Road to Lakeside - 2025 WDF World Championships (Fri 28 November - Sun 7 December)

[The Crow]

Be good if some more of the older English folks that lose cards gave it a go though. They all seem to just focus on modus and seniors sadly.

[The Thorn]

WDF is always preferred to ADC I don't care!

[willem0000]

More of the better English players. Indeed those that drop out. King would be a nice recognisable face for Lakeside. Both he and Beaton aree qualified for the World Masters, would be great if they play the qualifiers aswell.

[1205]

Still good that he goes though, Lakey needs all the attention it can get.

Lakey could use some more English players in general, they are still better than much of the other players and usually bring in more friends/family. But now they just focus on DT, CT and maybe ADC. England needs some more tournaments perhaps to lure them in. Just one Englishman in the top 10 of the WDF ranking, 6 in the CT, 7 in DT (Beau in both CT and DT).

Disagree on them being better. They had 11 of the 48 places last year so almost a quarter.

Only 2 made the last 16 and none made the quarters. Think it’s good the WDF can be more international than the old BDO Lakey days were.

Yes, a lot of the better English players don't bother much with the WDF.
CT, ADC and Modus are readily available.
A few will play some Gold WDF on the off-chance.

The English contingent were:
Beeton (L32 Junghans)
Brooks (L48 Matsuda)
Colley (L32 Duff)
Edgar (L48 Bottenberg)
Johnson (L48 Colley)
Kirk (Bradley) (L48 Beeton)
Prior (L16 Machin)
Turner (Aaron) (L32 Copeland)
Turner (Martyn) (L32 Raman)
Walters (L32 Prior)
Wilkinson (L16 Junghans)

How many of those would be on anybody's "Top 11 English darts players without a Tour Card" list?

[The Thorn]

Still good that he goes though, Lakey needs all the attention it can get.

Lakey could use some more English players in general, they are still better than much of the other players and usually bring in more friends/family. But now they just focus on DT, CT and maybe ADC. England needs some more tournaments perhaps to lure them in. Just one Englishman in the top 10 of the WDF ranking, 6 in the CT, 7 in DT (Beau in both CT and DT).

Disagree on them being better. They had 11 of the 48 places last year so almost a quarter.

Only 2 made the last 16 and none made the quarters. Think it’s good the WDF can be more international than the old BDO Lakey days were.

Yes, a lot of the better English players don't bother much with the WDF.
CT, ADC and Modus are readily available.
A few will play some Gold WDF on the off-chance.

The English contingent were:
Beeton (L32 Junghans)
Brooks (L48 Matsuda)
Colley (L32 Duff)
Edgar (L48 Bottenberg)
Johnson (L48 Colley)
Kirk (Bradley) (L48 Beeton)
Prior (L16 Machin)
Turner (Aaron) (L32 Copeland)
Turner (Martyn) (L32 Raman)
Walters (L32 Prior)
Wilkinson (L16 Junghans)

How many of those would be on anybody's "Top 11 English darts players without a Tour Card" list?

Colley might have been last year but he has regressed.

WIlkinson at a push.

Other than that, yes, it's a grim showing. Only 3 of them are playing CT this year (Colley, Beeton, Walters), and none of them are in the top 100.

[willem0000]

Including the Welsh tournaments they have 6 silvers in England, but I believe at least some collided with other tournaments. Isle of Man isnt far away and there is a 5K prize so, it isnt all that bad for the English. But seemingly there is just to much competition. British Open meant to be gold, but collided with other tournament so they made it silver, I believe it has a new date again but it is still silver I believe. Its not good that in the most darty country the WDF is declining. Perhaps it need another 2 bronze or so, to pamper them.

[The Crow]

WDF is always preferred to ADC I don't care!

Agree I couldn’t give a shit about the ADC champ thing. It just comes across as a modus nothing bigger.

[willem0000]

WDF does need Lakeside though, without it they would probably crumble into pieces. The WDF lad sounded postive about a new contract, but I wonder if the ADC is trying to sneak in. Wouldnt be suprised if they would and then stream it on Modus. But on the other hand Modus now propably pay them around amount of money they pay otherwise for 3 weeks of regular prize money, which then probably go to 1 week. Modus probably gets new people towards their channel so that might be an incentive for them. The longer we dont hear news about a new contract the bigger the chance it will go to Modus I think.

[The Thorn]

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It simply can't happen

[oche balboa]

WDF is always preferred to ADC I don't care!

Agree I couldn’t give a shit about the ADC champ thing. It just comes across as a modus nothing bigger.

