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The 2008 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship, sponsored by Ladbrokes, was the 15th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation. The 2008 event began on December 17, 2007 (a tradition for the event to begin in the previous calendar year) and the final was played on New Year's Day for the second year in succession. There was no play on December 23, 24, 25 or 31.〔(Tournament structure and prize money )〕 John Part won his third World Championship, beating the qualifier Kirk Shepherd 7-2 in the final. He joined Phil Taylor, Raymond van Barneveld, Eric Bristow and John Lowe as the only people to have won more than two world titles, although they have since been joined by Martin Adams. Ted Hankey, and Adrian Lewis. He also became only one of two players to have won the PDC World Darts Championship more than once, along with Taylor, and later joined by Lewis. In addition, he became the first player to have won World Championships in three different venues; the Lakeside, the Circus Tavern and the Alexandra Palace, although this accolade was matched in 2009 by Phil Taylor. Raymond van Barneveld was the defending champion having won the PDC World Championship at the first attempt in an epic final against Taylor in 2007. He was knocked out in the third round with a 4-2 loss to Kevin Painter. Taylor failed to reach the final of the competition, for the first time in PDC World Championship history, after losing 5-4 to Wayne Mardle in the quarter-finals. After being staged at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet for 14 years, the tournament moved to the Alexandra Palace in London.〔(PDC championship moves to London 2 April 2007 )〕 The championships had been considered to have outgrown the Circus Tavern whose capacity of 800-900 spectators was considerably smaller than some Holsten Premier League darts events in 2007 which saw crowds reaching 5,000. The Alexandra Palace was the venue of the News of the World Darts Championship between 1963 and 1977 and boasts a capacity for 2008 of 2,500. ==Format and qualifiers== The televised stages featured 68 players. The top 32 players in the PDC Order of Merit at November 12, 2007 received an automatic place in the World Championship.〔(Current PDC Order of Merit ) Top 32 players will qualify for World Championships〕 They were joined by 16 PDPA members and 20 international qualifiers determined by the PDC and PDPA. The 16 PDPA members were made up from the top eight players (who hadn't already qualified) in the PDC Pro Tour Events during 2007 (Jelle Klaasen, Mark Walsh, Tony Eccles, Michael van Gerwen, Steve Brown, Dave Askew, Jason Clark and Matt Clark) 〔(Current Players Championship Order of Merit ) Top eight will qualify for World Championship〕 The final eight qualifiers were determined at a PDPA Qualifying event which was held on November 17, 2007 in Wolverhampton - prior to the Grand Slam of Darts tournament. The successful players were Steve Maish, Jan van der Rassel, Colin Monk, Steve Evans, Jamie Caven, Steve Hine, Kirk Shepherd and Jason Barry. Former world champions John Lowe, Eric Bristow, Keith Deller and Richie Burnett all played in the qualifying rounds but failed to reach the televised stages. Order of Merit Pro Tour # Jelle Klaasen # Mark Walsh # Michael van Gerwen # Steve Brown # Matt Clark # Tony Eccles # Dave Askew # Jason Clark PDPA Qualifiers # Jamie Caven # Kirk Shepherd # Steve Hine # Steve Maish # Jason Barry # Steve Evans # Jan van der Rassel # Colin Monk PDC North American Pro Tour Order of Merit ''First Round Qualifiers'' * Gary Mawson * Ray Carver * Gerry Convery * Dan Olson Dutch/Belgian DDF Order of Merit ''First Round Qualifiers'' * Leroy Kwadijk * Toon Greebe German Darts Corporation Order of Merit ''First Round Qualifiers'' * Mensur Suljović * Michael Rosenauer Danish Order of Merit ''First Round Qualifiers'' * Per Laursen Australia Order of Merit ''First Round Qualifiers'' * Steve MacArthur Oceanic Masters Winner ''First Round Qualifiers'' * Warren Parry South African Open Winner ''First Round Qualifiers'' * Charles Losper International Qualifiers ''Preliminary Round Qualifiers'' * Akihiro Nagakawa * Anthony Forde * Rizal Barellano * Miloslav Navrátil * Alan Bolton * Erwin Extercatte * Ashfaque Sayed * Shi Yongsheng 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「2008 PDC World Darts Championship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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