2023 Development Tour + World Youth Championship

[Rogg]

[Rogg]

The first PDC world youth championship. Under-21 in them days.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101110080 ... 27,00.html


PDC Unicorn Under-21 World Championship
Preliminary Round
Shaun Griffiths 4-1 Josh Payne
Dan Dean 4-3 Jack Marriner

First Round
Michael van Gerwen (1) 4-2 Keegan Brown
Adam Hunt 4-2 Damien Smith
Dirk van Duijvenbode 4-0 Liam Showell
Michael Bushby 4-0 David Coyne
Graeme Orr 4-0 Sean White (8)
Martin Heneghan 4-3 Thomas Humphrey
Matthew Dicken 4-1 Jamie McNair
Shaun Griffiths 4-1 Alex Harrison
Tom Martin (5) 4-0 Teemu Harju
Curtis Hammond 4-3 Brandon Walsh
Ash Khayat 4-2 Sam Hamilton
Benito van de Pas 4-1 Rico Dera
Michael Smith (4) 4-0 Scott Johnson
Sean East 4-1 Matthew Wright
Dale Quince 4-3 Aaron Bateman
Ryan Hitchens 4-2 Mitchell Clegg
Joe Cullen (2) 4-0 Stuart Keith
David Harnick 4-2 Harry Miles
Liam Deveries 4-2 Kevin Hodgin
Lewis Venes 4-3 Adam Smith-Neale
David Pallett 4-1 Tony Clark (7)
John Smith 4-3 Kirk De Ruyter
Chris Aubrey 4-0 Dean Lockyer
Dan Dean 4-2 Luke Johnson
Daniel McGivney 4-0 Ryan Herrington (6)
Callum Nesbit 4-1 Ryan McCarthy
Jamie Landon 4-0 Michael Wood
Bryce Book 4-0 David Williams
Arron Monk (3) 4-2 Nick Kenny
Leon Bailey 4-2 Daniel Ovens
Jack Hill 4-3 Jamie Phillips
Curtis Bagley 4-2 Ryan Hogarth

Second Round
Michael van Gerwen 4-3 Adam Hunt
Michael Bushby 4-3 Dirk van Duijvenbode
Martin Heneghan 4-2 Graeme Orr
Shaun Griffiths 4-3 Matthew Dicken
Curtis Hammond 4-1 Tom Martin
Benito van de Pas 4-0 Ash Khayat
Michael Smith 4-1 Sean East
Ryan Hitchens 4-2 Dale Quince
Joe Cullen 4-1 David Harnick
Lewis Venes 4-3 Liam Deveries
John Smith 4-2 David Pallett
Chris Aubrey 4-0 Dan Dean
Daniel McGivney 4-0 Callum Nesbit
Bryce Book 4-3 Jamie Landon
Arron Monk 4-2 Leon Bailey
Curtis Bagley 4-1 Jack Hill

Third Round
Michael van Gerwen 4-0 Michael Bushby
Shaun Griffiths 4-3 Martin Heneghan
Benito van de Pas 4-3 Curtis Hammond
Michael Smith 4-1 Ryan Hitchens
Lewis Venes 4-3 Joe Cullen
Chris Aubrey 4-2 John Smith
Daniel McGivney 4-0 Bryce Book
Arron Monk 4-1 Curtis Bagley
Losers £625

Quarter-Finals
Michael van Gerwen 4-3 Shaun Griffiths
Benito van de Pas 4-2 Michael Smith
Lewis Venes 4-3 Chris Aubrey
Arron Monk 4-0 Daniel McGivney
Losers £1,250

Semi-Finals
Michael van Gerwen 4-1 Benito van de Pas
Arron Monk 4-2 Lewis Venes
Losers £2,500

Final
Michael van Gerwen v Arron Monk
To be played on stage at Alexandra Palace during Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship
Both players also invited to compete in Daily Mirror Grand Slam of Darts & offered PDC ProTour Card
Winner £10,000
Runner-Up £5,000

[Rogg]

[oche balboa]

World Youth Champions

2011: Arron Monk
2012: James Hubbard
2013: Michael Smith
2014: Keegan Brown
2015: Max Hopp
2016: Corey Cadby
2017: Dimitri Van den Bergh
2018: Dimitri Van den Bergh
2019: Luke Humphries
2020: Bradley Brooks
2021: Ted Evetts
2022: Josh Rock

[Zeyes]

"Transfer Deadline Day" in 2017 when the BDO was already dead man walking. Sure thing, Live Darts.

Anyway, that 2016 Dev Tour was not exactly a maker of stars. The other guy accompanying Aden Kirk onto the main tour was Ross Twell (who?). The Challenge Tour, on the other hand - Cross and Searle.

[oche balboa]

"Transfer Deadline Day" in 2017 when the BDO was already dead man walking. Sure thing, Live Darts.

Anyway, that 2016 Dev Tour was not exactly a maker of stars. The other guy accompanying Aden Kirk onto the main tour was Ross Twell (who?). The Challenge Tour, on the other hand - Cross and Searle.

Cross entering after qualifying for the UK Open. And the PDC have cut that every since

[thegentle]

I mean, making a decision like that might show that he was never cut out for the PDC anyway, but he must be constantly thinking what might have been. As Zeyes says, the top players on that year's Dev Tour were no future stars, but there were some very good players on that tour by then, and Reynolds completely marmalised it. Why he thought he wouldn't be able to at least be competitive is beyond me...

[The Thorn]

Ross Twell was good on the Dev Tour

[Greipel]

Some additional comments in the original thread too:

viewtopic.php?p=1384534&hilit=development+tour#p1384534

[Rogg]

Tinypic dumped the pic but Reynolds replied to TDF twitter at the time to explain why he turned down the card.

Deanooo also said he's still working on his game, and that it "won't be long" before he makes the move.

viewtopic.php?t=6867&hilit=reynolds+soo ... 40#p637720

[Rogg]

aha.

[Greipel]

WDF Junior no1 Borbély should play the whole tour to condiser him as an ambitious player.

[The Thorn]

WDF Junior no1 Borbély should play the whole tour to condiser him as an ambitious player.

Get over to the football thread mate Hungary are serving up a treat!

[thegentle]

WDF Junior no1 Borbély should play the whole tour to condiser him as an ambitious player.

Get over to the football thread mate Hungary are serving up a treat!

The Magical Magyars (or at least the not horrendously shite Magyars) live!

[The Thorn]

WDF Junior no1 Borbély should play the whole tour to condiser him as an ambitious player.

Get over to the football thread mate Hungary are serving up a treat!

The Magical Magyars (or at least the not horrendously shite Magyars) live!

Szoboszlai winning Ballon d'Or in 5 years, you heard it here first.

[thegentle]

The 1954 Hungary team are like the James Wade of darts, lost the world title when it looked for all the world like they had it in the palms of their hands, they must have thought they'd have plenty of opportunities to win another one but they haven't really got close since

[Rogg]

Possibly a real entry list for Friday. Luke Littler's reign of terror begins.


https://tv.dartconnect.com/event/pdcdt23e01/entries

[Safc]

Possibly a real entry list for Friday. Luke Littler's reign of terror begins.


https://tv.dartconnect.com/event/pdcdt23e01/entries

No Beau

Jiwa jnr

[Rogg]

+ Justin van Tergouw lives!

[TheMalteseDart]

Oh dear Beau..

Appears Heneghan is now too old for the Dev Tour, that's one legit challenger out the way