Steve Brown JDC Chairman brings back an old friend and announces dates for 2019.
The Junior Darts Corporation announces its dates for 2019 with an explanation behind the plans from the Chairman Steve Brown. In 2019 the JDC will increase its Junior Tour events to 10 over the first half of the year. Giving 10 places available to winners of these events to qualify for the 2019 Junior World Darts Championship. The events will be staged over 5 dates with 2 events each day. Upon completion of the tour in May 2019, the JDC will start another opportunity for youngsters to excel in the re birth of the JDC'S Super 16 Tour. This tour will comprise of 4 seperate events in the later part of the year with 8 players making the finals in December, 4 winners and the top 4 in the Super16 OOM table who haven't already qualified will make finals day. They will be joined by the top 8 players from the JDC affilaited academies OOM to make the Super16 players who will play to a final on December 28th 2019. The actual final will be played on stage during the PDC's Masters tournament in Milton Keynes in the New Year.
Steve Brown explained, " we are particularly excited about 2019 and as you can see a few changes to our calendar. Firstly we have taken the decision to offer more places to our World finals in 2019 and will now have 10 tour events next year. We are going to hold them over 5 days to reflect the Development Tour which is our natural progression, and will also be good from a travel perspective with two events in one day for the players.
I am especially pleased to bring back the SUPER 16 tour. It was the first tour of its kind way back in 2012 for us and brings back some great memories of where a lot of this started. So we have 2 massive stage play opprtunities in the Ally Pally and Milton Keynes next year, further qualifying spots to get the the World Finals, and more prize money in next years campaign.
I cannot wait".
Full detail on venues, other tournaments and further information on this announcement will follow in due course.
