Championship Final too which will be played tonight as well. And of course there are betting tips again...
Premier League Play-Offs
14. May
The PDC announced the schedule of the Prelimnary Round and the First and Second Round of the UK Open.
Robbie Green and James Wade will open the first day of the tournament with their Preliminary Round match on main stage.Other matches on main stage will include Ricky Sudale ahainst Richie Burnett and Phil Taylor against Kevin Dowling.
Schedule
In this blog about the Premier League 2013 the Darts Performance Centre has a look on statistics and
plays numbers games.
Dart's - It's a Numbers Game
13. May
The last UK Open Qualifier again was a day filled with a lot of good darts and a few surprises.
Now I am really looking forward to the UK Open!
UK Open Qualifier 8
Irina Armstrong and Kevin Münch won in Iserlohn the singles titles. Jana Wunderlich won the girls tournament, Manuel Topp the boys competition. The pairs titles were won by pairs
Westermann/Jenkins and Kröckel/Backes. The additional singles winners were Karsten Koch and Ivana Skaro.
At the weekend in Vääksy in Finland events three and four of the Scandinavian Pro Tour took place.
Finland's Jani Haavisto won the tournament on Saturday, by this replaced Denmark's Per Laursen as top of the SDC Order of Merit and qualified for the European Championship in Mülheim. Sunday's winner was Magnus Caris.
Scandinavian Circuit
On Saturday Ross Smith and Graham Hall got one win each. On Sunday the Dutch Benito van de Pas was the winner who on Saturday already had reached the final of the first event.
PDC Challenge Tour
10. May
Thanks to a draw against Phil Taylor James Wade secured himself the fourth play-off place and will now play next Thursday in the
semif-finals against top of the table Michael van Gerwen. In the second semi-final scond in the table, Raymond van Barneveld, and third of the table, Phil Taylor, will meet.
Before the last League Day of Premier League beside Wade both Simon Whitlock and Robert Thornton had the chance to get into the play-offs. But Robert Thornton lost against Raymond van Barneveld and against Michael van Gerwen and Simon Whitlock lost against van Barneveld and only managed a draw against Adrian Lewis - that was just not enough.
In the only match of the evening which had nothing to do with the play-off battle Adrian Lewis defeated Andy Hamilton mit 7:5, for Lewis a positive end of the season.
Results, Table
Report
The PDC now published the draw for the Preliminary Round and the First and Second Round of the UK Open. The draw for all other rounds will take place during the tournament.
For Phil Taylor the tournament will begin in second round against Kevin Dowling. The outstanding match of the first evening probably will be the clash between Robbie Green and James Wade in Preliminary Round.
Participants, Schedule, Draw
9. May
The 14. and last League Day of this year's Premier League will be played tonight in Newcastle.
With Michael van Gerwen, Raymond van Barneveld and reigning champion Phil Taylor three of the four Play-Off participants are already fixed. Fighting for the fourth play in the Play-Offs, which will take place next Thursday in the O2 Arena in London will be James Wade, Robert Thornton and Simon Whitlock. Whitlock and Thornton will as Raymond van Barneveld and Adrian Lewis stand twice at the oche while Wade has only one match but that against Phil Taylor.
So that it will stay a gripping evening thoughout the PDC has rescheduled the matches.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Table
8. May
On the last League Day of Premier League the topics are the battle for positions in the table and the fight for the last Play-Off
place. And it is discussed whether already qualified players will still have the desire to win their matches...
Premier League Week 14
Today the PDC published the schedule of the Austrian Darts Open.
In The afternioon and in the evening session two Host Nation Qualifiers will play on the main stage in Wiener Neustadt. The afternnoon session will be opened by the match between Kevin Painter and Terry Temple on the main stage. In the evening session the first match on the mainstage is the match between Gary Anderson and newcomer John Bowles - the match will be a repeat of a memorable clash during the last PDC World Championship.
All top players will play during the eveneing session on mainstage.
Participants, Schedule
7. May
As the last UK Open Qualifiers usually are especially thrilling, I travelled to Wigan to watch them "live".
To be sure it was worth it and I saw a lot of good darts not only from the well-known players!
UK Open Qualifier 7
PDC Rankings
PDC Pro Tour
6. May
Robert Thornton won the first Players Championship 2013 with a 6:0 whitewash over Ronny Huybrechts.
In the final Thornton had an imprssive 11 average. The till then convincing playing oder Huybrechts brother was just not
able to keep up. In the semi-finals stood Gary Anderson and Kim Huybrechts.
The second Players Championship on Sunday was won by Michael van Gerwen. He defeated in the final Stuart Kellett 6:1. The semi-finals reached Dennis Smith and Phil Taylor.
Participants, Results
Under the Qualifiers for the fourth event of the European Tour are Steve Beaton, Kevin McDine and Dennis Smith who is at the moment quite successfull on the
PDC Pro Tour. The UK Qualifier was played last Friday in Wigan.
As well at the weekend in Wigan the draw for the first round of the tournament took place which will be played end of May/beginning of June in Wiener Neustadt. The Host Nation Qualifier and the European Qualifier will take place on the day before the tournament begins in Wiener Neustadt. stattfinden.
Participants, Draw First Round
3. May
As last weekend the weekend again begins already tonight with the UK Qualifier for the fourth event of the European Tour, the Austrian Darts Open, which will be played end of May-beginning of June in Wiener Neustadt. 83 players registered.
Participants, Results
After the 13. League Day of Premier League three of the play-off places are taken. Michael van Gerwen, Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld
won their matches against Andy Hamilton, Robert Thornton and Adrian Lewis and secured their places in the top four.
James Wade lost both matches against Simon Whitlock and Andy Hamilton, but at the moment still is on fourth place of the table. Robert Thornton is only one point behind and Simon Whitlock two points - both will play two matches on the last league day and can bump James Wade who has only one match against Phil Taylor. Hamilton is after only one win out of his two matches yesterday out of the hunt.
Results, Table
Report Thirteenth League Day
2. May
After the frist round draw the PDC today published the detailed schedule of the first and second round.All host nation qualifiers will play their first round
matches on Friday during the evening session on the main stage. Raymond van Barneveld, Phil Taylor and World Champion Adrian Lewis
will play there as well during the first evening.
The tournament will be opened on Friday afternoon with the match between Dave Chisnall and Chris Aubrey on the main stage and the match between Wayne Jones and one of the European Qualifiers on the second stage.
The crowd this time for the first time can follow the matches on the second board live as well though only as many fans as the seize of the room allows.
Participants, Schedule First and Second Round
On the second last League Day Premier League comes to Liverpool.
Five matches are on the schedule, James Wade and Andy Hamilton both have to play two matches. For Hamilton it is the last chance to progress into the play-offs. But his two opponents are Michael van Gerwen and James Wade. Wade will try to assert his fourth place in the league table - beside Hamilton he'll play Simon Whitlock, who's bound and determined to reach the play-offs. Wade's direct chaser Robert Thornton will play Phil Taylor. Third of the table Raymond van Barneveld will meet last of the table Adrian Lewis.
Schedule, Results, Table
Last week Paul Gillings couldn't follow Premier League live. But he found out that match analysis
is much easier when you know the outcome ...
Premier League Week 13
1. May
After the Pro Tour weekend and with all Speedy Hire Qualifiers played all participants of this years UK Open are known.The
tournament will be played from 6. - 9. June in Bolton.
Due to the big number of participants in the qualifiers it was especially hard this year to qualify for the tournament. Thus even Phil Taylor will enter the tournament already in second round because he didn't manage to play himself under the Top 32 of UK Open Order of Merit. James Wade is one of the top players who enters the tournament in first round. Dennis Ovens who still suffers under should problems in his throwing arm didn't manage to qualify at all.
Participants, Schedule
In Wigan the draw for the European Darts Open took place, which will be played from 17. - 19. May in Düsseldorf.
Both the host nation qualifier and the European qualifier will played on 16. May.
Participants, Draw first round
Deta Hedman won both the Polish Open and the on the following day played Polish Masters, her opponents in the finals were Donna Rainsley from England
and Irina Armstrong from Germany.
Paul Jennings won the Polish Open and Darryl Fitton the Polish Masters against their Dutch opponents Jeffrey de Graaf and
Jan Dekker.
Joshua McCarthy from England won both boy's titles, while the Russians Anastasia Klockek and Lidia Koltsova were the winners of the girl's tournaments.
Winner of the New Zealand North Island Masters were Jonathan Slicock and Pilly Luke.
At the weekend the first tournament of the World E-Darts tournament series was played in Hong Kong.
Winner was Ronald Briones from the Philippines who defeated in the final Japanese Takehiro Suzuki. Anmerican Scott Kirchner and Paul Lim's son Harith Lim stood in the semi-finals.
Tournament Information
Kim Huybrechts was the winner of the 7. UK Open Qualifier, which was played last weekend in Wigan. Huybrechts defeated in the final Canadian John Part with
6:3. For Huybrechts it was his first Pro Tour title. The semi-finals reached Ross Smith and Gary Anderson.
The last qualifier for the UK Open which will take place in June again was won by Michael van Gerwen. He defeated in the final a slightly tired looking Mervyn King 6:0. For van Gerwen it was already his fifth Pro Tour win this year. The semifinalists on Sunday were Adrian Lewis and the Scottish newcomer Jason Hogg.
Participants, Results
The Pro Tour weekend in Wigan started with the UK Qualifier for the third tournament of the European Tour, which will be played in May in Düsseldorf. Two
nine-darters were thrown and both players, Prakash Jiwa and Adam Hun,t managed to qualify for the
European Darts Open. Among the 20 UK Qualifiers is former World Champion Steve Beaton.
Participants, Results
27. April
The weekend already starts tonight with the qualifier for the 3. tournament of the European Tour, the European Darts Open in Düsseldorf.
Participants, Results
Birthday boy Michael van Gerwen didn't get a present from Simon Whitlock - the Australian defeated him 7:5. In his second match Whitlock played Phil Taylor
and was defeated 7:4. Taylor won his second match of the evening as well with 7:2 against Adrian Lewis. Taylor now sits behind Michael van Gerwen on the
second place of the table followed by Raymond van Barneveld with 17 points as well but the better leg difference. The Dutchman
celebrated a clear 7:2 win over James Wade which brought him two more points.
Like Taylor Robert Thornton won twice in Birmingham - he defeated Andy Hamilton and Adrian Lewis.
Report 12. League Day
For some time already the Darts Performance Centre searched for a player to sponsor. As was published yesterday
now he was found: John "The Bulldog" Bowles.
Premise of course was that the player is open for the ideas of the Darts Performance Centres.
Among the participants are a lot of players from Asia players from the UK , the USA, Canada, Australia and several European Countries among those Boris Krcmar and Kurt van de Riijk, who are known from PDC tournaments.
The tournament again will be televised live: Live Stream
Tournament Information
25. April
For the twelfth League Day Premier Legaue today travels to Birmingham. Again six matches will be played and
four of the players have to play two matches each: Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis,
Simon Whitlock and Robert Thornton. Michael von Gerwen, who celebrates his birthday today - as does Eric Bristow by the way -, Raymond van Barneveld and
James Wade, who at the moment together with Phil Taylor sit on the play-off places all have only one match. Andy Hamilton - at the moment on sixth place in the table - has only one match as well.
He will play against Robert Thornton.
Schedule, Results, Table
Yesterday in Alexandra Palace in London the last of four Speedy Hire Qualifiers took place. Austrian
Maik Langendorf caused a small sensation - he is among the eight players who managed to qualify for the tournament.
UK Open
24. April
In the preview this week once again the problem "two matches on the same evening" is addressed. Beside we get an answer to the question how many points
will be needed to get into the play-offs and of course we again find some tips...
Premier League Week 12
23. April
On Monday in Wolverhampton the third Speedy Hire Qualifier for the UK Open took place. Among the eight players who
managed to qualify is BDO Top player Robbie Green.
The former BDO World Champion Keith Deller took part as well but failed to qualify.
UK Open
Adam "Thorn" Smith still is on St. Thomas. He even manahes it ro get to the best known Dart Bar of the island but he's not enough time to even throw a single dart!
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane - Part 7
The BDO accepted Martin Firtmaurice' resignation who was desposed from all BDO Office. Richard Ashdown - known as "Little Richard" - was appointed as successor and is now the official MC and caller of the BDO.
22. April
Both last year's singles winners - Geert de Vos and Deta Hedman - defended this year their German Open titles. Beside Deta Hedman together with Trina Gulliver for the fourth
time won the ladies pairs. They defeated in the final German pair Heike Jenkins/Marlene Westerman - the best placement for German players
in the tournament. Best men's pair were the Dutch Wesley Harms and Jeffrey de Graaf.
Winners of the Youth tournaments were Dutchman Jeffrey de Zwaan and Casey Gallagher from England. Both additional tournaments on Saturday were won by players from Bochum - Robin Tuchel and Kevin Münch.
Bull's German Open
At the weekend three more tournaments of the PDC Challenge Tour were played in Wigan. On Saturday Adam Hunt was the outstanding player - he won
the first tournament and reached the semi-finals of the second. which was won by Welshman Jamie Lewis. Winner of Sunday's tournament was Ross Smith.
PDC Challenge Tour
19. April
Schedule and Results you can find here: 25. Bull's German Open
Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen were the big winners of the 11. League Day of Premier League. While van Gerwen as last week with wins against Raymond
van Barneveld and Adrian Lewis got four points and heads the table with 20 points, Phil Taylor is after a win against
Andy Hamilton and a draw against Raymond van Barneveld back on a Play-Off place.
Other winners of the evening were James Wade - against Robert Thornton - and Simon Whitlock - against Andy Hamilton. James Wade is on the second place of the table, Simon Whitlock still fights for a place in the play-offs.
Report eleventh league day
18. April
Tonight in Dublin the 11. League Day of Premier League will be played and four of the players have to play two matches.
Among those is Phil Taylor who still has to fight for a place in the play-offs. Taylor will meet in the first match of the evening
Andy Hamilton and later clash with Raymond van Barneveld who in his first match before will play against Michael van Gerwen. Van Gerwen
has to play for the second time two matches - he'll play Adrian Lewis as well. Andy Hamilton in his second match meets Simon Whitlock.
In the other match of the evening Robert Thornton and James Wade will meet.
Schedule, Results, Table
Yesterday in Manchester the second Speedy Hire Qualifier for the UK Open in Bolton took place and another eight players qualified
for the tournament.
Most prominent qualifier is BDO player Stephen Bunting, Anastasia Dobromyslova's husband Tony Martin qualified as well while the BDO World Champion herself didn't manage.
UK Open
As the PDC announced for the next European Tour Event - the European Darts Open - all Top 32 of the
Pro Tour Order of Merit registered including Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld.
The European Darts Open will be played from 17. - 19. May in Düsseldorf. On 26. April the UK Qualifier will take place, on 16. May the European Qualifier and the Host Nation Qualifier. Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
17. April
On the 11. League Day four players will have to play twice. Last week Michael van Gerwen showed that it is possible
to win both matches...
Premier League Week 11
Martin Fitzmaurice - longtime caller and MC of the BDO - has resigned. Fitzmaurice already many a time came under fire
because of his racial slur and after his racial comments during the BDO British Internationals again hit the headlines.
As a result 73 year old Fitzmaurice who for many years left his imprint on the BDO World Championship draw the consequences.
Whether the BDO will take any further actions is not yet known.
Martin Fitzmaurice
16. April
In his new blog why we t hear from him for such a long time and why he had not really much time to play darts last year.
The good news: 2013 he'll change both!
Musings: Life On The Road and New Technique
Yesterday in Glasgow the first of four Speedy Hire qualifiers for the UK Open was played. Till 24. April three more will follow
- each a chance for eight more players to qualify. Among yesterday's qualifiers were BDO players
Gary Stone and Andy Boulton.
UK Open
15. April
Simon Whitlock won the fifth UK Open qualifier on Saturday in Wigan. He defeated in the final Michael van Gerwen 6:1. In the semi-finals stood
Gary Anderson and Peter Wright.
On Sunday Michael van Gerwen for the fourth time this season won an UK Open qualifier - he prevailed 6:5 against Kim Huybrechts. The semi-finals reached Michael Smith and John Bowles.
Participants, Results
PDC Rankings
12. April
Michael van Gerwen was the big winner of the 10. Premier League Day - he defeated both reigning champion Phil Taylor and in the last match of the evening James Wade.
With 16 points he's top of the table.
James Wade in his first macth of the evening had defeated Adrian Lewis who's now bottom of the table as Simon Whitlock got two points with a win over Robdert Thornton. Raymond van Barneveld won a difficult match against Andy Hamilton and is behind James Wade and as Wade with 14 points on place three in the table. After his defeat Phil Taylor still is not under the top four.
Report Tenth League Day
11. April
Tonight the Premier League will go on in Sheffield with eight players and five matches. James Wade and Michael van Gerwen both have to play
two matches and will meet in the last match of the evening. Wade will before play against Adrian Lewis while van Gerwen will play against Phil Taylor who
is this year far less dominant in Premier League as in the years before and sits on fifth place in the league table. Despite
another defeat last week Lewis managed to avoid relegation as all other might be eliminated players lost their matches as well. Simon Whitlock - one of those
too - will play against strong Robert Thornton tonight and Raymond van Barneveld will play against Andy Hamilton.
Schedule, Results, Table
James Wade plays a strong Premier League this year.
Unicorn's Uniboffin examins him in a technique spotlight.
Marshal Wade
The youth titles were won by players from Denmark: Daniel Tyge Thybol and Sofie Jahn Bendorff.
10. April Premier League will now go on with another format
toward the Play-Offs. But the blog looks back to last week as well especially to Wes Newton's problems.
Premier League Week 10
Paul Lim is some kind of a "global" darts player and a "global legend" as well. Though almost 60 by now he still plays a lot of tournaments around the world. We could watch him during the PDC World Championship 2013 and last weekend during the superdarts 2013 where he stood in the semi-finals.
To the Interview
9. April
A member of the Darts Performance Centres tries to find out which would be his ideal flight/stem combination. Here he tells us
about his experience with different flights:
Flights Experiment
At the weekend the second tournament weekend of Bull's Super League Darts Germany was played. Beside Bull's Super League Darts Eastern started into the first season.
Updated ranking of Ranking BSLD Germany:
BSLD Germany
Informations BSDL Eastern:
BSLD Eastern
Added were:Sharon Prins, Mohd Latif Sapup, Wayne Warren, Dave Prins, Gary Stone and James Wilson.
8. April
The Super-Darts tournament 2013 was won by American Scott Kirchner who defeated his fellow country man Benjamin Dersch
in the final. Paul Lim and Lourence Ilagan reached the semi-finals.
Colin Lloyd lost his first match, Mark Wbester was defeated in a close quarterfinal by Benjamin Dersch.
Winner of the New World Darts Series tournament in Las Vegas was Darin Young.
Both the English ladies team and the English men's team were the winners of the British Internationals.
The PDC now announced the schedule for the remaining Premier League Days.
On League Days 11, 12 and 14 six matches each will be played and on League Days 10 and 13 fife matches each.
Schedule
5. April
This weekend a lot of darts can be followed!
Tonight in Scotland the British Internationals begin in which teams from England, Scotland and Wales will play. The tournament will be streamed live:Live Stream.
On Saturday and Sunday the second weekend of the Bulls Super League Germany will take place in Rodgau without stream but with some kind of a live ticker on the PDC Europe homepage: Live Ticker.
Today as well in Las Vegas the second tournament of the Las Vegas New World Darts Series will begin - the main event on Sunday is part of the PDC North American Championship Tour 2013 and more than 140 players will take part among those John Part. It could be there'll be a live stream.
On Sunday in Hong Kong the Superdarts 2013 will take place - a tournament to which 16 players were invited by Dartslive, players from France, Spain, Japan, Hong Kong, the USA and England - Colin Lloyd and Mark Webster,both probably not really experienced soft-dart players. The tournament will be streamed live. More information: Super Darts 2013.
All four players involved in the battle against relegation yesterday lost their matches. So nothing changed in the table and Gary
Anderson and Wes Newton as bottom of the table were elimated from the tournament while Adrian Lewis and Simon Whitlock survived.
The only match not involved in relegation was won by Robert Thornton who defeated Phil Taylor 7:4 and now sits on fourth place in the table before Phil Taylor.Head of the table are Michael van Gerwen, Raymond van Barneveld and James Wade all with 12 points.
Next week Premier League will go on with eight players and six matches.
Report Ninth League Day
4. April
Focus and Flow
Tonight Premier League travels for the ninth league day to Brighton.
Of course the battle against relegation will be in the centre of attention. Today it will be decided who are the two players eliminated from the tournament At the moment Gary Anderson and Wes Newton are on the last two places of the table but Simon Whitlock is not really far away and even Adrian Lewis' seven points might be not enough to stay in the league.
All other players will try to get into a good position for the play-offs.
Results, Table
3. April
Though no longer directly in the catchment area of the hurricane it still forces changes in the course. But the passengers decide to enjoy themselves nevertheless.
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane - Part 6
In the centre of the preview on the ninth Premier League Day of course is the battle against relegation. But the Play-Offs are not
far either and so none of the matches of the night will be "unimportant"...
Premier League Week 9
Beside we've got the first European Order of Merit for this year.
PDC Rankings
2. April
With a close 6:5 win against Paul Nicholson Wes Newton got the till now biggest win of his career.
The final was a tight battle in which none of the players could to really get a crucial advantage - even the last leg was head to head throughout. Both players missed matchdarts but Newton returned to the oche first and kept his nerve to hit the double.
In the semi-finals Newton had defeated Mensur Suljovic, Paul Nicholson eliminated Michael van Gerwen from the tournament. The third round and the quarterfinals were played yesterday as well.
Results
Report Third Round
Report Quarterfinals - Final
31. March
Paul Nicholson was one of the players of the evening session who thanks to a comeback reached the third round of the tournament. Nicholson already was 1:5 behind against
Colin Loyd but then won the last five legs of the match for a 6:5 win. Exactly the same managed Jamie Robinson against Brendan Dolan - he was 1:5 behind as well and then won five legs in a
row to to progress to the third round.
Michael van Gerwen, Dean Winstanley, John Part, Justin Pipe, Wes Newton and Nick Fulwell won through into the next round as well which will be played tomorrow afternoon.
The last German player in the tournament - Max Hopp - was defeated 3:6 by Dean Winstanley.
Results, Schedule third round
Most impressive player of the evening session was John Part who defeated Vincent van der Voort 6:1 and had an average of over 108. He will now play
in the second round on Sunday evening against Robert Thornton. The World number 3 Michael van Gerwen had no problems at all in his first round encounter with
European qualifier Leo Hendriks and progressed with a 6:1 win to the second round where he'll meet Darren Webster.
Beside Max Hopp who defeated Croatian Dragutin Horvath 6:1 ausschaltete all German participants were eliminated during the evening. Max Hopp will play against Dean Winstanley in round two.
30. March
The afternoon session of the first day didn't bring many surprising results only Richie Butnett and Steve Beaton were already elimated from the tournament
by UK Qualifiers.
None of the German players played in the afternoon session. From the European qualifiers who had to play in the afternoon only Austrian Mensur Suljovic survived the first round.
Results
Today in Sindelfingen the European Darts Trophy begins with the matches of the first round in an afternoon - and an evening
session.
Both times matches are played on a main stage and a second stage. The tournament will not be televised nor streamed on the internet.
But one can follow the matches via Live Scores on the PDC homepage: Live Scores.
Participants, Schedule
By the Home Nation Qualifier Michael Kiebel, Tomas Seyler, Max Hopp, Mario Gaisbauer and Jyhan Artut qualified for the tournament. Among the Qualfiern were beside others Mensur Suljovic, Co SDtompe and Ronny Huybrechts.
29. March
The two places will be filled with a European Qualifier and a Home Nation Qualifier. Both qualifiers will be played tonight in Sindelfingen.
Updated Schedule, Participants
After the eighth league day of Premier League fight against relegation is still not decided. Wes
Newton defeated Gary Anderson whose double trouble develops slowly into a nightmare and switched places with him. Both now sit with 5 points each on the
relegation places. Adrian Lewis won against Andy Hamilton, has got now 7 points and sits on place seven but still can't be sure he's safe.
Simon Whitlock lost 1:7 to a sensationally playing Robert Thornton and is eighth of the table with just 6 points - that could be not enough to avoid relegation.
There are four players with 10 points each now at the top of the table. Phil Taylor deafeated Raymond van Barneveld and is on first place. Michael van Gerwen lost to James Wade and is now second while James Wade is third and Raymond van Barneveld is fourth.
Report
28. March
And yet again a preview of the eight league day of Premier League...
But its a preview without predictions - who really can predict anything when Premier League comes to Glasgow?
Premier League Week 8
Tonight Premier League comes to Glasgow.
Only two league days till relegation. One of the players on a relegation place at the moment is Scotsman Gary Anderson. To be sure he'll have the crowd behind him in Glasgow - he will play last of the table Wes Newton. The second Scottish player - Robert Thornton - will meet the till now not convincing Simon Whitlock. Adrian Lewis - still not far away from relegation - will play Andy Hamilton. Head of the table Michael van Gerwen will stand with James Wade at the oche. And then of course we'll have once again the always interesting clash bewtween Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld. at the oche.
Results, Table
27. March
Instead of a preview to tomorrow's Premier League we this time hear in the Darts Performance Centre Blog about a cooperation to
support young players and to help them up the darts career ladder.
The Youth of Today!
A few more players were added to the Who is Who - now I am hopefully finished soon...
Paul Lim, Robert Marijanovic, Nam Leung Chun und Charl Pieterson.
Beside after the Challenge Tour Weekend we've got the first PDC Challenge Tour Order of Merit 2013.
PDC Rankings
25. March
On Sunday the third event of the Challenge Tour was the closure of the youth tournament weekend.
Winner was the 19 years old Welshman Kurt Parry, who for the first time won a PDC Youth Event. Parry who had thrown druing the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship on Friday a nine-darter defeated Daniel Day in the final who stood in both events on Saturday in the semi-finals.
Challenge Tour
On Saturday the first two Challenge Tour events were played and under the participants were the international youth players who had come to Barnsley to take part in
the World Youth Championship. Saturdays events were dominant be the young Austrian Rowby John Rodriguez who won the first event and
only just lost the final of the second tournament to Josh Payne.
In the final of the PDC Unicorn World Youth Champiuonship 2013 Ricky Evans and Michael Smith will stand at the oche.
The World Youth Championship was played last Friday in Barnsley with 64 participants. The final between Evans and Smith - who defeated in the semifinals Arron Monk and Adam Hunt - will take palce on 16. May during the Premier League Play-Offs in the O2 Arena in London.
Both Michael Smith als auch Kurt Parry threw a nine-darter druing the tournament. Reigning Champion James Hubbard was already elimated first round by Matthew Dicken.
Participants, Results
22. March
Some more players were added:Richie George, Daryl Gurney, Jani Haavisto, Max Hopp, Dave Harrington und Jarkko Komula.
Phil Taylor was one of the winners of the seventh Premier League Day. After losing the last two league days he yesterday
could celebrate a 7:2 win over Wes Newton and now is on place three of the league table.
Even clearer was Michael van Gerwen's win - he defeated Gary Anderson 7:1 and moved due to the leg difference up to the first place before his fellow country man Raymond van Barneveld. Van Barnveld got in the last match of the evening a draw against James Wade.Wade now sits on place four of the table.
Adrian Lewis managed with his second win of the season against Robert Thornton to move a little bit clear of the bottom of the table, while Wes Newton and Gary Anderson are now on the relegation places. But Lewis and Anderson both have five points. Andy Hamilton won his match against Simon Whitlock.
Premier League 2013 - Seventh League Day, Cardiff
21. March
Today Premier League travels for the seventh league day to Cardiff.
The two players on the relegation places have difficult matches: Wes Newton plays against Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis will play Robert Thornton who won a Pro Tour Event at the weekend. The two players on top of the table, Raymond van Barneveld und Michael van Gerwen, will play against James Wade and Gary Anderson. In the first match of the evening Andy Hamilton and Simon Whitlock will stand at the oche.
Schedule, Results, Table
The PDC now announced the detailed schedule of the European Darts Trophy.
All German participants who will not be known till after the Qualifier on 29. March will play their first round matches on Saturday evening on the Main Stage.
Participants, Schedule
20. March
The last league day left some marks - both with the crowd and with the players...
Premier League 2013 - Seventh League Day, Cardiff
Tournament Calendar
19. March
Adam "Thorn" Smith cruise still follows the hurricane. Everywhere where the passengers go ashore the can see the damage. But luckily it's not as bad as they feared...
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane - Part 5
Stephen Bunting and Deta Hedmann are the winners of this year's Mariflex Open. Stephen Bunting defeated in the men's final Belgian Geert de Vos mit 3:0, Deta Hedmann
won 2:1 against fellow country woman Rachel Brooks.
