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.
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.
England won the tournament, beating Australia 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.
The round 1 matches were shortened from best of 11 to best of 9 legs in doubles compared to 2010. 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 and best of 9 legs for doubles matches. 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. 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.

Prize money

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.
RankCountryTop Two Ranked PlayersStart In
1Phil Taylor and Adrian LewisRound 2
2Simon Whitlock and Paul NicholsonRound 2
3Raymond van Barneveld and Vincent van der VoortRound 2
4Gary Anderson and Peter WrightRound 2
5Mark Webster and Richie BurnettRound 2
6Brendan Dolan and Mickey MansellRound 2
7Kim Huybrechts and Kurt van de RijckRound 2
8Jyhan Artut and Bernd RoithRound 2
9John Part and Ken MacNeilRound 1
10William O'Connor and Mick McGowanRound 1
11Darin Young and Gary MawsonRound 1
12Mensur Suljović and Dietmar BurgerRound 1
13Magnus Caris and Dennis NilssonRound 1
14Antonio Alcinas and Carlos RodríguezRound 1
15Petri Korte and Marko KanteleRound 1
16Dylan Duo and Dyson ParodyRound 1
17Per Laursen and Jann HoffmannRound 1
18Boris Krčmar and Tonči RestovićRound 1
19Devon Petersen and Shawn HoganRound 1
20Haruki Muramatsu and Morihiro HashimotoRound 1
21Warren French and Preston RiddRound 1
22Christian Perez and Lourence IlaganRound 1
23Lee Choon Peng and Amin Bin Abdul GhaniRound 1
24Nándor Bezzeg and Kristian KaufmannRound 1

Main draw

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

Results

Second round

The singles matches took place in the evening session on 3 February, with the doubles matches taking place in the afternoon session on 4 February.
CountryPointsCountry
90.50 3 – 1 84.25
PlayerLegsPlayer
77.66 Brendan Dolan3 – 4Jann Hoffmann 81.66
85.00 Mickey Mansell4 – 1Per Laursen 68.35
83.92 Dolan & Mansell5 – 4Hoffmann & Laursen 79.23

CountryPointsCountry
86.40 3 – 1 81.59
PlayerLegsPlayer
93.55 Kim Huybrechts4 – 2Dennis Nilsson 80.16
78.46 Kurt van de Rijck2 – 4Magnus Caris 81.66
87.08 Huybrechts & van de Rijck5 – 2Nilsson & Caris 77.92

CountryPointsCountry
88.78 4 – 0 76.91
PlayerLegsPlayer
89.73 Simon Whitlock4 – 1Mick McGowan 78.00
91.09 Paul Nicholson4 – 1William O'Connor 81.26
85.53 Whitlock & Nicholson5 – 2McGowan & O'Connor 71.47

CountryPointsCountry
95.85 4 – 0 85.20
PlayerLegsPlayer
91.09 Mark Webster4 – 0Tonči Restović 71.83
97.35 Richie Burnett4 – 3Boris Krčmar 89.26
97.28 Webster & Burnett5 – 1Restović & Krčmar 83.10

CountryPointsCountry
86.05 1 – 3 85.99
PlayerLegsPlayer
83.79 Jyhan Artut4 – 3Gary Mawson 82.40
79.29 Bernd Roith2 – 4Darin Young 81.66
92.32 Artut & Roith4 – 5Mawson & Young 90.65

CountryPointsCountry
91.87 2 – 3 88.02
PlayerLegsPlayer
91.29 Gary Anderson4 – 3Shawn Hogan 84.85
94.20 Peter Wright4 – 1Devon Petersen 86.41
90.13 Anderson & Wright3 – 5Hogan & Petersen 91.81

CountryPointsCountry
92.03 3 – 2 84.82
PlayerLegsPlayer
92.28 Phil Taylor3 – 4Ken MacNeil 90.46
93.40 Adrian Lewis3 – 4John Part 86.50
90.42 Taylor & Lewis5 – 3MacNeil & Part 77.51

CountryPointsCountry
88.33 3 – 1 87.48
PlayerLegsPlayer
87.86 Raymond van Barneveld4 – 3Dietmar Burger 88.78
87.86 Vincent van der Voort3 – 4Mensur Suljović 90.28
89.27 van Barneveld & van der Voort5 – 2Burger & Suljović 83.38

Quarter-finals

All matches took place in the evening session on 4 February.
CountryPointsCountry
97.42 3 – 1 93.87
PlayerLegsPlayer
93.93 Simon Whitlock4 – 0Kurt van de Rijck 80.46
94.98 Paul Nicholson2 – 4Kim Huybrechts 98.10
102.18 Whitlock & Nicholson4 – 2van de Rijck & Huybrechts 98.58

CountryPointsCountry
94.87 3 – 1 91.69
PlayerLegsPlayer
98.55 Mark Webster4 – 0Shawn Hogan 71.04
99.81 Richie Burnett3 – 4Devon Petersen 101.52
86.22 Webster & Burnett4 – 3Hogan & Petersen 93.65

CountryPointsCountry
88.87 3 – 1 86.56
PlayerLegsPlayer
97.26 Phil Taylor3 – 4Gary Mawson 91.41
83.49 Adrian Lewis4 – 3Darin Young 87.21
85.83 Taylor & Lewis4 – 2Mawson & Young 83.37

CountryPointsCountry
89.02 0 – 4 92.63
PlayerLegsPlayer
80.10 Brendan Dolan3 – 4Vincent van der Voort 90.09
98.28 Mickey Mansell2 – 4Raymond van Barneveld 101.40
88.68 Dolan & Mansell3 – 4van der Voort & van Barneveld 86.40

Semi-finals

All matches took place in the afternoon session on 5 February. Four points were needed to win the tie.
CountryPointsCountry
91.30 5 – 1 85.53
PlayerLegsPlayer
94.62 Simon Whitlock4 – 3Vincent van der Voort 87.27
83.79 Paul Nicholson0 – 4Raymond van Barneveld 100.20
95.34 Simon Whitlock4 – 2Raymond van Barneveld 91.44
89.40 Paul Nicholson4 – 2Vincent van der Voort 74.82
89.73 Whitlock & Nicholson4 – 0van der Voort & van Barneveld 73.92

CountryPointsCountry
89.02 5 – 1 92.63
PlayerLegsPlayer
95.28 Phil Taylor1 – 4Richie Burnett 108.93
105.48 Adrian Lewis4 – 0Mark Webster 82.86
96.51 Phil Taylor4 – 1Mark Webster 86.46
93.00 Adrian Lewis4 – 3Richie Burnett 87.63
97.59 Taylor & Lewis4 – 2Burnett & Webster 87.24

Final

All matches took place in the evening session on 5 February. Four points were needed to win the title.


CountryPointsCountry
94.99 4 – 3 90.74
PlayerLegsPlayer
97.20 Phil Taylor7 – 4Paul Nicholson 89.55
93.69 Adrian Lewis7 – 5Simon Whitlock 91.80
105.93 Phil Taylor7 – 6Simon Whitlock 97.86
84.69 Adrian Lewis4 – 7Paul Nicholson 82.23
91.59 Taylor & Lewis4 – 7Nicholson & 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.