2012 PDC World Cup of Darts

The 2012 Cash Converters World Cup of Darts was the second edition of the PDC World Cup of Darts which took place between 3–5 February 2012 at the Alsterdorfer Sporthalle in Hamburg, Germany.

2012 Cash Converters World Cup of Darts
Tournament information
Dates	3–5 February 2012
Venue	Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
Location	Hamburg
Country	Germany
Organisation(s)	PDC
Format	Legs
Prize fund	£150,000
Winner's share	£40,000
High checkout	161 Adrian Lewis (2x)
Champion(s)
England
«2010 2013»

The Netherlands were the defending champions after the pair of Raymond van Barneveld and Co Stompé defeated Wales, represented by Mark Webster and Barrie Bates in the final on 5 December 2010.[1]

England (represented by Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis) won the tournament, beating Australia (represented by Simon Whitlock and Paul Nicholson) 4–3 in a sudden-death leg.

Format

24 countries in the PDC Order of Merit at the end of 4 January after the 2012 PDC World Darts Championship were represented at the PDC World Cup of Darts, with 19 from the 2010 edition to return, and the five others replaced by the Philippines, Malaysia, South Africa, Croatia and Hungary. Each nation's top ranked player was joined by the second highest player of that country. For seeding the average rankings of the players was used, with the top 8 nations automatically starting in round 2 and the other 16 nations starting in round 1.[2]

The round 1 matches were shortened from best of 11 to best of 9 legs in doubles compared to 2010.[3] The winners of round 1 played one of the top eight ranked teams in round 2, and it used the same format as the group stage in 2010, except that the sets were increased from best of 5 to best of 7 legs for singles[4] and best of 9 legs for doubles matches.[5] Two singles matches and a doubles match, with 1 point awarded for a singles win and 2 points awarded for a doubles win. If the match score was 2-2 at the end of the match, then a sudden-death doubles leg decided who got through. The fixtures remained the same, the top ranked player in the country faced the second highest ranked player in the country. Another change have seen the winners of round 2 qualify for the quarter-finals, which replaced the group stage. The quarter-finals used the same format as round 2, except that the doubles matches were best of 7 legs.[6] The semi-finals and final used the same format used in 2010, except that the sets were reduced from best of 11 to best of 7 and from best of 15 to best of 13 respectively.[7]

Prize money

[7]

Position (no. of teams)		Prize Money (Total: £150,000)
Winners	(1)	£40,000
Runners-Up	(1)	£20,000
Semi-finalists	(2)	£13,000
Quarter-finalists	(4)	£6,000
Last 16  (Second round)	(8)	£3,000
Last 24  (First round)	(8)	£2,000

Teams and seeding

Five teams made their debut in the 2012 World Cup. South Africa became the first African team to participate, they were joined by Croatia, Hungary, Malaysia and the Philippines. They replaced Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia.[8]

Rank	Country	Top Two Ranked Players	Start In
1	England	Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis	Round 2
2	Australia	Simon Whitlock and Paul Nicholson
3	Netherlands	Raymond van Barneveld and Vincent van der Voort
4	Scotland	Gary Anderson and Peter Wright
5	Wales	Mark Webster and Richie Burnett
6	Northern Ireland	Brendan Dolan and Mickey Mansell
7	Belgium	Kim Huybrechts and Kurt van de Rijck
8	Germany	Jyhan Artut and Bernd Roith
9	Canada	John Part and Ken MacNeil	Round 1
10	Ireland	William O'Connor and Mick McGowan
11	United States	Darin Young and Gary Mawson
12	Austria	Mensur Suljović and Dietmar Burger
13	Sweden	Magnus Caris and Dennis Nilsson
14	Spain	Antonio Alcinas and Carlos Rodríguez
15	Finland	Petri Korte and Marko Kantele
16	Gibraltar	Dylan Duo and Dyson Parody
17	Denmark	Per Laursen and Jann Hoffmann
18	Croatia	Boris Krčmar and Tonči Restović
19	South Africa	Devon Petersen and Shawn Hogan
20	Japan	Haruki Muramatsu and Morihiro Hashimoto
21	New Zealand	Warren French and Preston Ridd
22	Philippines	Christian Perez and Lourence Ilagan
23	Malaysia	Lee Choon Peng and Amin Bin Abdul Ghani
24	Hungary	Nándor Bezzeg and Kristian Kaufmann

Main draw

The bracket from the last 16 and the preliminary round matches were announced on 9 January 2012.[8] The preliminary round teams were drawn against the seeded teams with pairings announced on 25 January 2012.[9]