The Youth's titles got Casey Gallagher and Coline Roelofs.
Deta Hedman together with Fallon Sherrock won the Ladies Pairs and together with Robbie Green the Mixed Pairs as well. The Men's Pairs were won by the Dutch double Wesley Harms/Jeffrey de Graaf.
18. March
The Tour this year will consist of eight NACT tournaments, last year it had been only three. Beside two tournaments of the New World Darts Series will count for the North American Order of Merit as well. So this year dartplayers from North America can play much more events to qualify for the PDC World Championship. Price money for the tournament winners is slighlty higher this year.
PDC North American Championship Tour
At the weekend in Karlsruhe a DDV ranking tournament was played. Winner of the men's singles was Kevin Münch. Ladies singles were won by
Anne-Marie Scherer. Lisa Dern won the girl's singles and Henrik Dane the boy's tournament. On Sunday additional singles and the doubles tournaments were played.
Ladies pairs were won by Jenkins/Westermann, men's pairs by Rice/Kunze. The additional singles winners were Stefanie Luck and Alexander Tauber.
Michael van Gerwen was the winner of the third UK Open Qualifier as well. He defeated in the final Michael Smith.
The semi-finals reached Robert Thornton and Peter Wright. During the tournament both Gary Anderson and
Andy Hamilton - who celebrated his birthday on the day - a nine-darter.
The fourth qualifier was won by Robert Thornton who defeated Jamie Caven in the final. Robert Thornton won in the semi-finals against Saturday's winner Michael van Gerwen and Jamie Caven prevailed against Gary Anderson.
Participants, Results
After the UK Qualifier for the second European Tour event 2013 on Friday the draw for the first round took place.
Among the players who qualified is the winner of the first event John Part.
The European Qualifier and the Home Nation Qualifier will be played on the Friday before the tournament in Sindelfingen.
Participants, Schedule, Draw first round
15. March
The Pro Tour weekend already starts tonight with the UK Qualifier for the second European Tour event which will be played in Sindelfingen at Easter.
Participants, Results
After Andy Hamilton had defeated Phil Taylor already last weekend during the UK Masters he yesterday could celebrate another clear win over the reigning
Premier League Champion who couldn't convince.
First of the table Raymond van Barneveld got a draw against a once again strong playing Robert Thornton. Gary Anderson and Adrian Lewis played 6:6 as well while Simon Whitlock and Michael van Gerwen both won two more points each.
Wes Newton and Adrian Lewis still sit on the relegation places at the end of the table. Simon Whitlock switched with Gary Anderson and now sits on place seven. Raymond van Barneveld still heads the league table followed by Michael van Gerwen. At the moment Phil Taylor wouldn't be in the play-offs.
As last week Sammi Marsh and Daniella Allfree were the walk-on girls of the evening.
Report Sixth League Day
Participants, Schedule, Results, Table
14. März
Today Premier League travels to Manchester, the Manchester Arena is not sold out.
With each league day relegation comes closer and the pressure on the players at the end of the league table - at the moment Adrian Lewis and Wes Newton - grows. Adrian Lewis today will play G Robert Thorntonary Anderson who defeated Phil Taylor last week. Wes Newton will play Michael van Gerwen who as Phil Taylor last week for the first time lost a match.
Phil Taylor will play Andy Hamilton who eliminated him last weekend from the UK Masters, Top of the table Raymond van Barnveld meets and Simon Whitlock, who managed last week to break away from the end of the table, plays against James Wade.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Table
13. March
That is the title of Patrick Chaplin's newest book which was published end of last year.
I didn't count whether it really were 180 facts but enjoyed reading the entertaining and informative book.
180! Fascinating Darts Facts
The preview of the sixth league day of Premier League among others takes up the discussion how many points will be
necessary to avoid relegation...
Premier League 2013 - Sixth League Day, Manchester
12. March
Winner of the 23. Isle of Man Open, which was played last weekend, were Stephen Bunting and Anastasia Dobromyslova. Under the participants was Andy Fordham, who tries a comeback.
He after all reached the board final.
Winner of the Greater Vancouver Open in Canada were Dion Laviolette andd Mandy Fleck. For Laviolette it was the second successive win. On the weekend befoire he was the winner of the Halifax Open. There the women's tournament was won by Cindy Hayhurst.
The Australian West Coast Classic were won by Shane O'Connor and Lorraine Burn.
The Trakai Castle Cup in Lithunia was won by Arunas Ciplys and Vilma Armaliene.
By now the field of participants for the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship is complete.
The last player to qualify was Austrian Rowby John Rodriguez.
The Youth World Championship will take place on 22. March in Barnsley, 64 young players will take part. It will be played down to the final. The final then will be played during the Premier League Play Offs on 16. May on the stage of the O2 Arena in London and it will be televised.
Participants
The PDC now announced the seeded players for the second event of the European Tour - the European Darts Trophy. As out of the Top 32 of the Pro Tour Order of Merit
five players will not take part - Phil Taylor, Raymond van Barneveld,
Adrian Lewis, Gary Anderson and Wayne Jones - for them Arron Monk, Joe Cullen, Dean Winstanley, Darren Webster
and Scott Rand moved up.
For the participation in the European Darts Trophy in Sindelfingen over Easter the Pro Tour Order of Merit standings from 5. March are liable, John Part and Stuart Kellett have to qualifiy by the UK Qualifier which will be played on 15. March in Wigan.
Participants, Schedule
John Part now tops the Pro Tour Order of Merit and moved up in the Order of Merit to place 21. Stuart Kellett moved up from rank 63 to rank 53 in the Order of Merit and is third in the Pro Tour Order of Merit. James Wade and Michael van Gerwen again switched places in the Order of Merit - Wade is again Nr.3 of the world.
PDC Rankings
11. March
Three times Canadian World Champion John Part for the first time for over 18 months won a PDC ranking title. On his way to the final he defeated
Kim Huybrechts, Gary Anderson, Mensur Suljovic, Simon Whitlock and Adrian Lewis.
In the final he met Stuart Kellett, who for the first time reached a PDC final and beat him 6:4. Kellett won in the semi-finals against Andy Hamilton wo had eliminated the round before Phil Taylor from the tournament
Report Third Round
Report Quarterfinals to Final
Participants, Schedule, Results
10. March
On the second day of the UK Masters the second round was played in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
From the players taking part in this year's Premier League only Wes Newton and Gary Anderson were elimanated from the tournament. Wes Newton lost to Mark Webster, Gary Anderson to John Part. The other eight Premier League players progressed into third round. Other players reaching the third round were Richie Burnett, Mensur Suljovic, Arron Monk, Stuart Kellett, Ronnie Baxter, who had the highest average of the day with over 112, and Dave Chisnall.
Report
Participants, Schedule, Results
9. March
In the afternoon session on the first day of the UK Masters a lot of seeded players were already elimated from the tournament while ind the
evening with the exeption of Steve Beaton all seeded players progressed among those all Premier League
players. Adrian Lewis had the toughest game and only won just so 6:5 against Dave Honey.
The highest average of the day had Scotsman Robert Thornton with 106 in his 6:0 over fellow country man John Henderson.
Report
Participants, Schedule, Results
8. March
This weekend in Minehead in England the first tournament of the European Tour 2013 will be played - the UK Masters.
It is the first tournament of the European Tour which takes place in England. As the other tournaments of the tournament series it will neither be televised nor streamed.
This afternoon the tournament will be opened by the match between Vincent van der Voort and Tony West on the main stage. All Premier League players will play tonight in the evening session.
The fifth League Day in Nottingham whirled the league table all over the place.
Raymond van Barneveld after his 7:5 over Andy Hamilton with now four wins heads the table followed by James Wade who celebrated a convincing 7:1 win against Robert Thornton.
Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen both conceded their first defeats of the season der Saison just against the till now out of form Gary Anderson and Adrian Lewis. For Lewis it were the first two points on his account.
In the "relegation match" between Wes Newton and Simoin Whitlock first Newton dominated but Whitlock managed to turn the match around and win it 7:5. With four points he now sits on place eight of the table.
Report fifth League Day
7. March
On the fifth League Day Premier League arrives in Nottingham.
Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen who are head of the table are the clear favourites in their matches against Gary Anderson and Adrian Lewis. Neither Anderson nor Lewis is in form at the moment.
The other three matches of the evening are more difficult to predict. The clash between Robert Thornton, fourth of the league tabel, and James Wade who's one place behind, could be interesting. Might be the relegation match between Wes Newton and Simon Whitlock will develop into a thrilling nmatch too.
Table, Schedule, Results
In the preview for the fifth league day of Premier League we again hear about Adrian Lewis' darting woes and get a might be answer
why Phil Taylor thinks he could even get better using his new darts.
Premier League 2013 - Fifth League Day, Nottingham
5. March
From the point of view of a person affected, who managed to heal himself, ideas are offered how come to grips with the problem and to get rid of it.
Dartitis can be cured!
All participants in the Bull's Super League Darts Eastern are known. At the weekend several qualifiers were played to fill the last seven places.
Qualified are Rowby John Rodriguez, his brother Roxy James and Zoran Lerchbacher from Austria,
Nagy Csaba, Zolton Daranyi and Janos Vegso from Hungary and Boris Krcmar from Croatia.
Bull's Super League Darts Eastern
Rankings WDF/BDO
Ranking DDV
4. March
To be sure Tommy Cox and the PDC were not really happy with Dartoid's last column, so Tommy Cox rang him up...
A conversation with Tommy Cox
29. February
Robert Thornton was the clear winner of the all Scottish battle and Gary Anderson is now on the penultimate place of the league table .
As dominant as Thornton was Michael van Gerwen in his match against Andy Hamilton
whereas Phil Taylor found James Wade an equal opponent - both players averaged over 100 and the match ended in a 6:6 draw.
In the relegation match Wes Newton had the edge over Adrian Lewis and got a 7:3 win which let him ascend to place 7 in the table. In the last match of the evening Raymond van Barneveld and Simon Whitlock only played an equal match for a short time. In the end the Dutchman was the deserved winner and Whitlock slid down to rank 8 in the table.
Report 4. League Day
28. February
Tonight the Premier League comes to Exeter.There we'll see an all Scotland match between Gary
Anderson and Robert Thornton and a match which is already some kind of relegation match - the both players last of the table
Adrian Lewis and Wes Newton will play each other.
Then we've two matches with clear favourites Michael van Gerwen and Phil Taylor and a match which is difficult to predict but could be interesting between Raymond van Barneveld and Simon Whitlock.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Table
The Darts Performance Centre tries to find out what might be wrong with Adrian Lewis and what perhaps could help him
and then explains what exactly a "tilt" is and how it affects Wes Newton...
Premier League 2013 - Fourth League Day, Exeter
27. February
In a series of articles sports psychology deals with the topics focus and flow. To begin with it is short and understandable explained how your brain works - necessary background knowledge. Perhaps one might be able after all to learn to get into the flow???
How Focus and Attention work
Over the next few days the Who is Who will be once again supplemented.
Beside some "new" players today two new walk-on girls were added - those two who for the first time appeared in Aberdeen.
Players: Kyle Anderson , Lisa Ashton , John Bowles , Stephen Bunting , Jason Cullen , Rohit "Rune" Davids , Jeffrey de Graaf .
Walk-on Girls: Debbie Shaw and Jade Leigh Hunt .
26. Februar
The PDC now published the detailed schedule of the UK Masters which will be played from 8. - 10. March in Minehead.
Vincent van der Voort will open the tournament on Friday afternoon with his match against Steve West on the main stage. In the evening the Top 10 of the PDC will all stand ar the oche on the main stage - among them also Phil Taylor against UK Qualifier Andy Pearce.
UK Masters
All players,who earned 800 pound or more at the weekend are already qualified for the UK Open in Bolton that means all players from Michael van Gerwen to Dave Weston.
PDC Rankings
The PDC Europe has announced all players invited to play the Bull's Super League Darts Eastern. Among those are the two Austrians
Mensur Suljovic and Michael Rasztovits.Next weekend the qualifiers will take place - seven places are still to be allocated.
Bull's Super League Darts Eastern
Beside the PDC Europe announced that another, similar tournament series will be organised - the Super League Darts Iberia - for players from Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. Players like Antonio Alcinas and Carlos Rodriguez were already invited.
Super League Darts Iberia
At the weekend the German national championship was played in Rockenhausen.
National Champion 2013 is Kevin Münch, the ladies title was won by Anne Willkomm. Winners of the youth titles were Hendrik Dane and Anna - Maria Schulze.
The Two Person Men competition won Seifert/Rohleder, Two Person Women by Westermann/Armstrong.
25. February
Michael van Gerwen was the dominant player of the first two qualifiers for the UK Open in Bolton at the beginning of June. The
young Dutchman was the winner on both days, on Saturday he defeated Dave Chisnall in the final, on Sunday Brendan Dolan.
The senmifinals reached on Saturday as well Kevin Painter and Ronnie Baxter, on Sunday Peter Wright and Raymond van Barneveld. On both days a Nine-Darter was thrown - on Saturday by Dave Chisnall, on Sunday by Kevin Thomas, an Associate PDPA member.
Participants, Results
Winners of this years Six Nation Cups are the Dutch men's team and the ladies team from Wales. The Dutch men defeated Team England in the final
while the ladies from Wales won against the Dutch women.
Trina Gulliver got the award as best femal player of the tournament. The "best player of the tournament" award got Dutch Jan Dekker who had impressed among other things with a Ten-Dart leg.
Due to the live stream the complete tournament could be watched and for once the ladies didn't go short! Many thanks to Winmau and the Nederlandse Darts Bond!
23. February
Yesterday evening the UK Qualifier for the UK Masters was played in Crawley. The first of the European Tour Evenst will be played from 8. - 10. March in Minehead. The last 24 places in the tournament were on offer.
Between the players who qualified are the three times Canadian Wolrd Champion John Part, the former PDC Youth World Champion Arron Monk and the two West brothers who switched to the PDC last year.
After the qualifier the draw for the first round took place. The Pro Tour Order of Merit number 1, Dave Chisnall, will play against UK qualifier Darren Webster. World Champion Phil Taylor will play another UK qualifier: Andy Pearce and Michael van Gerwen will play fellow country man Jelle Klaasen.
UK Masters
22. February
The third league day of Premier League 2013 didn't disappoint.
Especially impressive were Phil Taylor, Michael van Gerwen and James Wade who all averaged over 100 in winning their matches against
Simon Whitlock, Raymond van Barneveld and a once again disappointing Adrian Lewis.
Beside Taylor and Van Gerwen Robert Thornton is the third player still unbeaten. He fought himself to a draw against Wes Newton. Andy Hamilton and Gary Anderson played a rather evenly match though missed darts on the doubles cost Anderson a draw.
Report
This weekend the PDC Pro Tour starts with the first two UK Open Qualifiers in Crawley into the New Year.
The weekend will already begin tonight with the UK Qualifier for the first event of the European Tour 2013. 114 players will play for the last 24 places in the tournament.
The two UK Open Qualifiers are not only open for the Tour Card holders - all Associate Members of the PDPA could register as well. So now on Saturday 238 players and on Sunday 239 players will stand at the oche.
Participants, Results
This weekend in the Netherlands the Winmau Six Nations Cup will take place.
Teams from the Netherlands, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland will fight for the win.
The complete tournament from the first dart on will be televised live by internet stream. You can follow the stream either here: Topsport or here Winmau from tonight 7 pm British time.
More information and the schedule: BDO Homepage
21. Febuary
Tonight the Premier League will travel to the South English seaside resort Bournemouth.
Several interesting matches are on offer, match of the evening probably will be the clash of the two Dutch stars Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld who are both in top form. Another interesting match could be the match between James Wade and Adrian Lewis who are both more off form at the moment.
Participants, Schedule, Results
20. February
Tomorrow the third league day of the Premier League will be played in Bournemouth and Darts Performance Centre
considered whether in darts as in other sports there exists some kind of home advantage.
Premier League 2013 - Third League Day, Bournemouth
The Grand Princess still tries to find her way around the hurricane and the passengers have to stay on board.
Finally the ship can come safe into a port, but the storm has left some debris...
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane - Part 4
18. February
The Scottish Open were played at the weekend in Renfrew near Glasgow in Scotland. Beside a few players from the Netherlands
most players were from the United Kingdom.
Nevertheless the men's singles winner came from the Netherlands - Wesley Harms defeated in the final Welshman Jim Williams. Another Dutchman - Remco van Eijden - played himself into the semi-finals.
The ladies singles tournament brought once again a win for Deta Hedman who defeated Fallon Sherrock in the final.
The men's pairs were won by English double Williams/Robson, they defeated the final the Dutch pair van Eijden/van de Pas. Winners of the ladies pairs were Sue Gulliver/Paula Jacklin who defeated J.Robbins/C. Savvery from Wales.
The first tournament weekend of the Scandinavian Circuit 2013 was played in Finland. So a lot of Finish dartplayers took part in the
competitions.
The first tournament on Saturday had with Jani Haavisto a winner from Finland while the second tournament on Sunday was won by Per Laursen from Denmark. Those two players now head the ranking. Jarkko Komula - last year's head of the table who had recently impressed together with Jani Haavisto as the Team Finland in the PDC World Cup had no good start into the season and is ranked 24. after this first weekend.
Scandinavian Circuit
At the weekend in Germany, the Netherlands/Belgium and in Finland qualifiers for the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship 2013 took
place.
The now two places for German players got Max Hopp (who had qualified last year as well) and Kai Gitthardt. All in all in Germany 24 players stood at the oche. The qualifier for the Netherlans/Belgium was won by Dutchman Dirk van Duijvenbode. In Finland like last year Teemu Harju was the winner.
The Youth World Championship will be played on 22. March in Crawley
Participants, Schedule
The first weekend of the new Bull's Super League Darts was played in Rodgau in the House of Darts.
On Saturday Tomas Seyler dominated, on Sunday it was Kevin Münch. So those two players now head the ranking. For youth player Marc Legant it was a rather hard weekend - he lost all his matches and is last of the ranking-table.
Bull's Superleague Darts
15. Februar
The first two matches of the second league day were rather onesided as neither debutant Wes Newton nor James Wade showed a good performance
and the matches ended with clear wins for Raymond van Barneveld and Andy Hamilton. In a rather more thrilling third match Gary Anderson defeated Simon Whitlock 7:5. As usally
Anderson had a lot of double trouble and even missed a few matchdarts but in the deciding last leg he had no problems at all
and hit the double for the deserved win.
A disappointing performance again showed Adrian Lewis who just couldn't find the triples though he hit a few 180s. At the beginning Phil Taylor was not much better but he improved thoughout and in the end played a good match. He won 7:3. The last match of the evening developed in a close head-to-head race between Michael van Gerwen and Robert Thornton which ended in a fair 6:6 draw.
Report
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tomorrow the new tournament series of the PDC Europe will begin.
On Saturday and Sunday the first two league days will be played in the House of Darts in Rodgau.
More information:
Bull's Superleague Darts
The Scandinavian Circuit will start at the weekend in his second season.
The first two tournaments will be played on Saturday and Sunday in Vaasky in Finland. On Saturday 74 and on Sunday 69 players will stand at the oche among them of course Jani Haavisto and Jarkko Komula who as Team Finland reached the semi-finals of the PDC Worldcup this month.
As the PDC recently announced the first of the ranking will get a place in the PDC European Championship as well.
Scandinavian Circuit
14. February
Tonight in Aberdeen in Scotland the second League Day of Premier League 2013 will be played.
Match of the evening probably will be the clash between Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis. Lewis last week was defeated clearly by Simon Whitlock. He announced he'll play with new darts tonight. Taylor last week just so managed a draw against Michael van Gerwen.
>In the other matches of the evening debutans Robert Thornton and Wes Newton weill meet Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen - to be sure no easy tasks. James Wade will play against Andy Hamilton and Simon Whitlock against Gary Anderson.
Teilnehmer, Zeitplan, Ergebnisse
As the PDC Europe announced there will be similar to Bulls Superleague Darts Germany a tournament series for players from Eastern European countirs
which will begin in April.
The participants will be teo players each from Austria Hungary and Croatia and one player each from Czechia, Slowenia and Slowakia - those players will be invited. Seven more players will qualify by three qualifiers played in March.
The four tournament weekands will take play in Eisenstadt in Austria. As in the German version the winner of the tournament series will get a price money of 1000 Euro and a place in the Preliminary Round of the PDC World Championship 2014.
More Information: Homepage PDC Europe
13. February
While I stayed in London for the PDC World Championship I of course had a look at the Dartslive automats and talked to the Dartslive people.
I am not really a soft-darts expert but I found it quite interesting and really can understand why in Asia and to a certain degree by now in the USA as well
those automats fascinate. To be sure it's fun to play on them!!!
Dartslive in London
11. February
As the PDC announced today all Top 32 players of the Pro Tour Order of Merit will take part in the first event of the European Tour 2013 which takes place from 8.
- 10.March in the Butlins Resort in Minehead. In the same venue in December 2012 the Players Championship Finals
were played.
On 22. February the UK Qualifier for the tournament will take place. 114 players will compete for the 24 tournament places
UK Masters
8. February
On the first League Day of the Premier League Raymond van Barneveld showed the best performanc with an 102 average and defeated Gary Anderson 7:4.
The replay of the World Championship final between Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen was a match in which neither player gained the upper hand and it ended in a 6:6 draw.
Debutant Robert Thornton defeated Andy Hamilton in a close match 7:5 while debutant Wes Newton missed to many doubles and lost 4:7. The match between Simon Whitlock and Adrian Lewis showed a luckless and concentration lacking Lewis who was defeated 3:7.
Report
Participants, Schedule, Results
7. February
The Darts Perfomance Centre has a look at the new Premier League and discusses what will happen due to
the innovations.
Premier League 2013
Tonight in Belfast the first league day of this year's Premier League will be played. The PDC players used yesterday to warm up for the tournament with
four Ulster rugby stars and to have a look on Ulster's Ravenhill Stadium.
On the first evening we'll see a replay of the PDC World Championship final between Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen.
Betting companies see reigning champion Phil Taylor als favourit to win the tournament followed closely by Michael van Gerwen.
Walk-on Girls of the evening will be the two Irish models Kelly Donegan and Hazel O'Sullivan.
Participants, Schedule, Results
5. February
In his new controvers and hotly debated column Dartoid asks whether Taylor after his questionable display against
Raymond van Barneveld
during the PDC World Championship really still can be a role model and an ambassador of darts...
Eric Bristow was right - Phil Taylor must go!
4. February
With a 3:1 win over Team Belgium the English team retained the World Cup title. Before the Englishmen had managed to win the deciding double in their semi-final against
Team Wales. Once again Adrian Lewis showed a patchy performance but in the final he was much more convincing.
In the second semi-final the strong Team from Begium had played against Jani Haavisto and Jarkko Komula from Finland. This semi-final as well was decided in a double match which the Belgians won 0:4.
Report Semifinals and Final
Results
Trina Gulliver and Scott Waites are the winners of the Dutch Open. Trina Gulliver defeated in the final Loraine Farlam. Scott Waites
prevailed against James Wilson. Trina Gulliver won together with Zoe Jones the ladies pairs as well. James Wilson together with Gary Robson got the title
in the men's pairs.
The Youth titles went to Russian Mikhail Kuriticin, Casey Gallagher from England and Dutchman Quin Wester.
3. February
Team Belgium was the only team in the quarterfinals which won both singles and didn't need the double to progress.
From Team Wales Richie Burnett lost his single match but Team Wales won the double with 2:4 against Team Spanien. A once again not really good playing Adrian Lewis lost his single again Japan's Sho Katsumi and was not really convincing in the double. But thanks to Phil Taylor Team England stands in the semi-finals. Especially close was the match between the German and the Finnish team. A today not really in form Andree Welge lost his single to Jarkko Komula. In the deciding double both teams showed nerves and struggled with a lot of double trouble. In the end Team Finland won 4:3.
Tonight in the semi-finals Team Belgium will play against the team from Finland and Team England will play against Team Wales.
Report Quarterfinals
Under the last 16 of the World Cup there were several sensational reults and five of the seeded teams were eliminated from the tournament.
One of the teams progressing into the quarterfinals was Team Germany which showed a convincing performance against Team Poland and won 5:2. Reigning Champion Team England showed a more so-so match in which it was Adrian Lewis who had most problems and only just managed to reach the winning line after Charl Pietersen missed two match darts. Team Australia didn't show a great performance, Simon Whitlock never really was in the match. Similar problems had Team Netherlands - Michael van Gerwen never found his form. Both teams lost to Team Belgium and Team Finland respectively.
Report Last 16
Participants, Schedule, Results
1. February
Today in Hamburg the third PDC World Cup starts.
In the afternoon the unseeded teams will play against each other. The eight seeded teams, among them reigning champion Team England and the German Team, will play the afternoon's winners in the evening session. Favourit to win is Team England, Taylor/Lewis, closely followed by last year's runner up Team Australia, Nicholson/Whitlock, and the strong Team Holland, Van Gerwen/Van Barnveld.
The tournament can be followed live by PDC Stream.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
All informations about participants, draw and tournament can be found here: Dutch Open
The stage finals of the ladies and the men will be televised live on Sunday evening on Eurosport 2. Beside all finals can be followed by stream.
52 dart players from Europa took part in the European Qualifier for the first European Tour Event 2013 which will be played from 8. - 10. March in Minehead in England.
The eight tournament places got Belgian Kurt van de Rijck, Dutchman Jelle Klaasen, Finland's Jarkko Komula, the two Austrians Mensur Suljovic and
Michael Rasztovits and the three Germans Tomas Seyler, Bernd Roith and Jyhan Artut.
UK Masters
31. January
The schedule of the group phase of the tournament changed slightly. On Friday evening the seeded teams now will play the winners of the afternoon group matches while on
Saturday afternoon the seeded teams will meet the losers of Friday's afternoon session.
Schedule
The Darts Perfomance Centre previews the World Cup of Darts and again emphasizes how important in the tournament are team
spirit and bondage between the team members.
Besides the Darts Performance Centre offers a World Cup competition in which you can win a set of Performance Darts and free membership in the Darts Performance Centre.
PDC World Cup
As the first tournament will take place in England this time the UK Qualifier will be the host countries qualifier for all PDPA players and assocíate members from the UK. All other players have to take part in the European Qualifier by which eight places in the tournament are to be won.
The price money for the events was slightly raised and in 2013 no longer the Top 32 of the PDC Order of Merit automatically qualify for the tournaments but the Top 32 of the rolling Pro Tour Order of Merit.
European Tour
28. January
At the weekend in Bremen the German Gold Cup was played - a DDV ranking tournament which counts for the WDF ranking as well. Players with a PDC Tour Card
were not allowed to take part. Most participants were from Germany but players from the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland were in Bremen as well
Both the Men's Singles and the Ladies Singles were won by Dutch players. Rick Hofstra defeated in the men's final German Tomas Seyler 3:0 while the ladies final was an all Dutch final between
Aileen de Graaf and Sharon Prins - de Graaf won 2:0. The final of the Men's Doubles was a Dutch affairs as well - Hendriks/Meulenkamp were the 3:1 winners. The Ladies Doubles were won by Vonscheidt/Raiber.
The Youth titles won Vanessa Timmermann und Marvin Wehder.
Wes Newton won the Men's Cricket Singles. Newton was not the only player not from North America taking part. Simon Whitlock and Stefanie Lück stood at the Oche as well and even together were the runner-ups of the Mixed Doubles.
The BDO World Championship 2014 will be played from 4. to 12. January 2014.
Beside the BDO announced that the field of participants in the men's tournament will be increased to 40 and in the women's tournament to 16. The additional eight men will earn their places by qualifying from competition in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Asia, Baltic and Scandinavia and the USA. The 16 players in the women's World Championship will be decided as before by the BDO Invitation Table and the Internationalen Play-Offs.
25. January
The BDO has now handed out the awards for 2012.
For the 6. time Deta Hedman got the award Women's Player Personality of the Year. Tony O'Shea for the first time got the Men's Player Personality of the Year Award.
The Awards for the officials got Beryl Page und Graham Toms.
Adam "Thorn" Smith continues his cruise and intends to have a look at the dart scene in the port cities. But he's to realise that it can be difficult to find the time for sightseeing and playing darts...
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane - Part 3
23. January
The Coaching Clinic looks at musicians and how they can help dartplayers. And we offer a a checkout practice game!
Coaching Clinic
22. January
The team from the Philippines will not be able to take part in the PDC World Cup due to travel problems. It is replaced by team Italy consisting of
Daniele Petri and Matteo Dal Monte both experienced soft dart players.
The PDC has announced the detailed schedule for the group matches on Friday 1. February. The first match of the tournament will be in the afternoon the match between the teams from Belgium and Hungary. Brothers Kim and Ronny Huybrechts will stand for Belgium at the oche. Ronny just won a Tour Card in Qualifying School. Reigning Champion Team England (Phil Taylor/Adrian Lewis) will start into the tournament on Friday evening against the winner of the match Austria v Japan.
