2012 PDC World Darts Championship
| Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship | |||
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| Dates | 15 December 2011 – 2 January 2012 | ||
| Venue | Alexandra Palace | ||
| Location | London | ||
| Country | England, United Kingdom | ||
| Organisation(s) | PDC | ||
| Format | Legs (preliminaries) Sets (from Round 1) Final – best of 13 |
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| Prize fund | £1,000,000 | ||
| Winners share | £200,000 | ||
| High checkout |
170  Adrian Lewis Wes Newton Paul Nicholson Simon Whitlock
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| Champion(s) | |||
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Adrian Lewis
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The 2012 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship was the 19th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation.
The event started on 15 December 2011 and finished on 2 January 2012, with two breaks for Christmas and New Year. The tournament was held for the fifth time at London's Alexandra Palace.
Adrian Lewis was the defending champion having won the 2011 tournament.Phil Taylor became the last remaining player to have played in every PDC World Championship, after Dennis Priestley failed to qualify. For the first time players from Malaysia, Portugal and Serbia qualified.
Lewis was able to defend his title against Andy Hamilton in the final with a 7–3 win. He became the third player to defend the world title following their first win, after Eric Bristow and Raymond Van Barneveld.
Sid Waddell, having commentated on the BDO World Championship from 1978 to 1994 for the BBC and on the PDC World Championship from 1995 to 2011 for Sky Sports, was forced to miss the 2012 PDC World Championship, having been diagnosed with bowel cancer in September 2011. He died in August 2012.
The televised stages features 72 players. The top 32 players in the PDC Order of Merit on 28 November 2011 are seeded for the tournament. They will be joined by the 16 highest non qualified players in the Players Championship Order of Merit from events played on the PDC Pro Tour.
These 48 players are joined by two PDPA qualifiers (to be determined at a PDPA Qualifying event to be held in Wigan on 28 November 2011), the winner of the PDC Youth Tour Order of Merit, and 21 international players: the 4 highest names in the European Order of Merit not already qualified, and 17 further international qualifiers to be determined by the PDC and PDPA.
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