The 2025 CDLC Tour came to a thrilling conclusion on Sunday in Santiago, with Salate sweeping the weekend in dominant fashion, capping off the last event of the year with another 6-0 demolition of Norman Madhoo in the final – identical to his performance the day prior.
While Saturday’s title put the Argentinian squarely in control of the Tour Points race, it was his 6-3 semifinal win over Rashad Sweeting that sealed the deal. Sweeting started strong and led 2–1, but Salate found another gear, punishing missed doubles and reeling off three consecutive legs from 3–3 to punch his ticket to the PDC PaddyPower World Darts Championship.
The final itself was over in just 14 minutes, with Salate producing relentless scoring and flawless finishes, showing no signs of easing up despite having already secured the points title.
Norman Madhoo, ever-consistent, reached his fifth final in six events but once again came up short – unable to convert any into a title. He finishes the season in a distant third behind Salate and Sweeting on the Tour Points List, putting his quest for a fifth World Championship appearance on hold until 2026.
In other standout performances:
Costa Rica’s Guillermo Soto pushed Salate hard in the quarters for the second day in a row but couldn’t hold his early advantage.
Bahamian Nelson Rahming made his first quarterfinal of the year, notching impressive wins over Navarro Bastian and Fitzroy Ellison.
Guyanese standout Sudesh Fitzgerald found the form that has been eluding him for much of the year, reaching the semis where he narrowly fell to his countryman 6-3.
Salate led the field in both scoring and power. His 85.12 average across 40 legs was the best on the day and four 180s put him ahead of Sweeting and Fitzgerald by one/
With four CDLC titles this season, Jesus Salate stands atop the Latin America and Caribbean Tour and will now carry the hopes of Argentina and all Latin America to Alexandra Palace this December.
QUARTERFINALS:
Rashad Sweeting (1) 6-4 Daniel Riveros
Jesus Salate (4) 6-4 Guillermo Soto (5)
Sudesh Fitzgerald (2) 6-3 Jonathan Heron (7)
Norman Madhoo (3) 6-2 Nelson Rahming
SEMIFINALS:
Rashad Sweeting 3-6 Jesus Salate
Sudesh Fitzgerald 3-6 Norman Madhoo
FINAL:
Jesus Salate 6-0 Norman Madhoo
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Jesus Salate delivered a statement performance in the penultimate event of the 2025 Championship Darts Latin America & Caribbean Tour, storming through the field at CDLC Tour Event #5 in Santiago without dropping a single leg in the final. His 6–0 demolition of Norman Madhoo capped off a brilliant day that saw him seize control of the race for a spot at the PDC World Darts Championship.
Entering the event two points behind Bahamian rival Rashad Sweeting, Salate’s path to the title – and the Tour Points lead – included a critical semifinal win over Sweeting himself, followed by clinical dominance in the final. The Argentinian now holds an 8-point edge heading into Sunday’s finale and is on the cusp of a dream debut at Alexandra Palace. For Sweeting to reclaim the top spot, he’ll need to win Event #6 and hope Salate fails to make the final.
The event marked Salate’s third CDLC title of the season, with Sweeting owning the other two. The match of the quarterfinal round may have come from Costa Rica’s Guillermo Soto, who pushed Salate to the limit before missed doubles proved costly. Soto’s upset bid could’ve all but clinched Sweeting’s World Championship return, but Salate held firm and never looked back.
Jamaica’s Jonathon Heron continued his rise on the Tour, reaching the semifinals in his return to action after a finals appearance in Panama. Meanwhile, Guyana’s Norman Madhoo made his fourth final of the season but saw his slim bid for a fifth World Championship appearance dashed by the consistency of both Salate and Sweeting. His countryman and former World Cup of Darts partner, Sudesh Fitzgerald exited early at the hands of Costa Rica’s Jafet Vanegas.
Statistically, Salate topped the field with an 85.10 average over 36 legs and shared the 180 lead with Heron — both hitting five. The storyline now turns to Sunday’s Event #6, where the World Championship berth and Tour title will be decided at 2:00 PM local time.
QUARTERFINALS:
Rashad Sweeting (1) 6-0 Daniel Riveros
Jesus Salate (4) 6-4 Guillermo Soto (5)
Jafet Vanegas 3-6 Jonathan Heron (7)
Norman Madhoo (3) 6-2 Roberto Wentz (6)
SEMIFINALS:
Rashad Sweeting 2-6 Jesus Salate
Jonathon Heron 4-6 Norman Madhoo
FINAL:
Jesus Salate 6-0 Norman Madhoo
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Leonard Gates delivered a vintage performance on Championship Sunday in Brownsburg, Indiana, securing his 13th CDC Tour title, the most by any player in CDC history, with a commanding 7–3 win over Adam Sevada in the final of the CDC Indianapolis 501, the last event of the 2025 regular season.
Gates, who had already booked his return to the PDC/PaddyPower World Darts Championship via his Cross Border Darts Challenge win earlier this year, capped his campaign with a strong run that saw him sweep aside Danny Young, Jason Brandon, and top-seeded Sevada en route to the trophy. The two-time Continental Cup champion found top gear on Sunday, leading the field with 11 180s while averaging just under 88 across his matches.
