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The 2018 PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship was the eighth edition of the PDC World Youth Championship, a tournament organised by the
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for darts players aged between 16 and 23. In a change mirroring that of the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship, the field of this competition increased from 64 to 96 players, who competed in 32 groups of three, with the winner of each progressing to the knockout stages. The group stage and knock-out phase from the last 32 to the semi-finals was played at Robin Park Centre,
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, on 5 November 2018. The final took place on 25 November 2018, before the final of the 2018 Players Championship Finals. Belgium's Dimitri Van den Bergh was the defending champion after defeating English player Josh Payne 6–3 in the
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final. Van den Bergh successfully defended his youth title, by beating Germany's Martin Schindler 6–3 in the final. Van den Bergh became the first player to defend the title and overall to win two times the PDC World Youth Title.


Prize money


Qualifiers

74 players from the final 2018 PDC Development Tour Order of Merit qualified, as did 22 international qualifiers. Tahuna Irwin, who would have been the 23rd international qualifier, withdrew due to an issue with immigration. Bradley Brooks, Dawson Murschell and Rusty-Jake Rodriguez qualified through the Development Tour Order of Merit as well as through an International Qualifier, which means the players ranked 75, 76 and 77 all qualified. Levy Frauenfelder replaced Jakob Kelly. Development Tour qualifiers: # Luke Humphries # Dimitri Van den Bergh # Ted Evetts # Geert Nentjes # Martin Schindler # George Killington # Rowby-John Rodriguez # Ryan Meikle # Niels Zonneveld # Christian Bunse # Jarred Cole # Nathan Rafferty # Berry van Peer # Kenny Neyens # Wessel Nijman # Rob Hewson # Bradley Brooks # Jimmy Hendriks # Dawson Murschell # George Gardner # Bradley Kirk # Justin van Tergouw # Mike De Decker # Rhys Griffin # Tommy Wilson # Rusty-Jake Rodriguez # Lee Budgen # Rhys Hayden # Brian Raman # Scott Dale # Melvin de Fijter #
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# William Borland # Josh McCarthy # Callan Rydz # Harry Ward # Danny van Trijp # Jordan Boyce # Jeffrey de Zwaan # Tom Lonsdale # Shane McGuirk #
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# Greg Ritchie # Mike van Duivenbode # Kevin Doets # Nico Blum # Patrick van den Boogaard # Dean Finn #
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# John Brown # Sven Groen # Mark Baxter # Maikel Verberk # Thomas Lovely # Carl Batchelor # Justin Smith # Hendrik Eggermann # Jaikob Selby # Dylan Powell # Scott Jackson # Christopher Hansch # Jakob Kelly # Fred Box # Jack Male #
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# Adam Paxton # Danny Key # Conor Mayes # Keelan Kay # Sebastian Pohl # Adam Watson # Jack Vincent # Andrew Davidson # Declan Cox # Jack Main # Aaron Holdstock # Callum Matthews # Levy Frauenfelder International qualifiers: * Maxim Aldoshin * Keane Barry * Jarvis Bautista * Sean Coohill * Logan Crooks * Alexander Faddel * Jack Faragher * Steve Fitzpatrick * Mats Gies * Tomoya Goto * Sven Hesse * Tahuna Irwin * Patrik Kovács * Ryan Lynch * Jesus Vicente Macias * Paolo Nebrida * Hampus Norrstrom * Nicolai Rasmussen * Lukas Wenig * Xiaochen Zong


Draw


Group stage


Group 1


Group 2


Group 3


Group 4


Group 5


Group 6


Group 7


Group 8


Group 9


Group 10


Group 11


Group 12


Group 13


Group 14


Group 15


Group 16


Group 17


Group 18


Group 19


Group 20


Group 21


Group 22


Group 23


Group 24


Group 25


Group 26


Group 27


Group 28


Group 29


Group 30


Group 31


Group 32


Knockout Phase


References

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