	First round (best of 9 legs) 3 February[3]					Second round 3–4 February[4][5]					Quarter-finals 4 February[6]					Semi-finals 5 February[10]					Final 5 February[11]
	9	Canada 67.85	5			1	England (s.d.) 92.03	3
	24	Hungary 70.23	3			9	Canada 84.82	2
											1	England 88.87	3
											11	United States 86.56	1
	11	United States 87.79	5	8	Germany 86.05	1
	22	Philippines 77.24	3			11	United States 85.99	3
																1	England 97.57	5
															5	Wales 90.62	1
	15	Finland 75.84	4			5	Wales 95.85	4
	18	Croatia 77.30	5			18	Croatia 85.20	0
											5	Wales 94.87	3
											19	South Africa 91.69	1
	14	Spain 77.85	2	4	Scotland 91.87	2
	19	South Africa 86.97	5			19	South Africa (s.d.) 88.02	3
																					1	England (s.d.) 94.99	4
																					2	Australia 90.74	3
	10	Ireland 88.35	5			2	Australia 88.78	4
	23	Malaysia 76.75	2			10	Ireland 76.91	0
											2	Australia 97.42	3
											7	Belgium 93.87	1
	13	Sweden 89.47	5	7	Belgium 86.40	3
	20	Japan 79.88	2			13	Sweden 81.59	1
																2	Australia 91.30	5
															3	Netherlands 85.53	1
	16	Gibraltar 75.84	4			6	Northern Ireland 82.19	3
	17	Denmark 77.12	5			17	Denmark 77.45	1
											6	Northern Ireland 89.02	0
											3	Netherlands 92.63	4
	12	Austria 80.21	5	3	Netherlands 88.33	3
	21	New Zealand 68.03	2			12	Austria 87.48	1

Results

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Second round

The singles matches (which were best of 7 legs) took place in the evening session on 3 February, with the doubles matches (which were best of 9 legs) taking place in the afternoon session on 4 February. [4][5]

Country Points Country 90.50  Northern Ireland (6) 3 – 1  Denmark (7) 84.25 Player(s) Legs Player(s) 77.66 Brendan Dolan 3 – 4 Jann Hoffmann 81.66 85.00 Mickey Mansell 4 – 1 Per Laursen 68.35 83.92 Dolan & Mansell 5 – 4 Hoffmann & Laursen 79.23

Country Points Country 86.40  Belgium (7) 3 – 1  Sweden (13) 81.59 Player(s) Legs Player(s) 93.55 Kim Huybrechts 4 – 2 Dennis Nilsson 80.16 78.46 Kurt van de Rijck 2 – 4 Magnus Caris 81.66 87.08 Huybrechts & van de Rijck 5 – 2 Nilsson & Caris 77.92

Country Points Country 88.78  Australia (2) 4 – 0  Ireland (10) 76.91 Player(s) Legs Player(s) 89.73 Simon Whitlock 4 – 1 Mick McGowan 78.00 91.09 Paul Nicholson 4 – 1 William O'Connor 81.26 85.53 Whitlock & Nicholson 5 – 2 McGowan & O'Connor 71.47

Country Points Country 95.85  Wales (5) 4 – 0  Croatia (18) 85.20 Player(s) Legs Player(s) 91.09 Mark Webster 4 – 0 Tonči Restović 71.83 97.35 Richie Burnett 4 – 3 Boris Krčmar 89.26 97.28 Webster & Burnett 5 – 1 Restović & Krčmar 83.10

Country Points Country 86.05  Germany (8) 1 – 3  United States (11) 85.99 Player(s) Legs Player(s) 83.79 Jyhan Artut 4 – 3 Gary Mawson 82.40 79.29 Bernd Roith 2 – 4 Darin Young 81.66 92.32 Artut & Roith 4 – 5 Mawson & Young 90.65

Country Points Country 91.87  Scotland (2) 2 – 3  South Africa (19) 88.02 Player(s) Legs Player(s) 91.29 Gary Anderson 4 – 3 Shawn Hogan 84.85 94.20 Peter Wright 4 – 1 Devon Petersen 86.41 90.13 Anderson & Wright 3 – 5 Hogan & Petersen 91.81 Hogan & Petersen won the sudden death doubles leg to progress to the quarter-finals.

Country Points Country 92.03  England (1) 3 – 2  Canada (9) 84.82 Player(s) Legs Player(s) 92.28 Phil Taylor 3 – 4 Ken MacNeil 90.46 93.40 Adrian Lewis 3 – 4 John Part 86.50 90.42 Taylor & Lewis 5 – 3 MacNeil & Part 77.51 Taylor & Lewis won the sudden death doubles leg to progress to the quarter-finals.

