The BDO World Darts Championship is one version of the World Darts Championship having begun as a unified World Championship for the game of darts in 1978. Since 1994, following a dispute with the BDO, a rival breakaway group was formed (now known as the Professional Darts Corporation) and it stages its own annual PDC World Championship, generally before the BDO version in late December and early January of each year.
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The BDO World Darts Championship is one version of the World Darts Championship having begun as a unified World Championship for the game of darts in 1978. Since 1994, following a dispute with the BDO, a rival breakaway group was formed (now known as the Professional Darts Corporation) and it stages its own annual PDC World Championship, generally before the BDO version in late December and early January of each year.
The BDO version was inaugurated in 1978 when it was held at the Heart of the Midlands Nightclub in the English city of Nottingham. The following year it moved to the Jollees Cabaret Club, Stoke, where it stayed until 1985. Since then it has been held at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey. The event has been organised by the British Darts Organisation, darts' governing body.
Many of darts' greatest moments have occurred at the BDO World Championship. In 1983, a 22 year-old qualifier from Ipswich, Keith Deller, beat the world's top 3 players including Eric...
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