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There is a good shape to the BDO World Darts Championship title market for punters with sound grounds for steering clear of the two players trading at the shortest odds.
Bookmakers are offering odds of 13.00 bar the BDO World Darts Championship number one seed, Stephen Bunting, and the defending champion, Scott Waites, with Bunting available at odds of 3.50 with Bwin and Waites trading at odds of 4.50 with Bwin aswell. Neither player appeals given BDO World Darts Championship history.
One can understand why bookmakers have installed Bunting as the BDO World Darts Championship title favourite because The Bullet has shot down his rivals this season. Bunting has won eight of the 12 BDO rankings events in which he has competed this term, finishing runner-up twice and reaching the last eight in the other two tournaments. But one cannot get too excited about Bunting at such short odds when one reviews how he has performed at the Lakeside Country Club.
Bunting is preparing to make his seventh BDO World Darts Championship appearance. Bunting debuted in the BDO’s top event in 2004 and he went out in the second round to former world champion Ted Hankey. Bunting won only one of his next three BDO World Darts Championship matches before, in 2011, reaching the quarter-finals in which he lost heavily to Dean Winstanley. Bunting did not take part in the 2012 BDO World Darts Championship and last year he crashed out to Darryl Fitton in the second round. Five match victories in six BDO World Darts Championship is not what one wants to see in a favourite as hot as Bunting so The Bullet is opposable, particularly when one factors in the record of top seeds.
Since darts split in two in the mid 1990s there have been 20 editions of the BDO World Darts Championship, which is seen as the lesser of the two tournaments. Only five times out of 20 has the BDO World Darts Championship top seed triumphed, highlighting the unpredictable nature of the event. That is the polite way of saying that the standard is considerably lower than that of the PDC World Darts Championship and that almost any player in the BDO World Darts Championship draw is capable of winning the Lakeside Country Club competition.
Waites is the BDO World Darts Championship seventh seed but one could argue that Scotty 2 Hotty should not be one of the protected 16 players. Waites has been in poor form for most of the last 12 months, although he did win the Czech Open in November. Phil Taylor did not win back to back BDO World Darts Championship titles so one should not be backing Waites at his pre-tournament odds to outdo The Power.
Nothing on the BDO circuit comes close to match the BDO World Darts Championship in terms of pressure – it is live on British free-to-air television – and prestige so it makes sense to follow players who have performed well under the bright lights of the Lakeside Country Club previously.
Wesley Harms will have his supporters at odds of 15.00 with Bet365, having reached the semi-finals in each of his BDO World Darts Championship appearances. But perhaps better value is Jan Dekker, the Dutch compatriot of Harms whose BDO World Darts Championship record is better than it looks. Dekker debuted in 2011 and he made the semi-finals. Last year, Dekker lost a thrilling quarter-final. In between, Dekker went out in the 2012 first round but the player who edged past him 3-2 was the eventual winner, Christian Kist.
Dekker has won two BDO rankings titles in the current period so he can hit doubles under pressure and his BDO World Darts Championship numbers are superior to many of the player above him in the betting. Dekker is over the odds at 51.00 with Coral.
The formerly prestigious darts organisation that nurtured the talents of Eric Bristow, Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen, amongst many others, now sadly ceases to exist after it was place into liquidation.
For decades, the British Darts Organisation (BDO) was the premier authority in the sport, but the formulation of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) in the early 1990s set into motion a slow and painful demise for the amateur body.
After a series of catastrophes and gaffes in recent years, the BDO has now officially been liquidated as a commercial entity, with ownership of county darts now passing to the United Kingdom Darts Association (UKDA) following a revolt from BDO members.
At the time of filing for voluntary liquidation, the BDO had suffered a monumental £468,000 loss during the preceding financial year, and without any major commercial sponsors or a mainstream TV deal to speak of the organisation simply could not continue.
It all means that 40 years of history, including the prestigious World Championship – held largely at the Lakeside Country Club – and the World Masters, will no longer be played unless the UKDA is able to set up their own versions of the flagship events.
Blood On the Oche: Why Did the BDO and PDC Split?
It’s worth remembering that the BDO has always been the organisation for amateur darting stars, and it never had any pretensions of being anything else.
Quality players would make their way through the county system and into the bigger BDO events, with the aim of hopefully reaching the Lakeside each January.
