PDC Unicorn World Youth Champs Update

THE PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship is to feature the top 28 players from the final Order of Merit, alongside a series of Rileys Qualifiers and International Qualifiers - while the final will be played during the 2012 Premier League Darts Play-Offs at The O2.

The inaugural year of the PDC Unicorn Youth Tour will culminate in the £30,000 World Youth Championship, which will see the Last 64 play down to the final at the K2 Centre in Crawley on Friday November 4.

In a change to the scheduling of the previous Under-21 World Championship final between Arron Monk & Michael van Gerwen, the World Youth Championship final will be played between the semi-finals and final of the 2012 Premier League Darts at The O2 in London on Thursday May 17 - giving the chance for two of the sport's top young talents to experience competing in front of the Sky Sports cameras and a huge live crowd.

The winner of the event will pick up a £10,000 first prize, while both finalists will receive a two-year PDC ProTour Card and an invitation to compete later this year in the Grand Slam of Darts.

The number of qualifiers from the final PDC Unicorn Youth Tour Order of Merit - following the 15th Youth Tour event to be held in Gladbeck this Saturday - has now been increased to 28 players who will qualify by right to compete in the World Youth Championship.

They will be joined by ten International Qualifiers and 26 Rileys Qualifiers, who will come through knockouts to be held in Rileys Darts Zones around the UK over the next two weekends.

Finland's Teemu Harju and Sweden's Oskar Lukasiak are the latest International Qualifiers, and will be joined by the winners of this weekend's events in Austria, Spain and Germany and next Saturday's Dutch qualifier.

European Qualifiers - enter via www.pdc-europe.net
Austria - event to be held on October 22 2011 at Sols Dart Arena, Industriestr 13-15, 7000 Eisenstadt. Entry fee €25, registration 12pm, start 2pm.
Spain - event to be held on October 22 2011 at Bare Nostrum, Av de Morotalaz 121, Madrid. Entry fee €25, registration 4pm, start 7pm.
Germany - event to be held on October 23 2011 at the Van Der Valk Hotel in Gladbeck. Entry fee €25, play to commence following the Quarter-Finals of the PDC Players Championship.
Holland - event to be held on October 29 2011 at Cafe d n Beer Dorpstraat 77 5241 EB Rosmalen. Entry fee €25, registration 6pm, start 8.30pm.

The PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship Last 64 will feature:
Top 28 players from PDC Unicorn Youth Tour Order of Merit
10 International Qualifiers (detailed below)
26 Rileys Qualifiers (detailed below)