As the PDC World Darts Championship approaches in just under two weeks, we take a look at the top five combined averages in history of the tournament.

The number one World Championship confirmed average is the 2017 semi-final between Michael Van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld.

This is 223.39 and saw MVG hit a 114.05 average and Barney hit a 109.34 average in what was a 6-2 win for the former.

Second also includes Van Gerwen who hit an average of 107.79 and 104.93 for Gary Anderson in the 2017 Final which made for a 212.72 average.

Phil Taylor has the third and fifth highest with 212.12 and 210.82 in victories over Raymond van Barneveld and Mick McGowan. In both matches he only dropped one set.

Flanked in between that is Van Gerwen’s close win in 2017 against Cristo Reyes with a combined 211.34 average in what was at one point the highest losing average for Reyes.

In the latest news coming out of the BDO, it has been revealed in a letter sent to respective counties that the organisation will start charging for its ranking tournaments.

Currently darting bodies don’t have to pay to host e.g a Category A tournament but now they will be charged 5 percent of the prize fund for every tournament for example, a £2,000 prize fund will incur a £100 fee.

This will supposedly go to running tournaments smoother in terms of the equipment used for the I.T so that players have better statistics.

This itself runs to the players as well who all have to pay a £2 levy for every tournament within 7 days of the tournament taking place. Late payment as well will lead to the tournament not appearing on the ranking tables and further fees may be charged.

With the BDO not running every single tournament on the calendar such as the Dutch Open, it will be interesting to see if the darts bodies react to this news. 

A Chinese court sold the inventory of bismuth and tungsten bar held by the defunct Fanya Metal Exchange for a total of 672.02 million yuan ($95.47 million), notices on the e-commerce platform hosting the sales showed on Saturday.

Tungsten carbide powder market is projected to reach $2,176.8 million by 2023, the market growth is driven by the increasing demand of tungsten carbide-based machine tools, cutting tools, abrasive products in automotive, construction, mining, transportation, and oil and gas industries.

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

The ferro tungsten and tungsten powder prices in the Chinese market continued to remain stable in the first trading day in December due to lukewarm demand in the terminal market.