World Cup of Darts 2012

The Cash Converters World Cup of Darts 2012 was a major tournament of the Professional Darts Corporation and was played from February 3rd to 5th, 2012 in the Hamburg sports hall . At the World Cup of Darts there is a team of two players per nation. The two best placed players of a nation always play and during the competition there are also double matches, which is not the case at any other PDC tournament.

The defending champion was the Dutch team that won the final in 2010 with Raymond van Barneveld and Co Stompé . However, Team Netherlands, consisting of Raymond van Barneveld and Vincent van der Voort , was eliminated in the semifinals against Australia ( Simon Whitlock and Paul Nicholson ). Australia again lost the final to England ( Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis ).

Prize money

A total of £ 150,000 in prize money was awarded.

winner	£ 40,000
Finalists	£ 20,000
Semifinals	£ 13,000
Quarter finals	£ 6,000
Round of 16	£ 3,000
1 round	£ 2,000

Participating Nations

Setting position	nation	Player 1	Player 2
1	England	Phil Taylor	Adrian Lewis
2	Australia	Simon Whitlock	Paul Nicholson
3	Netherlands	Raymond van Barneveld	Vincent van der Voort
4th	Scotland	Gary Anderson	Peter Wright
5	Wales	Mark Webster	Richie Burnett
6th	Northern Ireland	Brendan Dolan	Michael Mansell
7th	Belgium	Kim Huybrechts	Kurt van de Rijck
8th	Germany	Jyhan Artut	Bernd Roith
9	Canada	John Part	Ken MacNeil
10	Ireland	William O'Connor	Mick McGowan
11	United States	In it Young	Gary Mawson
12	Austria	Scale length Suljović	Dietmar Burger
13	Sweden	Magnus Caris	Dennis Nilsson
14th	Spain	Antonio Alcinas	Carlos Rodríguez
15th	Finland	Petri Korte	Marko Kantele
16	Gibraltar	Dylan Duo	Dyson Parody
17th	Denmark	Per Laursen	Jann Hoffmann
18th	Croatia	Boris Krcmar	Tonci Restovic
19th	South Africa	Devon Petersen	Shawn Hogan
20th	Japan	Haruki Muramatsu	Morihiro Hashimoto
21st	New Zealand	Warren French	Preston Ridd
22nd	Philippines	Christian Perez	Lourence Ilagan
23	Malaysia	Lee Choon Peng	Amin Abdul Ghani
24	Hungary	Nándor Bezzeg	Krisztian Kaufmann

Seeding list

The eight best teams on the seeding list were automatically seeded for the round of 16.

No. player Round reached 01.  England victory 02.  Australia final 03.  Netherlands Semifinals 04th  Scotland Round of 16

No. player Round reached 05.  Wales Semifinals 06th  Northern Ireland Quarter finals 07th  Belgium Quarter finals 08th.  Germany Round of 16

Tournament overview

	Preliminary round first to 5 legs				Round of 16 4 games with 4 legs					Quarterfinals 4 games with 4 legs					Semi-finals 6 games with 4 legs					Final 6 games with 7 legs
	9	Canada	5		1	England	2 1
	24	Hungary	3		9	Canada	2
										1	England	3
										11	United States	1
	11	United States	5		8th	Germany	1
	22nd	Philippines	3		11	United States	3
															1	England	5
															5	Wales	1
	15th	Finland	4th		5	Wales	4th
	18th	Croatia	5		18th	Croatia	0
										5	Wales	3
										19th	South Africa	1
	14th	Spain	2		4th	Scotland	2
	19th	South Africa	5		19th	South Africa	2 1
																				1	England	3 1
																				2	Australia	3
	10	Ireland	5		2	Australia	4th
	23	Malaysia	2		10	Ireland	0
										2	Australia	3
										7th	Belgium	1
	13	Sweden	5		7th	Belgium	3
	20th	Japan	2		13	Sweden	1
															2	Australia	5
															3	Netherlands	1
	16	Gibraltar	4th		6th	Northern Ireland	3
	17th	Denmark	5		17th	Denmark	1
										6th	Northern Ireland	0
										3	Netherlands	4th
	12	Austria	5		3	Netherlands	3
	21st	New Zealand	2		12	Austria	1

¹ The game was decided in sudden death.

Web links

• Report on darts1.de
• Results on dartsdatabase.co.uk