Participants, Schedule
21. January
Yesterday the last tournament of this year's Qualifying School was played and Steve Coote, Royden Lam from Hong Kong, Joey Palfreyman and
Kevin McDine got the four Tour Cards for the semifinalsists. Kevin McDine threw in his last match a nine-darter, the third
of the tournament.
On Friday Fin Jani Haavisto, Northern Ireland's Daryl Gurney and Englishmen Louis Blundell and Ian Walters, won a Tour Card. On Saturday it were German Andree Welge, another player from Northern Ireland - Campbell Jackson -, Belgian Ronny Huybrechts, brother of Kim Huybrechts, and Englishman Mark Dewsbury.
On Sunday nine more Tour Cards were handed out depending on the Qualifying School Order of Merits. Players who collected most points over the four days and got a Tour Card: Martyn Turner, David Pallett, Dan Russell, Edwin Max, Paul Amaos, Ryan de Vreede, Kirk Shepherd, Kevin Dowling, Darren Johnson.
Qualifying School
17. January
On the first day of Qualifying School international players won the Tour Cards for the four semi-finalists.
They went to South African Charl Pietersen, Canadian Ken MacNeil, German Jyhan Artut and English Youth Tour player Ricky Evans. Charl Pietersen threw in his match in the last 8 against Kevin McDine a Nine-Darter - the first ever in Qualifying School.
Qualifying School
16. January
The PDC World Cup will be the next PDC Major Turnier - it's played from 1. - 3. February in Hamburg.
There were some format changes this year for example the first round now will be played as round robin in eight groups in which one team each is a seeded team. From round 2 onwards, the last 16, the tournament is knockout.
Today during qualifying school the group draw took place. Reigning Champion Team England (Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis) was drawn in Group A together with Team Austria(Mensur Suljovic, Maik Langendorf) and Team Japan. Last years runner.up, Team Australia (Simon Whitlock, Paul Nicholson) can be found in Group G together with Team Croatia and Team New Zealand.
PDC World Cup
Tournament Information
Thanks for taking part and I hope you enjoyed it!
15. January
Far more then 300 players have registered for Qualifiying School among them players who didn't manage to stay in the top 64 last year. Most players are from the United Kingdom, but there are international players as well.
Qualifying School
The PDC now published the details of the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship 2013.
While during the last years young players could qualify via Rileys dartzones they will not get this chance this year because of changes at Rileys. So now beside the international qualifiers the rsat of the 64 participants will be players who took part in the PDC Youth Tour 2012 and qualified by the Youth Tour Order of Merit.
The World Championship will be played on 22. March in Barnsley, the final will take place as last year during the Premier League Play-Offs on 16. May in London.
Youth World Championship
From 2013 the PDC Youth Tour will be called PDC Challenge Tour.
Again in 2013 the Challenge Tour weekends - five are confirmed till now - will consist of three tournamnts each. Changed has that from this year on players till 25 years of age can take part and that young players who played themselves under the top 64 of the PDC Order of Merit are not allowed to take part in the Challenge Tour any longer.
Challenge Tour
14. January
Scott Waites is the BDO World Champion 2013. He defeated in a rather disappointing and one-sided final Tony O'Shea with 7:1. The averages of both players were were quite far below 90 - Waites averaged 86.43, O'Shea 81.90.
O'Shea who had impressed both in the quarterfinal and the semi-final with good performances never really was in the match but Scott Waites was not really convincing either and never came near the performance with which
he won the Grand Slam in 2013.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result-Table
12. January
Anastasia Dobromyslova got with a 2:1 win against Lisa Ashton her third World Champion title. The final was a very even match and Lisa Ashton was a worthy opponent who threw the only 180 of the match and a 120 finish.
Both players averaged over 80. In the third leg of the third match Ashton showed nerves and missed her chance to take the lead. Dobromyslova used her advantage and won this leg and the next one to claim the title fo a second successive year.
The ladies final was played between the two men's semi-finals. In the first semi-final Scott Waites had now problems at all against debutant Richie George who just couldn't manage to settle on stage. So Waites got a 5:0 lead without losing a single leg. Then finally George found his way into the match and won set 6. But unimpressed Wiates continued his run and won the match in the next set. He for the first time stands in a Lakeside final.
The second semi-final was a much closer affair and the first four sets were shared between Wesley Harms and Tony O'Shea. After the second break O'Shea with some impressived darts got a two set lead. But it was the Dutchman wo returned the stronger from the third break and he levelled 4:4. O'Shea digged deep and finally won the match 6:4. Like last year Harms again was the loser of this contest and again O'Shea progressed into the final.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result-Table
The second quarterfinal evening was not as high class as the first but nevertheless both matches were thrilling. The best performance of tte evening showed Scott Waites who defeated Paul Jennings 5:2. First Waites clearly dominated
and in almost every leg reached the doubles first because of his higher scoring. With a 4:0 lead he went into the second break. It was Jennings who returned from the break much more determined and better playing and he won the next two sets
while nothing went together for a more and more frustrated Scott Waites. But in the last set Waites was back in the match and secured himself the set for the win.
The second quarterfinal as well developed into an interesting match. First Jan Dekker was by far the better player and he had a 3:1 lead going into the second break. After the break it was the young Dutchman who couldn't hit the high scores and who missed his doubles and George first levelled and then took the 4:3 lead. In set eight George's problems from the beginning were back and Dekker won the set without losing a leg. George didn't give in and fought back in the last set and managed to win set and match. He progressed into the semi-finals where he will meet Scott Waites.
The ladies semi-final was a very close match beetween former World Champion Trina Gulliver and reigning World Champion Dobromyslova prevailed 2:1 and will now play Lisa Ashton in the final.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result-Table
11. January
The PDC today published the fixtures of the Premier League 2013.
On the first nine league days always five matches will be played. After those the last two of the league table will be eliminated from the tournament. Till the Play-Offs three league days with six matches each and two league days with five matches each will be played by the eight remaining players. As last year during the Play-Offs the final of the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship will take place.
The first league day of the Premier League will be the 7. February. Match of the evening will be the game between Michael van Gerwen and Phil Taylor, a repeat of the World Championship final 2013.
Participants, Shedule, Fixtures
Tournament Information
For mathematician David Percy the arrangement of the numbers on the dartboard is mathematically far from perfect.
So he developed a different arrangement which is mathematically optimal...
The optimal Dartboard
Both Wesley Harms and Tony O'Shea won their quarterfinals and will now meet as last year in the semi-finals.
The match between Wesley Harms and Darryl Fitton at the beginning was a rather even match, but than Harms got stronger and dominated. Tony O'Shea throughout the match scored better and more consistently then Robbie Green but suffered the whole match under double trouble and almost every time needed more then one dart to hit the winning double.Both matches were high class and interesting - a real good evening of darts. All players averaged over 90.
By reaching the semi-finals probably crowd favourite O'Shea and Dutchman Harms again will be invited to the Grand Slam of darts and both again will be offered a PDC Tour Card. Last year Ted Hankey was the only semi-finalist who accepted the offer and switched to the PDC.
The first ladies semifinal was won by Lisa Ahston who defeated Sharon Prins 2:0 without losing a single leg. She reached the ladies final for the first time.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result-Table
10. Januar
After the end of the second round Scott Waites is the highest seeded player still in the tournament. He defeated Belgian Geert de Vos without problems 4:1 and now will meet Paul Jennings in the quarterfinals
who won against Irishman Jason Cullen with 4:0. The Irishman was rather nervous at his Lakside debut, had a lot of double trouble and only won three legs while Jennings turned out to be a very clinical finisher.
Garry Thompson on his 48. Birthday didn't get a darts birthday present but lost a rather close match against Jan Dekker who is exactly half his age with 3:4. In the match of the two young talents Richie George prevailed over Jimmy Hendriks with a 4:2 win.
Bobbie George's son threw eight 180s, his opponent four.
Participants, Schedule, Results
While the only change in the Scandinavian Circuit is a tournament final played on the same day as the last of the tournaments the North American Tour this year will consist of seven tournaments - one a double header - instead of three.
Tournament Calender
9. January
The second round of the BDO World Championship started with a rather so-so evening. The first and the last match of the evening were rather one-sided
and Robbie Green and Tony O'Shea both progressed with a 4:1 win into the quarterfinals. Tony O'Shea's performance on the whole was more convincing then Robbie Green's and both opponents
played rather weak. In Steve Dougles case it to be sure was due to his illness - he's still recovering from a heart attack he had mid of December. The match between Wesley Harms and Alan Norris never really was gripping
though it went into a deciding seventh set. The match winner Harms impressed in parts with his clinical finishing, Norris more with his 180s. But all in all both players scored and finished rather inconsistently.
The best match of the evening - and the best match of the World Championship so far - was the match between number 1 seed Stephen Bunting and Darryl Fitton. Both players averaged over 90, both played consistently on a high level and both had chances to win the match. In the end it was Darryl Fitton who progessed with a 3:2 win into the next round.
Participants, Schedule, Results
8. January
Adam "Thorn" Smith almost can't wait to get on bord of "his" ship. But will he find a dart board there???
In the Bullseye of a hurricane - Part 2
Yesterday evening the last first round matches were played. In the closest match of the evening Belgian Geert de Vos defeated Tony Eccles - who had switched back to the BDO last year - with 3:2.
Paul Jennings - who was reported to be ill - had much less problems against Ross Montgomery and won 3:1. In the final match of the evening one of the favourites for the title - Scott Waites -
white washed Dutchman Willy van de Wiel 3:0.
The first match of the evening was the last of the ladies quarterfinals. Trina Gulliver beat Julie Gore thanks to her clinical finishing 2:0.
Tonight the tournament will go on with four second round matches.
Participants, Schedule, Results
7. January
Competition
The biggest upset of day 2 of the World Championship probably was the elimination of three times World Champion Martin Adams from the tournament, he lost his match against young Dutchman Jimmy Hendriks 2:3.
In all other matches the seeded players progressed. For Scott Mitchell it was the first time he won his first round match. The best average had number 1 seed Stephen Bunting with around 92, the highest Checkout threw
Jan Dekker - a 150 Finish.
In the ladies tournament reigning champion Anastasia Dobromyslova had not many problems to beat Lorraine Farlam 2:0. Irina Armstrong lost 1:2 to Sharon Prins.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Registration is closing on 15. January. Might be some of the Lakeside participants will register. Till now there are some WDF players on the list but no better known BDO players.
Qualifying School
6. January
The BDO World Championship started yesterday with two big upsets - reigning chanpion Christan Kist and the number 1 seed of the ladies, Deta Hedman, crashed out of the tournament.
Christian Kist lost 3:1 against Robbie Green, Deta Hedman was defeated by Lisa Ashton with 2:0. Robbie Green had with 91.11 the highest average of the day. Beside Green Bobbie George's son Richie,who won a close match against Dave Prins with 3:2, Jason Cullen, Garry Thompson, Darryl Fitton, Alan Norris and Tony O'Shea, who white washed former World Champion John Walton.
Today the tournament will go on with another afternoon and evening session - beside others Stephen Bunting, Martin Adams and reigning champion Anastasia Dobromyslova will stand at the oche.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Carsten Becker, Alexander Tauber and Marko Puls won in the qualifier the last three places in the new tournament series of the PDC Europe.
Super League Darts Information
5. January
The Darts Performance Centre has a look at the BDO World Championship which started today.
And they find it very difficult to predict a winner...
2013 Lakeside World Championship
PDC Ranking
4. January
Tomorrow the BDO World Championship 2013 will begin the the Lakeside Country Club. That's the start as well for the 40. anniversary celebrations of the BDO.
Reigning Champion Christian Kist, who played quite impressive during the Grand Slam in November, will play the second match of the afternoon session against Robbie Green. The bookmakers see him as one of the outsiders for the title - favourit is number 1 seed Stephen Bunting who'll play on Sunday afternoon.
Deta Hedman will play the first ladies match against Lisa Ashton tomorrow night while Reigning Champion Anastasia Dobromyslova plays Lorraine Farlam on Sunday night.
As last year the tournament will be televised by BBC and ESPN.
Participants, Schedule
Information Men's Event und Information Women's Event
For all those who would like to try again their luck predicting participants in finals and World Champions this year we again offer a BDO World Championship competition.
The first price is a Set Performance Darts and a one year free membership in the Darts Performance Centre!
Competition
Tomorrow the qualifier for the last places in the Bull's Super League will take place in the House of Darts in Rodgau. 87 players will fight for the last three places in the new tournament series among them well known names
like Marko Puls, Colin Rice and Ann-Kathrin Wigmann.
On 16./17. February the first tournament weekend will be played.
Super League Darts Information
3. January
During the PDC Awards Dinner the awards for 2012 were handed out to the players.
Player of the year once again was Phil Taylor while his World Championship final opponent Michael van Gerwen got the Fans Player of the year Award, the PDPA Player of the Year Award and the Young Player of the Year Award. Dave Chisnall was Best Pro Tour Player of the Year and Dean Winstanley Best Newcomer. The award for the PDC Televised Performance of the Year got Raymond van Barneveld for his Grand Slam Final against Michael van Gweren while retiring referee Bruce Spendley was inducted in the Hall of Fame.
2. January
As the PDC announced during the Awards Dinner in London the Premier League 2013 will have 10 participants instead of 8.
The format will be changed slightly. Over the first nine league days each player will play the other nine players once. Then the last two of the table will be eliminated from the tournament. On the folliwng five league days before the Play-Offs the remaining eight players will play their return matches. The top four of the league table progress into the Play-Offs and will play for the tournament win.
Participants of Premier League 2013 are: Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis, James Wade, Michael van Gerwen, Simon Whitlock, Andy Hamilton, Wes Newton, Raymond van Barneveld, Gary Anderson and Robert Thornton.
Participants, Schedule
1. January 2013
Phil Taylor won the final of the World Championship against Michael van Gerwen with 7:4. The young Dutchman had dominated the first two sets of the match and won them. Phil Taylor managed to
draw 2:2 but van Gerwen again won two sets in a row and regained the lead. But then he seemed to lose momentum while Taylor got stronger and stronger. He first got the 4:4 and then won three more sets
to win the match 7:4. So Phil Taylor is the first winner of the new Sid Waddell trophy - quite appropriate as the commentator who passed away last year was a big Phil Taylor fan.
For reaching the final Michael van Gerwen was awarded with a place in Premier League 2013. The other Premier League participants probably will be announced tomorrow night.
For referee and caller Bruce Spendley the World Championship final was his last appearance on the big PDC stage.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
Report Final
A very Happy 2013 to everybody!!
31. December
Michael van Gerwen won the first semi-final against James Wade with 6:4. In the third leg of the fifth Set he threw a nine-darter
and produced almost another one in the next leg but missed the double 12 for it. Wade never gave in and managed the 3:3 but he
couldn't hinder van Gerwen to win the following two sets. Wade stopped him and won his fourth leg but already in the following
set van Gerwen was again in front and wrapped up victory with double 8.
In the second semi-final Phil Taylor already had a 5:1 lead when Raymond van Barneveld started a comeback and reduced the arrears to 4:5. But Taylor got ahead in the 10. set, prevented that the Dutchman could level and claimed the victory.
So in the final on 1. January Michael van Gerwen and Phil Taylor will stand at the oche.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
Match Reports Day 14, Semifinals
30. December
While the first two quarterfinals were rather one-sided the other two quarterfinals both developed into thrilling and hard fought matches. Wes Newton first
had an advantage over James Wade and won the first two sets but then Wade proved to be more consistent and steadier on the doubles and won
four sets in a row. Newton regained momentum and managed the 4:4 but somehow lost power in the deciding set again and Wade
prevailed.
Had the first quarterfinal of the evening already been a good and thrilling match the second between reigning champion Adrian Lewis and Michael van Gerwen was even better. Thanks to his higher scores van Gerwen at first dominated the match. But Lewis improved and then was a absolutely equal opponent, who scored more consistenly and was able to punish in the mid of the match van Gerwens double trouble with his own clinical finishing. This match as well went into a deciding ninth set. Lewis missed two matchdarts on double tops - key darts which decided the match in van Gerwens favour.
So the second semi-final tomorrow will be James Wade v Michael van Gerwen.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
Match Reports Day 13, Quarterfinals 2
29. December
The players pictures are online now.
Gallery
28. December
The first two quarterfinals of this year's World Championship were both rather one-sided affairs.
Simon Whitlock just couldn't find a way to stop a brilliant playing Raymond van Barneveld and lost 1:5. Andy Hamilton never really was in the match against a strong playing Phil Taylor, won only two legs and lost with 0:5.
So on Sunday one of the semi-finals will be Raymond van Barneveld against Phil Taylor.
But first tomorrow the other two quarterfinals will be played.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
Reports Day 12, Quarterfinals 1
Despite an ancle injury Michael van Gerwen dominated his match against Colin Lloyd and won it 4:1. He progressed into the
quarterfinals where he will mit on Saturday the reigning champion Adrian Lewis who won the last match of the evening against Kevin Painter
4:2. Though both players never played even near their best this match was the most interesting match in the evening session.
Before Raymond van Barneveld had dominated his match against Gary Anderson. Only in the first set the match lived up to expectations. After that Gary Anderson once again got into double trouble and even his usually scoring power seemed to have left him so that the Dutchman won 4:0.
Tonight the tournament will go on with the quarterfinals between Simon Whitlock and Raymond van Barneveld and the match between Phil Taylor and Andy Hamilton.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
Match Reports Day 11, Evening
27. December
The third round match between Simon Whitlock and Dave Chisnall developed into the most thrilling match of the afternoon. The lead
changed several times, both players didn't use some chances and in the end Simon Whitlock won in a tiebreaker 4:3.
Wes Newton never reached the impressive form of his second round match but clearly dominated against a comparatively weak Mark Walsh who only managed to win one set. James Wade didn't lose a single set gainst Vincent van der Voort but had a lot of luck and won the match 4:0. The Dutchman missed too many doubles and had to pay for it with the elimination from the tournament.
Results
Match Reports Day 11, Afternoon
Today the PDC World Championship will go on with the last matches of the third round in an afternoon - and an evening
session.
The players will play for six more places in the quarterfinals, players like Michael van Gerwen, Simon Whitlock, reigning champion Adrian Lewis and five times World Champion Raymond van Barneveld will stand at the oche.
The Walk-on Girls from today onwards are two "old" aquaintances" - the Irish models Kelly Donegan and Hazel O'Sullivan.
Schedule, Results
Beside new names one can find PDC players who fell out of the Top 64 like Barrie Bates or Kevin McDine. Beside there are some international names on the list - among those Canadian Ken McNeil, German wunderkind Max Hopp, Norwegian Robert Wagner and Jani Haavisto from Finland whoi recently impressed during the World Championship.
Players can register till 15. January.
Qualifying School
24. December
On the evening before the Christmas break the last second round match was played first. Michael van Gerwen had to come back from 0:2
against Peter Wright but in the end won 4:2 and progressed into third round. He'll play his third round match against Colin Lloyd after the
break on 27. December.
The first two third round matches followed: Andy Hamilton defeated Terry Jenkins despite Jenkins' 13. Maxima with 4:1 and a much improved Phil Taylor whitewashed Robert Thornton who only won three legs in the match with 4:0.
So we know already that in one of the quarterfinal matches Andy Hamilton and Phil Taylor will meet.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
23. December
In the afternoon of day 10 all the matches ended 4:2 for the winners Mark Walsh, Vincent van der Voort and James Wade.
Dean Winstanley threw a nine-darter in his match against Vincent van der Voort - the first nine-darter of this years tournament. Justin Pipe was unlucky against Mark Walsh as one of his shafts broke and he for some time had to use a dart of his opponent while his dart was repared behind the stage.
The two Walk-on Girls this week are Penny and Jessica Simpson. Penny Simpson is 18 years old and the younger and blond one of the sisters. She doesn't have a lot of experience as a model, this here is her first big appearance.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
22. December
With convincing performances Wes Newton and Simon Whitlock progressed against Scott Rand and Colin Osborne to second round. Scott
Rand never came near the level of his first round match.
World Champions Adrian Lewis progressed as well in the last match of the evening but had some problems with a Denis Ovens on a par who missed some chances. Not a convincing match for a World Champion but it's good to see Denis Ovens starts to revcover from the problems with his throwing arm.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
First I thought there are no news from the Alexandra Palace...
But I found out there are a few.
The door stays closed
The second round continued with the matches between Kevin Painter and Ronnie Baxter, Colin Lloyd and Mark Webster and Raymond van Barneveld
and Brendan Dolan.
Kevin Painter and Ronnie Baxter played a rather close match which Painter won in the end as Baxter just didn't manage to use his chances. Colin Lloyd was too strong for Mark Webster and Raymond van Barneveld had less problems with Brendan Dolan then with his own performance but progressed to third round as well.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
To be sure the Darts Performance Centre has a look at the PDC World Championship as well. But is it really a World Championship?
And what could players do better?
The PDC World Championship
The second round matches of the evening brought two one-sided matches and another thriller.
First a very sure and well-playing Terry Jenkins defeated a John Part who just couldn't keep up with 4:1. In the last match of the evening a fighting but chance less Jerry Hendriks against Phil Taylor didn't fare better and lost with the same result.
Inbetween the battle of the evening between Paul Nicholson and Robert Thornton took place, in which Nicholson looked like the sure winner but Robert Thornton came back into the match. The lead changed several times till Robert Thornton won the match in a sudden death leg.
Results
Matchreports Day 8, Evening
21. December
In the afternoon session the first three matches of the second round were played. Andy Hamilton was the first player to progress
into the next round with a 4:1 win over Richie Burnett. With the same result Dave Chisnall defeated Daryl Gurney though it
was not as easy as the scoreline looks. Chisnall in almost every leg had to come from behind to win the set.
The last match between Gary Anderson and John Bowles certainly was the match of the tournament so far and Gary Anderson only won because the debutant missed several matchdarts.
Results
Matchreports Day 8, Afternoon
The from John Part missed mural is back on the wall of the Alexandra Palace!!! The Dennis Priestley banner is back too though it's slighthly hidden by the commentary box.
On Day seven of the tournament in the last first round match finally on of the favorits for the win - Michael
van Gerwen appeared on stage. He won his match 3:0 against darting legend Paul Lim but it was a hard fought for win against
a really good playing win who even threw the first 170 finish of teh tournament.
Another player who was seen as a potential winner, Kim Huybrechts, was defeated in a close five set thriller by Scott Rand. Far less problems to progress had Vincent van der Voort against Stuart Kellert and Mark Walsh against Darren Webster.
With the end of the first round the World Championship competition is closed now.
Results
Matchreports Day 7
20. December
It's too early to say whether Dennis Priestley will really retire from darts...
But for another well-known face this PDC World Championship really will be the last!!!
Retirement or might be not???
On the 6. day of the PDC World Championship again one of the matches ended in a tiebreaker - North American Darin Young
and Colin Lloyd contested in a neck-to-neck race which finally in the last Set ended with a 6:4 win for Colin Lloyd.ieden wurde.
Beside the evening brought wins for Justin Pipe over an under par playing Andy Jenkins, a win from Ronnie Baxter over Dennis Priestley which charcterized by a lot of missed doubles and a rather one-sided win from Simon Whitlock over the Japanese qualifier Haruki Muramatsu who before had won his Preliminary Round match over an extremly nervous Dave Harrrington from New Zealand.
Results
Matchreports Day 6
19. December
Where can you find a wood which is more then 7000 years old???
Of course near the Alexandra Palace - otherwise I wouldn't have been here at this time of the year...
Highgate Wood
Was the match between Jamie Caven and John Bowles yesterday's thriller of the evening today's match between Mervyn King
and Dean Winstanley was even better. Again an fifth set was necessary which in the end Winstanley won 6:4 and just avoided a
sudden death leg.
The other matches were more one-sided and all ended 3:0. Steve Beaton, Wes Newton and Colin Osborne progressed to second round though Colon Osborne had more problems against Lourence Ilagan then the scorelins tells. Ilagan before hat won his Preliminary Round match against Jamie Lewis with 4:3.
Results
Matchreports Day 5
18. December
In the first of my PDC World Championship articles I offer you again some "Where" questions... and of course the answers as well!
Where...???
17. December
On the fourth day of the PDC World Championship we could watch the resurrection of Mark Webster who showed a brillant performance
against Ian White, two rather one sided 3:0 wins by Peter Wright over Arron Monk and of James Wade over Peter Hudson.
The last match of the evening developed into a thrilling battle between Jamie Caven and PDPA qualifier John Bowles which in the end John Bowles - who earlier in the evening had won his preliminary match against Carlos Rodriguez 2:4 - won in a tie breaker 3:2.
Results
Matchreports Day 4
Takehiro Suzuki from Japan won the final of this years "The World" tournament series against
Christian Perez from the Philippines.
Last years champion Paul Lim and American Raymond Carver stood in the semi-finals. Paul Lim then travelled on to London where he'll play on Thursday in the preliminary round of the PDC World Championship against Mohd Latif Sapup.
The World
With a sensationell performance - the best of the tournament so far - Raymond van Barneveld defeated Michael Smith and progressed
to second round where he'll meet another winner of the evening Northern Irelands Brendan Dolan who came ill into the tournament.
The two other matches of the evening were won by the favorits as well though Andy Hamilton had to fightback into his match against James Richardson and Gary Anderson had more problems with Jani Haavisto then the clear result shows.
The Preliminary match was won by Jani Haavisto who defeated his fellow country man Jarkko Komula 4:2.
Results
16. December
On the evening of the second first round day all the Top 32 players won their matches and progressed into second round.
Dave Chisnall, John Part and Phil Taylor won their matches 3:0 while Denis Ovens had a more difficult battle against young German Max Hopp but won in the end 3:2. Max Hopp had impressed in his preliminary macth against South African Charl Pietersen but couldn't take up his performance against a very nervous Denis Ovens.
Results
Matchreports Day 2, Evening
15. December
The afternoon session ended with two upsets. In the first match Dutchman Jerry Hendriks - who had qualified by the European Order of Merit - elimnated Wayne Jones with a 3:0 win.
The second upset was caused by Daryl Gurney from Northern Ireland - the winner of this years Irish Matchplay- who defeated Andy Smith with 3:1. Gurney had before won his preliminary round match against Robert Marijanovic from Croatia
with 4:3.
Other winners of the afternoon were Terry Jenkins who had now problems against Steve Brown and defeated him 3:0 and Richie Burnett who had won a real battle against James Hubbard with 3:2.
Results
Matchreports Day 2, Afternoon
The first evening of the World Championship brought clear wins for the favorits who dominated their matches. The least convincing winner was reigning champion Adrian Lewis who got into trouble
against young Dutchman Gino Vos but managed to win 3:1. All other matches ended 3:0. Kevin Painter, Robert Thornton and Paul Nicholson progressed beside Lewis into second round.
The preliminary round match was won by Leung Chun Nam from Hong Kong who defeated German Andree Welge 4:1.
Matchreports Day 1
14. December
Tonight the PDC World Championship 2013 will begin in the Alexandra Palace in London.
Robert Thornton and Magnus Caris will open the tournamnt. Later in the evening Reigning Champion Adrian Lewis will play against Gino Vos.
Wayne Mardle, Eric Bristow and Rod Harrington this year set on a win by Phil Taylors and see Michael van Gerwen as second favorit.
Daniella Allfree and Jessica Bradder will accompany the players during the first week on stage.
Participants, Draw, Schedule
At the weekend in Hong Kong the final of the second World - Soft-Dart tournament will be played. Three of the participants then will play next week the PDC World Championship as well: Reigning Champion Paul Lim, Darin Young, qualified as first
of the North American ranking for the PDC World Championship, and Lourence Ilagan, winner of the Philippine qualifier who at the moment tops the "World" Ranking.
Most of the participants are from Asia but there are secveral Americans, S´panish players (Antonio Alcinas), players from France, the UK and with Rob Modra even an Australian. anführt
On Sunday the Grand Final will be streamed live on dartslive from 18.00 Hong Kong time.
The World
13. December
This year again Globaldarts will offer competitions for both World Championships.
The format will be the same as last year, first price this year will be a one year membership in the Darts Performance Centre and a set Performance Darts (you can choose which weight) The second and the third of the competiotions will get a price as well.
Details of the PDC World Championship Competition you can find here:
Competition
12. December
Adam "Thorn" Smith of course is still travelling around. So before he boarded the Grand Princess for a cruise
he visited a friend in South Beach, Miami and "inspects" the local darts scene.
In the Bullseye of a hurricane - Part 1
10. December
Anastasia Dobromyslova, Stephen Bunting and Quin Wester are the winnery of the Zuiderduin Masters.
Anastasia Dorbomyslova defeated in the final Aileen de Graaf from the Netherlands with 2:1. In the men's tournament all Dutch players were eliminated already in th semi-finals. Stephen Bunting then defeated Alan Norris in the final 5:0.