Correct - It does but at the moment the UK cardless players are going down that route rather than the WDF

[oche balboa]

WDF does need Lakeside though, without it they would probably crumble into pieces. The WDF lad sounded postive about a new contract, but I wonder if the ADC is trying to sneak in. Wouldnt be suprised if they would and then stream it on Modus. But on the other hand Modus now propably pay them around amount of money they pay otherwise for 3 weeks of regular prize money, which then probably go to 1 week. Modus probably gets new people towards their channel so that might be an incentive for them. The longer we dont hear news about a new contract the bigger the chance it will go to Modus I think.

Can't see ADC going to lakeside, They are lucky that Modus exists and the Live Lounge exists too, ADC would have been up against it without it

Modus Super Series will not leave its venue for a good while so it gives the ADC a chance to host events.

[willem0000]

WDF does need Lakeside though, without it they would probably crumble into pieces. The WDF lad sounded postive about a new contract, but I wonder if the ADC is trying to sneak in. Wouldnt be suprised if they would and then stream it on Modus. But on the other hand Modus now propably pay them around amount of money they pay otherwise for 3 weeks of regular prize money, which then probably go to 1 week. Modus probably gets new people towards their channel so that might be an incentive for them. The longer we dont hear news about a new contract the bigger the chance it will go to Modus I think.

Can't see ADC going to lakeside, They are lucky that Modus exists and the Live Lounge exists too, ADC would have been up against it without it

Modus Super Series will not leave its venue for a good while so it gives the ADC a chance to host events.

Yeah I believe the ADC cancelled their first big events, and only when the Modus came it was succesfull. But to become the main tour outside the PDC I think it needs the Lakeside, not just for getting the Lakeside and establishing themselves, but also getting their main competitor out of it. Think the English/Brits will be a big chunk of the players with the ADC, and they might bring in more friends/family than those coming from far away, so Lakeside might make more on hotel/drinks with the ADC than WDF, so they might be on board. WDF lowering the prize money for 2 years is also not a good sign for the Potters, and potential a lot less visitors neither. Modus might see it as a way to get the people to Pluto/YT. Probably a lot didnt bother before to download Pluto, but might do it now

[oche balboa]

WDF does need Lakeside though, without it they would probably crumble into pieces. The WDF lad sounded postive about a new contract, but I wonder if the ADC is trying to sneak in. Wouldnt be suprised if they would and then stream it on Modus. But on the other hand Modus now propably pay them around amount of money they pay otherwise for 3 weeks of regular prize money, which then probably go to 1 week. Modus probably gets new people towards their channel so that might be an incentive for them. The longer we dont hear news about a new contract the bigger the chance it will go to Modus I think.

Can't see ADC going to lakeside, They are lucky that Modus exists and the Live Lounge exists too, ADC would have been up against it without it

Modus Super Series will not leave its venue for a good while so it gives the ADC a chance to host events.

Yeah I believe the ADC cancelled their first big events, and only when the Modus came it was succesfull. But to become the main tour outside the PDC I think it needs the Lakeside, not just for getting the Lakeside and establishing themselves, but also getting their main competitor out of it. Think the English/Brits will be a big chunk of the players with the ADC, and they might bring in more friends/family than those coming from far away, so Lakeside might make more on hotel/drinks with the ADC than WDF, so they might be on board. WDF lowering the prize money for 2 years is also not a good sign for the Potters, and potential a lot less visitors neither. Modus might see it as a way to get the people to Pluto/YT. Probably a lot didnt bother before to download Pluto, but might do it now

ADC then MAD came into this in 2020 with big backing and announced a World Championship and other events, it failed so its a good job Modus was around .

WDF doesn't seem attractive to a lot of UK players anymore for some reason if you look at who played in this weeks Winmau events lots of them don't bother with WDF events.

There are no signs the WDF will lower the prize money or will increase it (I think it will stay the same). But its quite funny that the British WDF events carry more winning prize money than the ADC Winmau Events.

I've watched less and less of Modus since it went to pluto. When it was on YouTube i watched a large chunk of the day quite often, It hasn't worked

[oche balboa]

Men

Top 16

1. James Beeton (ENG) - 2025 Denmark Open winner
2. Alex Spellman (USA) - USA ranking table
3. David Fatum (USA)
4. Corne Groeneveld (NED)
5. Benjamin Pratnemer (SLO) - East Europe ranking table
6. Dennis Nilsson (SWE) - North Europe ranking table
7. Shane McGuirk (IRE) - 2024 World Championship winner
8. Jason Brandon (USA) - USA ranking table
9. Jeffrey Sparidaans (NED) - 2025 Dutch Open winner
10. Marko Kantele (FIN) - 2024 Irish Open winner
11. Thomas Junghans (SWI) - West Europe ranking table
12. Francois Schweyen (BEL)
13. David Cameron (CAN) - 2025 Las Vegas Open
14. Sybren Gijbels (BEL)
15. Ryan Hogarth (SCO) - UK & Ireland ranking table
16. Karl Schaefer (AUS) - Australia ranking table

