The 2024/25 Paddy Power World Darts Championship is well underway, as the sport's biggest names compete for the iconic Sid Waddell Trophy at Alexandra Palace.
Reigning champion Luke Humphries has already secured his place in round three alongside former champions Gerwyn Price and Peter Wright, with James Wade and Mike De Decker among the early casualties in the capital.
It remains to be seen who will be lifting the title on January 3, but one man who will be featuring in the latter stages of the tournament is PDC referee Huw Ware.
Huw will be refereeing the entire World Darts Championship for the first time, and he will be documenting his experiences in his ''Tops and Tales' blogs on his brand new website, which launched last week.
Here's a snippet from his latest post, reflecting on an eventful start to this year's event...
The World Championship is here, and I’m refereeing the very first match of the tournament between Thibault Tricole and Joe Comito!
Lots of nerves for the curtain-raiser, but Thibault goes through and my work is done for the night, apart from second refereeing the last game.
Then from Day Two up until Christmas, the officials split into two teams. One team has George Noble and Charlie Corstorphine as referees with Charlie Gardner and Mark Walker as markers.
The other team has myself and Kirk Bevins as referees, with Andrew Davies and Scott Gibling as markers.
Each team does two sessions "on" and two sessions "off", so Team George/Charlie cover Day Two afternoon session after the opening night, which means my team come in to do Day Two evening and Day Three afternoon and so on.
It works really well because it means we can leave the venue to have some down time to do Christmas shopping, have a drink, something to eat and just generally relax, away from what is a very full-on and intense tournament.
After Christmas, when there are only three matches per session, we'll be in every session!
Check out Huw's new website and keep up to date with his blog, which will be updated throughout this year's World Darts Championship.