In the Youth's final Quin Wester won against Kenny Neyens with 2:0.
Zuiderduin Masters
6. December
The PDC now published the detailed schedule for the World Championship.
The tournament will be opened on Friday, 14. December with the first round match between Robert Thornton and Magnus Caris. Reigning Champion Adrian Lewis will play later in the evening against Gino Vos. Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld will start their challenge on Sunday.
Schedule
Tomorrow the Zuiderduin Masters will began - the last important WDF/BDO before the BDO World Championship in January. 24 men,
six women and six male youth will take part. First round robin will be played-
The Zuiderduin Masters are an invitation tournament - most participants come from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Zuiderduin Masters
5. Dezember
The German team prevailed in a deciding leg against the Dutch rivals and won the tournament.
The deciding leg had been necessary when on the second day of the tournament two Dutch ladies met in the singles final and both teams because of this had the same number of points. After the first day the German team had been in the lead.
Dartoid believes in the "butterfly effect". So it really could be possible that it's Brendan Dolan's fault Dartoid sucks as a dart player...
Could it be Brendan Dolan's fault?
This year's Czech Open were dominated by the English players. Scott Waites won the men's singles title - he defeated in the final Martin Atkins. The ladies title won Rachel Brooks who won her final against Deta Hedman. The two youth tiles wnet to Czech Filip Sebasta and Sarah Rosen from Sweden.
The Estonia Open winners were Darius Labanauskas from Lithunia and von Irina Armstrong who represented Russia.
4. December
Today the draw for the first round of the PDC World Championship 2013 took place which will begin on 14. December.
Reigning champion Adrian Lewis will play in his first round match Belgian Gino Vos. The 15times world champion Phil Taylor will meet in his first match Michael Mansell from Ireland.
The exact schedule of the World Championship will be published tomorrow.
During the draw the new Sid Waddell winner's trophy was unveiled which will keep alive the memory of sky commebtator Sid Waddell who passed away in August.
Draw
3. December
The PDC now published first details about the European Tour 2013.
The Tour will consist of eight events. Four will be played in Germany and one each in England, Austria, Gibraltar and Holland. The price money will increase. The field of participants will look similar to this year - players can qualify by the Order of Merit and qualifiers in the UK and Europe.
European Tour
With a 13:6 win over Belgian Kim Huybrechts Phil Taylor regained the Players Championship Finals title. Huybrechts
had managed to keep up till the 6:6 but then Taylor pulled away and won the next seven legs to victory. For Taylor it was
the third Players Championship Finals title.
Before the final two a little bit one sided semi-finals were played. Huybrechts had defeated in his semi-final Justin Pipe 11:6 while Taylor clearly dominated his semi-final against Simon Whitlock. He won it 11:2 - the Australian never really was in the match.
Results
Report Final
2. December
The Sunday afternoon ended with two thrilling and very close quarterfinals. While in the first two quarterfinals
Kim Huybrechts and Justin Pipe thanks to their better quote on the doubles prevailed comparatively clear the last two quarterfinals between
Simon Whitlock and Gary Anderson and Phil Taylor and Andy Hamilton developed into real battles. Anderson in the end payed for missed doubles and was beaten 8:10 while Phil Taylor against Andy Hamilton
showed an unbelievable comeback. He was already 3:7 behind but then closed the gap leg by leg, levelled 9:9, had the thrown in the last leg
and kept his nerve to win 10:9.
So the two semi-finals tonight will look like this:
Kim Huybrechts v Justin Pipe
Simon Whitlock v Phil Taylor
In in the second round of the Players Championship Finals the afternoon brought wins for Justin Pipe, Peter Wright, Kim Huybrechts and Gary Anderson.
In the evening the winners were Andy Hamilton, Simon Whitlock, Phil Taylor - against Adrian Lewis, who's son was born early on Saturday morning - and Mervyn King.
1. December
Already in the first round of the Players Championship Finals there were some upsets.
Reigning champion Kevin Painter was eliminated with 3:6 defeat against Michael van Gerwen. Number 1 seed Dave Chisnall was white washed 6:0 by Wayne Jones. Raymond van Barneveld lost a very close match against Steve Beaton as did Terry Jenkins against Mervyn King. Adrian Lewis came from hospital where he had stayed with his wife waiting for the birth of his son and returned immidiately there after his 6:3 win over Jamie Caven.
Today the second round will be played again in an afternoon and an evening session. There will be a lot of interesting matches among them another clash between the two Scotsman Robert Thornton and Gary Anderson in the afternoon and in the evening the match between Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis.
Results
29. November
During the Grand Slam of Darts a few new Walk-on Girls accompanied the players to the stage.
Three of them - Beth Dust, Jamie Lee Williams and Daniella Allfree - you can now find in the who is who, it's not much known about the fourth - Kimberley Braithwaite.
Jamie Lee Williams and Daniella Allfree will probably be the two Walk-on Girls during the Players Championship Finals at the weekend.
Who is Who
28. November
The Darts Performance Centre has a look at the Players Championships Finals and detects the developement of the Butlins resorts
and the development in darts have a lot in common.
The tournament should be a real high class tournament and there are several favourits...
Hi De Di
27. November
The PDC now published the detailed schedule for the Players Championship Finals which will begin on Friday.
All First Round matches will be played on Friday in an afternoon- and an evening session. The match between Ian White and Michael Smith opens the tournament. Phil Taylor, Raymond van Barneveld, Simon Whitlock and Gary Anderson will play in the evening.
Participants, Draw, Schedule
Tournament Information
26. November
After todays PDPA Qualifier the field of participants of the PDC World Championship 2013 is complete.
The draw for the Preliminary Round already took place - the draw for the First Round will be on 4. December.
Participants, Draw Preliminary Round, Schedule
Today the PDC weekend in Barnsley ended with the PDPA Qualifier for the PDC World Championship 2013.
Stuart Kellett won the final against John Bowles with 5:1. By the win he got a place in the First Round of the World Championship while the runner-up John Bowles got the last place in the Preliminary Round and will play against Carlos Rodriguez.
Results, Participants
Winer of the Czech Open Singles Titles were Scott Waites and Rachel Brooks.
Scott Waites defeated Martin Atkins in the final while Rachel Brooks won against Deta Hedman. Best Czech player was Iveta Bruska on fifth place in the Women Singles.
25. November
Michael van Gerwen won the last Players Championship of the year in Barnsley. For van Gerwen it was the 6. win on this year's Pro Tour.
He defeated in the final Phil Taylor who already had lost yesterday's final to Dave Chisnall.
In the semi-finals stood Robert Thornton and Adrian Lewis. Dennis Priestley reached as yesterday teh quarterfinals. in the fourth round Irishman Connie Finnan in his match against Wes Newton threw a nine-darter.
Results, Participants
24. November
Dave Chisnall was the winner of the last but one Players Championship this year. For Chisnall it was already the fifth Pro Tour title in 2012.
Chisnall defeated in the final Phil Taylor with 6:2 and now heads the Pro Tour Order of Merit almost uncatchable.
The semifinals reached Michael van Gerwen and Robert Thornton. Dennis Priestley again showed a great performance and played himself into the quarterfinals.
Results, Participants
23. November
As last part of my GSOD coverage a gallery in which you hopefully can find all players in action. Which was not really easy - I almost forgot the later winner Raymond van Barneveld...
Gallery
22. November
At the weekend in Barnsley the last two Players Championships in 2012 will be played. The Players Championships count both for the participation in the Players Champiuonship
Finals - starting 30. November - and the PDC orld Championship 2013.
On Monday in the same venue in Barnsley the PDPA Qualifier for the World Championship will take place by which two players can win a place in the tournament.
Participants
20. November
By now the last international qualifiers for the PDC World Championship 2013 are known.
Robert Marijanovic from Croatia won the East Europe Qualifier while Mohd Latif Sapup from Malaysia won the South East Asia Qualifier.
After the two Players Championships next weekend and the PDPA Qualifier on the following Monday the field of participants will be complete.
PDC World Championship 2013
Ryan Ocampo from the Philippines and Tina Chan from Hong Kong won the Hong Kong Open.
The Ted Clements Memorial in New Zealnd was won by Peter Hunt and Polly Luke.
The Malta Open winners were John Michael from Greece and Casey Gallagher from England.
19. November
My last article about this years Grand Slam tries to answer the question "Where is Eric Bristow?"
But of course it's about the last group matches of Groups E-H as well...
Where is Eric???
18. November
Raymond van Barneveld is the new Grand Slam Champion. He dereated in the final his young country man Michael van Gerwen with
16:14. Van Gerwen couldn't keep up nor the scoring nor the finishing of his previous matches. Van Barneveld
got in the lead early in the match. Van Gerwen several times came close but never managed to draw and
van Barneveld finally sealed his win with an 11-darter.
For van Barneveld it was the first Major Title since five years.
Results
Report Semi-finals and Final
The Woverhampton Civic Hall can give you the creeps. Especially when it's late in the evening or in the middle of the night.
And by some of the Grand Slam matches the ghosts seem to have had a hand in...
The place is haunted!
In both semi-finals this afternoon the Dutch players were not to be stopped. First Raymond van Barneveld defeated Andy Hamilton-
who showed a lot of bottle - with 16:12. Then Michael van Gerwen punished merciless Dean Winstanley's slow start in the match and won
16:8.
So tonight we'll have an all Dutch final between Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen!
Results
16. November
The quarterfinals of the Grand Slam were played today in an afternoon- and an evening session. In the afternoon
Dean Winstanley and Andy Hamilton progressed with wins over Kevin Painter and John Part in the semi-finals.
In the evening Raymond van Barneveld defeated Christian Kist and Michael van Gerwen defeated Scott Waites.
The tournament will go on tomorrow afternoon with the matches Andy Hamilton v Raymond van Barneveld and Dean Winstanley v Michael van Gerwen.
Results
Reports Quarterfinals
In Birmingham in the last weeks before Christmas one could almost believe to be in Germany.
They've got a "Frankfurt Christmas Market"!
Christmas is not far away!
Andy Hamilton defeated in a close and thrilling match Gary Anderson, who really showed another new shirt - with 10:9 and progressed into the
quarterfinals of the Grand Slam where he'll meet John Part. The Canadian thanks to the much better quote on the doubles won
against Brendan Dolan with 10:6.
In the other matches of the evening Christian Kist with another convincing performance won 10:9 against Wes Newton and Raymond van Barneveld defeated without problems Wesley Harms.
So we'll see the following quarterfinals: In the afternoon Winstanley and Painter will meet and Part and Hamilton. In the evening Scott Waites will play Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld will play Christian Kist. Kist and Barneveld already met in the group phase and Kist had been the winner.
Results
Report Day 7
Michael van Gerwen defeated Phil Taylor under the last 16 with 10:5 and threw the reigning Champion out of the tournament.
First it was a head to head match but somehow the young Dutchman gained the upper hand in the high class contest and managed to win five legs in a
row to victory.
Other winners of the evening were Dean Winstanley over Arron Monk, Kevin Painter over Mervyn King and Scott Wates over Robert Thornton in the closest match of the evening.
Results
Report Day 6
14. November
On the last day of the round robin phase of the Grand Slam the table of Group E was mixed up considerably. Gary Anderson lost
to Adrian Lewis while John Part won against Tony O'Shea. So Part heads the table and Anderson comes second. Both progressed
to second round.
In Group F Andy Hamilton stayed head of the table while Brendan Dolan is in second place due to the better leg difference.
From Group G Wesley Newton and Wesley Harm progress as 1 and 2 of the table.
Group H ended with Raymond van Barneveld on top and Christan Kist in second place.
Results
Report Day 5
13. November
The last Group Matches of the Groups A - D brought some surprising results. For the biggest upset Dean
Winstanley was responsible who with a 1:5 win over Simon Whitlock threw the Australian despite his two wind out of the
tournament while Kevin Painter progressed to second round.
Almost as surprising was Scott Waites 2:5 win over Phil Taylor by which Waites ended as head of the table of Group A and Taylor on second place. Not as surprising were results in Groups B and D whereh Michael van Gerwen and Mervyn King stayed undefeated in first place of the table. Michael van Gerwen had not many problems against Ted Hankey who almost couldn't see the dart boards due to problems with his left eye. Second in Groups B and D are Arron Monk and Robert Thornton, who progressed as well to second round.
Results
Report Day 4
To be sure most of the people following the Grand Slam will have noticed that players and officials wear poppies and stand on stage unshaven.
There is no connection between the two, but both is not without reason.
Poppies and Moustaches
Deta Hedman won together with Robbie Green the Mixed Pairs and together with Rachel Brooks the Ladies Pairs as well.
12. November
Gary Anderson new outfits seem to bring him luck - after his second win in group E over Tony O'Shea he's the first player
through to second round while World Champion Adrian Lewis is after his 2:5 loss against John Part in the same group
out of the tournament.
All other players still could be progress, best chances after their second wins today have Wes Newton, BDO World Champion Christian Kist, who defeated his countryman and fife times World Champion Raymond van Barneveld and Andy Hamilton.
Results
Report Day 3
11. November
In the evening the second Group Matches of Groups A - D took place. Mervyn King, Phil Taylor, Simon Whitlock and Michael van Gerwen
all got their second wins and now head their groups.
In the losers against losers matches Scott Waites, Ted Hankey, James Wade and Dean Winstanley could celebrate a win and are in the race again.
But all last of the tables still have a chance as well to progress.
Results
Report Day 2 - Afternoon
In Wolverhampton not only darts are played, soccer is for many years a very important part of life.
So my first Grand Slam article is about soccer - well, and about darts!
And Soccer once again...
The group matches of groups E - H began with a surprisingly high defeat of Paul Nicholson by Brendan Dolan. Nicholson had presented himself
in good from recently but he couldn't keep up with the player from Northern Ireland.
It was not the only surprise of the afternoon. BDO's young Wesley Harms defeated Terry Jenkins with 5:2, Tony O'Shea managed a close 5:4 win over World Champion Adrian Lewis and BDO World Champion average around 98 winning against local favorite Wayne Jones with 5:1.
Other winners of the afternoon were Andy Hamilton over nevertheless much improved Barrie Bates, Raymond van Barneveld who whitewashed Mark Walsh, Gary Anderson in one of his new shirts in a very close match against John Part and Wes Newton in convincing fashion over Martin Phillips.
Results
Report Day 2 - Afternoon
10. November
Michael van Gerwen had with 103 the highest average of the evening and defeated in the first round of group matches Steve Beaton with
5:2.
Other winners of the evening were a convincing Phil Taylor, a strong playing Robert Thornton who whitewashed Ted Hankey, Kevin Painter in a close match against Dean Winstanley, a reinvigorated Mark Webster, Mervyn King and Simon Whitlock who both were just too strong for their young opponents Jan Dekker and James Hubbard and Arron Monk who defeated a luckless James Wade.
Results
Report Day 1
Carlos Rodriguez won the South Europe qualifier for the PDC World Championship 2013. He defeated in the final Stefan Couwenberg with
6:5 and will now play in the Preliminary Round of the World Championship
Players from Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, Andorra, Monaco, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium could take part in the qualifier played in Avila, pain. 110 players registered for the qualifier.
Participants World Championship
Max Hopp won the West Europe qualifier for the PDC World Championship 2013. He defeated in the final Maik Langendorf with
6:1 and will now play in the Preliminary Round of the World Championship
Players from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Malta, San Marino and Liechtenstein were allowed to play the qualifier in Bielefeld. All in all only 31 players took part - most of them from Germany.
8. November
Martin Phillips is one of the well-known faces of the BDO. Due to his performances during the BDO World Championships 2010 and 2011
he this year for the third time was invited to play the Grand Slam. Last year he played himself under the last 16 of the tournament
where he lost to his fellow country man Mark Webster.
This year Phiilps was not really succesfull and sank down the BDO rankings a little bit but two weeks ago he won the Turkish Open in Antalya.
To the Interview
7. November
The Grand Slam of Darts comes closer and closer. And the Darts Performance Centre in a preview tells us it's ideas about the tournament.
Grand Slam of Darts - Preview
6. November
Yesterday evening the group draw for the Grand Slam of Darts took place which will begin on Saturday in Wolverhampton.
Reigning champion Phil Taylor and seven other players are seeded. In his Group A Taylor will meet in the round-robin phase Scott Waites, Mark Webster and Co Stompe. Reigning BDO World Champion Christian Kist, who last weekend wass the runner up in the men's singles of the WDF Europe Cup, will play in his Group H against Raymond van Barneveld, Mark Walsh and local favorit Wayne Jones.
Beside the PDC published the exact schedule of the first group matches.
Participants, Draw, Schedule
Beside the weekend brought the last Youth Tour Events in 2012 and we now have a final Youth Tour Order of Merit for 2012. The Top 32 of this order are qualified for the next PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship.
PDC Rankings
5. November
In the newest article Coaching Clinic adresses two problems a lot of dart players worry about: the nerves and how to handle them in competition and why it's so difficult to bring your performance at the practice board to the competition board.
Coaching Clinic 12
In the semi-finals stood Shaun Griffiths and Vouter Waes.
4. November
Michael van Gerwen won the second Players Championship of the weekend in Crawley. He defeated in a close final Ian White with 6:5. For the young Durchman it was already the 6. win on this years Pro Tour.
The semi-finals reached yesterday's winner Simon Whitlock and Dave Chisnall.
Results, Participants
After Arron Monk's win in yesterday's Youth Tour Event all participants of this years Grand Slam are known. The last place got Monk as winner of the
Youth Tour Order of Merit.
As this year all places were already taken the qualifier over which in former years two places were on offer was cancelled.
Participants, Schedule
Arron Monk won the first of two Youth Tour Events this weekend in Crawley. He defeated in the final Chris Aubrey with 4:1.
The semi-finals reached Samuel Head and Adam Hunt.
By his win it is already decided before the last Youth Tour Event today that Monk will be on first place in the Youth Tour Order of Merit 2012. So he'll get an invitation for the Grand Slam of Darts which will begin next week in Wolverhampton. Beside Monk assured he'll get a place in the PDC World Championship 2013 even should he fail to qualify by the Pro Tour Order of Merit.
3. November
Simon Whitlock won the first of two Players Championships this weekend in Crawley. He defeated in the final Dennis Priestley with 6:2.
The semifinals reached Michael van Gerwen and Ian White.
Results
Patricia de Peuter from Belgium and Scotsman Gary Stone won the singles titles of the WDF Europe Cup.
The ladies pairs competition was won by Krappen/Schuur from the Netherlands, the men's pairs as well by the Dutch pair Dekker/Kist.
The winner of the teams event was Team Netherlands who defeated Team England with 9:7.
Overall winners were both of the men and of the ladies the Dutch teams. Second in the men's overall ranking was the team from Belgium followed by Team England on third place. In the ladies overall ranking Team England ended on second place and the ladies from Belgium were third.
Results, Participants
2. November
For the third time this year the PDC will come for a tournament weekend to Crawley. On both Saturday and Sunday Players
Championship and an event of the PDC Youth Tour will be played.
The youth players will compete for the last still open place in the Grand Slam of Darts which will go to the leader of the PDC Youth Tour Order of Merit after the weekend.
The Players Championships are important for the qualification for the PDC World Championship 2013 and the Players Championship Final in December.
Not all Tour Card will be in Crawley - Phil Taylor and Raymond didn't register. Paul Nicholson and Andy Hamilton withdrew today.
Participants
On day two of the Europe Cup in Antalya the ladies and men's singles and the men's pairs were played.
In the ladies final tomorrow Patricia de Peuter from Begium and Trina Gulliver will meet. The men's final reached Scostman Gary Stone and BDO World Champion Christian Kist. Kist together with Jan Dekker will stand against Ciplys/Labanauskas in the men's pairs final as well.
Results, Schedule, Participants
1. November
Phil Taylor retained his Championship League Darts title. He defeated in the final of the Winners Group Simon Whitlock with
6:4. Taylor won all his seven league matches of the day and then met in the semifinals fourth of the table Dave Chisnall. He won the semifinal with a whitewash over Chisnall.
Simon Whitlock was third of the table after the round robin phase with four wins. He played in the semi-final against Jamie Caven who had won five of his matches throughout the day. But as in the league phase Caven couldn't win against the Australian who progressed to the final.
Results, Participants, Schedule
Report Winners Group
On the first day of the Europe Cup in Antalya the ladies pairs and the men's team competition were played.
To the ladies pairs final the two pairs from Wales (Edwards/Gore) and from the Netherlands (Krappen/Schuur) progressed. In the men's teams final the teams from England and from the Netherlands will meet. All finals will be played on Saturday.
Results, Schedule, Participants
European Darts Open
Today in in Düsseldorf the European Darts Open - the third event of the PDC European Tour 2013 - will begin.
The complete first round will be played in an afternoon and an evening session on two stages today.
Yesterday in Düsseldorf the European and the Host Nation Nationale Qualifier for the tournament took place. By the European Qualifier qualified among others Dutchmen Jerry Hendikrs and Bobby Biemans, Belgian Ronny Huybrechts and Austrian Mensur Suljovic. The four German Qualifiers are Max Hopp, Jyhan Artut, Tomas Seyler and Andree Welge. Those four will all play tonight on the main stage.
The tournament will be streamed live by the PDC.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
Michael van Gerwen wins Premier League
In a thrilling final Michael van Gerwen defeated reigning champion Phil Taylor with 10:8 and got his second
PDC Major Title. Van Gerwen had already been throughout the Premier League season the best and most consistent player.
In the last leg of the final he had to fear for the title - Taylor had a big chance to draw 9:9. But the young Dutch
threw a great 132 bullseye finish for the win.
Before the final two high-class but a little bit onesided semi-finals were played. Phil Taylor defeated Raymond van Barneveld with 8:4, Michael van Gerwen prevailed with the same result against James Wade.
Report Final and Semi-finals
Smith wins title
Michael Smith won the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship title.
He defeated in a final he dominated Ricky Evans on the big stage of the O2 Arena in London 6:1.
Report
16. May
Premier League
Tonight in the O2 Arena in London this years Premier League Play-Offs will be played.
In the semi-finals Michael van Gerwen and James Wade and Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld will meet.
The betting companies see Michael van Gerwen as favorit for the title.
After the semi-finals the final of the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship between Michael Smith and Ricky Evans take place. After that the Premier League final will be played.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Table
Dartoid's World
As in one of the Darts Performance Centre's blogs this week Dartoid's newest column is about numbers - better: one billion.
How much is it and how to illustrate a darts fan???
One Billion Darts
Darts Performance Centre
The Darts Performance Centre previews not only the Play-Off but the PDC Unicorn
World Youth Championship Final too which will be played tonight as well. And of course there are betting tips again...
Premier League Play-Offs
14. May
UK Open Schedule
The PDC announced the schedule of the Prelimnary Round and the First and Second Round of the UK Open.
Robbie Green and James Wade will open the first day of the tournament with their Preliminary Round match on main stage.Other matches on main stage will include Ricky Sudale ahainst Richie Burnett and Phil Taylor against Kevin Dowling.
Schedule
Darts Performance Centre
In this blog about the Premier League 2013 the Darts Performance Centre has a look on statistics and
plays numbers games.
Dart's - It's a Numbers Game
13. May
Global Darts in Wigan 2
The last UK Open Qualifier again was a day filled with a lot of good darts and a few surprises.
Now I am really looking forward to the UK Open!
UK Open Qualifier 8
DDV Ranking Tournament Iserlohn
Irina Armstrong and Kevin Münch won in Iserlohn the singles titles. Jana Wunderlich won the girls tournament, Manuel Topp the boys competition. The pairs titles were won by pairs
Westermann/Jenkins and Kröckel/Backes. The additional singles winners were Karsten Koch and Ivana Skaro.
Scandinavian Circuit
At the weekend in Vääksy in Finland events three and four of the Scandinavian Pro Tour took place.
Finland's Jani Haavisto won the tournament on Saturday, by this replaced Denmark's Per Laursen as top of the SDC Order of Merit and qualified for the European Championship in Mülheim. Sunday's winner was Magnus Caris.
Scandinavian Circuit
PDC Challenge Tour
At the weekend three tournaments of the PDC Challenge Tour were played in Wigan.On Saturday Ross Smith and Graham Hall got one win each. On Sunday the Dutch Benito van de Pas was the winner who on Saturday already had reached the final of the first event.
PDC Challenge Tour
10. May
James Wade in Play-Offs
Thanks to a draw against Phil Taylor James Wade secured himself the fourth play-off place and will now play next Thursday in the
semif-finals against top of the table Michael van Gerwen. In the second semi-final scond in the table, Raymond van Barneveld, and third of the table, Phil Taylor, will meet.
Before the last League Day of Premier League beside Wade both Simon Whitlock and Robert Thornton had the chance to get into the play-offs. But Robert Thornton lost against Raymond van Barneveld and against Michael van Gerwen and Simon Whitlock lost against van Barneveld and only managed a draw against Adrian Lewis - that was just not enough.
In the only match of the evening which had nothing to do with the play-off battle Adrian Lewis defeated Andy Hamilton mit 7:5, for Lewis a positive end of the season.
Results, Table
Report
UK Open Draw
The PDC now published the draw for the Preliminary Round and the First and Second Round of the UK Open. The draw for all other rounds will take place during the tournament.
For Phil Taylor the tournament will begin in second round against Kevin Dowling. The outstanding match of the first evening probably will be the clash between Robbie Green and James Wade in Preliminary Round.
Participants, Schedule, Draw
9. May
Premier League
The 14. and last League Day of this year's Premier League will be played tonight in Newcastle.
With Michael van Gerwen, Raymond van Barneveld and reigning champion Phil Taylor three of the four Play-Off participants are already fixed. Fighting for the fourth play in the Play-Offs, which will take place next Thursday in the O2 Arena in London will be James Wade, Robert Thornton and Simon Whitlock. Whitlock and Thornton will as Raymond van Barneveld and Adrian Lewis stand twice at the oche while Wade has only one match but that against Phil Taylor.
So that it will stay a gripping evening thoughout the PDC has rescheduled the matches.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Table
8. May
Darts Performance Centre
On the last League Day of Premier League the topics are the battle for positions in the table and the fight for the last Play-Off
place. And it is discussed whether already qualified players will still have the desire to win their matches...
Premier League Week 14
Austrian Darts Open
Today the PDC published the schedule of the Austrian Darts Open.
In The afternioon and in the evening session two Host Nation Qualifiers will play on the main stage in Wiener Neustadt. The afternnoon session will be opened by the match between Kevin Painter and Terry Temple on the main stage. In the evening session the first match on the mainstage is the match between Gary Anderson and newcomer John Bowles - the match will be a repeat of a memorable clash during the last PDC World Championship.
All top players will play during the eveneing session on mainstage.
Participants, Schedule
7. May
Global Darts in Wigan
As the last UK Open Qualifiers usually are especially thrilling, I travelled to Wigan to watch them "live".
To be sure it was worth it and I saw a lot of good darts not only from the well-known players!
UK Open Qualifier 7
PDC Rankings updated
Due to the Pro Tour Events over the last few years there were changes PDC rankings. Not much happened in the Order of Merit but in the Pro Tour Order of Merit behind places 1 and 2 (Michael van Gerwen and John Part) a lot was stirred up. After the last two UK Open Qualifiers we now have got the final UK Open Order of Merit.PDC Rankings
PDC Pro Tour
6. May
Players Championships 1 + 2
Robert Thornton won the first Players Championship 2013 with a 6:0 whitewash over Ronny Huybrechts.
In the final Thornton had an imprssive 11 average. The till then convincing playing oder Huybrechts brother was just not
able to keep up. In the semi-finals stood Gary Anderson and Kim Huybrechts.
The second Players Championship on Sunday was won by Michael van Gerwen. He defeated in the final Stuart Kellett 6:1. The semi-finals reached Dennis Smith and Phil Taylor.
Participants, Results
Austrian Darts Open
Under the Qualifiers for the fourth event of the European Tour are Steve Beaton, Kevin McDine and Dennis Smith who is at the moment quite successfull on the
PDC Pro Tour. The UK Qualifier was played last Friday in Wigan.
As well at the weekend in Wigan the draw for the first round of the tournament took place which will be played end of May/beginning of June in Wiener Neustadt. The Host Nation Qualifier and the European Qualifier will take place on the day before the tournament begins in Wiener Neustadt. stattfinden.
Participants, Draw First Round
3. May
Pro Tour Weekend, Wigan
This weekend again again a Pro Tour weekend takes place in Wigan - the first two Players Championships 2013 will be played. Contrary to the UK Open Qualifiers only Tour Card holders can take part in the Players Championships. Thus the number of participants is limited to 128. Should not all 128 Tour Card holders register free places are filled with players who took part in Qualifying School but didn't manage to get a Tour Card.As last weekend the weekend again begins already tonight with the UK Qualifier for the fourth event of the European Tour, the Austrian Darts Open, which will be played end of May-beginning of June in Wiener Neustadt. 83 players registered.
