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Following the success of the inaugural England Youth Grand Prix in 2018, we are happy to announce that the 2019 England Youth Grand Prix of Darts will be expanding with 6 additional tournaments spread more evenly across the Country to give the young players more opportunities in 2019, with over £4,000 in prize money available.

There have been a few changes in the rules, including no lower age limit to players providing they can retrieve their own darts and can chalk a game of darts, while the upper age limit is now anyone under the age of 18 on January 1st 2019 can play the whole season and a dress code will be in place for all events. While the girls prize will now be awarded to the Winner of the respective Girls Play-off.

The major change will come in the terms of Regional Tables, for the Grand Finals the overall rankings will provide the top 10 from the main table and top 5 for the girls table, leaving spaces for the Regional Tables. We have divided the Country into three regions (North, Midlands and South), each player will be allocated their region based on their County youth team or if they don't play County youth darts by where they live. There are three of four events in each regional table and only players based in those regions can gain points for the regional tables, but they are still open to all players regardless. Two boys and one girl from each region not already qualified based on the regional tables will qualify for the Grand Finals.

For more information, contact Bradley Kirk (England Darts Youth Executive Officer) bkirkenglanddarts@gmail.com

England Youth Grand Prix 2019
DATE	VENUE	REGION	ORGANISER
3rd February	Glasshoughton WMC, 152 York Road, Castleford, Yorkshire. WF10 4PD	North	Louise Stockings
3rd February	Bitterne Park Social Club, 76 Manor Farm Road, Bitterne Park, Southampton, Hampshire. SO18 1NQ	South	Bradley Kirk
9th March	Isle of Man Darts Festival, Villa Marina, Douglas, Promenade, Douglas, Isle of Man. IM1 2HJ	Overall	England Darts
14th April	Lennons Pool & Snooker Club, 16a Stephenson Place, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. S40 1XL	Midlands	Sean Lennon
5th May	The Shamrock Club, Ridge Way, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. AL7 2AD	South	Debbie Jones
5th May	Willington WMC, Hall Lane, Willington, Crook, County Durham. DL15 0QG	North	Robert Douthwaite
26th May	GER Sports Club, Robingoodfellows Lane, March, Cambridgeshire. PE15 8QV	Midlands	Peter Melton
15th June	England Open, Bunn Leisure, Paddock Lane, Selsey, Sussex. PO20 9BH	Overall	England Darts
7th July	The New Trinity Club, 261 Southcoates Lane, Hull, Humberside. HU9 3TS	North	Carl South
7th July	Patchway Labour Club, The Parade, Coniston Road, Bristol, Patchway. BS345LJ	South	Neil McCarthy
21st July	Barratts Club, 42 Kigsthorpe Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire. NN2 6EZ	Midlands	Jaime Wastell
11th August	Crucible Sports & Social Club, Furlong House, Hambridge Road, Newbury, Berkshire. RG14 5UT	South	Louise Trott
11th August	Beechwood Club, Beechwood Road, Blackburn, Lancashire. BB1 5JL	North	Ged Fielding
7th September	England Classic, Bunn Leisure, Paddock Lane, Selsey, Sussex. PO20 9BH	Overall	England Darts
2019 Grand Prix Finals
27th October	GER Sports Club, Robingoodfellows Lane, March, Cambridgeshire. PE15 8QV		Cambridgeshire/England Darts

DETAILS OF THE 'PokerStars' 2019 ISLE OF MAN DARTS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL NOW CONFIRMED

On behalf of the EDO, I am delighted, albeit belatedly, to announce that following a very lengthy and detailed tendering process that they have won the rights to organise the IOM Darts Festival, and for at least, the next three years!

If i may, I would like to take this opportunity to first apologise to everyone for these unforeseen delays, but a legal caveat in the process prevents all interested parties making any statement until it's run its course, which obviously it has now.

I point this out, to explain and hopefully appease the scores of people who have emailed, sent messages or phoned the EDO officials or I requesting festival details or wishing to book as to why we simply haven't been able to share anything.

After speaking to representatives in the IOM tourism industry over the last 48 hours though, who obviously are people we work very closely with, thankfully the lack of info or news doesn't seem to have deterred people from booking, and though not an exact science, it appears with following their comments, around 200 have already secured the hotel of their choice, which is great.

