2018 BDO World Darts Championship
The 2018 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 41st World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 33rd staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green. Glen Durrant who was the defending men's champion, successfully retained his title, beating Mark McGeeney 7–6 in the final after the match went to a tie break. Durrant became the fifth player to defend a world title following his first win, after Eric Bristow, Raymond van Barneveld, Adrian Lewis and Gary Anderson. McGeeney became the second man, following Mike Gregory in 1992, to lose  a world final having had darts at double to win. Lisa Ashton who was the defending women's champion, also retained her title with a 3–1 win over Anastasia Dobromyslova. Durrant recorded the tournament's first 100+ match average since 2014 in his quarter-final victory over Jim Williams. All four men's quarter-finals went to a deciding set, the first time this had happened since the format was changed so that the quarters were played to best of nine sets. The previous year this happened was 1991, when the quarter-finals were best of seven sets. Michael  Unterbuchner became the first German player to reach the semi-finals of the World Championship, but was beaten 6–4 by Mark McGeeney. Men's. Format and qualifiers. 1–16 in BDO Rankings "(Seeded in First Round)" 17–24 in BDO Rankings "(First Round)" 25–26 in BDO Rankings "(Preliminary Round)" Last Year Finalist not Qualified "(Preliminary Round)" Replacement Player "(First Round)" Regional Table Qualifiers "(Preliminary Round)" Regional Playoff Qualifiers "(Preliminary Round)" Bridlington Playoff Qualifiers "(Preliminary Round)" Draw bracket. Preliminary Round. All matches are best of 5 sets. Women's. Format and qualifiers. 1–8 in BDO Rankings "(Seeded)" 9–14 in BDO Rankings Playoff Qualifiers  Youth. For the fourth consecutive year, a youth final was played on the Lakeside stage during the Championships. In September 2017, the Youth tournament was played down to the final two. The final took place on 11 January, and was contested between 17 year old defending champion Justin van Tergouw from the Netherlands and 15 year old Killian Heffernan from Ireland. The format was first to three sets. Representation from different countries. This tables shows the number of players by country (men and women) in the World Championship, the total number including the preliminary round. Fifteen countries were represented in  the World Championship at men competition and seven at the women. Overall seventeen countries competed at the World Championship.