Participants, Results
Premier League Week 13
After the 13. League Day of Premier League three of the play-off places are taken. Michael van Gerwen, Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld
won their matches against Andy Hamilton, Robert Thornton and Adrian Lewis and secured their places in the top four.
James Wade lost both matches against Simon Whitlock and Andy Hamilton, but at the moment still is on fourth place of the table. Robert Thornton is only one point behind and Simon Whitlock two points - both will play two matches on the last league day and can bump James Wade who has only one match against Phil Taylor. Hamilton is after only one win out of his two matches yesterday out of the hunt.
Results, Table
Report Thirteenth League Day
2. May
European Darts Open
After the frist round draw the PDC today published the detailed schedule of the first and second round.All host nation qualifiers will play their first round
matches on Friday during the evening session on the main stage. Raymond van Barneveld, Phil Taylor and World Champion Adrian Lewis
will play there as well during the first evening.
The tournament will be opened on Friday afternoon with the match between Dave Chisnall and Chris Aubrey on the main stage and the match between Wayne Jones and one of the European Qualifiers on the second stage.
The crowd this time for the first time can follow the matches on the second board live as well though only as many fans as the seize of the room allows.
Participants, Schedule First and Second Round
Premier League
On the second last League Day Premier League comes to Liverpool.
Five matches are on the schedule, James Wade and Andy Hamilton both have to play two matches. For Hamilton it is the last chance to progress into the play-offs. But his two opponents are Michael van Gerwen and James Wade. Wade will try to assert his fourth place in the league table - beside Hamilton he'll play Simon Whitlock, who's bound and determined to reach the play-offs. Wade's direct chaser Robert Thornton will play Phil Taylor. Third of the table Raymond van Barneveld will meet last of the table Adrian Lewis.
Schedule, Results, Table
Darts Performance Centre
Last week Paul Gillings couldn't follow Premier League live. But he found out that match analysis
is much easier when you know the outcome ...
Premier League Week 13
1. May
UK Open
After the Pro Tour weekend and with all Speedy Hire Qualifiers played all participants of this years UK Open are known.The
tournament will be played from 6. - 9. June in Bolton.
Due to the big number of participants in the qualifiers it was especially hard this year to qualify for the tournament. Thus even Phil Taylor will enter the tournament already in second round because he didn't manage to play himself under the Top 32 of UK Open Order of Merit. James Wade is one of the top players who enters the tournament in first round. Dennis Ovens who still suffers under should problems in his throwing arm didn't manage to qualify at all.
Participants, Schedule
European Darts Open
In Wigan the draw for the European Darts Open took place, which will be played from 17. - 19. May in Düsseldorf.
Both the host nation qualifier and the European qualifier will played on 16. May.
Participants, Draw first round
WDF/BDO Results
Deta Hedman won both the Polish Open and the on the following day played Polish Masters, her opponents in the finals were Donna Rainsley from England
and Irina Armstrong from Germany.
Paul Jennings won the Polish Open and Darryl Fitton the Polish Masters against their Dutch opponents Jeffrey de Graaf and
Jan Dekker.
Joshua McCarthy from England won both boy's titles, while the Russians Anastasia Klockek and Lidia Koltsova were the winners of the girl's tournaments.
Winner of the New Zealand North Island Masters were Jonathan Slicock and Pilly Luke.
The World
At the weekend the first tournament of the World E-Darts tournament series was played in Hong Kong.
Winner was Ronald Briones from the Philippines who defeated in the final Japanese Takehiro Suzuki. Anmerican Scott Kirchner and Paul Lim's son Harith Lim stood in the semi-finals.
Tournament Information
Pro Tour Weekend Wigan
Kim Huybrechts was the winner of the 7. UK Open Qualifier, which was played last weekend in Wigan. Huybrechts defeated in the final Canadian John Part with
6:3. For Huybrechts it was his first Pro Tour title. The semi-finals reached Ross Smith and Gary Anderson.
The last qualifier for the UK Open which will take place in June again was won by Michael van Gerwen. He defeated in the final a slightly tired looking Mervyn King 6:0. For van Gerwen it was already his fifth Pro Tour win this year. The semifinalists on Sunday were Adrian Lewis and the Scottish newcomer Jason Hogg.
Participants, Results
UK Qualifier European Tour 3
The Pro Tour weekend in Wigan started with the UK Qualifier for the third tournament of the European Tour, which will be played in May in Düsseldorf. Two
nine-darters were thrown and both players, Prakash Jiwa and Adam Hun,t managed to qualify for the
European Darts Open. Among the 20 UK Qualifiers is former World Champion Steve Beaton.
Participants, Results
27. April
Pro Tour Weekend
This weekend in Wigan the last two UK Open Qualifiers will be played. Again the number of participants is high. Raymond van Barneveld will not play in Wigan but he is already qualified. Phil Taylor will be among the participants.The weekend already starts tonight with the qualifier for the 3. tournament of the European Tour, the European Darts Open in Düsseldorf.
Participants, Results
Premier League
Birthday boy Michael van Gerwen didn't get a present from Simon Whitlock - the Australian defeated him 7:5. In his second match Whitlock played Phil Taylor
and was defeated 7:4. Taylor won his second match of the evening as well with 7:2 against Adrian Lewis. Taylor now sits behind Michael van Gerwen on the
second place of the table followed by Raymond van Barneveld with 17 points as well but the better leg difference. The Dutchman
celebrated a clear 7:2 win over James Wade which brought him two more points.
Like Taylor Robert Thornton won twice in Birmingham - he defeated Andy Hamilton and Adrian Lewis.
Report 12. League Day
Darts Performance Centre sponsert Spieler
For some time already the Darts Performance Centre searched for a player to sponsor. As was published yesterday
now he was found: John "The Bulldog" Bowles.
Premise of course was that the player is open for the ideas of the Darts Performance Centres.
The World
Next Sunday "The World", the dartslive Softdart tournament, starts into the third season.Among the participants are a lot of players from Asia players from the UK , the USA, Canada, Australia and several European Countries among those Boris Krcmar and Kurt van de Riijk, who are known from PDC tournaments.
The tournament again will be televised live: Live Stream
Tournament Information
25. April
Premier League
For the twelfth League Day Premier Legaue today travels to Birmingham. Again six matches will be played and
four of the players have to play two matches each: Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis,
Simon Whitlock and Robert Thornton. Michael von Gerwen, who celebrates his birthday today - as does Eric Bristow by the way -, Raymond van Barneveld and
James Wade, who at the moment together with Phil Taylor sit on the play-off places all have only one match. Andy Hamilton - at the moment on sixth place in the table - has only one match as well.
He will play against Robert Thornton.
Schedule, Results, Table
UK Open
Yesterday in Alexandra Palace in London the last of four Speedy Hire Qualifiers took place. Austrian
Maik Langendorf caused a small sensation - he is among the eight players who managed to qualify for the tournament.
UK Open
24. April
Darts Performance Centre
In the preview this week once again the problem "two matches on the same evening" is addressed. Beside we get an answer to the question how many points
will be needed to get into the play-offs and of course we again find some tips...
Premier League Week 12
23. April
UK Open
On Monday in Wolverhampton the third Speedy Hire Qualifier for the UK Open took place. Among the eight players who
managed to qualify is BDO Top player Robbie Green.
The former BDO World Champion Keith Deller took part as well but failed to qualify.
UK Open
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane - Part 7
Adam "Thorn" Smith still is on St. Thomas. He even manahes it ro get to the best known Dart Bar of the island but he's not enough time to even throw a single dart!
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane - Part 7
Richard Ashdown successor of Martin Fitzmaurice
The BDO accepted Martin Firtmaurice' resignation who was desposed from all BDO Office. Richard Ashdown - known as "Little Richard" - was appointed as successor and is now the official MC and caller of the BDO.
22. April
Bull's German Open
Both last year's singles winners - Geert de Vos and Deta Hedman - defended this year their German Open titles. Beside Deta Hedman together with Trina Gulliver for the fourth
time won the ladies pairs. They defeated in the final German pair Heike Jenkins/Marlene Westerman - the best placement for German players
in the tournament. Best men's pair were the Dutch Wesley Harms and Jeffrey de Graaf.
Winners of the Youth tournaments were Dutchman Jeffrey de Zwaan and Casey Gallagher from England. Both additional tournaments on Saturday were won by players from Bochum - Robin Tuchel and Kevin Münch.
Bull's German Open
PDC Challenge Tour
At the weekend three more tournaments of the PDC Challenge Tour were played in Wigan. On Saturday Adam Hunt was the outstanding player - he won
the first tournament and reached the semi-finals of the second. which was won by Welshman Jamie Lewis. Winner of Sunday's tournament was Ross Smith.
PDC Challenge Tour
19. April
Bull's German Open
At the weekend in Bochum the Bull's German Open will be played. 843 men, 166 ladies, 102 boys and 32 girls have registered among them Scott Waites, Trina Gulliver, Geert de Vos, the reigning champion, and Deta Hedman.Schedule and Results you can find here: 25. Bull's German Open
Premier League - 11. League Day
Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen were the big winners of the 11. League Day of Premier League. While van Gerwen as last week with wins against Raymond
van Barneveld and Adrian Lewis got four points and heads the table with 20 points, Phil Taylor is after a win against
Andy Hamilton and a draw against Raymond van Barneveld back on a Play-Off place.
Other winners of the evening were James Wade - against Robert Thornton - and Simon Whitlock - against Andy Hamilton. James Wade is on the second place of the table, Simon Whitlock still fights for a place in the play-offs.
Report eleventh league day
18. April
Premier League
Tonight in Dublin the 11. League Day of Premier League will be played and four of the players have to play two matches.
Among those is Phil Taylor who still has to fight for a place in the play-offs. Taylor will meet in the first match of the evening
Andy Hamilton and later clash with Raymond van Barneveld who in his first match before will play against Michael van Gerwen. Van Gerwen
has to play for the second time two matches - he'll play Adrian Lewis as well. Andy Hamilton in his second match meets Simon Whitlock.
In the other match of the evening Robert Thornton and James Wade will meet.
Schedule, Results, Table
UK Open
Yesterday in Manchester the second Speedy Hire Qualifier for the UK Open in Bolton took place and another eight players qualified
for the tournament.
Most prominent qualifier is BDO player Stephen Bunting, Anastasia Dobromyslova's husband Tony Martin qualified as well while the BDO World Champion herself didn't manage.
UK Open
European Tour Event 3
As the PDC announced for the next European Tour Event - the European Darts Open - all Top 32 of the
Pro Tour Order of Merit registered including Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld.
The European Darts Open will be played from 17. - 19. May in Düsseldorf. On 26. April the UK Qualifier will take place, on 16. May the European Qualifier and the Host Nation Qualifier. Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
17. April
Darts Performance Centre
On the 11. League Day four players will have to play twice. Last week Michael van Gerwen showed that it is possible
to win both matches...
Premier League Week 11
Martin Fitzmaurice resigned
Martin Fitzmaurice - longtime caller and MC of the BDO - has resigned. Fitzmaurice already many a time came under fire
because of his racial slur and after his racial comments during the BDO British Internationals again hit the headlines.
As a result 73 year old Fitzmaurice who for many years left his imprint on the BDO World Championship draw the consequences.
Whether the BDO will take any further actions is not yet known.
Martin Fitzmaurice
16. April
Donny Joe is back
In his new blog why we t hear from him for such a long time and why he had not really much time to play darts last year.
The good news: 2013 he'll change both!
Musings: Life On The Road and New Technique
UK Open
Yesterday in Glasgow the first of four Speedy Hire qualifiers for the UK Open was played. Till 24. April three more will follow
- each a chance for eight more players to qualify. Among yesterday's qualifiers were BDO players
Gary Stone and Andy Boulton.
UK Open
15. April
Pro Tour Weekend Wigan
Simon Whitlock won the fifth UK Open qualifier on Saturday in Wigan. He defeated in the final Michael van Gerwen 6:1. In the semi-finals stood
Gary Anderson and Peter Wright.
On Sunday Michael van Gerwen for the fourth time this season won an UK Open qualifier - he prevailed 6:5 against Kim Huybrechts. The semi-finals reached Michael Smith and John Bowles.
Participants, Results
PDC Ranking
Due to the two UK Open qualifiers at the weekend in wigan there were again changes in the PDC rankings mostly in the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the UK Open Order of Merit.PDC Rankings
12. April
UK Open Qualifier 5 + 6
At the weekend in Wigan the UK Open Qualifiers 5 + 6 will be played. Again for both tournaments more then 220 players have registered. While Raymond van Barneveld will not play in Wigan Phil Taylor will be among the participants.Premier League - Tenth League Day
Michael van Gerwen was the big winner of the 10. Premier League Day - he defeated both reigning champion Phil Taylor and in the last match of the evening James Wade.
With 16 points he's top of the table.
James Wade in his first macth of the evening had defeated Adrian Lewis who's now bottom of the table as Simon Whitlock got two points with a win over Robdert Thornton. Raymond van Barneveld won a difficult match against Andy Hamilton and is behind James Wade and as Wade with 14 points on place three in the table. After his defeat Phil Taylor still is not under the top four.
Report Tenth League Day
11. April
Premier League
Tonight the Premier League will go on in Sheffield with eight players and five matches. James Wade and Michael van Gerwen both have to play
two matches and will meet in the last match of the evening. Wade will before play against Adrian Lewis while van Gerwen will play against Phil Taylor who
is this year far less dominant in Premier League as in the years before and sits on fifth place in the league table. Despite
another defeat last week Lewis managed to avoid relegation as all other might be eliminated players lost their matches as well. Simon Whitlock - one of those
too - will play against strong Robert Thornton tonight and Raymond van Barneveld will play against Andy Hamilton.
Schedule, Results, Table
Marshal Wade
James Wade plays a strong Premier League this year.
Unicorn's Uniboffin examins him in a technique spotlight.
Marshal Wade
Denmark Open
Dutch Jeffrey de Graaf won the men's singles of this years Denmak Open - he defeated fellow country man Jan Dekker in the final. The ladies title won Dutch Aileen de Graff - she defeated Fallon Sherrock from England.The youth titles were won by players from Denmark: Daniel Tyge Thybol and Sofie Jahn Bendorff.
10. April
Darts Performance Centre
Premier League will now go on with another format
toward the Play-Offs. But the blog looks back to last week as well especially to Wes Newton's problems.
Premier League Week 10
Interview with Paul Lim
Paul Lim is some kind of a "global" darts player and a "global legend" as well. Though almost 60 by now he still plays a lot of tournaments around the world. We could watch him during the PDC World Championship 2013 and last weekend during the superdarts 2013 where he stood in the semi-finals.
To the Interview
9. April
Darts Performance Centre
A member of the Darts Performance Centres tries to find out which would be his ideal flight/stem combination. Here he tells us
about his experience with different flights:
Flights Experiment
Bull's Super League Darts
At the weekend the second tournament weekend of Bull's Super League Darts Germany was played. Beside Bull's Super League Darts Eastern started into the first season.
Updated ranking of Ranking BSLD Germany:
BSLD Germany
Informations BSDL Eastern:
BSLD Eastern
More Who is Who Additions
Added were:Sharon Prins, Mohd Latif Sapup, Wayne Warren, Dave Prins, Gary Stone and James Wilson.
8. April
Results
The Super-Darts tournament 2013 was won by American Scott Kirchner who defeated his fellow country man Benjamin Dersch
in the final. Paul Lim and Lourence Ilagan reached the semi-finals.
Colin Lloyd lost his first match, Mark Wbester was defeated in a close quarterfinal by Benjamin Dersch.
Winner of the New World Darts Series tournament in Las Vegas was Darin Young.
Both the English ladies team and the English men's team were the winners of the British Internationals.
Premier League - Schedule
The PDC now announced the schedule for the remaining Premier League Days.
On League Days 11, 12 and 14 six matches each will be played and on League Days 10 and 13 fife matches each.
Schedule
5. April
Darts at the weekend
This weekend a lot of darts can be followed!
Tonight in Scotland the British Internationals begin in which teams from England, Scotland and Wales will play. The tournament will be streamed live:Live Stream.
On Saturday and Sunday the second weekend of the Bulls Super League Germany will take place in Rodgau without stream but with some kind of a live ticker on the PDC Europe homepage: Live Ticker.
Today as well in Las Vegas the second tournament of the Las Vegas New World Darts Series will begin - the main event on Sunday is part of the PDC North American Championship Tour 2013 and more than 140 players will take part among those John Part. It could be there'll be a live stream.
On Sunday in Hong Kong the Superdarts 2013 will take place - a tournament to which 16 players were invited by Dartslive, players from France, Spain, Japan, Hong Kong, the USA and England - Colin Lloyd and Mark Webster,both probably not really experienced soft-dart players. The tournament will be streamed live. More information: Super Darts 2013.
Newton and Anderson relegated
All four players involved in the battle against relegation yesterday lost their matches. So nothing changed in the table and Gary
Anderson and Wes Newton as bottom of the table were elimated from the tournament while Adrian Lewis and Simon Whitlock survived.
The only match not involved in relegation was won by Robert Thornton who defeated Phil Taylor 7:4 and now sits on fourth place in the table before Phil Taylor.Head of the table are Michael van Gerwen, Raymond van Barneveld and James Wade all with 12 points.
Next week Premier League will go on with eight players and six matches.
Report Ninth League Day
4. April
Focus and Flow
You can always hear how important Focus and Flow are in sport. But what excactly is it - flow?Focus and Flow
Premier League - Judgement Night
Tonight Premier League travels for the ninth league day to Brighton.
Of course the battle against relegation will be in the centre of attention. Today it will be decided who are the two players eliminated from the tournament At the moment Gary Anderson and Wes Newton are on the last two places of the table but Simon Whitlock is not really far away and even Adrian Lewis' seven points might be not enough to stay in the league.
All other players will try to get into a good position for the play-offs.
Results, Table
3. April
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane - Part 6
Though no longer directly in the catchment area of the hurricane it still forces changes in the course. But the passengers decide to enjoy themselves nevertheless.
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane - Part 6
Darts Performance Centre
In the centre of the preview on the ninth Premier League Day of course is the battle against relegation. But the Play-Offs are not
far either and so none of the matches of the night will be "unimportant"...
Premier League Week 9
PDC Rankings
Of course after the second event of the European Tour both the PDC Order of Merit and the Pro Tour Order of Merit changed. Michael van Gerwen now displaced Adrian Lewis as number 2 of the world.Beside we've got the first European Order of Merit for this year.
PDC Rankings
2. April
Wes Newton wins European Darts Trophy
With a close 6:5 win against Paul Nicholson Wes Newton got the till now biggest win of his career.
The final was a tight battle in which none of the players could to really get a crucial advantage - even the last leg was head to head throughout. Both players missed matchdarts but Newton returned to the oche first and kept his nerve to hit the double.
In the semi-finals Newton had defeated Mensur Suljovic, Paul Nicholson eliminated Michael van Gerwen from the tournament. The third round and the quarterfinals were played yesterday as well.
Results
Report Third Round
Report Quarterfinals - Final
31. March
European Darts Trophy - Second Round, Evening
Paul Nicholson was one of the players of the evening session who thanks to a comeback reached the third round of the tournament. Nicholson already was 1:5 behind against
Colin Loyd but then won the last five legs of the match for a 6:5 win. Exactly the same managed Jamie Robinson against Brendan Dolan - he was 1:5 behind as well and then won five legs in a
row to to progress to the third round.
Michael van Gerwen, Dean Winstanley, John Part, Justin Pipe, Wes Newton and Nick Fulwell won through into the next round as well which will be played tomorrow afternoon.
The last German player in the tournament - Max Hopp - was defeated 3:6 by Dean Winstanley.
Results, Schedule third round
European Darts Trophy - Second Round, Afternoon
Mensur Suljovic only averaged 75.05 - much less then his opponent Michael Smith but won the match nevertheless with 6:4 and will now meet Andy Smith in third round. In most other matches of the afternoon the Top 32 players prevailed. The exception was Terry Jenkins who lost 4:6 to Terry Temple.European Darts Trophy - First Round, Evening
Most impressive player of the evening session was John Part who defeated Vincent van der Voort 6:1 and had an average of over 108. He will now play
in the second round on Sunday evening against Robert Thornton. The World number 3 Michael van Gerwen had no problems at all in his first round encounter with
European qualifier Leo Hendriks and progressed with a 6:1 win to the second round where he'll meet Darren Webster.
Beside Max Hopp who defeated Croatian Dragutin Horvath 6:1 ausschaltete all German participants were eliminated during the evening. Max Hopp will play against Dean Winstanley in round two.
30. March
European Darts Trophy - First Round Afternoon
The afternoon session of the first day didn't bring many surprising results only Richie Butnett and Steve Beaton were already elimated from the tournament
by UK Qualifiers.
None of the German players played in the afternoon session. From the European qualifiers who had to play in the afternoon only Austrian Mensur Suljovic survived the first round.
Results
European Darts Trophy
Today in Sindelfingen the European Darts Trophy begins with the matches of the first round in an afternoon - and an evening
session.
Both times matches are played on a main stage and a second stage. The tournament will not be televised nor streamed on the internet.
But one can follow the matches via Live Scores on the PDC homepage: Live Scores.
Participants, Schedule
Qualifiers European Darts Trophy
Yesterday evening in Sindelfingen the European Qualifier and the Home Nation Qualifier for the European Darts Trophy were played.By the Home Nation Qualifier Michael Kiebel, Tomas Seyler, Max Hopp, Mario Gaisbauer and Jyhan Artut qualified for the tournament. Among the Qualfiern were beside others Mensur Suljovic, Co SDtompe and Ronny Huybrechts.
29. March
Withdrawals European Darts Trophy
After yesterday's Premier League day to players withdraw from the tomorrow in Sindelfingen starting European Darts Trophy - the second event of the European Tour. James Wade withdraw due to illness - he's got the flu. Simon Whitlock prefers to concentrate on the next Premier League Day to avoid elimination from the tournament.The two places will be filled with a European Qualifier and a Home Nation Qualifier. Both qualifiers will be played tonight in Sindelfingen.
Updated Schedule, Participants
Premier League - Eighth League Day
After the eighth league day of Premier League fight against relegation is still not decided. Wes
Newton defeated Gary Anderson whose double trouble develops slowly into a nightmare and switched places with him. Both now sit with 5 points each on the
relegation places. Adrian Lewis won against Andy Hamilton, has got now 7 points and sits on place seven but still can't be sure he's safe.
Simon Whitlock lost 1:7 to a sensationally playing Robert Thornton and is eighth of the table with just 6 points - that could be not enough to avoid relegation.
There are four players with 10 points each now at the top of the table. Phil Taylor deafeated Raymond van Barneveld and is on first place. Michael van Gerwen lost to James Wade and is now second while James Wade is third and Raymond van Barneveld is fourth.
Report
28. March
Darts Performance Centre
And yet again a preview of the eight league day of Premier League...
But its a preview without predictions - who really can predict anything when Premier League comes to Glasgow?
Premier League Week 8
Premier League
Tonight Premier League comes to Glasgow.
Only two league days till relegation. One of the players on a relegation place at the moment is Scotsman Gary Anderson. To be sure he'll have the crowd behind him in Glasgow - he will play last of the table Wes Newton. The second Scottish player - Robert Thornton - will meet the till now not convincing Simon Whitlock. Adrian Lewis - still not far away from relegation - will play Andy Hamilton. Head of the table Michael van Gerwen will stand with James Wade at the oche. And then of course we'll have once again the always interesting clash bewtween Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld. at the oche.
Results, Table
27. March
Darts Performance Centre
Instead of a preview to tomorrow's Premier League we this time hear in the Darts Performance Centre Blog about a cooperation to
support young players and to help them up the darts career ladder.
The Youth of Today!
And some more players...
A few more players were added to the Who is Who - now I am hopefully finished soon...
Paul Lim, Robert Marijanovic, Nam Leung Chun und Charl Pieterson.
PDC Rankings
Due to the UK Open Qualifier 3 and 4 there were some changes in the PDC Rankings.Beside after the Challenge Tour Weekend we've got the first PDC Challenge Tour Order of Merit 2013.
PDC Rankings
25. March
PDC Challenge Tour 3
On Sunday the third event of the Challenge Tour was the closure of the youth tournament weekend.
Winner was the 19 years old Welshman Kurt Parry, who for the first time won a PDC Youth Event. Parry who had thrown druing the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship on Friday a nine-darter defeated Daniel Day in the final who stood in both events on Saturday in the semi-finals.
Challenge Tour
PDC Challenge Tour 1 + 2
On Saturday the first two Challenge Tour events were played and under the participants were the international youth players who had come to Barnsley to take part in
the World Youth Championship. Saturdays events were dominant be the young Austrian Rowby John Rodriguez who won the first event and
only just lost the final of the second tournament to Josh Payne.
PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship
In the final of the PDC Unicorn World Youth Champiuonship 2013 Ricky Evans and Michael Smith will stand at the oche.
The World Youth Championship was played last Friday in Barnsley with 64 participants. The final between Evans and Smith - who defeated in the semifinals Arron Monk and Adam Hunt - will take palce on 16. May during the Premier League Play-Offs in the O2 Arena in London.
Both Michael Smith als auch Kurt Parry threw a nine-darter druing the tournament. Reigning Champion James Hubbard was already elimated first round by Matthew Dicken.
Participants, Results
22. March
Additions Who is Who
Some more players were added:Richie George, Daryl Gurney, Jani Haavisto, Max Hopp, Dave Harrington und Jarkko Komula.
Premier League - Seventh League Day
Phil Taylor was one of the winners of the seventh Premier League Day. After losing the last two league days he yesterday
could celebrate a 7:2 win over Wes Newton and now is on place three of the league table.
Even clearer was Michael van Gerwen's win - he defeated Gary Anderson 7:1 and moved due to the leg difference up to the first place before his fellow country man Raymond van Barneveld. Van Barnveld got in the last match of the evening a draw against James Wade.Wade now sits on place four of the table.
Adrian Lewis managed with his second win of the season against Robert Thornton to move a little bit clear of the bottom of the table, while Wes Newton and Gary Anderson are now on the relegation places. But Lewis and Anderson both have five points. Andy Hamilton won his match against Simon Whitlock.
Premier League 2013 - Seventh League Day, Cardiff
21. March
Premier League
Today Premier League travels for the seventh league day to Cardiff.
The two players on the relegation places have difficult matches: Wes Newton plays against Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis will play Robert Thornton who won a Pro Tour Event at the weekend. The two players on top of the table, Raymond van Barneveld und Michael van Gerwen, will play against James Wade and Gary Anderson. In the first match of the evening Andy Hamilton and Simon Whitlock will stand at the oche.
Schedule, Results, Table
European Tour 2
The PDC now announced the detailed schedule of the European Darts Trophy.
All German participants who will not be known till after the Qualifier on 29. March will play their first round matches on Saturday evening on the Main Stage.
Participants, Schedule
20. March
Darts Performance Centre
The last league day left some marks - both with the crowd and with the players...
Premier League 2013 - Seventh League Day, Cardiff
Tournament Calender 2013
The tournament calender was amended by several new dates among those the events of the PDC North American Championship Tour nad a lot of international tournaments.Tournament Calendar
19. March
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane - Part 5 5
Adam "Thorn" Smith cruise still follows the hurricane. Everywhere where the passengers go ashore the can see the damage. But luckily it's not as bad as they feared...
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane - Part 5
Mariflex Open
Stephen Bunting and Deta Hedmann are the winners of this year's Mariflex Open. Stephen Bunting defeated in the men's final Belgian Geert de Vos mit 3:0, Deta Hedmann
won 2:1 against fellow country woman Rachel Brooks.
The Youth's titles got Casey Gallagher and Coline Roelofs.
Deta Hedman together with Fallon Sherrock won the Ladies Pairs and together with Robbie Green the Mixed Pairs as well. The Men's Pairs were won by the Dutch double Wesley Harms/Jeffrey de Graaf.
18. March
PDC North American Championship Tour
The PDC today announced the details of the PDC North American Championship Tour 2013 (North American Pro Tour).The Tour this year will consist of eight NACT tournaments, last year it had been only three. Beside two tournaments of the New World Darts Series will count for the North American Order of Merit as well. So this year dartplayers from North America can play much more events to qualify for the PDC World Championship. Price money for the tournament winners is slighlty higher this year.
PDC North American Championship Tour
DDV Ranking tournament, Karlsruhe
At the weekend in Karlsruhe a DDV ranking tournament was played. Winner of the men's singles was Kevin Münch. Ladies singles were won by
Anne-Marie Scherer. Lisa Dern won the girl's singles and Henrik Dane the boy's tournament. On Sunday additional singles and the doubles tournaments were played.
Ladies pairs were won by Jenkins/Westermann, men's pairs by Rice/Kunze. The additional singles winners were Stefanie Luck and Alexander Tauber.
