Halls of Fame

Luke Humphries clamed the inaugural hosting of the newly revamped event in Jan/February 2025...

Despite almost 30 years passing there are still less than a dozen champions. In fact, as more players have hit a perfect leg at the championships as have lifted the title and trophy itself...

Originally conceived as a non-ranked clash of the different 'codes' and organisations within darts, especially the PDC and BDO...

The over 50s darts organisation then rapidly added several more 'major' events many of which mirrored their traditional/regular tour equivalents such as with Masters and Matchplay events being added as well as a Champion of Champions.

A set number of events are played in high quality environments, close in style to the PDCs tier tours, and the top 8 table are invited to a tour finals event...

It is worth noting that not only do the winners go down in history, the events runners-up have a superb record of going on to pro tour or higher wins and notable overall careers...

the first to receive national television coverage. In 1979, Bobby George (who won again in 1986) became the first player to win the championship without losing a leg, the final winner of the original run, Paul Cook, is claimed to have matched this. Sweden's Stefan Lord, another two-time winner...

Eric Bristow leads the honour roll with 5 men's titles, although Trina Gulliver holds a remarkable ten on the Women's side...

Sandwiched between the Grand Slam and the World Championships it's easy to overlook the finale of the regular Pro Tour season.