Obviously we can't guarantee 30 degree sunshine, in fact, in March it's more likely to be slooshing down half the time, and clearly you would be viewed as a right nut case were you to even consider snorkelling in the sea, but at the IOM Darts Festival, the biggest and longest running festival of it's kind in the world, no one really cares.

Every year, darting dsciples and their supporters, (some of whom never even play darts) descend on Douglas and the peerless Villa Marina who host the festival and do so just to be part of this iconic festival and they arrive in their hundreds !

Scores of small groups, pub dart teams, boys (and definitely the girls) from all over the UK and Europe, make either the short flight over which takes 30/40 minutes (or slightly longer ferry!) just to be part of it.

The IOM Festival is not just a darts event, in fact it's so much more than that, it's an occasion. In March the IOM becomes just the place to be and in truth it has been for over three decades, it is even whispered, some even pop over just for a couple of beers or two ...... who would have thought ?

The atmosphere throughout the few days is electric and more so, as the photo's show, at the Grand finals over 500 throw themselves into the spirit of this great darts festival.

True it does have rather a lot of prize money (well over £30,000) and true again, 2019 will again see a record payout and though many other events will hold CAT 'C' and or CAT 'D' ranking events, at the IOM, most are either CAT 'A+' or CAT 'B', which simply doesn't happen often. Thankfully it does though when the EDO put on tournaments! But equally there are events for everyone, including youth, mixed groups and men's and ladies doubles which alone pay out nearly £2,000 and £1,500 respectively...... so what's not to like ?

Lastly the one thing we would suggest to all travellers, is that you book up your flights, as soon as you can, because unlike the hotels (and ferry costs) which stay as advertised, now everything has been confirmed, they will I promise you, quickly begin to increase.

All that remains to say is that again, we look forward to seeing you all, old friends and new, in March, and if anyone has any questions whatsoever, just ask away, as now we can actually answer them!

It is deep regret that we have learned today that former England Ladies Captain, Paddy Reeson has passed away.

Paddy was the non-playing Captain of the team for eight years, before she handed the role over to Trina Gulliver, Paddy was a Cambridgeshire County player and played locally in Peterborough for over fifty years, she won the Ladies Pairs title in Jersey with fellow Cambridgeshire and England player Nadine Bentley and also reached the semi finals of the Winmau World Masters.

Congratulations to Beau Greaves and Mitchell McCarthy on winning the first ever England Youth Grand Prix titles at March GER, Cambridgeshire today.

The first England Youth Grand Prix Champions will be crowned on Sunday 21st October, when both the girls and boys finals will be played at March GER Sports Club, March, Cambridgeshire.

Listed below are the players in the groups they will play in, for full details CLICK HERE

Congratulations to the team of Glen Durrant, Paul Brown, Jim Williams & Fallon Sherrock for winning the mixed fours.

Saturday (7th September) will be a busy day of darts as the Mens Classic singles start at 09.30, the girls and boys Matchplay (which will be streamed) get underway at 10.00, the youth Grand Prix starts at 12.00, the Ladies Classic singles starts at 12.30 and the mixed fours start at 18.00.

The players through to Sunday's stage finals of the England Masters are Anastasia Dobromyslova & Deta Hedman in the ladies and Ross Montgomery & Jim Williams in the men's.

Both the Ladies and Men's England Masters are underway and you can see the updated draw sheets by clicking on the respective link below.

Congratulations to Northern Ireland's Kyle McKinstry who is the 2018 British Pentathlon Champion.

The 2018 British Pentathlon was played today at Bunn Leisure, Selsey and is the first event of the England Classic Weekend.

For those that have not seen the Pentathlon before it is an invitational only event that is played between just 20 players and as well as the traditional 501 legs, it also features one game of 1001 and one game of 2001. There is also the 'special games' of Shanghi, Halve-it and Round the Board on Doubles (RBD). All the 'special games' have an additional prize for their winners on top of prize money for the top four players overall.

The big difference in the Pentathlon is that the overall positions are decided on a points basis, where every single thrown can score points for the player.

The draws for the ladies and men's singles in the England Classic and England Masters have now been made, click on the links below :

The draws for all the other events will be made at Selsey, as entries are still open for the Youths, Pairs and Fours.

The seeds in the Men's England Masters have been amended after one of the original seeded players withdrew from the event.

At today's England AGM the existing Directors of Tommy Thompson, Vic Sexton, Peter Melton, Bernie Crouch and John Peoples were all re-elected to the Board and we are very pleased to announce that Dawn Speed (pictured below) was also elected to the England Board of Directors.