That amateur stance was not to everyone’s tastes, and when Barry Hearn created the PDC in 1992 – securing a broadcast deal with Sky Sports and promising to increase the number of events played and the prize money kitty, it was a given that many would follow their wallets.
The BDO was initially founded in 1973, and five years later it hosted its first edition of the World Championship at the venue that would become synonymous with the sport, Lakeside.
Many of the greats of darts would go on to lift the trophy in the 1970s and 80s, including John Lowe, Eric Bristow (five times) and Jocky Wilson, while a young Phillip Taylor would get his hands on first of his sixteen world titles in 1990.
But there was a creeping desire that there was money to be made in darts, and so 19 rebels left the BDO in 1992 to form their own darting authority, which would latterly become Hearn’s PDC.
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In 1993, Lowe won the last of the ‘unified’ World Championships, and since then the BDO and the PDC have hosted their own annual extravaganza.
The Expanding Divide in Fortunes for Darts
The PDC continued to grow thanks to their year-round exposure on Sky Sports – at this point, the BDO were only televised once a year on the BBC, and as the prize money and prestige rose so too did the number of players leaving the amateur game behind for a shot at the big time.
The BDO was given a shot of authenticity when Raymond van Barneveld emerged on the scene, but the Dutchman soon fled for the PDC along with many of his countrymen as the Netherlands became the hotbed of the sport.
Things were so dire for the BDO that Hearn even made a £1 million offer to buy out the beleaguered organisation in 2009, but that was rejected by the authority’s founder Olly Croft.
Croft was voted off the board in 2010 as he struggled to adapt to a new modern age, and with the PDC setting up their Challenge and Development Tours – giving amateur players a new entry point into the pro ranks, the writing was on the wall for the BDO.
They lost their BBC contract soon after, and following a short stint on Channel 4 the action was soon shifted to Eurosport and away from the eyes of terrestrial TV viewers for the first time.
That was arguably the death knell of the BDO….
Des Jacklin, the O2 Calamity and BDO’s Liquidation
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In 2018, a knight in shining armour emerged to save the BDO.
In the end, Des Jacklin – the brand’s new leader – had as many detractors as he did supporters, and some questionable decision making, including shifting the BDO World Championship to the O2 Arena and away from its spiritual Lakeside home, accelerated its demise.
An inability to secure a mainstream TV deal or any noteworthy commercial sponsors was a disaster, and the 2020 Worlds played out to barely half-full crowds in what was a sorry state of affairs.
Worse was to come. The total prize fund had to be slashed by more than half for the men’s event, and in the end the champion – Wayne Warren – pocketed just £23,000 for his win. Glen Durrant, just two years prior, netted £100,000.
Warren even threatened legal action against Jacklin, and has vowed to keep the trophy until he is paid ‘what’s owed to me.’
Rumours of huge debts emerged, and after a calamitous edition of the World Masters the World Darts Federation revealed that it was to stop recognising BDO tournaments as legitimate events.
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Jacklin stood down as chairman in March 2020 following a series of allegations of financial malpractice, but just one month later he was reinstated. That led to many counties leaving the BDO to join the UKDA, and by September all of the member counties had left following a vote of no confidence.
Who Will Take Control of British Amateur Darts?
The coronavirus pandemic has prevented the UKDA from really showing their mettle as far as the organisation of a legitimate amateur darting scene is concerned, but the hope is that they can create a county system that unearths the next generation of talent.
Their stated ambition is to ‘provide a solid and financially sound organisation to run grassroots darts in the UK’, and that would be a fine start following the hapless last few years of the BDO. Hopefully, they reinstate a World Championship and the World Masters in years to come.
Meanwhile, Barry Hearn has shown his desire to get a slice of amateur darts with the creation of Modern Amateur Darts (MAD), which will be overseen by the chairman of the Junior Darts Corporation, Steve Brown.
MAD will host a region-based system of events, with a pathway for ‘pub to pro’ aimed at attracting the best local amateurs into their rankings.
So Is This the End of the BDO?
If the UKDA and MAD prove to be effective authorities in the management of amateur darts, it seems highly unlikely that the BDO will ever return.
How can they? Unless a huge investment is made, anyone purchasing the BDO brand would need to pay off significant debts and somehow attract the counties and their players back into the fold.
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It’s a crying shame, given all that the BDO has given to the sport, but the organisation’s terminal decline means it is nigh-on impossible it will ever rise from the ashes.