World Darts Trophy

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The Bavaria World Darts Trophy is a darts tournament held each September at De Vechtsebanen in Utrecht, Netherlands. The tournament has a playing format comparable with the two World Championships - BDO World Darts Championship and PDC World Darts Championship.

First held in 2002, the tournament is played under the World Darts Federation, British Darts Organisation and the NDB (Nederlandse Darts Bond - the Dutch governing body of darts) and has predominantly featured players from those organisations. However, for the first time PDC players were invited to the event in 2006. Phil Taylor, Colin Lloyd, Ronnie Baxter, Peter Manley and Raymond van Barneveld all joined the top ranked players from the BDO.

The tournament has been broadcast by SBS-6 in the Netherlands, but it has not been broadcast in the UK. WDT changes from being a BDO to a combined BDO/PDC event

From 2007 onwards the WDT will include the top 12 players in the PDC Order of Merit and four PDC Qualifiers. That means that there will be 16 PDC players at 2007 WDT and 12 from the BDO with another 4 wildcards. The BDO have an agreement with the organisers of the WDT through to 2010 to allow their top players to compete in this event. ^[1]

1 Final Results and statistics
2 References

[edit] Final Results and statistics

[edit] Men's Finals

Year	Champion (average in final)^[2]	Score	Runner-Up (average in final)
2002	Tony David (97.80)	6-0 (sets)	Tony O'Shea (90.48)
2003	Raymond van Barneveld (104.91)	6-2 (sets)	Mervyn King (98.07)
2004	Raymond van Barneveld (94.71)	6-4 (sets)	Martin Adams (91.50)
2005	Gary Robson (91.50)	6-4 (sets)	Mervyn King (88.80)
2006	Phil Taylor (102.21)	7-2 (sets)	Martin Adams (94.77)

[edit] Women's Finals

2002 Mieke de Boer beat Crissy Howat (now Crissy Manley) 3-1 (sets)
2003 Trina Gulliver beat Francis Hoenselaar 3-1 (sets)
2004 Francis Hoenselaar beat Anastasia Dobromyslova 3-1 (sets)
2005 Karin Krappen beat Francis Hoenselaar 3-1 (sets)
2006 Women's tournament discontinued

[edit] Junior WDT Finals

2006 Ron Meulenkamp beat Sven van Dun 6-1 (legs)

[edit] References

^ Agreement on increasing PDC players
^ Each player's average score is based on the average for each 3-dart visit to the board (ie total points scored divided by darts thrown and multiplied by 3)