The Bullit World Darts Trophy was a darts tournament held each September at De Vechtsebanen in Utrecht, Netherlands between 2002 and 2007. Events in September It is the start of the academic year in many countries in the Northern Hemisphere. Utrecht ( city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands The tournament has a playing format comparable with the two World Championships - BDO World Darts Championship and PDC World Darts Championship. The PDC World Darts Championship is one version of the World Darts Championship and was introduced following a dispute with the British Darts Organisation in 1994.
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Tournament history
First held in 2002, the tournament was played under the World Darts Federation, British Darts Organisation and the NDB (Nederlandse Darts Bond - the Dutch governing body of darts) and predominantly featured players from those organisations. The World Darts Federation (WDF was formed in 1976 by representatives of fifteen (15 nations The British Darts Organisation, or the BDO for short is a Darts Organisation.
However, for the first time PDC players were invited to the event in 2006. The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC is a Professional Darts organisation established in the United Kingdom during 1992 which split from Phil Taylor, Colin Lloyd, Ronnie Baxter, Peter Manley and Raymond van Barneveld all joined the top ranked players from the BDO. In 2007, the WDT included the top 12 players in the PDC Order of Merit and four PDC Qualifiers. That meant that there were 16 PDC players at the 2007 WDT and 12 from the BDO with another 4 wildcards. The BDO had an agreement with the organisers of the WDT through to 2010 to allow their top players to compete in this event. [1]. However the tournament's short history ended abruptly when the PDC decided not to send any players to the event to the two Dutch events in 2008.
End of event
Towards the end of 2007, Barry Hearn announced that PDC players would not be competing in the 2008 IDL and WDT events which threw the events into doubt. Barry Hearn (born 1949 Dagenham, Essex, and educated at Buckhurst Hill County High School from 1959 to 1966 is an English sports entrepreneur SBS6 also announced they would not broadcast the event. The tournament promoters filed a lawsuit against the PDC and SBS6 claiming a contract had been agreed for the PDC players to be involved. The case ended in failure on 21 February 2008 and the International Darts League was indefinitely postponed. Events 362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria. 1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland [2] Both events were confirmed defunct by the failure of an appeal on April 29, 2008. Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common [3]
2007 event
The 2007 World Darts Trophy was staged between August 31 and September 9. The 2007 Bullit World Darts Trophy was the sixth staging of a professional darts tournament in the Netherlands at De Vechtsebanen in Utrecht Gary Anderson took the title with victory over Phil Taylor. Gary Anderson (born December 22, 1970) is a Scottish darts player. Philip Douglas Taylor (born August 13 1960 is a 13 time world champion English darts player whose nickname is The Power.
Sponsors
- Bavaria (Premium Dutch Beer brand) 2004-2006 [www. bavaria. com]http://www.bavaria.com
- Bullit (Energy Drink) 2007-
Television coverage
The tournament has been broadcast by SBS-6 in the Netherlands, but it has not been broadcast in the UK. SBS Broadcasting Group (normally referred to as just SBS, which originally stood for Scandinavian Broadcasting System) was a European broadcasting group operating
Prize fund
- 2007 Prize money
- Winner €45,000
- Runner-Up €22,500
- Semi Finalists €11,250
- Quarter Finalists €6,000
- Last 16 €3,000
- First Round Losers €2,000
- Nine dart finish: Alfa Romeo Brera 2. A nine dart finish is the ultimate checkout in the game of Darts, constituting a perfect game 4 JTDM 20V worth €50,000
- Highest Check-Out €1,000
- Total €221,000
Final Results and statistics
Men's Finals
| Year | Champion (average in final)[4] | Score | Runner-Up (average in final) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 |  Tony David (97. Tony David (born September 11, 1967 in Townsville, Queensland) is a darts player and is the only Australian player to have been 80) |
6-0 (sets) |  Tony O'Shea (90. Tony O'Shea ( Stockport, May 9 1961) is an English darts player who competes for the British Darts Organisation. 48) |
| 2003 |  Raymond van Barneveld (104. Raymond van Barneveld (born April 20 1967 in The Hague, Netherlands) nickname Barney and The Man, is a professional 91) |
6-2 (sets) | Mervyn King (98. 07) |
| 2004 | Raymond van Barneveld (94. 71) |
6-4 (sets) | Martin Adams (91. Martin Adams (born June 4, 1956) is an English international Darts player 50) |
| 2005 | Gary Robson (91. Gary Robson (born June 19, 1967) is a professional darts player currently playing for the British Darts Organisation. 50) |
6-4 (sets) | Mervyn King (88. 80) |
| 2006 | Phil Taylor (102. Philip Douglas Taylor (born August 13 1960 is a 13 time world champion English darts player whose nickname is The Power. 21) |
7-2 (sets) | Martin Adams (94. 77) |
| 2007 |  Gary Anderson (103. Gary Anderson (born December 22, 1970) is a Scottish darts player. 32) |
7-3 (sets) | Phil Taylor (102. 30) |
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
Junior WDT Finals
2006 Ron Meulenkamp beat Sven van Dun 6-1 (legs)
References
- ^ Agreement on increasing PDC players
- ^ IDL & WDT go to court Superstars of darts forum
- ^ IDL & WDT end Google translation from official web site
- ^ 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)
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