The penultimate 2025 Championship Darts Corporation weekend served up a feast of tungsten drama in Chicago – though none of it was more dramatic than Alex Spellman’s opening act. The American kicked things off in style, storming to his fifth career tour title with a ruthless 7–0 whitewash of David Cameron.
Some might say it was truly The Day of the Jackal. Spellman played the assassin to perfection, while poor Canadian Cameron looked every inch Charles de Gaulle – the hunted man with nowhere to hide. By the time he realised he was in a final, Spellman had already taken the trophy home, polished it, and stuck it on the mantelpiece.
For the Tar Heel resident, it’s not been the smoothest of years on the CDC circuit, but he fought his way past a strong field that even included Darth Maple himself, John Part. The final proved a mismatch, but it was still a reminder that when Spellman clicks, he does so with lethal precision.
Buoyed by that demolition job, the 36-year old was back at it again, riding his unbeaten streak all the way to another final. Waiting for him there was number two seed Stowe Buntz – better known as The Neon Nightmare. True to form, Buntz blazed through his side of the draw, dropping just seven legs all day before locking horns with Spellman. This time, though, it was the Jackal who blinked. Buntz dominated the decider 7–3, striding into the winners’ enclosure with the swagger of a man who knew he belonged to be there.
As the curtain came down on a thrilling weekend, the last word belonged to the man at the very top of the rankings, Adam Sevada. Already notorious for his four-title streak earlier in the year, The Reaper made it five for the season with a 7–2 battering of Daryl Christie in the final. If Buntz’s numbers were impressive, Sevada’s bordered on absurd: he dropped just six legs in five matches en route to the title. That’s not just clinical – that’s carnage. Records, it seems, are nothing more than appetisers to Adam.
Next stop: Brownsburg, Indiana, where the final trio of tournaments will wrap up the season in mid-September. Sevada leads the rankings, Buntz sits second, and Leonard Gates makes it a 1-2-3 for the USA. It could all change though.
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