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2018 Premier Events

World Darts Championship 2018

 

Alexandra Palace, London

14 Dec 2017 - 1 Jan 2018

 

Defending Champion: Michael van Gerwen

SID WADDELL TROPHY

Tickets

Priority Sale: Wednesday July 26

General Sale: Monday July 31

Format of Play

Preliminary Round - Best of 3 sets 

Round 1 - Best of 5 sets

Round 2 - Best of 7 sets

Round 3 - Best of 7 sets

Q-Final - Best of 9 sets

S-Final - Best of 11 sets

Final - Best of 13 sets

 

Each set is best of 5 legs.

 

 

Tie-Break

Applies to the last set of all rounds except the P-Round. This set has to be won with two clear legs except at the 11th leg, which is sudden-death

Live Coverage (Check locally)

Sky Sports - UK & Ireland – dedicated “Sky Sports Darts” channel
RTL7 - Netherlands
Sport1 - Germany
DAZN - Germany, Austria, Switzerland Japan, Canada
Fox Sports - Australia
Sky - New Zealand
Nova - Czech Republic
Viasat - Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Bulgaria, Baltic States
Pragosport - Hungary
OSN - Middle East & North Africa
Kwese - South Africa & Sub-Saharan Africa
Eleven Sports - Belgium
BBC America - North America (excluding Canada)
Fox - Italy, Greece, Turkey, Malta, Israel
TVP - Poland
CCTV - China
RTL - Croatia (Dec 28 onwards)
Eurosport - France, Romania, Spain
Eurosport Player - Andorra, Estonia, France & Monaco, Georgie, Israel, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey & CIS (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)

Prize Fund

(increased from £1.65M to £1.8M)

 

Winner: £400,000
R-Up: £170,000
S-Final: £85,000
Q-Final: £40,000
3rd Round: £27,000
2nd Round: £18,500
1st Round: £11,000
P-Round: £4,500
Total: £1,800,000 

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9-darter bonus: £20,000 

The Players

PDC Order of Merit

Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright, Gary Anderson, Daryl Gurney, Mensur Suljović, Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis, Dave Chisnall, 

Raymond van Barneveld, Simon Whitlock, James Wade, Jelle Klaasen, Michael Smith, Benito van de Pas, Alan Norris, Gerwyn Price,

Ian White, Kim Huybrechts, Joe Cullen, Rob Cross, Stephen Bunting, Mervyn King, Darren Webster, Kyle Anderson,

Steve Beaton, Cristo Reyes, Justin Pipe, Robert Thornton, John Henderson, Mark Webster, Jonny Clayton, James Wilson

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Pro Tour

Richard North, Vincent van der Voort, Christian Kist, Ronny Huybrechts, Jermaine Wattimena, Steve West, Zoran Lerchbacher, Dimitri Van den Bergh, 

Jan Dekker, Keegan Brown, James Richardson, Peter Jacques, Martin Schindler, Chris Dobey, Steve Lennon, Kevin Painter

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PDPA Qualifier
First Round Qualifier: Ted Evetts
Preliminary Round Qualifier: Brendan Dolan, Jamie Lewis

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International Qualifier
First Round Qualifier: 

Antonio Alcinas, Marko Kantele, William O'Connor, Devon Petersen, Diogo Portela, Krzysztof Ratajski, Kim Viljanen


Preliminary Round Qualifier:

Seigo Asada, Willard Bruguier, Cody Harris, Luke Humphries, Kai Fan Leung, Paul Lim, Alan Ljubić, Gordon Mathers,
Kevin Münch, Kenny Neyens, Aleksandr Oreshkin, Bernie Smith, Jeff Smith, Zong Xiaochen

2018 World Darts Championship

Top Half

(Local time GMT)

Bottom Half

Preliminary Round

Best of 3 sets

Round 1

Best of 5 sets

Preliminary Round

Best of 3 sets

Round 1

Best of 5 sets

Thu 14 Dec 7pm 1-4, Fri 15 Dec 7pm 5-8 Sat 16 Dec 12.30pm 9-12 7pm 13-16 Sun 17 Dec 12.30pm 17-20 7pm 21-24

Mon 18 Dec 7pm 25-28 Tue 19 Dec 7pm 29-32 Wed 20 Dec 7pm 33-36 Thu 21 Dec 7pm 37-40

21

Willard Bruguier

Cody Harris

1

2

3

​

2

​

4

 

24

Michael van Gerwen (1)

Christian Kist

James Wilson (32)

Krzysztof Ratajski

Gerwyn Price (16)

Ted Evetts

Ian White (17)

Cody Harris

3

1

3

1

3

0

3

1

17

Kenny Neyens

Jamie Lewis

1

2

40

​

20

​

18

​

38

Peter Wright (2)

Diogo Portela

Jonny Clayton (31)

Jamie Lewis

Alan Norris (15)

Kim Viljanen

Kim Huybrechts (18)

