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World Darts Championship
Tournament information
Dates14 December 2017 – 1 January 2018
VenueAlexandra Palace
LocationLondon
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Organisation(s)PDC
FormatSets
Final – best of 13
Prize fund£1,800,000
Winner's share£400,000
«2017 2019»

The 2018 William Hill World Darts Championship is an upcoming darts event. It will be held between 14 December 2017 and 1 January 2018 at the Alexandra Palace in London.[1] It will be the 25th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation.

Michael van Gerwen is the defending champion.

Phil Taylor will be playing in his final World Championship. His 29th successive appearance (including the BDO version) will surpass the record of 28 he jointly holds with John Lowe.[2]


Format

The field will consist of 72 players — 16 players compete in the preliminary round with the winning 8 joining the remainng 56 players in the first round of 64. There has been a change to the qualifying criteria from recent editions of the tournament. Previously, the top four non-qualified European players from the Pro Tour Order of Merit would gain places at the championships; now the four places are decided by invitation at the PDC's discretion.

The 72 players consist of:

  • Top 32 players in the PDC Main Order of Merit
  • Top 16 Pro Tour Order of Merit players
  • 24 Invites from International qualifiers and a PDPA qualifier

Qualifiers

  1. ^ The winner of the PDPA qualifier will go straight into the First Round, and the runner up and 3rd place will enter the preliminary round regardless of ranking [3]
  2. ^ Per the PDC Order of Merit Rules, invited players shall be placed in to either the Preliminary or First Round draws for the event based on their position in the Order of Merit (if applicable). If insufficient players hold a position of the Order of Merit, the PDC will select which players are placed in to which round at the discretion of its board of Directors.[4]

Prize money

The prize money for the tournament will be a record high of £1,800,000 in total. The winner's prize money has increased from £350,000 to £400,000.[22]

Position (num. of players) Prize money
Winner (1) £400,000
Runner-up (1) £170,000
Semi-finalist (2) £85,000
Quarter-finalist (4) £40,000
Third round losers (8) £27,000
Second round losers (16) £18,500
First round losers (32) £11,000
Preliminary round losers (8) £4,500
Nine-dart finish (?) £20,000

Preliminary round

The draw was made on 26 November 2017.[23]

Best of three sets.

Av. Player Score Player Av.
Jeff Smith Canada England Luke Humphries
Brendan Dolan Northern Ireland Croatia Alan Ljubić
Zong Xiaochen China New Zealand Bernie Smith
Kenny Neyens Belgium Wales Jamie Lewis
Seigo Asada Japan Australia Gordon Mathers
Kai Fan Leung Hong Kong Singapore Paul Lim
Willard Bruguier United States New Zealand Cody Harris
Aleksandr Oreshkin Russia Germany Kevin Münch

Main draw

The draw for the main round, was made live on Sky Sports News, on 27 November 2017.[24][25]

First round (best of 5 sets)
14–21 December 		Second round (best of 7)
22–27 December 		Third round (best of 7)
27–28 December 		Quarter-finals (best of 9)
29 December 		Semi-finals (best of 11)
30 December 		Final (best of 13)
1 January
                  
1 Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
Netherlands Christian Kist
  Netherlands
32 England James Wilson
Poland Krzysztof Ratajski
 
16 Wales Gerwyn Price
England Ted Evetts
 
17 England Ian White
United States Bruguier / New Zealand Harris
 
8 England Dave Chisnall
Netherlands Vincent van der Voort
 
25 England Steve Beaton
Republic of Ireland William O'Connor
 
9 Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld
England Richard North
 
24 Australia Kyle Anderson
England Peter Jacques
 
5 Austria Mensur Suljović
England Kevin Painter
 
28 Scotland Robert Thornton
Northern Ireland Dolan / Croatia Ljubić
 
12 Netherlands Jelle Klaasen
Netherlands Jan Dekker
  Netherlands
21 England Stephen Bunting
Belgium Dimitri Van den Bergh
 
