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what is the prize money for the champion of the lakeside darts tournament?

Jelle Klaasen was handed a GBP 60K check.

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B.D.O. is GBP 100k cheque for the winner and GBP 30k for the runner up Will1701 (talk) 19:28, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ladies darts

Should the ladies world champions be listed here? Snowman (talk) 11:31, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think it probably should: I can't find the winners listed anywhere on Wikipedia and definitely deserving of a mention. Officially Mr X (talk) 18:44, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

World Darts Championships

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Hello, Phil Bridger. Nice to greet you this morning! Do you have any sources you could add to the World Darts Championships articles? I couldn't find any, but of course I am not really conversant with the subject. Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis (talk) 13:44, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have asked the Darts project for help. I'm sure that these articles can be sourced, as they are about world championships in a sport that is very popular in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, but I don't have the time at the moment to dig out the sources myself. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:50, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As you say, they can all be sourced since they would have all been covered extensively in the UK press. It will take time for someone to dig up all the results though, especially for the earlier tournaments (pre-internet media and all that). _wjemather ^bigissue 20:56, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Those are good ideas. I will try a direct message also to the people who sponsor the competition in hopes of getting a source for all of the articles. There is no hurry on any of this: What's a few more weeks after four years of waiting? If it's OK by you, I will copy this to the World Professional Darts Talk Page and hope that others will join in. Yours in Wikidom, GeorgeLouis (talk) 00:02, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  Each organisation, the British Darts Organisation (BDO) and the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) now organise their own World Championship in January

Really! The PDC's end on January 1st doesn't it? Will1701 (talk) 19:24, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Youth World Champions

What are the age limits? Mobile mundo (talk) 21:34, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Shouldn't this be moved to just World Darts Championships? This would cover the WDF then also. The media clearly sees the WDF version as a successor of the BDO version. And in fact it is as professional or not as the BDO in the last years. The current name is not really used anywher, is it? -Koppapa (talk) 06:54, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Legally the WDF world championship is not a professional championship. Players are not required to be professionals. It’s an open championship, everyone is allowed to compete regardless of status. T v x1 14:03, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Then by that logic, the final decades of the BDO-promoted/WDF-sanctioned Lakeside World Championships should be removed, as the majority of tournaments on the BDO/WDF schedule (which serve as the primary form of qualifying, overall or by region) were open events even then.

Furthermore, the WDF hasn’t changed the format of the tournament itself, and maintains a consistent roll of honor from the start of the World Championships, regardless of the body sanctioning or promoting the tournament, the calendar remains the more or less same with only the World Masters being put dormant due to the reorganization since the WDF took over.

The media and the WDF see it as just the continuation of the World Championship, the “professional” aspect seems pedantic when the intent is supposed to be the split Championship in Darts between the BDO/WDF and the PDC. 207.113.227.201 (talk) 11:12, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]