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NewswireToday, Wellingborough, Northants, United Kingdom, 08/10/2007 – PDC World Championship Darts sequel launches December 2007 and debuts on the Wii.

Pure Excitement. Pure Pressure. Pure Darts. Game On!

Oxygen Games is pleased to announce PDC World Championship Darts 2008, the eagerly-anticipated sequel to its first-to-format darts title launched last Christmas.

The second instalment of the hugely successful PDC World Championship Darts game features more PDC players, improved physics, improved animations, more game modes, full career mode, based on the real PDC season, and for the first time, the game will be available on the Wii.
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We at TheOche.com would like to join the PDPA and the PDC and countless others in expressing our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of fallen darter Fred Boddey.
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Photo and Article from Planetdarts.

STAN JAMES WORLD MATCHPLAY champion James Wade is to invest in the future of the sport by sponsoring young prospect Ricky Williams.

Williams, a 18-year-old from Portsmouth, made his debut on the PDC circuit earlier this year by competing in some of the Blue Square UK Open Regional Finals.

He won a place at the Reebok Stadium, opening in the Preliminary Round with a win over Andrew Gourlay and then seeing off Dale Newton and Darren Latham before losing 8-7 in the third round to Lee Palfreyman.
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Article from PeterBorough Today.
Loyal Wolfie takes a swipe at rival chairman Hearn and has ruled himself out of a possible clash with rival world champion Ray van Barneveld. The Grand Slam of Darts in Wolverhampton in November is set to bring together the top players from rival organisations PDC and BDO that formed following a bitter split 15 years ago.

But BDO champion Adams has snubbed the offer and taken a swipe at PDC chairman Hearn.

Adams will instead target the BDO Winmau World Masters that starts the day before the Grand Slam of Darts on November 16.
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*From Darts federation of Australia*

Australia’s premier dart players found the standard of competition extremely high at the Puma Pacific Masters Darts Championships at the Royal Hobart Showgrounds in Hobart today. Hundreds of spectators watched and many local players enjoyed great darting contests throughout the day. The 30th running of this event saw over 240 players competing for world and Australian ranking points and the $5000.00 prize money on offer.
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(photo Unicorn-Darts.com, article Skysports.com)

“I can’t speak,” Wade told Sky Sports after being presented with the trophy and his ?50,000 winner’s cheque. “I have tried so hard for something like this for so long. It’s a dream come true.
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(From SkySports.com)
Terry ‘The Bull’ Jenkins booked his place in the Stan James World Matchplay final with a shock 17-11 victory over champion Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor at Blackpool.
World number three Jenkins became only the sixth man to beat the 13-time world champion in this event, and heads into the final on Saturday night.

Nine-time Matchplay champion Taylor started slovenly and took until the fourth leg to get himself on the board, while Jenkins’ darts flowed freely.

‘The Bull’ led from start to finish, and despite a 10-darter from Taylor in the 16th leg, wrapped up the match with double 12.
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Article/picture from Unicorn-Darts.com

Adrian Lewis produced the best display of career to sensationally beat World Champion Raymond Van Barneveld in Blackpool.

The Unicorn ace hit “The Jackpot” in a dramatic quarter-final, which had everything. Lewis ended Barney’s dream of darts Grand Slam and will now face James Wade in an all-Unicorn semi-final.

It was pure theatre at The Winter Gardens!

What a performance from Lewis though, as he went toe-to-toe with Barney and it was a dream darting display, which went right to the wire and could have gone to the tie-break.

This will probably go down as the night Lewis came of age on the big stage. He has been threatening something like this in the big events and now he has delivered in style. He kept his composure under huge pressure and it was the Dutchman who was feeling the heat.

Barney even resorted to wearing specially made ear plugs to shut out the crowd noise for 10 legs but he had no answer to the 22-year-old.
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From PlanetDarts:

PHIL TAYLOR’S run of success in the Bobby Bourn Memorial Players Championship continued with victory in Saturday’s tournament at the Winter Gardens.

Taylor has won the pre-World Matchplay event – named in memory of the late PDC official – for five successive years, after another superb display of darts.

He dropped only one set in the final, and won his three sets without reply against his former practice partner to warm up in style for the defence of his Stan James World Matchplay title and suggest that he is returning to top form.

Taylor took out 79 to in the opening leg of the match, and then punished a poor leg from Lewis, on his own throw, to take out double eight for the first set.
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(from Sky Sports)

Raymond van Barneveld won his first Las Vegas Desert Classic title with a 13-6 demolition of Terry Jenkins.

World champion Van Barneveld, who had a three-dart average of more than 100 for the tournament, was too strong for Jenkins in a one-sided final.

The opening four legs were shared before van Barneveld found his range and reeled off eight of the next nine to open a 10-3 lead.
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