The PDC World Darts Championship is held annually in the sport of darts. It is the highest profile of the PDC’s tournaments, with the winner receiving the Sid Waddell Trophy. The tournament has been held at Alexandra Palace in London since 2008.
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The PDC World Darts Championship is held annually in the sport of darts. It is the highest profile of the PDC’s tournaments, with the winner receiving the Sid Waddell Trophy. There have been nine different winners since the tournament’s inception. The current PDC champion is Peter Wright. With 14 wins from 25 appearances, Phil Taylor has dominated the competition, last winning it in 2013. The PDC has been broadcast in its entirety by Sky Sports in the UK since its inception in 2009. The tournament has been held at Alexandra Palace in London since 2008, having previously been held in Purfleet, Essex, from 1994 to 2007.
Ten nine-darters have been thrown at the World Championship. An average over 100 in a match has since been achieved 195 times. The highest in the BDO World Championship is 103 by Raymond van Barneveld in his quarter-final victory over John Walton in 2004. In 2010, the prize fund reached £1 million for the first time. The winner’s share increased to £50,000 each year culminating in a 2018 prize fund of £1. 8 million. In 2020, the British Darts Organisation – which had held a separate version of the world championship since the split in 1994 – went into liquidation.
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