James Richardson

3

1

0

3

3

0

0

3

23

​

1

​

31

​

19

Dave Chisnall (8)

Vincent van der Voort

Steve Beaton (25)

Willaim O'Connor

Raymond van Barneveld (9)

Richard North

Kyle Anderson (24)

Peter Jacques

0

3

3

1

3

0

3

1

29

Aleksandr Oreshkin

Kevin Munch

0

2

32

​

37

​

35

​

39

Adrian Lewis (7)

Kevin Munch

Cristo Reyes (26)

Antonio Alcinas

Simon Whitlock (10)

Martin Schindler

Darren Webster (23)

Devon Petersen

1

3

1

3

3

1

3

2

9

Brendan Dolan

Alan Ljubic

2

0

26

​

12

​

15

​

6

Mensur Suljovic (5)

Kevin Painter

Robert Thornton (28)

Brendan Dolan

Jelle Klaasen (12)

Jan Dekker

Stephen Bunting (21)

Dimitri van den Bergh

3

0

3

1

1

3

1

3

33

Zong Xiaochen

Bernie Smith

0

2

7

​

36

​

22

​

11

Phil Taylor (6)

Chris Dobey

Justin Pipe (27)

Bernie Smith

James Wade (11)

Keegan Brown

Mervyn King (22)

Zoran Lerchbacher

3

1

3

2

2

3

2

3

5

Seigo Asada

Gordon Mathers

2

1

27

​

30

​

34

​

8

Daryl Gurney (4)

Ronny Huybrechts

John Henderson (29)

Marko Kantele

Michael Smith (13)

Steve Lennon

Rob Cross (20)

Seigo Asada

3

1

3

0

3

0

3

0

13

​

25

Jeff Smith

Luke Humphries

Kai Fan Leung

Paul Lim

2

0

0

2

16

​

28

​

10

​

14

Gary Anderson(3)

Jeff Smith

Mark Webster (30)

Paul Lim

Benito van de Pas (14)

Steve West

Joe Cullen (19)

Jermaine Wattimena

3

0

2

3

1

3

2

3

Round 2

Best of 7 sets

Fri 22 Dec 12.30pm 1-3 7pm 4-6 Sat 23 1pm 7-9 7pm 10-12

Wed 27 Dec 12.30pm 13-15 7pm 16 (+ 2x Round 3)

Top Half

Bottom Half

Q-Final

Best of 9 sets

Fri 29 Dec 12.30pm 1-2

7pm 3-4

Round 3

Best of 7 sets

Wed 27 Dec 7pm 1-2

Thu 28 Dec 12.30pm 3-5 7pm 6-8

6

​

1

​

2

​

12

Michael van Gerwen (1)

James Wilson (32)

Gerwyn Price (16)

Ian White (17)

Vincent van der Voort

Steve Beaton (25)

Raymond van Barneveld (9)

Kyle Anderson (24)

4

0

4

1

4

0

4

1

16

​

14

​

15

​

13

Peter Wright (2)

Jamie Lewis

Alan Norris (15)

James Richardson

Kevin Munch

Antonio Alcinas

Simon Whitlock (10)

Darren Webster (23)

1

4

1

4

1

4

1

4

4

​

3

​

10

​

8

Mensur Suljovic (5)

Robert Thornton (28)

Jan Dekker

Dimitri van den Bergh

Daryl Gurney (4)

John Henderson (29)

Michael Smith

Rob Cross (20)

4

2

2

4

2

4

3

4

11

​

7

​

5

​

9

Phil Taylor (6)

Justin Pipe (27)

Keegan Brown

Zoran Lerchbacher

Gary Anderson (3)

Paul Lim

Steve West

Jermaine Wattimena

4

0

4

2

4

1

4

1

2

​

1

​

4

​

5

Michael van Gerwen (1)

Gerwyn Price (16)

Vincent van der Voort

Raymond van Barneveld (9)

Mensur Suljovic (5)

Dimitri van den Bergh

John Henderson (29)

Rob Cross (20)

4

2

1

4

0

4

1

4

3

​

2

​

1

​

4

Michael van Gerwen

Raymond van Barneveld

Dimitri van den Bergh

Rob Cross

Jamie Lewis

Darren Webster

Phil Taylor

Gary Anderson

5

4

4

5

5

0

5

3

6

​

3

​

7

​

8

Jamie Lewis

James Richardson

Antonio Alcinas

Darren Webster (23)

Phil Taylor (6)

Keegan Brown

Gary Anderson (3)

Steve West

4

1

0

4

4

0

4

2

S-Final

Best of 11 sets

Sat 30 7.30pm

2

​

1

Michael van Gerwen

Rob Cross

Jamie Lewis

Phil Taylor

5

6

1

6

Final

Best of 13 sets

Mon 1st Jan 2018 8pm

Rob Cross

Phil Taylor

7

2

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