Pro Tour Weekend, Wigan
Michael van Gerwen was the winner of the third UK Open Qualifier as well. He defeated in the final Michael Smith.
The semi-finals reached Robert Thornton and Peter Wright. During the tournament both Gary Anderson and
Andy Hamilton - who celebrated his birthday on the day - a nine-darter.
The fourth qualifier was won by Robert Thornton who defeated Jamie Caven in the final. Robert Thornton won in the semi-finals against Saturday's winner Michael van Gerwen and Jamie Caven prevailed against Gary Anderson.
Participants, Results
European Tour 2
After the UK Qualifier for the second European Tour event 2013 on Friday the draw for the first round took place.
Among the players who qualified is the winner of the first event John Part.
The European Qualifier and the Home Nation Qualifier will be played on the Friday before the tournament in Sindelfingen.
Participants, Schedule, Draw first round
BDO Torremolinos Open
At the weekend the BDO Torremolinos Open took place. The men's title got Phill Butler from Spain. Anneke Kuijten from the Netherlands won the ladies title. Men's douubles were won by Goodin/Stockton from France, the ladies title by Readhead/Collins from Istria.15. March
Pro Tour Weekend, Wigan
This wekend in Wigan the UK Open Qualifier 3 and 4 take place. Again over 200 players including Phil Taylor registered.The Pro Tour weekend already starts tonight with the UK Qualifier for the second European Tour event which will be played in Sindelfingen at Easter.
Participants, Results
Premier League - Sixth League Day
After Andy Hamilton had defeated Phil Taylor already last weekend during the UK Masters he yesterday could celebrate another clear win over the reigning
Premier League Champion who couldn't convince.
First of the table Raymond van Barneveld got a draw against a once again strong playing Robert Thornton. Gary Anderson and Adrian Lewis played 6:6 as well while Simon Whitlock and Michael van Gerwen both won two more points each.
Wes Newton and Adrian Lewis still sit on the relegation places at the end of the table. Simon Whitlock switched with Gary Anderson and now sits on place seven. Raymond van Barneveld still heads the league table followed by Michael van Gerwen. At the moment Phil Taylor wouldn't be in the play-offs.
As last week Sammi Marsh and Daniella Allfree were the walk-on girls of the evening.
Report Sixth League Day
Participants, Schedule, Results, Table
14. März
Premier League
Today Premier League travels to Manchester, the Manchester Arena is not sold out.
With each league day relegation comes closer and the pressure on the players at the end of the league table - at the moment Adrian Lewis and Wes Newton - grows. Adrian Lewis today will play G Robert Thorntonary Anderson who defeated Phil Taylor last week. Wes Newton will play Michael van Gerwen who as Phil Taylor last week for the first time lost a match.
Phil Taylor will play Andy Hamilton who eliminated him last weekend from the UK Masters, Top of the table Raymond van Barnveld meets and Simon Whitlock, who managed last week to break away from the end of the table, plays against James Wade.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Table
13. March
180! Fascinating Darts Facts
That is the title of Patrick Chaplin's newest book which was published end of last year.
I didn't count whether it really were 180 facts but enjoyed reading the entertaining and informative book.
180! Fascinating Darts Facts
Darts Performance Centre
The preview of the sixth league day of Premier League among others takes up the discussion how many points will be
necessary to avoid relegation...
Premier League 2013 - Sixth League Day, Manchester
12. March
BDO/WDF Results
Winner of the 23. Isle of Man Open, which was played last weekend, were Stephen Bunting and Anastasia Dobromyslova. Under the participants was Andy Fordham, who tries a comeback.
He after all reached the board final.
Winner of the Greater Vancouver Open in Canada were Dion Laviolette andd Mandy Fleck. For Laviolette it was the second successive win. On the weekend befoire he was the winner of the Halifax Open. There the women's tournament was won by Cindy Hayhurst.
The Australian West Coast Classic were won by Shane O'Connor and Lorraine Burn.
The Trakai Castle Cup in Lithunia was won by Arunas Ciplys and Vilma Armaliene.
PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship
By now the field of participants for the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship is complete.
The last player to qualify was Austrian Rowby John Rodriguez.
The Youth World Championship will take place on 22. March in Barnsley, 64 young players will take part. It will be played down to the final. The final then will be played during the Premier League Play Offs on 16. May on the stage of the O2 Arena in London and it will be televised.
Participants
European Tour 2
The PDC now announced the seeded players for the second event of the European Tour - the European Darts Trophy. As out of the Top 32 of the Pro Tour Order of Merit
five players will not take part - Phil Taylor, Raymond van Barneveld,
Adrian Lewis, Gary Anderson and Wayne Jones - for them Arron Monk, Joe Cullen, Dean Winstanley, Darren Webster
and Scott Rand moved up.
For the participation in the European Darts Trophy in Sindelfingen over Easter the Pro Tour Order of Merit standings from 5. March are liable, John Part and Stuart Kellett have to qualifiy by the UK Qualifier which will be played on 15. March in Wigan.
Participants, Schedule
PDC Ranking
By the results of the UK Masters both the PDC Order of Merit and the Pro Tour Order of Merit were changed.John Part now tops the Pro Tour Order of Merit and moved up in the Order of Merit to place 21. Stuart Kellett moved up from rank 63 to rank 53 in the Order of Merit and is third in the Pro Tour Order of Merit. James Wade and Michael van Gerwen again switched places in the Order of Merit - Wade is again Nr.3 of the world.
PDC Rankings
11. March
John Part wins UK Masters
Three times Canadian World Champion John Part for the first time for over 18 months won a PDC ranking title. On his way to the final he defeated
Kim Huybrechts, Gary Anderson, Mensur Suljovic, Simon Whitlock and Adrian Lewis.
In the final he met Stuart Kellett, who for the first time reached a PDC final and beat him 6:4. Kellett won in the semi-finals against Andy Hamilton wo had eliminated the round before Phil Taylor from the tournament
Report Third Round
Report Quarterfinals to Final
Participants, Schedule, Results
10. March
UK Masters - Second Day
On the second day of the UK Masters the second round was played in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
From the players taking part in this year's Premier League only Wes Newton and Gary Anderson were elimanated from the tournament. Wes Newton lost to Mark Webster, Gary Anderson to John Part. The other eight Premier League players progressed into third round. Other players reaching the third round were Richie Burnett, Mensur Suljovic, Arron Monk, Stuart Kellett, Ronnie Baxter, who had the highest average of the day with over 112, and Dave Chisnall.
Report
Participants, Schedule, Results
9. March
UK Masters - First Day
In the afternoon session on the first day of the UK Masters a lot of seeded players were already elimated from the tournament while ind the
evening with the exeption of Steve Beaton all seeded players progressed among those all Premier League
players. Adrian Lewis had the toughest game and only won just so 6:5 against Dave Honey.
The highest average of the day had Scotsman Robert Thornton with 106 in his 6:0 over fellow country man John Henderson.
Report
Participants, Schedule, Results
8. March
European Tour 2013
This weekend in Minehead in England the first tournament of the European Tour 2013 will be played - the UK Masters.
It is the first tournament of the European Tour which takes place in England. As the other tournaments of the tournament series it will neither be televised nor streamed.
This afternoon the tournament will be opened by the match between Vincent van der Voort and Tony West on the main stage. All Premier League players will play tonight in the evening session.
Premier League - Fifth League Day in Nottingham
The fifth League Day in Nottingham whirled the league table all over the place.
Raymond van Barneveld after his 7:5 over Andy Hamilton with now four wins heads the table followed by James Wade who celebrated a convincing 7:1 win against Robert Thornton.
Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen both conceded their first defeats of the season der Saison just against the till now out of form Gary Anderson and Adrian Lewis. For Lewis it were the first two points on his account.
In the "relegation match" between Wes Newton and Simoin Whitlock first Newton dominated but Whitlock managed to turn the match around and win it 7:5. With four points he now sits on place eight of the table.
Report fifth League Day
7. March
Premier League
On the fifth League Day Premier League arrives in Nottingham.
Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen who are head of the table are the clear favourites in their matches against Gary Anderson and Adrian Lewis. Neither Anderson nor Lewis is in form at the moment.
The other three matches of the evening are more difficult to predict. The clash between Robert Thornton, fourth of the league tabel, and James Wade who's one place behind, could be interesting. Might be the relegation match between Wes Newton and Simon Whitlock will develop into a thrilling nmatch too.
Table, Schedule, Results
Darts Performance Centre
In the preview for the fifth league day of Premier League we again hear about Adrian Lewis' darting woes and get a might be answer
why Phil Taylor thinks he could even get better using his new darts.
Premier League 2013 - Fifth League Day, Nottingham
5. March
Topic Dartitis
The today published article first appeared in the American BEN.From the point of view of a person affected, who managed to heal himself, ideas are offered how come to grips with the problem and to get rid of it.
Dartitis can be cured!
Super League Darts
All participants in the Bull's Super League Darts Eastern are known. At the weekend several qualifiers were played to fill the last seven places.
Qualified are Rowby John Rodriguez, his brother Roxy James and Zoran Lerchbacher from Austria,
Nagy Csaba, Zolton Daranyi and Janos Vegso from Hungary and Boris Krcmar from Croatia.
Bull's Super League Darts Eastern
Rankings WDF/BDO und DDV updated
After the first tournaments in 2013 were played - for example the national German Championship(DDV) and the Six Nations Cup(WDF/BDO) - it was necessary to update the rankings.Rankings WDF/BDO
Ranking DDV
4. March
A conversation with Tommy Cox
To be sure Tommy Cox and the PDC were not really happy with Dartoid's last column, so Tommy Cox rang him up...
A conversation with Tommy Cox
29. February
Premier League - 4. League Day
Robert Thornton was the clear winner of the all Scottish battle and Gary Anderson is now on the penultimate place of the league table .
As dominant as Thornton was Michael van Gerwen in his match against Andy Hamilton
whereas Phil Taylor found James Wade an equal opponent - both players averaged over 100 and the match ended in a 6:6 draw.
In the relegation match Wes Newton had the edge over Adrian Lewis and got a 7:3 win which let him ascend to place 7 in the table. In the last match of the evening Raymond van Barneveld and Simon Whitlock only played an equal match for a short time. In the end the Dutchman was the deserved winner and Whitlock slid down to rank 8 in the table.
Report 4. League Day
28. February
Premier League
Tonight the Premier League comes to Exeter.There we'll see an all Scotland match between Gary
Anderson and Robert Thornton and a match which is already some kind of relegation match - the both players last of the table
Adrian Lewis and Wes Newton will play each other.
Then we've two matches with clear favourites Michael van Gerwen and Phil Taylor and a match which is difficult to predict but could be interesting between Raymond van Barneveld and Simon Whitlock.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Table
Darts Performance Centre
The Darts Performance Centre tries to find out what might be wrong with Adrian Lewis and what perhaps could help him
and then explains what exactly a "tilt" is and how it affects Wes Newton...
Premier League 2013 - Fourth League Day, Exeter
27. February
Focus and Flow
Flow is a state, in which everything seems to come effortless and smoothly together, a state unfortunately rarely achieved.In a series of articles sports psychology deals with the topics focus and flow. To begin with it is short and understandable explained how your brain works - necessary background knowledge. Perhaps one might be able after all to learn to get into the flow???
How Focus and Attention work
Additions Who is Who
Over the next few days the Who is Who will be once again supplemented.
Beside some "new" players today two new walk-on girls were added - those two who for the first time appeared in Aberdeen.
Players: Kyle Anderson , Lisa Ashton , John Bowles , Stephen Bunting , Jason Cullen , Rohit "Rune" Davids , Jeffrey de Graaf .
Walk-on Girls: Debbie Shaw and Jade Leigh Hunt .
26. Februar
European Tour 1 - UK Masters
The PDC now published the detailed schedule of the UK Masters which will be played from 8. - 10. March in Minehead.
Vincent van der Voort will open the tournament on Friday afternoon with his match against Steve West on the main stage. In the evening the Top 10 of the PDC will all stand ar the oche on the main stage - among them also Phil Taylor against UK Qualifier Andy Pearce.
UK Masters
PDC Rankings
The first Pro Tour weekend og the year caused some changes in the PDC Order of Merit including that Michael van Gerwen after his two wins at the weekend displaced James Wade as number 3 of the world. In addition we've got the "first" Pro Tour Order of Merit and the "first" UK Open Order of Merit 2013, both rankings beginning from null at the start of a new season.All players,who earned 800 pound or more at the weekend are already qualified for the UK Open in Bolton that means all players from Michael van Gerwen to Dave Weston.
PDC Rankings
Super League Darts
The PDC Europe has announced all players invited to play the Bull's Super League Darts Eastern. Among those are the two Austrians
Mensur Suljovic and Michael Rasztovits.Next weekend the qualifiers will take place - seven places are still to be allocated.
Bull's Super League Darts Eastern
Beside the PDC Europe announced that another, similar tournament series will be organised - the Super League Darts Iberia - for players from Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. Players like Antonio Alcinas and Carlos Rodriguez were already invited.
Super League Darts Iberia
German National Championship
At the weekend the German national championship was played in Rockenhausen.
National Champion 2013 is Kevin Münch, the ladies title was won by Anne Willkomm. Winners of the youth titles were Hendrik Dane and Anna - Maria Schulze.
The Two Person Men competition won Seifert/Rohleder, Two Person Women by Westermann/Armstrong.
25. February
UK Open Qualifiers 1 + 2
Michael van Gerwen was the dominant player of the first two qualifiers for the UK Open in Bolton at the beginning of June. The
young Dutchman was the winner on both days, on Saturday he defeated Dave Chisnall in the final, on Sunday Brendan Dolan.
The senmifinals reached on Saturday as well Kevin Painter and Ronnie Baxter, on Sunday Peter Wright and Raymond van Barneveld. On both days a Nine-Darter was thrown - on Saturday by Dave Chisnall, on Sunday by Kevin Thomas, an Associate PDPA member.
Participants, Results
Six Nations Cup
Winners of this years Six Nation Cups are the Dutch men's team and the ladies team from Wales. The Dutch men defeated Team England in the final
while the ladies from Wales won against the Dutch women.
Trina Gulliver got the award as best femal player of the tournament. The "best player of the tournament" award got Dutch Jan Dekker who had impressed among other things with a Ten-Dart leg.
Due to the live stream the complete tournament could be watched and for once the ladies didn't go short! Many thanks to Winmau and the Nederlandse Darts Bond!
23. February
European Tour 1 - UK Masters
Yesterday evening the UK Qualifier for the UK Masters was played in Crawley. The first of the European Tour Evenst will be played from 8. - 10. March in Minehead. The last 24 places in the tournament were on offer.
Between the players who qualified are the three times Canadian Wolrd Champion John Part, the former PDC Youth World Champion Arron Monk and the two West brothers who switched to the PDC last year.
After the qualifier the draw for the first round took place. The Pro Tour Order of Merit number 1, Dave Chisnall, will play against UK qualifier Darren Webster. World Champion Phil Taylor will play another UK qualifier: Andy Pearce and Michael van Gerwen will play fellow country man Jelle Klaasen.
UK Masters
22. February
Premier League - Third League Day
The third league day of Premier League 2013 didn't disappoint.
Especially impressive were Phil Taylor, Michael van Gerwen and James Wade who all averaged over 100 in winning their matches against
Simon Whitlock, Raymond van Barneveld and a once again disappointing Adrian Lewis.
Beside Taylor and Van Gerwen Robert Thornton is the third player still unbeaten. He fought himself to a draw against Wes Newton. Andy Hamilton and Gary Anderson played a rather evenly match though missed darts on the doubles cost Anderson a draw.
Report
Pro Tour 2013
This weekend the PDC Pro Tour starts with the first two UK Open Qualifiers in Crawley into the New Year.
The weekend will already begin tonight with the UK Qualifier for the first event of the European Tour 2013. 114 players will play for the last 24 places in the tournament.
The two UK Open Qualifiers are not only open for the Tour Card holders - all Associate Members of the PDPA could register as well. So now on Saturday 238 players and on Sunday 239 players will stand at the oche.
Participants, Results
Six Nations Cup
This weekend in the Netherlands the Winmau Six Nations Cup will take place.
Teams from the Netherlands, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland will fight for the win.
The complete tournament from the first dart on will be televised live by internet stream. You can follow the stream either here: Topsport or here Winmau from tonight 7 pm British time.
More information and the schedule: BDO Homepage
21. Febuary
Premier League
Tonight the Premier League will travel to the South English seaside resort Bournemouth.
Several interesting matches are on offer, match of the evening probably will be the clash of the two Dutch stars Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld who are both in top form. Another interesting match could be the match between James Wade and Adrian Lewis who are both more off form at the moment.
Participants, Schedule, Results
20. February
Darts Performance Centre
Tomorrow the third league day of the Premier League will be played in Bournemouth and Darts Performance Centre
considered whether in darts as in other sports there exists some kind of home advantage.
Premier League 2013 - Third League Day, Bournemouth
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane - Part 4
The Grand Princess still tries to find her way around the hurricane and the passengers have to stay on board.
Finally the ship can come safe into a port, but the storm has left some debris...
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane - Part 4
18. February
Scottish Open
The Scottish Open were played at the weekend in Renfrew near Glasgow in Scotland. Beside a few players from the Netherlands
most players were from the United Kingdom.
Nevertheless the men's singles winner came from the Netherlands - Wesley Harms defeated in the final Welshman Jim Williams. Another Dutchman - Remco van Eijden - played himself into the semi-finals.
The ladies singles tournament brought once again a win for Deta Hedman who defeated Fallon Sherrock in the final.
The men's pairs were won by English double Williams/Robson, they defeated the final the Dutch pair van Eijden/van de Pas. Winners of the ladies pairs were Sue Gulliver/Paula Jacklin who defeated J.Robbins/C. Savvery from Wales.
Scandinavian Circuit
The first tournament weekend of the Scandinavian Circuit 2013 was played in Finland. So a lot of Finish dartplayers took part in the
competitions.
The first tournament on Saturday had with Jani Haavisto a winner from Finland while the second tournament on Sunday was won by Per Laursen from Denmark. Those two players now head the ranking. Jarkko Komula - last year's head of the table who had recently impressed together with Jani Haavisto as the Team Finland in the PDC World Cup had no good start into the season and is ranked 24. after this first weekend.
Scandinavian Circuit
PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship
At the weekend in Germany, the Netherlands/Belgium and in Finland qualifiers for the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship 2013 took
place.
The now two places for German players got Max Hopp (who had qualified last year as well) and Kai Gitthardt. All in all in Germany 24 players stood at the oche. The qualifier for the Netherlans/Belgium was won by Dutchman Dirk van Duijvenbode. In Finland like last year Teemu Harju was the winner.
The Youth World Championship will be played on 22. March in Crawley
Participants, Schedule
Bull's Super League Darts Germany
The first weekend of the new Bull's Super League Darts was played in Rodgau in the House of Darts.
On Saturday Tomas Seyler dominated, on Sunday it was Kevin Münch. So those two players now head the ranking. For youth player Marc Legant it was a rather hard weekend - he lost all his matches and is last of the ranking-table.
Bull's Superleague Darts
15. Februar
Premier League - Second League Day
The first two matches of the second league day were rather onesided as neither debutant Wes Newton nor James Wade showed a good performance
and the matches ended with clear wins for Raymond van Barneveld and Andy Hamilton. In a rather more thrilling third match Gary Anderson defeated Simon Whitlock 7:5. As usally
Anderson had a lot of double trouble and even missed a few matchdarts but in the deciding last leg he had no problems at all
and hit the double for the deserved win.
A disappointing performance again showed Adrian Lewis who just couldn't find the triples though he hit a few 180s. At the beginning Phil Taylor was not much better but he improved thoughout and in the end played a good match. He won 7:3. The last match of the evening developed in a close head-to-head race between Michael van Gerwen and Robert Thornton which ended in a fair 6:6 draw.
Report
Participants, Schedule, Results
Bull's Super League Darts Germany
Tomorrow the new tournament series of the PDC Europe will begin.
On Saturday and Sunday the first two league days will be played in the House of Darts in Rodgau.
More information:
Bull's Superleague Darts
Scandinavian Circuit
The Scandinavian Circuit will start at the weekend in his second season.
The first two tournaments will be played on Saturday and Sunday in Vaasky in Finland. On Saturday 74 and on Sunday 69 players will stand at the oche among them of course Jani Haavisto and Jarkko Komula who as Team Finland reached the semi-finals of the PDC Worldcup this month.
As the PDC recently announced the first of the ranking will get a place in the PDC European Championship as well.
Scandinavian Circuit
14. February
Premier League
Tonight in Aberdeen in Scotland the second League Day of Premier League 2013 will be played.
Match of the evening probably will be the clash between Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis. Lewis last week was defeated clearly by Simon Whitlock. He announced he'll play with new darts tonight. Taylor last week just so managed a draw against Michael van Gerwen.
>In the other matches of the evening debutans Robert Thornton and Wes Newton weill meet Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen - to be sure no easy tasks. James Wade will play against Andy Hamilton and Simon Whitlock against Gary Anderson.
Teilnehmer, Zeitplan, Ergebnisse
Superleague Darts Eastern Europe
As the PDC Europe announced there will be similar to Bulls Superleague Darts Germany a tournament series for players from Eastern European countirs
which will begin in April.
The participants will be teo players each from Austria Hungary and Croatia and one player each from Czechia, Slowenia and Slowakia - those players will be invited. Seven more players will qualify by three qualifiers played in March.
The four tournament weekands will take play in Eisenstadt in Austria. As in the German version the winner of the tournament series will get a price money of 1000 Euro and a place in the Preliminary Round of the PDC World Championship 2014.
More Information: Homepage PDC Europe
13. February
Dartslive in London
While I stayed in London for the PDC World Championship I of course had a look at the Dartslive automats and talked to the Dartslive people.
I am not really a soft-darts expert but I found it quite interesting and really can understand why in Asia and to a certain degree by now in the USA as well
those automats fascinate. To be sure it's fun to play on them!!!
Dartslive in London
11. February
European Tour 1 - UK Masters
As the PDC announced today all Top 32 players of the Pro Tour Order of Merit will take part in the first event of the European Tour 2013 which takes place from 8.
- 10.March in the Butlins Resort in Minehead. In the same venue in December 2012 the Players Championship Finals
were played.
On 22. February the UK Qualifier for the tournament will take place. 114 players will compete for the 24 tournament places
UK Masters
8. February
Premier League - First League Day
On the first League Day of the Premier League Raymond van Barneveld showed the best performanc with an 102 average and defeated Gary Anderson 7:4.
The replay of the World Championship final between Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen was a match in which neither player gained the upper hand and it ended in a 6:6 draw.
Debutant Robert Thornton defeated Andy Hamilton in a close match 7:5 while debutant Wes Newton missed to many doubles and lost 4:7. The match between Simon Whitlock and Adrian Lewis showed a luckless and concentration lacking Lewis who was defeated 3:7.
Report
Participants, Schedule, Results
7. February
Darts Performance Centre
The Darts Perfomance Centre has a look at the new Premier League and discusses what will happen due to
the innovations.
Premier League 2013
Premier League
Tonight in Belfast the first league day of this year's Premier League will be played. The PDC players used yesterday to warm up for the tournament with
four Ulster rugby stars and to have a look on Ulster's Ravenhill Stadium.
On the first evening we'll see a replay of the PDC World Championship final between Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen.
Betting companies see reigning champion Phil Taylor als favourit to win the tournament followed closely by Michael van Gerwen.
Walk-on Girls of the evening will be the two Irish models Kelly Donegan and Hazel O'Sullivan.
Participants, Schedule, Results
5. February
Eric Bristow was right - Phil Taylor must go!
In his new controvers and hotly debated column Dartoid asks whether Taylor after his questionable display against
Raymond van Barneveld
during the PDC World Championship really still can be a role model and an ambassador of darts...
Eric Bristow was right - Phil Taylor must go!
4. February
Team England retains title
With a 3:1 win over Team Belgium the English team retained the World Cup title. Before the Englishmen had managed to win the deciding double in their semi-final against
Team Wales. Once again Adrian Lewis showed a patchy performance but in the final he was much more convincing.
In the second semi-final the strong Team from Begium had played against Jani Haavisto and Jarkko Komula from Finland. This semi-final as well was decided in a double match which the Belgians won 0:4.
Report Semifinals and Final
Results
Dutch Open
Trina Gulliver and Scott Waites are the winners of the Dutch Open. Trina Gulliver defeated in the final Loraine Farlam. Scott Waites
prevailed against James Wilson. Trina Gulliver won together with Zoe Jones the ladies pairs as well. James Wilson together with Gary Robson got the title
in the men's pairs.
The Youth titles went to Russian Mikhail Kuriticin, Casey Gallagher from England and Dutchman Quin Wester.
3. February
World Cup Quarterfinals
Team Belgium was the only team in the quarterfinals which won both singles and didn't need the double to progress.
From Team Wales Richie Burnett lost his single match but Team Wales won the double with 2:4 against Team Spanien. A once again not really good playing Adrian Lewis lost his single again Japan's Sho Katsumi and was not really convincing in the double. But thanks to Phil Taylor Team England stands in the semi-finals. Especially close was the match between the German and the Finnish team. A today not really in form Andree Welge lost his single to Jarkko Komula. In the deciding double both teams showed nerves and struggled with a lot of double trouble. In the end Team Finland won 4:3.
Tonight in the semi-finals Team Belgium will play against the team from Finland and Team England will play against Team Wales.
Report Quarterfinals
PDC World Cup
Under the last 16 of the World Cup there were several sensational reults and five of the seeded teams were eliminated from the tournament.
One of the teams progressing into the quarterfinals was Team Germany which showed a convincing performance against Team Poland and won 5:2. Reigning Champion Team England showed a more so-so match in which it was Adrian Lewis who had most problems and only just managed to reach the winning line after Charl Pietersen missed two match darts. Team Australia didn't show a great performance, Simon Whitlock never really was in the match. Similar problems had Team Netherlands - Michael van Gerwen never found his form. Both teams lost to Team Belgium and Team Finland respectively.
Report Last 16
Participants, Schedule, Results
1. February
PDC World Cup
Today in Hamburg the third PDC World Cup starts.
In the afternoon the unseeded teams will play against each other. The eight seeded teams, among them reigning champion Team England and the German Team, will play the afternoon's winners in the evening session. Favourit to win is Team England, Taylor/Lewis, closely followed by last year's runner up Team Australia, Nicholson/Whitlock, and the strong Team Holland, Van Gerwen/Van Barnveld.
The tournament can be followed live by PDC Stream.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
Dutch Open
This weekend in Veldhoven the Dutch Open Darts will be played, an important DDA/WDF/BDO tournament. Under the participants are BDO World Champions Anastasia Dobromyslova and Scott Waites.All informations about participants, draw and tournament can be found here: Dutch Open
The stage finals of the ladies and the men will be televised live on Sunday evening on Eurosport 2. Beside all finals can be followed by stream.
European Tour
52 dart players from Europa took part in the European Qualifier for the first European Tour Event 2013 which will be played from 8. - 10. March in Minehead in England.
The eight tournament places got Belgian Kurt van de Rijck, Dutchman Jelle Klaasen, Finland's Jarkko Komula, the two Austrians Mensur Suljovic and
Michael Rasztovits and the three Germans Tomas Seyler, Bernd Roith and Jyhan Artut.
UK Masters
31. January
PDC World Cup
The schedule of the group phase of the tournament changed slightly. On Friday evening the seeded teams now will play the winners of the afternoon group matches while on
Saturday afternoon the seeded teams will meet the losers of Friday's afternoon session.
Schedule
Darts Performance Centre
The Darts Perfomance Centre previews the World Cup of Darts and again emphasizes how important in the tournament are team
spirit and bondage between the team members.
Besides the Darts Performance Centre offers a World Cup competition in which you can win a set of Performance Darts and free membership in the Darts Performance Centre.
PDC World Cup
European Tour 2013
Tonight in the same venue as the PDC Wolrd Cup starting tomorrow the European Qualifier for the first event of this year's European Tour will be played in Hamburg.As the first tournament will take place in England this time the UK Qualifier will be the host countries qualifier for all PDPA players and assocíate members from the UK. All other players have to take part in the European Qualifier by which eight places in the tournament are to be won.
The price money for the events was slightly raised and in 2013 no longer the Top 32 of the PDC Order of Merit automatically qualify for the tournaments but the Top 32 of the rolling Pro Tour Order of Merit.
European Tour
28. January
German Gold Cup
At the weekend in Bremen the German Gold Cup was played - a DDV ranking tournament which counts for the WDF ranking as well. Players with a PDC Tour Card
were not allowed to take part. Most participants were from Germany but players from the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland were in Bremen as well
Both the Men's Singles and the Ladies Singles were won by Dutch players. Rick Hofstra defeated in the men's final German Tomas Seyler 3:0 while the ladies final was an all Dutch final between
Aileen de Graaf and Sharon Prins - de Graaf won 2:0. The final of the Men's Doubles was a Dutch affairs as well - Hendriks/Meulenkamp were the 3:1 winners. The Ladies Doubles were won by Vonscheidt/Raiber.
