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Odds

Who is your wealth connected to instrumentality location the Sid Waddell Trophy?

• Luke Littler 7/4
• Luke Humphries 11/4
• Gary Anderson, Michael van Gerwen 10/1
• Mike De Decker 22/1
• Gian van Veen 28/1
• Gerwyn Price, Rob Cross, Stephen Bunting, Wessel Nijman 33/1
• Chris Dobey, Ross Smith 40/1
• Josh Rock, Nathan Aspinall 50/1
• Damon Heta, Dave Chisnall, Dimitri Van den Berg, Dirk van Duijvenbode, Jonny Clayton, Peter Wright, Ryan Searle 66/1
• James Wade, Ritchie Edhouse 80/1
• Cameron Menzies 100/1

Via Betway.

Analysing the draw

The 32 seeds person already been placed and we volition find retired wherever the remainder of the players travel successful today.

Fans reckon the gully is "uneven" with the apical fractional overmuch stronger than the bottom.

The apical includes Luke Humphries, Luke Littler, Rob Cross, Stephen Bunting and Nathan Aspinall.

On the different side, an retired of signifier Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen are the biggest hitters.

Gary Anderson, Dave Chisnall and Dimitri van den Bergh are the different apical players.

Could this twelvemonth beryllium unfastened for an unseeded star?  

Legends suffer circuit cards

Two-time satellite champion Adrian Lewis volition not clasp a circuit paper adjacent twelvemonth aft not competing successful the qualifier today.

The aforesaid goes for Vincent van der Voort arsenic helium did not vie this day owed to appendicitis.

2010 runner-up Simon Whitlock failed to marque it done and volition suffer his circuit paper should Wesley Plaisier triumph his archetypal circular game.

It is simply a akin communicative for erstwhile semi-finalist Mervyn King. He mislaid astatine the qualifying lawsuit successful Wigan to Matt Campbell, failing to marque it to Ally Pally for the archetypal clip successful 27 years.

Ex-world champ Steve Beaton was denied the accidental to extremity his vocation connected the biggest signifier aft besides suffering decision today. He has officially present retired.

International and different qualifiers

The past 32 making up the draw:

• PDC China Championship Winner - Xiaochen Zong
• PDCNB ProTour Winner - Robert Owen
• PDCNB ProTour Runner-Up - Darius Labanauskas
• Steel Darts Japan Tour Winner - Tomoya Goto
• DPA ProTour Champion - Joe Comito
• CDC Main Tour Top American - Leonard Gates
• CDC Main Tour Top Canadian - Jim Long
• CDC Top-Ranked Non-Qualified Player - Stowe Buntz
• African Darts Group Qualifier - Cameron Carolissen
• PDC Asian Tour OOM 1 - Alexis Toylo
• PDC Asian Tour OOM 2 - Lourence Ilagan
• PDC Asian Tour OOM 3 - Paolo Nebrida
• PDC Asian Tour OOM 4 - Ryusei Azemoto
• DPNZ Qualifier Winner - Ben Robb
• CLDC Tour OOM Winner - Rashad Sweeting
• Winmau Development Tour Qualifier 1 - Niko Springer
• Winmau Development Tour Qualifier 2 - Keane Barry
• PDC Asian Championship Runner-Up Sandro Eric Sosing
• PDC Asian Championship Qualifier - Lok Yin Lee
• DPA Oceanic Masters Winner - Gordon Mathers
• Women's Series Qualifier 1 - Noa-Lynn van Leuven
• Women's Series Qualifier 2 - Fallon Sherrock
• Indian Qualifier - Nitin Kumar
• Winmau Challenge Tour Qualifier 1 - Christian Kist
• Winmau Challenge Tour Qualifier 2 - Alexander Merkx
• PDC Europe Super League Champion - Kai Gotthardt
• West Europe Qualifier - Stefan Bellmont
• East Europe Qualifier - Romeo Grbavac
• Tour Card Holder Qualifiers - Rhys Griffin, Jeffrey de Zwaan, Dylan Slevin, Matt Campbell

Pro Tour qualifiers

The adjacent apical 32 successful the Pro Tour Order of Merit spell into the archetypal circular alongside the aforesaid magnitude of planetary and different qualifiers.

The Pro Tour 32 are:

Cameron Menzies, Wessel Nijman, Jermaine Wattimena, Ricardo Pietreczko, Luke Woodhouse, Ryan Joyce, Niels Zonneveld, Alan Soutar, Madars Razma, Callan Rydz, Wesley Plaisier, Martin Lukeman

Kevin Doets, Richard Veenstra, Scott Williams, Kim Huybrechts, William O'Connor, Karel Sedlacek, Stephen Burton, Thibault Tricole, Connor Scutt, Mensur Suljovic, Ian White, Jeffrey de Graaf,

Jim Williams, Florian Hempel, Ryan Meikle, Chris Landman, Nick Kenny, James Hurrell, Mickey Mansell, Ricky Evans

Who are the seeds?

The pursuing each get a bye into the 2nd round:

Luke Humphries (1), Michael Smith (2), Michael van Gerwen (3), Luke Littler (4), Rob Cross (5), Dave Chisnall (6), Jonny Clayton (7), Stephen Bunting (8), Damon Heta (9), Gerwyn Price (10)

Dimitri Van den Bergh (11), Nathan Aspinall (12), Danny Noppert (13), Gary Anderson (14), Chris Dobey (15), James Wade (16), Peter Wright (17), Josh Rock (18), Ross Smith (19), Ryan Searle (20)

Andrew Gilding (21), Martin Schindler (22), Joe Cullen (23), Mike De Decker (24), Dirk van Duijvenbode 25), Daryl Gurney (26), Gabriel Clemens (27), Gian van Veen (28), Ritchie Edhouse (29), Brendan Dolan (30), Krzysztof Ratajski (31), Raymond van Barneveld (32)

Key Dates

Before we get going, enactment these dates successful your diary...

The World Championship begins connected December 15.

There is darts mundane until a interruption implicit Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

It returns connected December 27 for 3 days earlier a remainder time connected New Year’s Eve.

January 1 is the quarter-finals, the semi-finals is connected January 2 and the expansive last connected Friday January 3.

What a mode to commencement the caller year!

Countdown to Ally Pally!

Here we spell then, the countdown to the World Darts Championships has officially started!

The Players Championship is the penultimate tourney connected the calendar earlier the darts roadshow heads to Alexandra Palace for the World Champs - and what a contention we are expecting this year.

The last Order of Merit has been acceptable and the players cognize their seedings.

The likes of defending champ Luke Humphries and beaten finalist Luke Littler present await the gully astatine 4.30pm to find retired who they volition look connected December 15.

We'll person each the build-up, the gully and the absorption close here.