Gold & Platinum Event Winners

17. Raymond Smith (AUS) - 2025 South Australian Classic winner
18. Toronto Area Open winner
19. New Zealand Open winner
20. Korean Open winner
21. Hungarian Masters winner
22. World Masters winner

Regional Ranking Table Qualifiers

23. Robert Okalany (UGA) - Africa & Western Asia ranking table
24. Teng-Lieh Pupo (TAI) - Asia ranking table
25. Ryusei Azemoto (JPN) - Asia ranking table
26. Peter Machin (AUS) - Australia ranking table
27. Shane Sakchekapo (CAN) - Canada ranking table
28. Robbie Mills (CAN) - Canada ranking table
29. Martin Tremblay (CAN) - Canada ranking table
30. Peyton Hammond (CAN) - Canada ranking table
31. John Michael (GRE) - East Europe ranking table
32. Jonny Tata (NZL) - New Zealand ranking table
33. Darren Dummigan (NZL) - New Zealand ranking table
34. Edwin Torbjornsson (SWE) - North Europe ranking table
35. Martyn Turner (ENG) - UK & Ireland ranking table
36. Norbert Attard (MLT) - West Europe ranking table

Race Table

37. Bradley Kirk (ENG)
38. Jimmy van Schie (NED)
39. Paul Lim (SGP)
40. Leonard Gates (USA)
41. Brian Raman (BEL)
42. Hannes Schnier (AUT)
43. Neil Duff (NI)
44. Jeff Springer Jr (USA)

Qualifiers*

45. Qualifier #1
46. Qualifier #2
47. Qualifier #3
48. Qualifier #4


Women

Top 8

1. Lerena Rietbergen (NED) - West Europe ranking table
2. Lorraine Hyde (SCO) - 2024 Irish Open winner, 2025 Denmark Open winner, UK & Ireland ranking table
3. Deta Hedman (ENG) - 2025 Las Vegas Open winner
4. Tracy Feiertag (USA) - USA ranking table
5. Rhian O'Sullivan (WAL) - 2025 Dutch Open winner
6. Aletta Wajer (NED)
7. Nicole Regnaud (NZL) - New Zealand ranking table
8. Beau Greaves (ENG) - 2024 World Championship winner

Gold / Platinum Event winners

9. Joanne Hadley (AUS) - 2025 South Australian Classic winner, Australia ranking table
10. Toronto Area Open winner
11. New Zealand Open winner
12. Korean Open winner
13. Hungarian Masters winner
14. World Masters winner

Regional Ranking Table leaders

14. Sarah Makanga (UGA) - Africa & Western Asia ranking table
15. Pei-Ying Liao (TAI) - Asia ranking table
16. Maria Carli (CAN) - Canada ranking table
17. Jitka Cisarova (CZE) - East Europe ranking table
18. Maud Jansson (SWE) - North Europe ranking table

Race Table

19. Paula Murphy (USA)
20. Irina Armstrong (GER)
21. Sophie McKinlay (SCO)
22. Greta Tekauer (HUN)

Qualifiers

23. Qualifier #1
24. Qualifier #2

Boys

Top 4

1. Balazs Szotak (HUN)
2. Florian Preis (GER)
3. Oden Ollevier (BEL)
4. Zsolt Csajbok (HUN)

Qualifiers

5. Qualifier #1
6. Qualifier #2
7. Qualifier #3
8. Qualifier #4

Girls

Top 2

1. Paige Pauling (ENG)
2. Hanna Rabakozi (HUN)

Qualifiers

3. Qualifier #1
4. Qualifier #2

[oche balboa]

only 3 englishmen in the WDF Qualification

James Beeton, Martyn Turner, Bradley Kirk

[willem0000]

8 silvers still to come should change that a bit, but they might still lose a few to the PDC or Modus

[Highfield]

raymond smith is my pick

why isnt scotty dog qualifying

[oche balboa]

raymond smith is my pick

why isnt scotty dog qualifying

He did try last year but failed, i'm sure he will have another go

[Bram_1900]

only 3 englishmen in the WDF Qualification

James Beeton, Martyn Turner, Bradley Kirk

At least another Beeton at the WCs

[Dfc180]

only 3 englishmen in the WDF Qualification

James Beeton, Martyn Turner, Bradley Kirk

At least another Beeton at the WCs

Not as sexy though