The 2007 Lakeside World Darts Championship was the 30th Championship and was held between January 6–14, 2007 at the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green, Surrey.
The organisers, the British Darts Organisation announced they had given the tournament a new stage set and player walk-on area.. They also removed the markers (the two officials who manually calculate player scores) from the stage. They will be replaced with on-stage plasma television sc...
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The 2007 Lakeside World Darts Championship was the 30th Championship and was held between January 6–14, 2007 at the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green, Surrey.
The organisers, the British Darts Organisation announced they had given the tournament a new stage set and player walk-on area.. They also removed the markers (the two officials who manually calculate player scores) from the stage. They will be replaced with on-stage plasma television screens. The only official on-stage was the referee/caller.
Last year's beaten finalist, Raymond van Barneveld announced shortly after that defeat that he would be switching to the Professional Darts Corporation and played in their World Championship instead, winning an epic final for his fifth world title overall. This was the first time that a finalist from one event has played in the other World Championship the following year, in direct contravention of the 1997 Tomlin Order.
Jelle Klaasen was defeated in the first round on the defence of...
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