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It was the only World Darts Championship until the 1993 split in darts, when 16 players, among them seven former champions, left the BDO and set up a rival darts circuit under the auspices of the World Darts Council (later the Professional Darts Corporation). The WDC/PDC staged its own annual World Championship from 1994 onwards.
The 2019 BDO World Professional Darts Championship was the 42nd World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 34th and final staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green. Glen Durrant was the two-time defending men's champion after beating Mark McGeeney, 7–6 in the previous year's final.
It was the final World Darts Championship organised by the BDO due to the collapse of the organisation in September 2020. [2] Following the tournament, the World Darts Federation announced plans to launch the WDF World Championship in 2020, [3] but due to the COVID-19 pandemic these plans were pushed back to 2022. [4]
Since qualification for the BDO version was always based on WDF rankings, most of the player pool and legacy of this new version of the World Championship is based on the old BDO system. The PDC version has been running since 1994 after " the split ", with a field of players containing all active previous World Champions from the BDO.
The first days play at the inaugural Embassy World Darts Championships saw 4 first round matches, played over the best of 11 legs. In the opening match, number 1 seed Eric Bristow, a man who would later go on to dominate this event by reaching 10 finals over the 1980s and early 1990s bowed out 6–3 to American Conrad Daniels.
The BDO Invitational rankings sees the points wiped after the seedings for the World Championship are decided from the following 94 tournaments: The three BDO Major tournaments. The six BDO Category A+ tournaments. The ten BDO Category A tournaments. The nine BDO Category B tournaments. The fourteen BDO Category C tournaments.
BDO women's world darts champions (5 P) Pages in category "BDO world darts champions" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
The 1980 Embassy World Darts Championship was the third year that the British Darts Organisation had staged a world championship. Again the field was 24 players, with the top seeds receiving a bye to the last 16 stage. For the second successive year the tournament was staged at Jollees Cabaret Club in Stoke-on-Trent.