In the England Selectors of Don Vickers, Peter Senior, Neil Pritchard, Dawn Speed and Peter Melton were all re-elected.

Here are the final four players that will compete in the 2018 British Pentathlon next Thursday at Bunn Leisure. They include experienced Pentathlon player, Paul Dawkins who was second in 2013 and Belgium's Andy Baetens who finished third in 2016 and Wes Newton and Steven Ferguson play in the event for the first time.

The draws for the respective England Matchplay's will be made at the England AGM on Sunday 2nd September.

The player's have qualified from winning one of the singles titles at England Events (England Open, England Classic, England Masters, England Singles, Isle of Man Masters and the defending England Matchplay Champions), the remaining players come from the England Rankings. The player's with a number in brackets next to their names are the seeded players, once again the England Rankings re used to determine these.

The fourth group of players who will be competing in this years British Pentathlon, Norway's Atle Burger makes his debut as does England's Jack Vincent (at just 18 we believe Jack could be one of the youngest ever players to compete). Then there are Ted Hankey and Jim Withers, who are both regular Pentathlon players who are still looking for their first Pentathlon title.

The third group of four players for the British Pentathlon, three Englishmen and a Northern Ireland player who include former Champion James Hurrell, Dean Winstanley a former runner up, Kyle McKinstry who finished 5th last year and debutant Lee Shewan.

Play will start at 12 noon on the 21st October with the top 16 from the overall rankings and the top 8 girls all being split into groups of four, matches being played on a round robin basis with the top two players in each group going into the last eight and last four respectively, all these matches will be played on stage with the winners crowned as the first ever England Youth Grand Prix Champions.

Prize Money
Overall	Position	Girls
£300	Champion	£150
£150	Runner Up	£75
£75	Joint 3rd	£50
£50	Joint 5th	£25
£25	Joint 9th	N/A

For more details click here.

After the success of the England Youth Grand Prix series, the latest event is held this weekend in Gateshead, England Darts are disappointed with the lack of support for the England Youth K.O. Cup, it has therefore been cancelled and maybe replaced by a Youth blind three's, entry on the day, the three teams who had entered the Youth K.O. Cup will be refunded. The England Classic Youth Open will be held as normal and will be a qualification for the Grand Finals of the Grand Prix to be held in Cambridgeshire on 21t October 2018.

The England Classic Mixed Fours will be re-introduced on Saturday 8th September 2018 starting approximately at 3.00pm after conclusion of the Mens and Ladies Classic Singles in the Embassy Room. The England Online shop will be opened later today for participants to enter at £20 per team consisting of 3 Men and 1 Lady.

The second group of four players for the British Pentathlon. Two debutants in Scotland's Jim McEwan and England's Gary Stafford and then Sweden's Andreas Harryson and Belgium's Sven Verdonck .

The first four players in the British Pentathlon to be played at Selsey on Thursday 6th September, Martin Adams is back to defend the title he won last year, his 12th overall. Steve Carrett and Dave Parletti make their debuts and Finland's Tatu Pehkonen will be looking to repeat his win in the 2016 Halve-it section, more players will be announced soon.

The England Youth Grand Prix tables have been updated following the latest round played at the Spots & Stripes Club in London, CLICK HERE to see the up to date table, congratulations to today's winners, Tavis Dudeney and Shannon Reeves.

We are very sad to learn that former England International, Tony Sontag passed away yesterday. Tony was a London County player who played five ties for England and won four of his matches. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

We would like to congratulate the England Youth team on a very successful 2018 Europe Cup in Turkey.

The girls team of Beau Greaves and Shannon Reeves are the 2018 Europe Cup Girls Champions and they had a clean sweep as Beau Greaves won the girls singles and Beau and Shannon also won the girls pairs to mean all three gold medals will be coming back to England.

The boys also return home with a good collection of medals as they took silver in the team event, Jack Vincent got a bronze in the boy singles which meant they finished third overall in the boys championship and so all have a bronze medal. Netherlands took the overall title ahead of the Republic of Ireland.