Country Points Country 88.33  Netherlands (3) 3 – 1  Austria (12) 87.48 Player(s) Legs Player(s) 87.86 Raymond van Barneveld 4 – 3 Dietmar Burger 88.78 87.86 Vincent van der Voort 3 – 4 Mensur Suljović 90.28 89.27 van Barneveld & van der Voort 5 – 2 Burger & Suljović 83.38

Quarter-finals

All matches (which were best of 7 legs) took place in the evening session on 4 February. [6]

Country Points Country 97.42  Australia (2) 3 – 1  Belgium (7) 93.87 Player(s) Legs Player(s) 93.93 Simon Whitlock 4 – 0 Kurt van de Rijck 80.46 94.98 Paul Nicholson 2 – 4 Kim Huybrechts 98.10 102.18 Whitlock & Nicholson 4 – 2 van de Rijck & Huybrechts 98.58

Country Points Country 94.87  Wales (5) 3 – 1  South Africa (19) 91.69 Player(s) Legs Player(s) 98.55 Mark Webster 4 – 0 Shawn Hogan 71.04 99.81 Richie Burnett 3 – 4 Devon Petersen 101.52 86.22 Webster & Burnett 4 – 3 Hogan & Petersen 93.65

Country Points Country 88.87  England (1) 3 – 1  United States (11) 86.56 Player(s) Legs Player(s) 97.26 Phil Taylor 3 – 4 Gary Mawson 91.41 83.49 Adrian Lewis 4 – 3 Darin Young 87.21 85.83 Taylor & Lewis 4 – 2 Mawson & Young 83.37

Country Points Country 89.02  Northern Ireland (6) 0 – 4  Netherlands (3) 92.63 Player(s) Legs Player(s) 80.10 Brendan Dolan 3 – 4 Vincent van der Voort 90.09 98.28 Mickey Mansell 2 – 4 Raymond van Barneveld 101.40 88.68 Dolan & Mansell 3 – 4 van der Voort & van Barneveld 86.40

Semi-finals

All matches (which were best of 7 legs) took place in the afternoon session on 5 February. Four points were needed to win the tie. [10]

Country Points Country 91.30  Australia (2) 5 – 1  Netherlands (3) 85.53 Player(s) Legs Player(s) 94.62 Simon Whitlock 4 – 3 Vincent van der Voort 87.27 83.79 Paul Nicholson 0 – 4 Raymond van Barneveld 100.20 95.34 Simon Whitlock 4 – 2 Raymond van Barneveld 91.44 89.40 Paul Nicholson 4 – 2 Vincent van der Voort 74.82 89.73 Whitlock & Nicholson 4 – 0 van der Voort & van Barneveld 73.92

Country Points Country 89.02  England (1) 5 – 1  Wales (5) 92.63 Player(s) Legs Player(s) 95.28 Phil Taylor 1 – 4 Richie Burnett 108.93 105.48 Adrian Lewis 4 – 0 Mark Webster 82.86 96.51 Phil Taylor 4 – 1 Mark Webster 86.46 93.00 Adrian Lewis 4 – 3 Richie Burnett 87.63 97.59 Taylor & Lewis 4 – 2 Burnett & Webster 87.24

Final

All matches (which were best of 13 legs) took place in the evening session on 5 February. Four points were needed to win the title.

[11]

Country	Points	Country
94.99  England (1)	4 – 3	Australia (2) 90.74
Player(s)	Legs	Player(s)
97.20 Phil Taylor	7 – 4	Paul Nicholson 89.55
93.69 Adrian Lewis	7 – 5	Simon Whitlock 91.80
105.93 Phil Taylor	7 – 6	Simon Whitlock 97.86
84.69 Adrian Lewis	4 – 7	Paul Nicholson 82.23
91.59 Taylor & Lewis	4 – 7	Nicholson & Whitlock 91.68

• Taylor & Lewis won the sudden death doubles leg to progress to win the tournament.

Television coverage

The tournament was broadcast by Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland, RTL 7 in the Netherlands, Fox Sports in Australia and OSN Showtime Network in the Middle East and North Africa.[12]

References

1. World Cup Netzone (2010) Archived 2010-12-06 at the Wayback Machine pdc.tv, complete results
2. "2012 World Cup of Darts Information". PDC. December 6, 2011. Archived from the original on January 7, 2012.
3. "Cash Converters World Cup RD1". PDC. 3 February 2012. Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
4. "Cash Converters World Cup RD2 Singles". PDC. 3 February 2012. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
5. "Cash Converters World Cup RD2 Doubles". PDC. 4 February 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-02-07. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
6. "Cash Converters World Cup QFs". PDC. 4 February 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-02-07. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
7. Cash Converters World Cup NetZone Archived 2012-02-05 at the Wayback Machine pdc.tv, complete results
8. "World Cup Competitors Confirmed". PDC. January 9, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-04-21.
9. "Cash Converters Sponsor World Cup". PDC. 25 January 2012. Archived from the original on 29 January 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
10. "Cash Converters World Cup Semis". PDC. 5 February 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-02-08. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
11. "Cash Converters World Cup Final". PDC. 5 February 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-02-08. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
12. "World Cup of Darts Preview". Planet Darts. February 2, 2012. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012.

External links

• Official website