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April 08, 2019James Wade chose the perfect day to claim his first PDC title of the year! Â Â The Team Unicorn man came through a dramatic day to win Players Championship 9 in Barnsley on his 36th birthday. Â Wade beat Michael Smith 8-2 in an all Unicorn final to win his first floor title since 2015. Â He held it together, surviving five match darts in beating Adrian Lewis in a last leg decider in the quarter-finals and then edged out Scott Baker 7-6 in the semi-finals. Â Smith hit four 100+
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April 01, 2019On another dramatic Euro Tour weekend, Unicorn duo Keegan Brown and James Wade both had something to celebrate.  Brown powered his way to his first ever Euro Tour semi-final at the German Darts Championship in Hildesheim and it gave him a huge personal milestone as he entered the top 32 in the world for the very first time.  Wade hit a brilliant 9 darter as his terrific form continued.  But Brown will never forget his weekend in Hildesheim. A landmark 6-4 victory over World Champion
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March 18, 2019Unicorn trio Ted Evetts, Chris Dobey and Kyle Anderson all enjoyed double success at the latest qualifying for the 2019 Euro Tour. Â Evetts hit another 9 darter on his way to reaching ET3 and ET4 in Munich and Saarbrucken next month, while Dobey and Anderson also made it through to both the German Darts Grand Prix and German Darts Open. Â Other Unicorn success saw Keegan Brown and Kim Huybrechts qualify for Munich, while Dimitri van den Bergh and Jeffrey de Zwaan made it to ET4. Â ********************
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March 08, 2019Team Unicorn star James Wade sits on top of the league after Week Five of the 2019 Premier League. Aldershot based Wade, produced the first whitewash of the season by storming past Daryl Gurney 7-0. The 2009 champion followed up last week's victory over Van Gerwen with the highest average of the season to date of 109.59 as he also limited Gurney to just two darts at a double. Wade's ruthless display saw him take out 158 and 116, and he said: "It's a great win and I'm really happy. Daryl is better
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February 18, 2019Japanese darting star Seigo Asada is off and running at the the 2019 PDC Asian Tour. The Unicorn ace won event four on home soil in Kobe after just missing out in the final of event three! Asada saw off Hong Kong’s Royden Lam 5-3 in the final to claim his first Asian Tour victory of the year as he bids to qualify for the World Championship again. The top four from the Asian Tour Order of Merit will claim prized spots at the Ally Pally. Asada had a tough route to victory. He beat Lourence Ilagan 5-4
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January 18, 2019Unicorn youngster Harry Ward has enjoyed the best day of his career to secure a prized PDC Tour Card. On the opening day at Q School in Wigan, the 21-year-old from Derbyshire came through a field of nearly 400 to become the first man to win a coveted two-year PDC Tour Card. Ward won an all Unicorn showdown with Mark McGeeney 5-2, averaging 103 in the process, in the final match to qualify. ‘Big H’ was on the money when it mattered all day at Robin Park in Wigan on Thursday where play was also interrupted
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January 18, 2019MICHAEL SMITH & Michael Van Gerwen will face off on the opening night of the 2019 Unibet Premier League season on Thursday February 7 in Newcastle, with the fixtures for the first nine nights now confirmed. Darts' widest-reaching tournament will see 17 nights of action held from February-May and will feature 3 Team Unicorn players - Smith, Gary Anderson and of course a return for James Wade. The season will include Judgement Night after nine matches, after which the bottom two players in the table
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December 19, 2018Seigo Asada played one of the matches of his life to take his place in the 2nd Round at the World Championship. The Unicorn star battled from two sets down to beat Krzysztof Ratajski on Tuesday at the Alexandra Palace. And there was double success for Team Unicorn as Dimitri van den Bergh beat American Chuck Puleo by three sets to nil. For Asada though, one of the most significant wins of his steel tip darting career and there’s no doubt the highly competitive PDC Asian Tour has made a big difference
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December 19, 2018Team Unicorn star Seigo Asada was presented with a special Limited Edition set of darts at the William Hill World Darts Championship yesterday, ahead of his dramatic 3-2 1st round comeback victory over Krysztof Ratajski.The presentation was made on stage at Alexandra Palace by Unicorn Production Director Lee Parker.Japan's no.1 player Asada, was crowned Perfect Tour champion for 2018 with events to spare and to mark the fantastic achievement, 500 sets of Limited Edition darts have been manufactured
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December 18, 2018It wasn’t pretty but it didn’t matter! Devon Petersen is through to the 2nd Round at the World Championship and an all Unicorn showdown with Ian White. The South African, who has endured a tough year on the tour, found a a way to win three sets to two after a nail-biter against Wayne Jones. The Unicorn ace looked to be coasting as he raced into a two set lead. But after missing two darts to hold throw at the start of set three, it gave his opponent the chance he’d been looking for. Jones won that