Girls
Group 1		Group 2
Alex Dorney		Natasha Kennedy
Beau Greaves		Ellie Larsson-Brown
Holly Meadwell		Hannah Meadwell
Ashleigh Turner		Shannon Reeves
Boys
Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4
Connor Arberry	Alex Gurr	Tavis Dudeney	Lewis Gurney
Lewis Mayes	Jack Male	Kieron Lown	Cameron Nicholson
Dan Perry	Brad Phillips	Mitchell McCarthy	Reece Pauling
Kieron Plews	Dalton Storr	Drew Mole	Tyler Radlett

England Classic Stage Matches
Girls Youth Final	Beau Greaves	3-1	Ashleigh Turner
Boys Youth Final	Sam Cromwell	3-5	Connor Arberry

Ladies England Masters Final	Anastasia Dobromyslova	5-1	Deta Hedman
Mens England Masters Final	Ross Montgomery	1-5	Jim Williams

Ladies Classic Semi Final	Trina Gulliver	2-4	Anastasia Dobromyslova
Ladies Classic Semi Final	Fallon Sherrock	2-4	Deta Hedman
Mens Classic Semi Final	Wesley Harms	4-0	Reece Colley
Mens Classic Semi Final	Jim Williams	4-1	Mark McGeeney

Ladies Classic Final	Anastasia Dobromyslova	5-2	Deta Hedman
Mens Classic Final	Wesley Harms	5-4	Jim Williams

2018 England Matchplay Champions


Girls: Beau Greaves	Boys: Brad Phillips	Ladies: Fallon Sherrock	Mens: Glen Durrant

England Matchplay
Ladies Quarter Final	Deta Hedman	4-0	Margaret Sutton
Mens Quarter Final	Scott Mitchell	4-3	Jeffrey Sparidaans
Ladies Quarter Final	Tricia Wright	1-4	Lisa Ashton
Mens Quarter Final	Dave Parletti	3-4	Kyle McKinstry
Ladies Quarter Final	Fallon Sherrock	4-2	Paula Jacklin
Mens Quarter Final	Paul Hogan	2-4	Andy Baetens
Ladies Quarter Final	Lorraine Winstanley	4-0	Casey Gallagher
Mens Quarter Final	Allan Edwards	3-4	Glen Durrant

Ladies Semi Final	Deta Hedman	4-3	Lisa Ashton
Mens Semi Final	Scott Mitchell	3-4	Kyle McKinstry
Ladies Semi Final	Fallon Sherrock	4-3	Lorraine Winstanley
Mens Semi Final	Andy Baetens	2-4	Glen Durrant

Girls Final	Beau Greaves	3-0	Shannon Reeves
Boys Final	Mitchell McCarthy	1-4	Brad Phillips
Ladies Final	Deta Hedman	1-4	Fallon Sherrock
Mens Final	Kyle McKinstry	2-5	Glen Durrant

England Masters Results	England Classic Results
Ladies Singles	Ladies Singles
Men's Singles	Men's Singles

England Classic Champions

Ladies: Anastasia Dobromyslova		Mens: Wesley Harms

England Masters Champions

Anastasia Dobromyslova		Jim Williams

Youth Classic/GP Champions

Beau Greaves		Connor Arberry

England Youth Matchplay (Saturday)
Girls Semi Final	Beau Greaves	3-0	Hannah Meadwell
Girls Semi Final	Shannon Reeves	3-1	Alex Dorney

Boys Quarter Final	Mitchell McCarthy	3-2	Connor Arberry
Boys Quarter Final	Tavis Dudeney	3-1	Alex Gurr
Boys Quarter Final	Brad Phillips	3-0	Cameron Nicholson
Boys Quarter Final	Keelan Kay	3-0	Tyler Radlett

Boys Semi Final	Mitchell McCarthy	3-2	Tavis Dudeney
Boys Semi Final	Brad Phillips	3-0	Keelan Kay

Girls Final	Beau Greaves	3-0	Shannon Reeves

Boys Final	Mitchell McCarthy	1-4	Brad Phillips

England Classic Stage Matches (Sunday)
Girls Youth Final	Beau Greaves	v	Ashleigh Turner
Boys Youth Final	Sam Cromwell	v	Connor Arberry

Ladies England Masters Final	Anastasia Dobromyslova	v	Deta Hedman
Mens England Masters Final	Ross Montgomery	v	Jim Williams

Ladies Classic Semi Final	Trina Gulliver	v	Anastasia Dobromyslova
Ladies Classic Semi Final	Fallon Sherrock	v	Deta Hedman
Mens Classic Semi Final	Wesley Harms	v	Reece Colley
Mens Classic Semi Final	Jim Williams	v	Mark McGeeney