The Youth titles won Vanessa Timmermann und Marvin Wehder.
Las Vegas Open
Winners of the Las Vegas Open, an ADO/WDF tournament, were Gary Mawson and Shea Reynolds. Gary Mawson threw in his final against Englishman Wes Newton a Nine-Darter.Wes Newton won the Men's Cricket Singles. Newton was not the only player not from North America taking part. Simon Whitlock and Stefanie Lück stood at the Oche as well and even together were the runner-ups of the Mixed Doubles.
BDO World Championship 2014
The BDO World Championship 2014 will be played from 4. to 12. January 2014.
Beside the BDO announced that the field of participants in the men's tournament will be increased to 40 and in the women's tournament to 16. The additional eight men will earn their places by qualifying from competition in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Asia, Baltic and Scandinavia and the USA. The 16 players in the women's World Championship will be decided as before by the BDO Invitation Table and the Internationalen Play-Offs.
25. January
BDO Personalities of the Year
The BDO has now handed out the awards for 2012.
For the 6. time Deta Hedman got the award Women's Player Personality of the Year. Tony O'Shea for the first time got the Men's Player Personality of the Year Award.
The Awards for the officials got Beryl Page und Graham Toms.
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane
Adam "Thorn" Smith continues his cruise and intends to have a look at the dart scene in the port cities. But he's to realise that it can be difficult to find the time for sightseeing and playing darts...
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane - Part 3
23. January
Darts Performance Centre
The Coaching Clinic looks at musicians and how they can help dartplayers. And we offer a a checkout practice game!
Coaching Clinic
22. January
World Cup of Darts
The team from the Philippines will not be able to take part in the PDC World Cup due to travel problems. It is replaced by team Italy consisting of
Daniele Petri and Matteo Dal Monte both experienced soft dart players.
The PDC has announced the detailed schedule for the group matches on Friday 1. February. The first match of the tournament will be in the afternoon the match between the teams from Belgium and Hungary. Brothers Kim and Ronny Huybrechts will stand for Belgium at the oche. Ronny just won a Tour Card in Qualifying School. Reigning Champion Team England (Phil Taylor/Adrian Lewis) will start into the tournament on Friday evening against the winner of the match Austria v Japan.
Participants, Schedule
21. January
Qualifying School
Yesterday the last tournament of this year's Qualifying School was played and Steve Coote, Royden Lam from Hong Kong, Joey Palfreyman and
Kevin McDine got the four Tour Cards for the semifinalsists. Kevin McDine threw in his last match a nine-darter, the third
of the tournament.
On Friday Fin Jani Haavisto, Northern Ireland's Daryl Gurney and Englishmen Louis Blundell and Ian Walters, won a Tour Card. On Saturday it were German Andree Welge, another player from Northern Ireland - Campbell Jackson -, Belgian Ronny Huybrechts, brother of Kim Huybrechts, and Englishman Mark Dewsbury.
On Sunday nine more Tour Cards were handed out depending on the Qualifying School Order of Merits. Players who collected most points over the four days and got a Tour Card: Martyn Turner, David Pallett, Dan Russell, Edwin Max, Paul Amaos, Ryan de Vreede, Kirk Shepherd, Kevin Dowling, Darren Johnson.
Qualifying School
17. January
Qualifying School
On the first day of Qualifying School international players won the Tour Cards for the four semi-finalists.
They went to South African Charl Pietersen, Canadian Ken MacNeil, German Jyhan Artut and English Youth Tour player Ricky Evans. Charl Pietersen threw in his match in the last 8 against Kevin McDine a Nine-Darter - the first ever in Qualifying School.
Qualifying School
16. January
PDC World Cup
The PDC World Cup will be the next PDC Major Turnier - it's played from 1. - 3. February in Hamburg.
There were some format changes this year for example the first round now will be played as round robin in eight groups in which one team each is a seeded team. From round 2 onwards, the last 16, the tournament is knockout.
Today during qualifying school the group draw took place. Reigning Champion Team England (Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis) was drawn in Group A together with Team Austria(Mensur Suljovic, Maik Langendorf) and Team Japan. Last years runner.up, Team Australia (Simon Whitlock, Paul Nicholson) can be found in Group G together with Team Croatia and Team New Zealand.
PDC World Cup
Tournament Information
Competition Winners
Both the PDC World Championship competition and the BDO World Championship competition had this year a winner from England. The first prizes - a set of Performance Darts and a free one year membership in the Darts Performance Centre - went to Lee Thomas and Mark Furber. Both second prizes - a calender you can play darts with and Patrick Chaplin's new book found in Tobias Pietsch and Brummi a German winner.Thanks for taking part and I hope you enjoyed it!
15. January
PDC Qualifying School
From Thursday 17. January onwards this year's PDC Qualifying School will be played in Wigan. The Qualifying School consists of four seperate events which will be played till Sunday. The four semi-finalsts of each day will get a Tour Card for two years. All the results are included in a ranking by which some more Tour Cards will be handed out. It's not yet known how many that will be. All in all every year 128 Tour Cards are available, 64 go to the top 64 of the PDC Order of Merit, 16 to participants of the Youth Tour 14 this year to qualifiers from the Phil Taylor practice competition and three as invites to players from the Scandinavian Circuit.Far more then 300 players have registered for Qualifiying School among them players who didn't manage to stay in the top 64 last year. Most players are from the United Kingdom, but there are international players as well.
Qualifying School
PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship
The PDC now published the details of the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship 2013.
While during the last years young players could qualify via Rileys dartzones they will not get this chance this year because of changes at Rileys. So now beside the international qualifiers the rsat of the 64 participants will be players who took part in the PDC Youth Tour 2012 and qualified by the Youth Tour Order of Merit.
The World Championship will be played on 22. March in Barnsley, the final will take place as last year during the Premier League Play-Offs on 16. May in London.
Youth World Championship
PDC Challenge Tour 2013
From 2013 the PDC Youth Tour will be called PDC Challenge Tour.
Again in 2013 the Challenge Tour weekends - five are confirmed till now - will consist of three tournamnts each. Changed has that from this year on players till 25 years of age can take part and that young players who played themselves under the top 64 of the PDC Order of Merit are not allowed to take part in the Challenge Tour any longer.
Challenge Tour
14. January
Scott Waites new BDO World Champion
Scott Waites is the BDO World Champion 2013. He defeated in a rather disappointing and one-sided final Tony O'Shea with 7:1. The averages of both players were were quite far below 90 - Waites averaged 86.43, O'Shea 81.90.
O'Shea who had impressed both in the quarterfinal and the semi-final with good performances never really was in the match but Scott Waites was not really convincing either and never came near the performance with which
he won the Grand Slam in 2013.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result-Table
12. January
Anastasia Dobromyslova for the third time World Champion
Anastasia Dobromyslova got with a 2:1 win against Lisa Ashton her third World Champion title. The final was a very even match and Lisa Ashton was a worthy opponent who threw the only 180 of the match and a 120 finish.
Both players averaged over 80. In the third leg of the third match Ashton showed nerves and missed her chance to take the lead. Dobromyslova used her advantage and won this leg and the next one to claim the title fo a second successive year.
The ladies final was played between the two men's semi-finals. In the first semi-final Scott Waites had now problems at all against debutant Richie George who just couldn't manage to settle on stage. So Waites got a 5:0 lead without losing a single leg. Then finally George found his way into the match and won set 6. But unimpressed Wiates continued his run and won the match in the next set. He for the first time stands in a Lakeside final.
The second semi-final was a much closer affair and the first four sets were shared between Wesley Harms and Tony O'Shea. After the second break O'Shea with some impressived darts got a two set lead. But it was the Dutchman wo returned the stronger from the third break and he levelled 4:4. O'Shea digged deep and finally won the match 6:4. Like last year Harms again was the loser of this contest and again O'Shea progressed into the final.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result-Table
BDO World Championship
The second quarterfinal evening was not as high class as the first but nevertheless both matches were thrilling. The best performance of tte evening showed Scott Waites who defeated Paul Jennings 5:2. First Waites clearly dominated
and in almost every leg reached the doubles first because of his higher scoring. With a 4:0 lead he went into the second break. It was Jennings who returned from the break much more determined and better playing and he won the next two sets
while nothing went together for a more and more frustrated Scott Waites. But in the last set Waites was back in the match and secured himself the set for the win.
The second quarterfinal as well developed into an interesting match. First Jan Dekker was by far the better player and he had a 3:1 lead going into the second break. After the break it was the young Dutchman who couldn't hit the high scores and who missed his doubles and George first levelled and then took the 4:3 lead. In set eight George's problems from the beginning were back and Dekker won the set without losing a leg. George didn't give in and fought back in the last set and managed to win set and match. He progressed into the semi-finals where he will meet Scott Waites.
The ladies semi-final was a very close match beetween former World Champion Trina Gulliver and reigning World Champion Dobromyslova prevailed 2:1 and will now play Lisa Ashton in the final.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result-Table
11. January
Premier League
The PDC today published the fixtures of the Premier League 2013.
On the first nine league days always five matches will be played. After those the last two of the league table will be eliminated from the tournament. Till the Play-Offs three league days with six matches each and two league days with five matches each will be played by the eight remaining players. As last year during the Play-Offs the final of the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship will take place.
The first league day of the Premier League will be the 7. February. Match of the evening will be the game between Michael van Gerwen and Phil Taylor, a repeat of the World Championship final 2013.
Participants, Shedule, Fixtures
Tournament Information
The optimal Dartboard
For mathematician David Percy the arrangement of the numbers on the dartboard is mathematically far from perfect.
So he developed a different arrangement which is mathematically optimal...
The optimal Dartboard
BDO World Championship
Both Wesley Harms and Tony O'Shea won their quarterfinals and will now meet as last year in the semi-finals.
The match between Wesley Harms and Darryl Fitton at the beginning was a rather even match, but than Harms got stronger and dominated. Tony O'Shea throughout the match scored better and more consistently then Robbie Green but suffered the whole match under double trouble and almost every time needed more then one dart to hit the winning double.Both matches were high class and interesting - a real good evening of darts. All players averaged over 90.
By reaching the semi-finals probably crowd favourite O'Shea and Dutchman Harms again will be invited to the Grand Slam of darts and both again will be offered a PDC Tour Card. Last year Ted Hankey was the only semi-finalist who accepted the offer and switched to the PDC.
The first ladies semifinal was won by Lisa Ahston who defeated Sharon Prins 2:0 without losing a single leg. She reached the ladies final for the first time.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result-Table
10. Januar
BDO World Championship
After the end of the second round Scott Waites is the highest seeded player still in the tournament. He defeated Belgian Geert de Vos without problems 4:1 and now will meet Paul Jennings in the quarterfinals
who won against Irishman Jason Cullen with 4:0. The Irishman was rather nervous at his Lakside debut, had a lot of double trouble and only won three legs while Jennings turned out to be a very clinical finisher.
Garry Thompson on his 48. Birthday didn't get a darts birthday present but lost a rather close match against Jan Dekker who is exactly half his age with 3:4. In the match of the two young talents Richie George prevailed over Jimmy Hendriks with a 4:2 win.
Bobbie George's son threw eight 180s, his opponent four.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Additions Tournament Calender
Both the dates of the Scandinavian Circuit and the North American Tour 2013 are known by now and were added to the tournament calender.While the only change in the Scandinavian Circuit is a tournament final played on the same day as the last of the tournaments the North American Tour this year will consist of seven tournaments - one a double header - instead of three.
Tournament Calender
9. January
BDO World Championship
The second round of the BDO World Championship started with a rather so-so evening. The first and the last match of the evening were rather one-sided
and Robbie Green and Tony O'Shea both progressed with a 4:1 win into the quarterfinals. Tony O'Shea's performance on the whole was more convincing then Robbie Green's and both opponents
played rather weak. In Steve Dougles case it to be sure was due to his illness - he's still recovering from a heart attack he had mid of December. The match between Wesley Harms and Alan Norris never really was gripping
though it went into a deciding seventh set. The match winner Harms impressed in parts with his clinical finishing, Norris more with his 180s. But all in all both players scored and finished rather inconsistently.
The best match of the evening - and the best match of the World Championship so far - was the match between number 1 seed Stephen Bunting and Darryl Fitton. Both players averaged over 90, both played consistently on a high level and both had chances to win the match. In the end it was Darryl Fitton who progessed with a 3:2 win into the next round.
Participants, Schedule, Results
8. January
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane
Adam "Thorn" Smith almost can't wait to get on bord of "his" ship. But will he find a dart board there???
In the Bullseye of a hurricane - Part 2
BDO World Championship
Yesterday evening the last first round matches were played. In the closest match of the evening Belgian Geert de Vos defeated Tony Eccles - who had switched back to the BDO last year - with 3:2.
Paul Jennings - who was reported to be ill - had much less problems against Ross Montgomery and won 3:1. In the final match of the evening one of the favourites for the title - Scott Waites -
white washed Dutchman Willy van de Wiel 3:0.
The first match of the evening was the last of the ladies quarterfinals. Trina Gulliver beat Julie Gore thanks to her clinical finishing 2:0.
Tonight the tournament will go on with four second round matches.
Participants, Schedule, Results
7. January
BDO Competition
We've almost reached the deadline - only mails which reach us before round two will start tomorrow will count!Competition
BDO World Championship
The biggest upset of day 2 of the World Championship probably was the elimination of three times World Champion Martin Adams from the tournament, he lost his match against young Dutchman Jimmy Hendriks 2:3.
In all other matches the seeded players progressed. For Scott Mitchell it was the first time he won his first round match. The best average had number 1 seed Stephen Bunting with around 92, the highest Checkout threw
Jan Dekker - a 150 Finish.
In the ladies tournament reigning champion Anastasia Dobromyslova had not many problems to beat Lorraine Farlam 2:0. Irina Armstrong lost 1:2 to Sharon Prins.
Participants, Schedule, Results
PDC Qualifiying School 2013
The number of registered players now reached 178 angestiegen plus divers invites. Among those now are two dart players from Hong Kong which both are under the top players on the "World" soft-darts tournament series ranking: Scott MacKenzie and Royden Lam.Registration is closing on 15. January. Might be some of the Lakeside participants will register. Till now there are some WDF players on the list but no better known BDO players.
Qualifying School
6. January
BDO World Championship
The BDO World Championship started yesterday with two big upsets - reigning chanpion Christan Kist and the number 1 seed of the ladies, Deta Hedman, crashed out of the tournament.
Christian Kist lost 3:1 against Robbie Green, Deta Hedman was defeated by Lisa Ashton with 2:0. Robbie Green had with 91.11 the highest average of the day. Beside Green Bobbie George's son Richie,who won a close match against Dave Prins with 3:2, Jason Cullen, Garry Thompson, Darryl Fitton, Alan Norris and Tony O'Shea, who white washed former World Champion John Walton.
Today the tournament will go on with another afternoon and evening session - beside others Stephen Bunting, Martin Adams and reigning champion Anastasia Dobromyslova will stand at the oche.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Bull's Super League Darts
Carsten Becker, Alexander Tauber and Marko Puls won in the qualifier the last three places in the new tournament series of the PDC Europe.
Super League Darts Information
5. January
Darts Performance Centre
The Darts Performance Centre has a look at the BDO World Championship which started today.
And they find it very difficult to predict a winner...
2013 Lakeside World Championship
PDC Ranking
Due to the PDC World Championship there were some changes in the PDC Order of Merit. Phil Taylor expanded his lead on number 2 Adrian Lewis. Michael van Gerwen is now up in fourth position while Gary Anderson and Terry Jenkins are out of the Top 10. Raymond van Barneveld regained a top ten position.PDC Ranking
4. January
BDO World Championship
Tomorrow the BDO World Championship 2013 will begin the the Lakeside Country Club. That's the start as well for the 40. anniversary celebrations of the BDO.
Reigning Champion Christian Kist, who played quite impressive during the Grand Slam in November, will play the second match of the afternoon session against Robbie Green. The bookmakers see him as one of the outsiders for the title - favourit is number 1 seed Stephen Bunting who'll play on Sunday afternoon.
Deta Hedman will play the first ladies match against Lisa Ashton tomorrow night while Reigning Champion Anastasia Dobromyslova plays Lorraine Farlam on Sunday night.
As last year the tournament will be televised by BBC and ESPN.
Participants, Schedule
Information Men's Event und Information Women's Event
BDO World Championship Competition
For all those who would like to try again their luck predicting participants in finals and World Champions this year we again offer a BDO World Championship competition.
The first price is a Set Performance Darts and a one year free membership in the Darts Performance Centre!
Competition
Bull's Super League Darts
Tomorrow the qualifier for the last places in the Bull's Super League will take place in the House of Darts in Rodgau. 87 players will fight for the last three places in the new tournament series among them well known names
like Marko Puls, Colin Rice and Ann-Kathrin Wigmann.
On 16./17. February the first tournament weekend will be played.
Super League Darts Information
3. January
PDC Awards Dinner
During the PDC Awards Dinner the awards for 2012 were handed out to the players.
Player of the year once again was Phil Taylor while his World Championship final opponent Michael van Gerwen got the Fans Player of the year Award, the PDPA Player of the Year Award and the Young Player of the Year Award. Dave Chisnall was Best Pro Tour Player of the Year and Dean Winstanley Best Newcomer. The award for the PDC Televised Performance of the Year got Raymond van Barneveld for his Grand Slam Final against Michael van Gweren while retiring referee Bruce Spendley was inducted in the Hall of Fame.
2. January
Premier League 2013
As the PDC announced during the Awards Dinner in London the Premier League 2013 will have 10 participants instead of 8.
The format will be changed slightly. Over the first nine league days each player will play the other nine players once. Then the last two of the table will be eliminated from the tournament. On the folliwng five league days before the Play-Offs the remaining eight players will play their return matches. The top four of the league table progress into the Play-Offs and will play for the tournament win.
Participants of Premier League 2013 are: Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis, James Wade, Michael van Gerwen, Simon Whitlock, Andy Hamilton, Wes Newton, Raymond van Barneveld, Gary Anderson and Robert Thornton.
Participants, Schedule
1. January 2013
Phil Taylor wins 16. World Champion title
Phil Taylor won the final of the World Championship against Michael van Gerwen with 7:4. The young Dutchman had dominated the first two sets of the match and won them. Phil Taylor managed to
draw 2:2 but van Gerwen again won two sets in a row and regained the lead. But then he seemed to lose momentum while Taylor got stronger and stronger. He first got the 4:4 and then won three more sets
to win the match 7:4. So Phil Taylor is the first winner of the new Sid Waddell trophy - quite appropriate as the commentator who passed away last year was a big Phil Taylor fan.
For reaching the final Michael van Gerwen was awarded with a place in Premier League 2013. The other Premier League participants probably will be announced tomorrow night.
For referee and caller Bruce Spendley the World Championship final was his last appearance on the big PDC stage.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
Report Final
A very Happy 2013 to everybody!!
31. December
PDC World Championship - Semifinals
Michael van Gerwen won the first semi-final against James Wade with 6:4. In the third leg of the fifth Set he threw a nine-darter
and produced almost another one in the next leg but missed the double 12 for it. Wade never gave in and managed the 3:3 but he
couldn't hinder van Gerwen to win the following two sets. Wade stopped him and won his fourth leg but already in the following
set van Gerwen was again in front and wrapped up victory with double 8.
In the second semi-final Phil Taylor already had a 5:1 lead when Raymond van Barneveld started a comeback and reduced the arrears to 4:5. But Taylor got ahead in the 10. set, prevented that the Dutchman could level and claimed the victory.
So in the final on 1. January Michael van Gerwen and Phil Taylor will stand at the oche.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
Match Reports Day 14, Semifinals
30. December
PDC World Championship - Quarterfinals 2
While the first two quarterfinals were rather one-sided the other two quarterfinals both developed into thrilling and hard fought matches. Wes Newton first
had an advantage over James Wade and won the first two sets but then Wade proved to be more consistent and steadier on the doubles and won
four sets in a row. Newton regained momentum and managed the 4:4 but somehow lost power in the deciding set again and Wade
prevailed.
Had the first quarterfinal of the evening already been a good and thrilling match the second between reigning champion Adrian Lewis and Michael van Gerwen was even better. Thanks to his higher scores van Gerwen at first dominated the match. But Lewis improved and then was a absolutely equal opponent, who scored more consistenly and was able to punish in the mid of the match van Gerwens double trouble with his own clinical finishing. This match as well went into a deciding ninth set. Lewis missed two matchdarts on double tops - key darts which decided the match in van Gerwens favour.
So the second semi-final tomorrow will be James Wade v Michael van Gerwen.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
Match Reports Day 13, Quarterfinals 2
29. December
World Championship Gallery
Of course I brought back some pictures from the Alexandra Palace in London!The players pictures are online now.
Gallery
28. December
PDC World Championship - Quarterfinals 1
The first two quarterfinals of this year's World Championship were both rather one-sided affairs.
Simon Whitlock just couldn't find a way to stop a brilliant playing Raymond van Barneveld and lost 1:5. Andy Hamilton never really was in the match against a strong playing Phil Taylor, won only two legs and lost with 0:5.
So on Sunday one of the semi-finals will be Raymond van Barneveld against Phil Taylor.
But first tomorrow the other two quarterfinals will be played.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
Reports Day 12, Quarterfinals 1
PDC World Championship - Day 11, Evening
Despite an ancle injury Michael van Gerwen dominated his match against Colin Lloyd and won it 4:1. He progressed into the
quarterfinals where he will mit on Saturday the reigning champion Adrian Lewis who won the last match of the evening against Kevin Painter
4:2. Though both players never played even near their best this match was the most interesting match in the evening session.
Before Raymond van Barneveld had dominated his match against Gary Anderson. Only in the first set the match lived up to expectations. After that Gary Anderson once again got into double trouble and even his usually scoring power seemed to have left him so that the Dutchman won 4:0.
Tonight the tournament will go on with the quarterfinals between Simon Whitlock and Raymond van Barneveld and the match between Phil Taylor and Andy Hamilton.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
Match Reports Day 11, Evening
27. December
PDC World Championship - Day 11, Afternoon
The third round match between Simon Whitlock and Dave Chisnall developed into the most thrilling match of the afternoon. The lead
changed several times, both players didn't use some chances and in the end Simon Whitlock won in a tiebreaker 4:3.
Wes Newton never reached the impressive form of his second round match but clearly dominated against a comparatively weak Mark Walsh who only managed to win one set. James Wade didn't lose a single set gainst Vincent van der Voort but had a lot of luck and won the match 4:0. The Dutchman missed too many doubles and had to pay for it with the elimination from the tournament.
Results
Match Reports Day 11, Afternoon
PDC World Championship
Today the PDC World Championship will go on with the last matches of the third round in an afternoon - and an evening
session.
The players will play for six more places in the quarterfinals, players like Michael van Gerwen, Simon Whitlock, reigning champion Adrian Lewis and five times World Champion Raymond van Barneveld will stand at the oche.
The Walk-on Girls from today onwards are two "old" aquaintances" - the Irish models Kelly Donegan and Hazel O'Sullivan.
Schedule, Results
PDC Qualifying School
121 players till now have registered for PDC Qualifying School which will take place from 17. - 20. January 2013 in Barnesley.Beside new names one can find PDC players who fell out of the Top 64 like Barrie Bates or Kevin McDine. Beside there are some international names on the list - among those Canadian Ken McNeil, German wunderkind Max Hopp, Norwegian Robert Wagner and Jani Haavisto from Finland whoi recently impressed during the World Championship.
Players can register till 15. January.
Qualifying School
24. December
Merry Christmas!!!
PDC World Championship - Day 10, Evening
On the evening before the Christmas break the last second round match was played first. Michael van Gerwen had to come back from 0:2
against Peter Wright but in the end won 4:2 and progressed into third round. He'll play his third round match against Colin Lloyd after the
break on 27. December.
The first two third round matches followed: Andy Hamilton defeated Terry Jenkins despite Jenkins' 13. Maxima with 4:1 and a much improved Phil Taylor whitewashed Robert Thornton who only won three legs in the match with 4:0.
So we know already that in one of the quarterfinal matches Andy Hamilton and Phil Taylor will meet.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
23. December
PDC World Championship - Day 10, Afternoon
In the afternoon of day 10 all the matches ended 4:2 for the winners Mark Walsh, Vincent van der Voort and James Wade.
Dean Winstanley threw a nine-darter in his match against Vincent van der Voort - the first nine-darter of this years tournament. Justin Pipe was unlucky against Mark Walsh as one of his shafts broke and he for some time had to use a dart of his opponent while his dart was repared behind the stage.
The two Walk-on Girls this week are Penny and Jessica Simpson. Penny Simpson is 18 years old and the younger and blond one of the sisters. She doesn't have a lot of experience as a model, this here is her first big appearance.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
22. December
PDC World Championship - Day 9, Evening
With convincing performances Wes Newton and Simon Whitlock progressed against Scott Rand and Colin Osborne to second round. Scott
Rand never came near the level of his first round match.
World Champions Adrian Lewis progressed as well in the last match of the evening but had some problems with a Denis Ovens on a par who missed some chances. Not a convincing match for a World Champion but it's good to see Denis Ovens starts to revcover from the problems with his throwing arm.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
The door stays closed
First I thought there are no news from the Alexandra Palace...
But I found out there are a few.
The door stays closed
PDC World Championship - Day 9, Afternoon
The second round continued with the matches between Kevin Painter and Ronnie Baxter, Colin Lloyd and Mark Webster and Raymond van Barneveld
and Brendan Dolan.
Kevin Painter and Ronnie Baxter played a rather close match which Painter won in the end as Baxter just didn't manage to use his chances. Colin Lloyd was too strong for Mark Webster and Raymond van Barneveld had less problems with Brendan Dolan then with his own performance but progressed to third round as well.
Results
Result Table and Statistics
Darts Perfomance Centre
To be sure the Darts Performance Centre has a look at the PDC World Championship as well. But is it really a World Championship?
And what could players do better?
The PDC World Championship
PDC World Championship - Day 8, Evening
The second round matches of the evening brought two one-sided matches and another thriller.
First a very sure and well-playing Terry Jenkins defeated a John Part who just couldn't keep up with 4:1. In the last match of the evening a fighting but chance less Jerry Hendriks against Phil Taylor didn't fare better and lost with the same result.
Inbetween the battle of the evening between Paul Nicholson and Robert Thornton took place, in which Nicholson looked like the sure winner but Robert Thornton came back into the match. The lead changed several times till Robert Thornton won the match in a sudden death leg.
Results
Matchreports Day 8, Evening
21. December
PDC World Championship - Day 8, Afternoon
In the afternoon session the first three matches of the second round were played. Andy Hamilton was the first player to progress
into the next round with a 4:1 win over Richie Burnett. With the same result Dave Chisnall defeated Daryl Gurney though it
was not as easy as the scoreline looks. Chisnall in almost every leg had to come from behind to win the set.
The last match between Gary Anderson and John Bowles certainly was the match of the tournament so far and Gary Anderson only won because the debutant missed several matchdarts.
Results
Matchreports Day 8, Afternoon
The murals are back!!!
The from John Part missed mural is back on the wall of the Alexandra Palace!!! The Dennis Priestley banner is back too though it's slighthly hidden by the commentary box.
PDC World Championship - Day 7
On Day seven of the tournament in the last first round match finally on of the favorits for the win - Michael
van Gerwen appeared on stage. He won his match 3:0 against darting legend Paul Lim but it was a hard fought for win against
a really good playing win who even threw the first 170 finish of teh tournament.
Another player who was seen as a potential winner, Kim Huybrechts, was defeated in a close five set thriller by Scott Rand. Far less problems to progress had Vincent van der Voort against Stuart Kellert and Mark Walsh against Darren Webster.
With the end of the first round the World Championship competition is closed now.
Results
Matchreports Day 7
20. December
Retirement or might be not???
It's too early to say whether Dennis Priestley will really retire from darts...
But for another well-known face this PDC World Championship really will be the last!!!
Retirement or might be not???
PDC World Championship - Day 6
On the 6. day of the PDC World Championship again one of the matches ended in a tiebreaker - North American Darin Young
and Colin Lloyd contested in a neck-to-neck race which finally in the last Set ended with a 6:4 win for Colin Lloyd.ieden wurde.
Beside the evening brought wins for Justin Pipe over an under par playing Andy Jenkins, a win from Ronnie Baxter over Dennis Priestley which charcterized by a lot of missed doubles and a rather one-sided win from Simon Whitlock over the Japanese qualifier Haruki Muramatsu who before had won his Preliminary Round match over an extremly nervous Dave Harrrington from New Zealand.
