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The JDC Regional Championships 21/22 Season

 

The JDC will be launching a brand new concept for young dart players to excel at a regional and local level in the Autumn of 2021. All young players will be able to qualify through the already well established JDC academy system by attending local clubs and academies to have the chance to represent their region in a team championships. 

Players will shoot official scores on a weekly basis through the academy system within the 14 regions of England & Wales, and the top scorers across an academy season will represent their region as a team against fellow regions within their geographical area. 

 

 

Ultimately this will give players the experience of representing their local region and having the opportunity to play for their country at the JDC World Cup in Gibraltar. All this opportunity is available from their local academy each week. 

 

The championships will be categorised into two factions - JUNIOR and TEENAGE Divisions -

 

Players aged 6-12 will be able to represent their region in a team of 5 players.

Players aged 13-17 will be able to represent their region in a team of 7 players.

 

The JDC is looking to allow players of these ages to experience team play, minimise travel and to express themselves with similar aged players.

The teams will be made up from the academy system order of merit and each team will have a regional manager and one player will captain the team. Players will make the team on ability and will not be picked by a committee or board. 

The regional matches will take place at the end of each academy season and the regions that play each other will be put into four strategic areas of the UK. 

 

Alongside the regional events players will also be playing for a place in the nation teams of England B and Wales B through the regional order of merit system. They will also be awarded a place in the JDC World Darts Championship finals in Gibraltar. 

 

JDC Chairman Steve Brown commented, 

 

I am very excited to launch this further opportunity for young players in their region of the UK. There has been a fragmented approach to young players playing for their locality over the years and nothing exclusively for them as under 18’s. 

We will look to develop the players in the team game as Juniors and Teenagers, as we recognise that even at this young age, players should be playing with similar aged players as a team. 

There will be 14 regions placed into 4 key areas of the UK and players within their academies will be working each week to get into their regional teams. With the support locally of academy coaches and regional directors, this will give a clear pathway for children to enjoy regional team darts”.

 

Further details to come on the JDC Regional Championship 21/22 season later this year with a launch of the championships in the Autumn. 

 

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2021 will begin for the JDC with its Q school event on May 22nd & 23rd.

 

 

 

During 2021 the JDC will be hosting two tour events in the shape of the Advanced Tour and the JDC Foundation Tour.

Q school will be the opportunity for young dart players to obtain a tour card exclusively for the Advanced Tour in 2021. The Advanced tour is an exclusive 32 player closed field that will contain the highest standard and ability of junior dart players as they prepare for a career in darts.

 

 

The Advanced tour will be highly promoted and will attract huge media interest for these special players. 12 events will see the JDC offer over £10,000 of prize money just for these 32 players. 

All 32 players will automatically qualify for the JDC World Darts Finals in Gibraltar late November.

The JDC’s Foundation Tour is the continuation of the JDC tour as known in previous years. An open event for under 18’s anywhere and is an opportunity for children to explore their ability and set targets during the tour. A prize fund over £5,000 and an order of merit that will see the top 4 players at its conclusion offered a tour card for Advanced tour in 2022. Information on both events are on the JDC website under the tour rules section. 

Both tournaments will be hosted over weekends that will see the Foundation Tour played out on a Saturday and the Advanced Tour on the Sunday. 

 

*Dates for the tour events are as follows in 2021,

 

Foundation Tour Saturday x 2 events

Advanced Tour Sunday x 2 events

 

Tour 1&2 - 19th/20th JUNE

Tour 3&4 - 3/4th JULY

Tour 5&6 - 10th /11th JULY

Tour 7&8 -  24TH 25TH JULY

Tour 9&10 - 7TH 8TH AUGUST 

Tour 11&12 - 21ST / 22ND AUGUST 

 

To complete the line up of the Advanced tour, competitors at JDC Q school will be offered the opportunity of 10 tour cards over 2 days of darts. Q school will be held over 4 sessions of competition and will run an order of merit to enable 10 players to obtain a card. 

 

2 players from each day will win a tour card outright leaving 6 to play for in the events order of merit.

JDC Q school will be held at the Oaklands Darts and Pool centre in Cinderford Gloucestershire over the weekend of 22nd/23rd of May. Updates on the event will be published on JDC social media and on its website. The event is online entry only at - https://jdcshop.net/index.php?route=product/category&path=71

 

Once the Q school event is complete the JDC will move on to the tour events in succession including its bespoke Greenzone events. *Dates at this stage for the Greenzone events are ,

 

JULY 31ST  -  SOUTHAMPTON

AUGUST 1ST -  TEWKESBURY

AUGUST 28TH - BLACKBURN

AUGUST 29TH  - TIPTON

 

*All subject to covid restrictions.

 

JDC Q school entry is now open and the tour events will be open for entry later this month. 

 

JDC Membership is now available for 2021 which will give considerable discount on entry to Q school the Foundation Tour and Greenzone competition.

All details available on www.jdcshop.net 

 

The PDC have confirmed that this years JDC Junior World Darts Championship final will be played out at the Alexandra Palace London. 

 

The road to the palace begins…..

 

The JDC has regionalised the format for the 2021 Super 16 tournament but will still offer its big stage final.

PDC Q school is under way and previous JDC tour regulars, a JDC Major finalist, an academy ambassador and former academy students are making it through for a shot at a tour card on the PDC circuit. 

 

 

Josh Mccarthy, Jack Vincent, Nathan Girvan and John Brown all feature as former JDC players. In addition, academy ambassador Fallon Sherrock joins them though to the final stage. 

Josh Mccarthy and John Brown from the very early days of the JDC known then as the Steve Brown Darts Academy in Bristol made it through in impressive style accumulating 8 points each and 3rd and 4th place in the 1A stage order of merit.

JDC Ambassador Fallon Sherrock booked her place with 7 points and 8th in the order of merit. Scotland ace Nathan Girvan who reached the JDC international open final in Gibraltar claimed his spot with Jack Vincent a JDC tour regular in previous years accumilating 4 points and a shot at the final stage. 

The final stage will be played out from February 14 - 17th where the PDC tour cards will be up for grabs. 

 

JDC Members and Academy students will pay no membership fees in 2021 

JDC Academy Season Dates

These are week commencing dates:

Season 1 - Jan 7th - March 3rd 
Season 2 - March 4th - April 28th
Season 3 - April 29th - June 23rd
Season 4 - June 24th - August 17th

---Summer Break -----

Season 5 - Sept 2nd - October 27th
Season 6 - Oct 28th - Dec 22nd

---Winter Break -------

 

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