The best of non-professional darts compete at the iconic Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green for the 2025 WDF World Darts Championships. The opening Saturday sees five Men's Last 48 games, four Women's Last 24 games and the first two Men's Last 32 games.The tournaments will be broadcast live on the WDF Darts YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wdfdarts with today's play starting at 12:30pm GMT and tonight's play starting at 6:00pm.The men's matches today are all the best of 5 sets (first to 3), while the women's matches are the best of 3 sets (first to 2). Women's matches are greentexted.>Today's matches (12:30pm GMT)Caleb Hope v Darren Johnson [L48]>Joanne Hadley v Eve WatsonBen Robb v Johan Engstrom [L48]>Jitka Cisarova v Maud Jansson(4) James Beeton v Dennis Nilsson [L32]>Tonight's matches (6:00pm GMT)Ryan Hogarth v Jonas Masalin [L48]>Kirsi Viinikainen v Mikuru SuzukiKarl Schaefer v Daniel Bauerdick [L48]>Irina Armstrong v Maria CarliBrian Raman v Jeffrey Sparidaans [L48](1) Jimmy van Schie v Alex Williams [L32]Scores: https://tv.dartconnect.com/event/wdflakeside25Day 1 report: https://dartswdf.com/news/2025-wdf-world-championship-day-1-report
Day 2 afternoon link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2W80Szp_QIMore comedy from the WDF: https://twitter.com/DartsWDF/status/1994696148318138662>For personal reasons, David Pallett has withdrawn from the 2025 WDF World Championships. As David informed us of this decision before the first dart of the tournament was thrown, he has been replaced in the draw by the first reserve - Germany's Marcus Maier. Maier will face Sybren Gijbels in the second round of the tournament on Tuesday evening.Those "personal reasons" (given Pallett's non-descript statement) are "the WDF wouldn't let me play this and Modus". I thought the collapse of the BDO after the 2020 Worlds would have got the amateur side to sort things out. Instead they've split again into WDF and ADC.Also a rumour going around that the production company the WDF hired for the tournament failed to turn up yesterday which resulted in the absolute dogshit stream.
David Pallett has pulled out
How is the board angle WORSE than yesterday?
The Kiwi entrant wins the opening set with an average of 71.
holy shit, there's a Modus world championship kicking off in a few days too. and it has Wez.
A crime that a match of this standard is being played at the First Round stage.
corrr what a beauty
>>152205586corr lad
Please win Nilsson, Beeton is a cunt with a dreadful throw
love rMaud
wonder what cameras they're using. Quality is way off. I appreciate they don't have a giga budget but you seem some amateur darts on twitch with better quality... la x
get those walking sticks aloft!
The WDF World #4 won the opening set with a 69 average.
CONFIRMED LAKESIDE CLASSIC AS BOTH CREEP ABOVE AN 80 AVERAGE
>>152206643nice
btw "sky"'s now just calling it>sportsmasas in>merry sportsmasrip footballdartsmas
>>152206643And scrapes through to the Last 16 with a 79 average.
>>152207418>be named beeton>look, just, offmakes sense tbdess
>>152207397who is gonna tell the kids? they'll be heartbroken
>>152207397I love watching EL EL vs EL H on the footballdartsmas and dont forget the epic peoples champion walk on yipee
Evening session link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0eT8I5Ot_cKirsi v Mikuru and the last two matches are the only ones worth watching. If you can actually see anything, that is.
>>152209390Whoops, that's the wrong link. That's for midweek.Today's evening session link is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myz_yz7bvt8
Another classic Hogarth shit performance and tantrum off the stage. Utter wank player.
MIKURU IS HERE
>>152211719Looking more like a darts player these days
Even by the standards of 2025 WDF, this is poor stuff.
>>152204120I was wrong: https://twitter.com/joshpearson180/status/1994859779131674728Pallett's game has gone to pieces. That's why he's skipped Lakeside. Fair play to him for withdrawing to not make an arse of himself on the Lakey stage.
At this rate averaging 80 will win you the women's tournament outright. Beau was right to walk away from it.
I know it's Lakeside but the crowd look completely disinterested. Not much difference to the PDC then.
>>152216582Half the crowd are probably just people staying their by coincidence these days. Another night they'd be watching a 70 year old comedian telling jokes about his fat wife.
>>152216833Kek. A lot more involved now even if it is a group of pissheads chanting for Raman.
Decent mid-80s battle that. Now time for the Big Man
Proper pair these two
>Alex "The Extinguisher" WilliamsAbsolute jobber
Straight sets win for big Jimmy but not comfortable by any means. Would have averaged 90+ were it not for that disaster at the end.
