AIStephen Bunting: Youngest at Lakeside in 2004, Champion in 2014
The Bullet played his first Lakeside at 18, won the title ten years later as top seed and switched to the PDC within a fortnight.
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Anastasia Dobromyslova: Three World Titles and a PDC Detour
The first Russian at Lakeside ended Trina Gulliver's run in 2008, spent two years in the PDC and came back to win the title twice more.
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AILisa Ashton: Four Lakeside Titles in Five Years
The Lancashire Rose from Bolton lost her first Lakeside final, won four of the next five championships and then took a PDC Tour Card.
AIScott Waites: Two World Titles After Three Lakeside Quarter-Finals
A carpenter from West Yorkshire went out in the Lakeside quarter-finals three years running, then won the world title twice and a PDC major as well.
AIIan White: One Lakeside Match, Then Thirteen PDC Titles
A Stoke player who reached a televised final against Phil Taylor in 1997, played one Lakeside match in 2010 and then became a PDC title winner.
AILorraine Winstanley: From Lorraine Farlam to a Lakeside Final
A beauty therapist from Buxton who played her first Lakeside as Lorraine Farlam in 2011 and reached the final as top seed eight years later.
AISteve Douglas: The Game from Kent and Three Lakeside Second Rounds
A left-hander from Kent who won a European youth title at 17, ran the BDO players' forum and played Lakeside four times between 2000 and 2013.
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Darts on British TV: How the BBC Made It Big — And Lost It
The BBC didn't just broadcast darts in the 1980s: it made the sport what it was. Then it walked away. Here's what that cost darts, and who picked up the pieces.
AIThe Lakeside Atmosphere: Why 1,170 Seats Felt Like 10,000
The Lakeside Country Club held 1,170 people for darts. It sounded like a football ground. Here's why the smallest venue in world sport produced the loudest crowds.
AIDarts in British Culture: From Pub Game to World Championship
Darts didn't become a major British sport by accident. It grew out of the pubs and working men's clubs of northern England and the Midlands, hit peak television in the early 1980s, and then fractured into two competing visions of what the game should be. This is how that happened.