Results
Matchreports Day 6
19. December
Highgate Wood
Where can you find a wood which is more then 7000 years old???
Of course near the Alexandra Palace - otherwise I wouldn't have been here at this time of the year...
Highgate Wood
PDC World Championship - Day 5
Was the match between Jamie Caven and John Bowles yesterday's thriller of the evening today's match between Mervyn King
and Dean Winstanley was even better. Again an fifth set was necessary which in the end Winstanley won 6:4 and just avoided a
sudden death leg.
The other matches were more one-sided and all ended 3:0. Steve Beaton, Wes Newton and Colin Osborne progressed to second round though Colon Osborne had more problems against Lourence Ilagan then the scorelins tells. Ilagan before hat won his Preliminary Round match against Jamie Lewis with 4:3.
Results
Matchreports Day 5
18. December
Where...???
In the first of my PDC World Championship articles I offer you again some "Where" questions... and of course the answers as well!
Where...???
17. December
PDC World Championship - Day Four
On the fourth day of the PDC World Championship we could watch the resurrection of Mark Webster who showed a brillant performance
against Ian White, two rather one sided 3:0 wins by Peter Wright over Arron Monk and of James Wade over Peter Hudson.
The last match of the evening developed into a thrilling battle between Jamie Caven and PDPA qualifier John Bowles which in the end John Bowles - who earlier in the evening had won his preliminary match against Carlos Rodriguez 2:4 - won in a tie breaker 3:2.
Results
Matchreports Day 4
The World - Grand Final
Takehiro Suzuki from Japan won the final of this years "The World" tournament series against
Christian Perez from the Philippines.
Last years champion Paul Lim and American Raymond Carver stood in the semi-finals. Paul Lim then travelled on to London where he'll play on Thursday in the preliminary round of the PDC World Championship against Mohd Latif Sapup.
The World
PDC World Championship - Day Three
With a sensationell performance - the best of the tournament so far - Raymond van Barneveld defeated Michael Smith and progressed
to second round where he'll meet another winner of the evening Northern Irelands Brendan Dolan who came ill into the tournament.
The two other matches of the evening were won by the favorits as well though Andy Hamilton had to fightback into his match against James Richardson and Gary Anderson had more problems with Jani Haavisto then the clear result shows.
The Preliminary match was won by Jani Haavisto who defeated his fellow country man Jarkko Komula 4:2.
Results
16. December
PDC World Championship - Day Two, Evening
On the evening of the second first round day all the Top 32 players won their matches and progressed into second round.
Dave Chisnall, John Part and Phil Taylor won their matches 3:0 while Denis Ovens had a more difficult battle against young German Max Hopp but won in the end 3:2. Max Hopp had impressed in his preliminary macth against South African Charl Pietersen but couldn't take up his performance against a very nervous Denis Ovens.
Results
Matchreports Day 2, Evening
15. December
PDC World Championship - Day Two, Afternoon
The afternoon session ended with two upsets. In the first match Dutchman Jerry Hendriks - who had qualified by the European Order of Merit - elimnated Wayne Jones with a 3:0 win.
The second upset was caused by Daryl Gurney from Northern Ireland - the winner of this years Irish Matchplay- who defeated Andy Smith with 3:1. Gurney had before won his preliminary round match against Robert Marijanovic from Croatia
with 4:3.
Other winners of the afternoon were Terry Jenkins who had now problems against Steve Brown and defeated him 3:0 and Richie Burnett who had won a real battle against James Hubbard with 3:2.
Results
Matchreports Day 2, Afternoon
PDC World Championship - Day One
The first evening of the World Championship brought clear wins for the favorits who dominated their matches. The least convincing winner was reigning champion Adrian Lewis who got into trouble
against young Dutchman Gino Vos but managed to win 3:1. All other matches ended 3:0. Kevin Painter, Robert Thornton and Paul Nicholson progressed beside Lewis into second round.
The preliminary round match was won by Leung Chun Nam from Hong Kong who defeated German Andree Welge 4:1.
Matchreports Day 1
14. December
PDC World Championship 2013
Tonight the PDC World Championship 2013 will begin in the Alexandra Palace in London.
Robert Thornton and Magnus Caris will open the tournamnt. Later in the evening Reigning Champion Adrian Lewis will play against Gino Vos.
Wayne Mardle, Eric Bristow and Rod Harrington this year set on a win by Phil Taylors and see Michael van Gerwen as second favorit.
Daniella Allfree and Jessica Bradder will accompany the players during the first week on stage.
Participants, Draw, Schedule
The World - Grand Final
At the weekend in Hong Kong the final of the second World - Soft-Dart tournament will be played. Three of the participants then will play next week the PDC World Championship as well: Reigning Champion Paul Lim, Darin Young, qualified as first
of the North American ranking for the PDC World Championship, and Lourence Ilagan, winner of the Philippine qualifier who at the moment tops the "World" Ranking.
Most of the participants are from Asia but there are secveral Americans, S´panish players (Antonio Alcinas), players from France, the UK and with Rob Modra even an Australian. anführt
On Sunday the Grand Final will be streamed live on dartslive from 18.00 Hong Kong time.
The World
13. December
World Championship Competition
This year again Globaldarts will offer competitions for both World Championships.
The format will be the same as last year, first price this year will be a one year membership in the Darts Performance Centre and a set Performance Darts (you can choose which weight) The second and the third of the competiotions will get a price as well.
Details of the PDC World Championship Competition you can find here:
Competition
12. December
In the Bullseye of a Hurricane
Adam "Thorn" Smith of course is still travelling around. So before he boarded the Grand Princess for a cruise
he visited a friend in South Beach, Miami and "inspects" the local darts scene.
In the Bullseye of a hurricane - Part 1
10. December
Zuiderduin Masters
Anastasia Dobromyslova, Stephen Bunting and Quin Wester are the winnery of the Zuiderduin Masters.
Anastasia Dorbomyslova defeated in the final Aileen de Graaf from the Netherlands with 2:1. In the men's tournament all Dutch players were eliminated already in th semi-finals. Stephen Bunting then defeated Alan Norris in the final 5:0.
In the Youth's final Quin Wester won against Kenny Neyens with 2:0.
Zuiderduin Masters
6. December
Schedule PDC World Championship
The PDC now published the detailed schedule for the World Championship.
The tournament will be opened on Friday, 14. December with the first round match between Robert Thornton and Magnus Caris. Reigning Champion Adrian Lewis will play later in the evening against Gino Vos. Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld will start their challenge on Sunday.
Schedule
Zuiderduin Masters
Tomorrow the Zuiderduin Masters will began - the last important WDF/BDO before the BDO World Championship in January. 24 men,
six women and six male youth will take part. First round robin will be played-
The Zuiderduin Masters are an invitation tournament - most participants come from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Zuiderduin Masters
5. Dezember
German ladies win Lorna Croft Friendship Cup
The German team prevailed in a deciding leg against the Dutch rivals and won the tournament.
The deciding leg had been necessary when on the second day of the tournament two Dutch ladies met in the singles final and both teams because of this had the same number of points. After the first day the German team had been in the lead.
Could it be Brendan Dolan's fault?
Dartoid believes in the "butterfly effect". So it really could be possible that it's Brendan Dolan's fault Dartoid sucks as a dart player...
Could it be Brendan Dolan's fault?
WDF Results
This year's Italian Grand Masters were won by Mer-Cabrill Allarce and Barbara Osti - both from Italy.This year's Czech Open were dominated by the English players. Scott Waites won the men's singles title - he defeated in the final Martin Atkins. The ladies title won Rachel Brooks who won her final against Deta Hedman. The two youth tiles wnet to Czech Filip Sebasta and Sarah Rosen from Sweden.
The Estonia Open winners were Darius Labanauskas from Lithunia and von Irina Armstrong who represented Russia.
4. December
Draw PDC World Championship
Today the draw for the first round of the PDC World Championship 2013 took place which will begin on 14. December.
Reigning champion Adrian Lewis will play in his first round match Belgian Gino Vos. The 15times world champion Phil Taylor will meet in his first match Michael Mansell from Ireland.
The exact schedule of the World Championship will be published tomorrow.
During the draw the new Sid Waddell winner's trophy was unveiled which will keep alive the memory of sky commebtator Sid Waddell who passed away in August.
Draw
3. December
European Tour 2013
The PDC now published first details about the European Tour 2013.
The Tour will consist of eight events. Four will be played in Germany and one each in England, Austria, Gibraltar and Holland. The price money will increase. The field of participants will look similar to this year - players can qualify by the Order of Merit and qualifiers in the UK and Europe.
European Tour
Phil Taylor wins Players Championship Finals
With a 13:6 win over Belgian Kim Huybrechts Phil Taylor regained the Players Championship Finals title. Huybrechts
had managed to keep up till the 6:6 but then Taylor pulled away and won the next seven legs to victory. For Taylor it was
the third Players Championship Finals title.
Before the final two a little bit one sided semi-finals were played. Huybrechts had defeated in his semi-final Justin Pipe 11:6 while Taylor clearly dominated his semi-final against Simon Whitlock. He won it 11:2 - the Australian never really was in the match.
Results
Report Final
2. December
Players Championship Finals - Quarterfinals
The Sunday afternoon ended with two thrilling and very close quarterfinals. While in the first two quarterfinals
Kim Huybrechts and Justin Pipe thanks to their better quote on the doubles prevailed comparatively clear the last two quarterfinals between
Simon Whitlock and Gary Anderson and Phil Taylor and Andy Hamilton developed into real battles. Anderson in the end payed for missed doubles and was beaten 8:10 while Phil Taylor against Andy Hamilton
showed an unbelievable comeback. He was already 3:7 behind but then closed the gap leg by leg, levelled 9:9, had the thrown in the last leg
and kept his nerve to win 10:9.
So the two semi-finals tonight will look like this:
Kim Huybrechts v Justin Pipe
Simon Whitlock v Phil Taylor
Players Championship Finals
In in the second round of the Players Championship Finals the afternoon brought wins for Justin Pipe, Peter Wright, Kim Huybrechts and Gary Anderson.
In the evening the winners were Andy Hamilton, Simon Whitlock, Phil Taylor - against Adrian Lewis, who's son was born early on Saturday morning - and Mervyn King.
1. December
Players Championship Finals
Already in the first round of the Players Championship Finals there were some upsets.
Reigning champion Kevin Painter was eliminated with 3:6 defeat against Michael van Gerwen. Number 1 seed Dave Chisnall was white washed 6:0 by Wayne Jones. Raymond van Barneveld lost a very close match against Steve Beaton as did Terry Jenkins against Mervyn King. Adrian Lewis came from hospital where he had stayed with his wife waiting for the birth of his son and returned immidiately there after his 6:3 win over Jamie Caven.
Today the second round will be played again in an afternoon and an evening session. There will be a lot of interesting matches among them another clash between the two Scotsman Robert Thornton and Gary Anderson in the afternoon and in the evening the match between Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis.
Results
29. November
Walk-on Girls
During the Grand Slam of Darts a few new Walk-on Girls accompanied the players to the stage.
Three of them - Beth Dust, Jamie Lee Williams and Daniella Allfree - you can now find in the who is who, it's not much known about the fourth - Kimberley Braithwaite.
Jamie Lee Williams and Daniella Allfree will probably be the two Walk-on Girls during the Players Championship Finals at the weekend.
Who is Who
28. November
Darts Performance Centre
The Darts Performance Centre has a look at the Players Championships Finals and detects the developement of the Butlins resorts
and the development in darts have a lot in common.
The tournament should be a real high class tournament and there are several favourits...
Hi De Di
27. November
Players Championship Finals
The PDC now published the detailed schedule for the Players Championship Finals which will begin on Friday.
All First Round matches will be played on Friday in an afternoon- and an evening session. The match between Ian White and Michael Smith opens the tournament. Phil Taylor, Raymond van Barneveld, Simon Whitlock and Gary Anderson will play in the evening.
Participants, Draw, Schedule
Tournament Information
26. November
Participants PDC World Championship 2013
After todays PDPA Qualifier the field of participants of the PDC World Championship 2013 is complete.
The draw for the Preliminary Round already took place - the draw for the First Round will be on 4. December.
Participants, Draw Preliminary Round, Schedule
Stuart Kellett wins PDPA World Championship Qualifier
Today the PDC weekend in Barnsley ended with the PDPA Qualifier for the PDC World Championship 2013.
Stuart Kellett won the final against John Bowles with 5:1. By the win he got a place in the First Round of the World Championship while the runner-up John Bowles got the last place in the Preliminary Round and will play against Carlos Rodriguez.
Results, Participants
Czech Open
Winer of the Czech Open Singles Titles were Scott Waites and Rachel Brooks.
Scott Waites defeated Martin Atkins in the final while Rachel Brooks won against Deta Hedman. Best Czech player was Iveta Bruska on fifth place in the Women Singles.
25. November
Another win for van Gerwen
Michael van Gerwen won the last Players Championship of the year in Barnsley. For van Gerwen it was the 6. win on this year's Pro Tour.
He defeated in the final Phil Taylor who already had lost yesterday's final to Dave Chisnall.
In the semi-finals stood Robert Thornton and Adrian Lewis. Dennis Priestley reached as yesterday teh quarterfinals. in the fourth round Irishman Connie Finnan in his match against Wes Newton threw a nine-darter.
Results, Participants
24. November
Chisnall gets win in Barnsley
Dave Chisnall was the winner of the last but one Players Championship this year. For Chisnall it was already the fifth Pro Tour title in 2012.
Chisnall defeated in the final Phil Taylor with 6:2 and now heads the Pro Tour Order of Merit almost uncatchable.
The semifinals reached Michael van Gerwen and Robert Thornton. Dennis Priestley again showed a great performance and played himself into the quarterfinals.
Results, Participants
23. November
Grand Slam of Darts Gallery
As last part of my GSOD coverage a gallery in which you hopefully can find all players in action. Which was not really easy - I almost forgot the later winner Raymond van Barneveld...
Gallery
22. November
PDC Weekend in Barnsley
At the weekend in Barnsley the last two Players Championships in 2012 will be played. The Players Championships count both for the participation in the Players Champiuonship
Finals - starting 30. November - and the PDC orld Championship 2013.
On Monday in the same venue in Barnsley the PDPA Qualifier for the World Championship will take place by which two players can win a place in the tournament.
Participants
20. November
PDC World Championship
By now the last international qualifiers for the PDC World Championship 2013 are known.
Robert Marijanovic from Croatia won the East Europe Qualifier while Mohd Latif Sapup from Malaysia won the South East Asia Qualifier.
After the two Players Championships next weekend and the PDPA Qualifier on the following Monday the field of participants will be complete.
PDC World Championship 2013
BDO/WDF Results
Winner of the Sunparks Masters were Stephen Bunting from England and Aileen de Graaf from the Netherlands. Both winners of the Youth tournaments were from the Netherlans as well: Jeffrey de Zwaan and Marilou Daamen.Ryan Ocampo from the Philippines and Tina Chan from Hong Kong won the Hong Kong Open.
The Ted Clements Memorial in New Zealnd was won by Peter Hunt and Polly Luke.
The Malta Open winners were John Michael from Greece and Casey Gallagher from England.
19. November
Where is Eric???
My last article about this years Grand Slam tries to answer the question "Where is Eric Bristow?"
But of course it's about the last group matches of Groups E-H as well...
Where is Eric???
18. November
Raymond van Barneveld wins Grand Slam
Raymond van Barneveld is the new Grand Slam Champion. He dereated in the final his young country man Michael van Gerwen with
16:14. Van Gerwen couldn't keep up nor the scoring nor the finishing of his previous matches. Van Barneveld
got in the lead early in the match. Van Gerwen several times came close but never managed to draw and
van Barneveld finally sealed his win with an 11-darter.
For van Barneveld it was the first Major Title since five years.
Results
Report Semi-finals and Final
The place is haunted!
The Woverhampton Civic Hall can give you the creeps. Especially when it's late in the evening or in the middle of the night.
And by some of the Grand Slam matches the ghosts seem to have had a hand in...
The place is haunted!
Grand Slam - Semifinals
In both semi-finals this afternoon the Dutch players were not to be stopped. First Raymond van Barneveld defeated Andy Hamilton-
who showed a lot of bottle - with 16:12. Then Michael van Gerwen punished merciless Dean Winstanley's slow start in the match and won
16:8.
So tonight we'll have an all Dutch final between Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen!
Results
16. November
Grand Slam - Quarterfinals
The quarterfinals of the Grand Slam were played today in an afternoon- and an evening session. In the afternoon
Dean Winstanley and Andy Hamilton progressed with wins over Kevin Painter and John Part in the semi-finals.
In the evening Raymond van Barneveld defeated Christian Kist and Michael van Gerwen defeated Scott Waites.
The tournament will go on tomorrow afternoon with the matches Andy Hamilton v Raymond van Barneveld and Dean Winstanley v Michael van Gerwen.
Results
Reports Quarterfinals
Christmas is not far away!
In Birmingham in the last weeks before Christmas one could almost believe to be in Germany.
They've got a "Frankfurt Christmas Market"!
Christmas is not far away!
Grand Slam of Darts - Last 16 Second Evening
Andy Hamilton defeated in a close and thrilling match Gary Anderson, who really showed another new shirt - with 10:9 and progressed into the
quarterfinals of the Grand Slam where he'll meet John Part. The Canadian thanks to the much better quote on the doubles won
against Brendan Dolan with 10:6.
In the other matches of the evening Christian Kist with another convincing performance won 10:9 against Wes Newton and Raymond van Barneveld defeated without problems Wesley Harms.
So we'll see the following quarterfinals: In the afternoon Winstanley and Painter will meet and Part and Hamilton. In the evening Scott Waites will play Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld will play Christian Kist. Kist and Barneveld already met in the group phase and Kist had been the winner.
Results
Report Day 7
Grand Slam of Darts - Last 16 First Evening
Michael van Gerwen defeated Phil Taylor under the last 16 with 10:5 and threw the reigning Champion out of the tournament.
First it was a head to head match but somehow the young Dutchman gained the upper hand in the high class contest and managed to win five legs in a
row to victory.
Other winners of the evening were Dean Winstanley over Arron Monk, Kevin Painter over Mervyn King and Scott Wates over Robert Thornton in the closest match of the evening.
Results
Report Day 6
14. November
Grand Slam - Last Group Matches Groups E - H
On the last day of the round robin phase of the Grand Slam the table of Group E was mixed up considerably. Gary Anderson lost
to Adrian Lewis while John Part won against Tony O'Shea. So Part heads the table and Anderson comes second. Both progressed
to second round.
In Group F Andy Hamilton stayed head of the table while Brendan Dolan is in second place due to the better leg difference.
From Group G Wesley Newton and Wesley Harm progress as 1 and 2 of the table.
Group H ended with Raymond van Barneveld on top and Christan Kist in second place.
Results
Report Day 5
13. November
Grand Slam - Last Group Matches Groups A - D
The last Group Matches of the Groups A - D brought some surprising results. For the biggest upset Dean
Winstanley was responsible who with a 1:5 win over Simon Whitlock threw the Australian despite his two wind out of the
tournament while Kevin Painter progressed to second round.
Almost as surprising was Scott Waites 2:5 win over Phil Taylor by which Waites ended as head of the table of Group A and Taylor on second place. Not as surprising were results in Groups B and D whereh Michael van Gerwen and Mervyn King stayed undefeated in first place of the table. Michael van Gerwen had not many problems against Ted Hankey who almost couldn't see the dart boards due to problems with his left eye. Second in Groups B and D are Arron Monk and Robert Thornton, who progressed as well to second round.
Results
Report Day 4
Poppies and Moustaches
To be sure most of the people following the Grand Slam will have noticed that players and officials wear poppies and stand on stage unshaven.
There is no connection between the two, but both is not without reason.
Poppies and Moustaches
Northern Ireland Open
Deta Hedman and Daryl Gurney are the winners of the Northern Ireland Open.Deta Hedman won together with Robbie Green the Mixed Pairs and together with Rachel Brooks the Ladies Pairs as well.
12. November
Grand Slam - Second group matches E - H
Gary Anderson new outfits seem to bring him luck - after his second win in group E over Tony O'Shea he's the first player
through to second round while World Champion Adrian Lewis is after his 2:5 loss against John Part in the same group
out of the tournament.
All other players still could be progress, best chances after their second wins today have Wes Newton, BDO World Champion Christian Kist, who defeated his countryman and fife times World Champion Raymond van Barneveld and Andy Hamilton.
Results
Report Day 3
11. November
Grand Slam - Second Group Matches A - D
In the evening the second Group Matches of Groups A - D took place. Mervyn King, Phil Taylor, Simon Whitlock and Michael van Gerwen
all got their second wins and now head their groups.
In the losers against losers matches Scott Waites, Ted Hankey, James Wade and Dean Winstanley could celebrate a win and are in the race again.
But all last of the tables still have a chance as well to progress.
Results
Report Day 2 - Afternoon
And Soccer once again...
In Wolverhampton not only darts are played, soccer is for many years a very important part of life.
So my first Grand Slam article is about soccer - well, and about darts!
And Soccer once again...
Grand Slam of Darts
The group matches of groups E - H began with a surprisingly high defeat of Paul Nicholson by Brendan Dolan. Nicholson had presented himself
in good from recently but he couldn't keep up with the player from Northern Ireland.It was not the only surprise of the afternoon. BDO's young Wesley Harms defeated Terry Jenkins with 5:2, Tony O'Shea managed a close 5:4 win over World Champion Adrian Lewis and BDO World Champion average around 98 winning against local favorite Wayne Jones with 5:1.
Other winners of the afternoon were Andy Hamilton over nevertheless much improved Barrie Bates, Raymond van Barneveld who whitewashed Mark Walsh, Gary Anderson in one of his new shirts in a very close match against John Part and Wes Newton in convincing fashion over Martin Phillips.
Results
Report Day 2 - Afternoon
10. November
Grand Slam of Darts
Michael van Gerwen had with 103 the highest average of the evening and defeated in the first round of group matches Steve Beaton with
5:2.
Other winners of the evening were a convincing Phil Taylor, a strong playing Robert Thornton who whitewashed Ted Hankey, Kevin Painter in a close match against Dean Winstanley, a reinvigorated Mark Webster, Mervyn King and Simon Whitlock who both were just too strong for their young opponents Jan Dekker and James Hubbard and Arron Monk who defeated a luckless James Wade.
Results
Report Day 1
PDC World Championship- II
Carlos Rodriguez won the South Europe qualifier for the PDC World Championship 2013. He defeated in the final Stefan Couwenberg with
6:5 and will now play in the Preliminary Round of the World Championship
Players from Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, Andorra, Monaco, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium could take part in the qualifier played in Avila, pain. 110 players registered for the qualifier.
Participants World Championship
PDC World Championship I
Max Hopp won the West Europe qualifier for the PDC World Championship 2013. He defeated in the final Maik Langendorf with
6:1 and will now play in the Preliminary Round of the World Championship
Players from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Malta, San Marino and Liechtenstein were allowed to play the qualifier in Bielefeld. All in all only 31 players took part - most of them from Germany.
8. November
Interview with Martin Phillips
Martin Phillips is one of the well-known faces of the BDO. Due to his performances during the BDO World Championships 2010 and 2011
he this year for the third time was invited to play the Grand Slam. Last year he played himself under the last 16 of the tournament
where he lost to his fellow country man Mark Webster.
This year Phiilps was not really succesfull and sank down the BDO rankings a little bit but two weeks ago he won the Turkish Open in Antalya.
To the Interview
7. November
Darts Performance Centre
The Grand Slam of Darts comes closer and closer. And the Darts Performance Centre in a preview tells us it's ideas about the tournament.
Grand Slam of Darts - Preview
6. November
Draw Grand Slam
Yesterday evening the group draw for the Grand Slam of Darts took place which will begin on Saturday in Wolverhampton.
Reigning champion Phil Taylor and seven other players are seeded. In his Group A Taylor will meet in the round-robin phase Scott Waites, Mark Webster and Co Stompe. Reigning BDO World Champion Christian Kist, who last weekend wass the runner up in the men's singles of the WDF Europe Cup, will play in his Group H against Raymond van Barneveld, Mark Walsh and local favorit Wayne Jones.
Beside the PDC published the exact schedule of the first group matches.
Participants, Draw, Schedule
PDC Rankings updated
Due to the two Players Championships at the weekend in Crawley there were slight changes in the PDC Order of Merit and the Pro Tour Order of Merit.Beside the weekend brought the last Youth Tour Events in 2012 and we now have a final Youth Tour Order of Merit for 2012. The Top 32 of this order are qualified for the next PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship.
PDC Rankings
5. November
Darts Perfomance Centre
In the newest article Coaching Clinic adresses two problems a lot of dart players worry about: the nerves and how to handle them in competition and why it's so difficult to bring your performance at the practice board to the competition board.
Coaching Clinic 12
Arron Monk wins on Sunday as well
Arron Monk won the second Youth Tour Event of teh weekend as well, the last one of this year's PDC Youth Tour. In the final he defeated Mathhew Dennant with 4:0In the semi-finals stood Shaun Griffiths and Vouter Waes.
4. November
Michael van Gerwen won Players Championship on Sunday
Michael van Gerwen won the second Players Championship of the weekend in Crawley. He defeated in a close final Ian White with 6:5. For the young Durchman it was already the 6. win on this years Pro Tour.
The semi-finals reached yesterday's winner Simon Whitlock and Dave Chisnall.
Results, Participants
Grand Slam of Darts
After Arron Monk's win in yesterday's Youth Tour Event all participants of this years Grand Slam are known. The last place got Monk as winner of the
Youth Tour Order of Merit.
As this year all places were already taken the qualifier over which in former years two places were on offer was cancelled.
Participants, Schedule
Arron Monk wins Youth Tour Event
Arron Monk won the first of two Youth Tour Events this weekend in Crawley. He defeated in the final Chris Aubrey with 4:1.
The semi-finals reached Samuel Head and Adam Hunt.
By his win it is already decided before the last Youth Tour Event today that Monk will be on first place in the Youth Tour Order of Merit 2012. So he'll get an invitation for the Grand Slam of Darts which will begin next week in Wolverhampton. Beside Monk assured he'll get a place in the PDC World Championship 2013 even should he fail to qualify by the Pro Tour Order of Merit.
3. November
Simon Whitlock wins in Crawley
Simon Whitlock won the first of two Players Championships this weekend in Crawley. He defeated in the final Dennis Priestley with 6:2.
The semifinals reached Michael van Gerwen and Ian White.
Results
WDF Europe Cup
Patricia de Peuter from Belgium and Scotsman Gary Stone won the singles titles of the WDF Europe Cup.
The ladies pairs competition was won by Krappen/Schuur from the Netherlands, the men's pairs as well by the Dutch pair Dekker/Kist.
The winner of the teams event was Team Netherlands who defeated Team England with 9:7.
Overall winners were both of the men and of the ladies the Dutch teams. Second in the men's overall ranking was the team from Belgium followed by Team England on third place. In the ladies overall ranking Team England ended on second place and the ladies from Belgium were third.
Results, Participants
2. November
PDC Weekend in Crawley
For the third time this year the PDC will come for a tournament weekend to Crawley. On both Saturday and Sunday Players
Championship and an event of the PDC Youth Tour will be played.
The youth players will compete for the last still open place in the Grand Slam of Darts which will go to the leader of the PDC Youth Tour Order of Merit after the weekend.
The Players Championships are important for the qualification for the PDC World Championship 2013 and the Players Championship Final in December.
Not all Tour Card will be in Crawley - Phil Taylor and Raymond didn't register. Paul Nicholson and Andy Hamilton withdrew today.
Participants
WDF Europe Cup
On day two of the Europe Cup in Antalya the ladies and men's singles and the men's pairs were played.
In the ladies final tomorrow Patricia de Peuter from Begium and Trina Gulliver will meet. The men's final reached Scostman Gary Stone and BDO World Champion Christian Kist. Kist together with Jan Dekker will stand against Ciplys/Labanauskas in the men's pairs final as well.
Results, Schedule, Participants
1. November
Taylor wins Championship League Darts
Phil Taylor retained his Championship League Darts title. He defeated in the final of the Winners Group Simon Whitlock with
6:4. Taylor won all his seven league matches of the day and then met in the semifinals fourth of the table Dave Chisnall. He won the semifinal with a whitewash over Chisnall.
Simon Whitlock was third of the table after the round robin phase with four wins. He played in the semi-final against Jamie Caven who had won five of his matches throughout the day. But as in the league phase Caven couldn't win against the Australian who progressed to the final.
Results, Participants, Schedule
Report Winners Group
WDF Europe Cup
On the first day of the Europe Cup in Antalya the ladies pairs and the men's team competition were played.
To the ladies pairs final the two pairs from Wales (Edwards/Gore) and from the Netherlands (Krappen/Schuur) progressed. In the men's teams final the teams from England and from the Netherlands will meet. All finals will be played on Saturday.
Results, Schedule, Participants