Ladies Classic Final		v
Mens Classic Final		v

England Masters Results	England Classic Draws
Ladies Singles	Ladies Singles
Men's Singles	Men's Singles

Special Games Winners
Shang Hi	Dave Parletti	57
2001	Steve Ferguson	24
Halve It	Jim McEwan	33
Round Board On Doubles	Sven Verdonck	38

England Masters Draws	England Classic Draws
Ladies Singles	Ladies Singles
Men's Singles	Men's Singles

If you have a QR scan app on a mobile device you can get the draws and updates by using the scans below
Ladies Masters Singles	Men's Masters Singles	Ladies Classic Singles	Men's Classic Singles

Seeded Players
England Masters			England Classic
Ladies	Seed	Mens	Ladies	Seed	Mens
Lorraine Winstanley	1	Glen Durrant	Lorraine Winstanley	1	Glen Durrant	17	Tony O'Shea
Deta Hedman	2	Mark McGeeney	Deta Hedman	2	Mark McGeeney	18	Dean Reynolds
Aileen de Graaf	3	Jim Williams	Aileen de Graaf	3	Jim Williams	19	Conan Whitehead
Lisa Ashton	4	Scott Mitchell	Lisa Ashton	4	Scott Mitchell	20	Daniel Day
Anastasia Dobromyslova	5	Ross Montgomery	Anastasia Dobromyslova	5	Ross Montgomery	21	Jeffrey Sparidaans
Fallon Sherrock	6	Scott Waites	Fallon Sherrock	6	Scott Waites	22	Richie Edwards
Corrine Hammond	7	Gary Robson	Corrine Hammond	7	Gary Robson	23	Andy Baetens
Trina Gulliver	8	Wesley Harms	Trina Gulliver	8	Wesley Harms	24	Jeffrey van Egdom
	9	Chris Landman		9	Michael Unterbuchner	25	Nick Kenny
	10	Dave Parletti		10	Chris Landman	26	Wouter Waes
	11	Willem Mandigers		11	Dave Parletti	27	James Hurrell
	12	Richard Veenstra		12	Willem Mandigers	28	Andy Hamilton
	13	Scott Baker		13	Richard Veenstra	29	Paul Hogan
	14	Kyle McKinstry		14	Wayne Warren	30	Andreas Harrysson
	15	Tony O'Shea		15	Scott Baker	31	Wes Newton
	16	Dean Reynolds		16	Kyle McKinstry	32	Steve Carrett


Girls Matchplay	Boys Matchplay	Ladies Matchplay	Mens Matchplay
	Quarter Finals	Quarter Finals	Quarter Finals
	Mitchell McCarthy (1) v Connor Arberry	Deta Hedman (1) v Margaret Sutton	Scott Mitchell (1) v Jeffrey Sparidaans
	Tavis Dudeney (4) v Alex Gurr	Tricia Wright (4) v Lisa Ashton	Dave Parletti (4) v Kyle McKinstry
	Brad Phillips (2) v Cameron Nicholson	Fallon Sherrock (2) v Paula Jacklin	Paul Hogan (2) v Andy Baetens
	Keelan Kay (3) v Tyler Radlett	Lorraine Winstanley (3) v Casey Gallagher	Allan Edwards (3) v Glen Durrant
Semi Finals	Semi Finals	Semi Finals	Semi Finals
Beau Greaves (1) v Hannah Meadwell
Shannon Reeves (2) v Alex Dorney
Final	Final	Final	Final

2018 England Matchplay Player's
GIRLS	BOYS	LADIES	MENS
Beau Greaves (1)	Mitchell McCarthy (1)	Deta Hedman (1)	Scott Mitchell (1)
Shannon Reeves (2)	Brad Phillips (2)	Fallon Sherrock (2)	Paul Hogan (2)
Hannah Meadwell	Keelan Kay (3)	Lorraine Winstanley (3)	Allan Edwards (3)
Alex Dorney	Tavis Dudeney (4)	Tricia Wright (4)	Dave Parletti (4)
	Alex Gurr	Margaret Sutton	Glen Durrant
	Cameron Nicholson	Paula Jacklin	Kyle McKinstry
	Tyler Radlett	Casey Gallagher	Jeffrey Sparidaans
	Connor Arberry	Lisa Ashton	Andy Baetens