4 Northern Ireland Daryl Gurney
Belgium Ronny Huybrechts
 
29 Scotland John Henderson
Finland Marko Kantele
 
13 England Michael Smith
Republic of Ireland Steve Lennon
 
20 England Rob Cross
Japan Asada / Australia Mathers
 
2 Scotland Peter Wright
Brazil Diogo Portela
 
31 Wales Jonny Clayton
Belgium Neyens / Wales J. Lewis
 
15 England Alan Norris
Finland Kim Viljanen
 
18 Belgium Kim Huybrechts
England James Richardson
 
7 England Adrian Lewis
Russia Oreshkin / Germany Münch
 
Spain
26 Spain Cristo Reyes
Spain Antonio Alcinas
 
10 Australia Simon Whitlock
Germany Martin Schindler
 
23 England Darren Webster
South Africa Devon Petersen
 
6 England Phil Taylor
England Chris Dobey
  England
27 England Justin Pipe
China Zong / New Zealand B. Smith
 
11 England James Wade
England Keegan Brown
  England
22 England Mervyn King
Austria Zoran Lerchbacher
 
3 Scotland Gary Anderson
Canada J. Smith / England Humphries
 
30 Wales Mark Webster
Hong Kong Leung / Singapore Lim
 
14 Netherlands Benito van de Pas
England Steve West
 
19 England Joe Cullen
Netherlands Jermaine Wattimena

Representation from different countries

This table shows the number of players by country in the World Championship, the total number including the preliminary round. Twenty-four countries were represented in the World Championship, two more than in the previous championship.

England
ENG 		Netherlands
NED 		Scotland
SCO 		Wales
WAL 		Belgium
BEL 		Australia
AUS 		Austria
AUT 		Northern Ireland
NIR 		Germany
GER 		Spain
SPA 		South Africa
RSA 		Republic of Ireland
IRL 		Finland
FIN 		United States
USA 		Canada
CAN 		China
CHN 		Japan
JPN 		New Zealand
NZL 		Russia
RUS 		Singapore
SGP 		Poland
POL 		Brazil
BRA 		Hong Kong
HKG 		Croatia
CRO 		Total
Final 2
Semis 4
Quarters 8
Round 3 16
Round 2 2 2 1 32
Round 1 23 / 24 8 4 3 / 4 3 / 4 2 / 3 2 1 / 2 1 / 2 2 1 2 2 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 – 2 0 / 1 0 / 1 1 1 0 / 1 0 / 1 64
Prelim. 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 16
Total 24 8 4 4 4 3 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 72

Media coverage

The tournament was available in the following countries on these channels:

Country Channel Notes
 United Kingdom
 Ireland		 Sky Sports Darts †[26]
Talksport[27]
 Australia
Fox Sports[28]
 Belgium Eleven Sport Network[29]
 Bulgaria
 Denmark
 Finland
 Norway
 Sweden
Baltic States		 Viasat[28] no info about live or delay on Sweden and Finland Viasat's sports channels' tv guides
 China CCTV[30]
 Croatia RTL Televizija[30] from December the 28th
 Cyprus
 Greece
 Israel
 Italy
 Malta
 Turkey
 Fox Sports[30] live submit to NFL telecast
 Czech Republic
 Slovakia		 Nova Sport[28]
 France
 Romania
 Spain		 Eurosport[30]
 Germany Sport 1[28]
 Germany
 Canada
 Japan		 DAZN[30]
 Hungary Pragosport[28] Sport1 and 2
 Netherlands RTL7[28]
RTL7 Darts Radio[31]
 New Zealand Sky Sport[28]
 Poland TVP Sport[32] poor live coverage
 United States BBC America[33] only delayed
MENA OSN Sports[28]
Sub-Saharan Africa Kwesé Sports[28] live submit to NFL telecast

Additionally, there was coverage in Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, France, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Latvia, Moldova, Monaco, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan on Eurosport Player, and coverage in all countries except the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands on the Professional Darts Corporation's streaming service, PDCTV-HD.[30]

† Sky Sports Arena was renamed as Sky Sports Darts for the duration of the tournament.

References

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  12. ^ "North American Glory For Bruguier". www.pdc.tv. Retrieved 2017-07-14.
  13. ^ "Harris Secures World Championship Spot". www.pdc.tv. Retrieved 2017-07-14.
  14. ^ Allen, Dave (5 November 2017). "Humphries Seals Glory As Rodriguez Takes Win". PDC. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  15. ^ "Professional Darts Asia". 28 October 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
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  17. ^ "World Championship Debut For Ljubic". www.pdc.tv. Retrieved 2017-10-01.
  18. ^ "Mathers Tops Final DPA Rankings". www.pdc.tv. Retrieved 2017-07-14.
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  27. ^ Allen, Dave. "talkSPORT To Broadcast World Championship". PDC. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
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  29. ^ "Eleven Sports adds live and exclusive darts and snooker action in Belgium". Eleven Sports Network. 7 November 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  30. ^ a b c d e f "World Championship - Where To Watch". PDC. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  31. ^ "MIS NIETS VAN HET WK MET RTL7 DARTS RADIO! |". www.rtl7darts.nl. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
  32. ^ Rama (14 December 2017). "Ruszają MŚ w darcie. Zasady, gwiazdy, ciekawostki". SPORT.TVP.PL (in Polish). Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  33. ^ Umstead, R. Thomas (12 December 2017). "BBC America to Air Professional Darts Coverage". Multichannel News. NewBay Media. Retrieved 13 December 2017.

External links

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