Despite the loss in the final, Adam Sevada closed out a dream season by officially clinching the Jay Tomlinson Trophy as the CDC Tour Points leader. The top-ranked American not only qualifies for the World Championship but also earns direct entry to Stage 2 of PDC Q-School in 2026, a crucial step for a player pursuing a PDC Tour Card. His 89.12 average over 46 legs was the highest on the day.
The final Tour event also locked in two additional World Championship berths:
David Cameron will represent Canada as the top points-earner from north of the border.
Stowe Buntz, the Tour’s top-ranked player not otherwise qualified, books his return to Alexandra Palace after another standout campaign.
Elsewhere, Mike Scarborough continued to raise eyebrows, following up his run to the quarters on Saturday with another deep push on Sunday, the best back-to-back showing by any CDC Associate player this season.
Meanwhile, Kaidon Newberry and Danny Young both capped off breakthrough sophomore seasons with quarterfinal appearances, officially securing their spots in the 2025 Continental Cup next month in Philadelphia. Joining them will be first-year CDC Tour Card holder Chris McHargue who had a sizzling start to the 2025 Tour and held on to qualify in 16th position.
But there was heartbreak for a legend: Larry Butler, the 1994 World Matchplay champion and inaugural Continental Cup winner, fell just short of qualification, finishing 19th on the Tour Points List. This marks the first full CDC season in which “The Eagle” does not feature in the Tour Championship.
With the regular season now in the books, all eyes turn to Philadelphia on October 17-18, where the top 16 players from the 2025 Championship Darts Circuit will collide at the Continental Cup. The stakes? a $20,000 prize fund and berths in the Grand Slam of Darts, World Championship, and the 2026 US Darts Masters. Tickets are available at ticketsource.com/champdarts.
CDC Indianapolis 501 results
QUARTERFINALS:
Adam Sevada (1) 6-1 Kaidon Newberry
David Cameron (4) 3-6 Alex Spellman (5)
Mike Scarborough 5-6 Jason Brandon (10)
Leonard Gates (3) 6-3 Danny Young
SEMIFINALS:
Adam Sevada 7-5 Alex Spellman
Jason Brandon 5-7 Leonard Gates
FINAL:
Adam Sevada 3-7 Leonard Gates
Continental Cup Qualifiers: Adam Sevada
Stowe Buntz
David Cameron
Leonard Gates
Alex Spellman
Darryl Christie
Gary Mawson
Jason Brandon
Doug Boehm
Kiley Edmunds
Jim Long
Jacob Taylor
Kaidon Newberry
Nick Linberg
Danny Young
Chris McHargue
Team Canada David Cameron
Darryl Christie
Kiley Edmunds
Jim Long
Jacob Taylor
John Part
Team USA Adam Sevada
Stowe Buntz
Leonard Gates
Alex Spellman
Gary Mawson
Jason Brandon
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David Cameron capped a high-stakes Double-In/Double-Out Saturday Special with a dramatic 7–6 victory over Stowe Buntz to claim the A-Z Darts Trophy in Brownsburg and cement his return to the World Darts Championship.
Cameron arrived needing only one match win to secure his return to the Ally Pally stage but proved a point by winning the event – his 10th CDC Tour title, a milestone matched only by Leonard Gates. After negotiating the early rounds, he edged Mike Scarborough 6-5 in the quarterfinals, defeated Jacob Taylor 7-3 in the semifinals, and finished with a blazing comeback in the final.
The title match was electric. Buntz burst to a 3-0 lead and stretched it to 5-2 behind three ton-plus finishes (157, 155, and 152). The momentum turned in leg eight when Cameron replied with a 127 checkout of his own, and from there he won four of the last five legs to snatch the trophy in a last-leg decider. It marked Buntz’s sixth final of the season and only the second that ended in heartbreak for the Virginia man.
Earlier, Taylor eliminated top seed Adam Sevada 6-5 in the quarterfinals before falling to Cameron in the semis. On the other side, Buntz defeated Jason Roker 6-4 and then saw off Leonard Gates 7-5 to reach the final. Scarborough and Nick McCoy became the first players from the Associates List to make a quarterfinal this year, while Roker returned to the last eight for the first time since Event 6 in Chicago.
On the stat sheet, Cameron led the event with an 86.00 average over 55 legs in the DI/DO format. Roker topped the maximums chart with seven 180s. Taylor’s consistency continued as he has now reached at least the quarterfinals in six of his nine appearances this season after missing the first half of the Tour due to family commitments.
The CDC season concludes Sunday in Brownsburg with the CDC Indianapolis 501, which will determine the 16 Continental Cup qualifiers, the six automatic berths (per country) for the 2026 Cross Border Darts Challenge, and the winner of the Jay Tomlinson Trophy.
QUARTERFINALS:
Adam Sevada (1) 5-6 Jacob Taylor (8)
David Cameron (4) 6-5 Mike Scarborough
Stowe Buntz (2) 6-4 Jason Roker
Leonard Gates 6-3 Nick McCoy
SEMIFINALS:
David Cameron 7-3 Jacob Taylor
Stowe Buntz 7-5 Leonard Gates
FINAL:
David Cameron 7-6 Stowe Buntz
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Jim Long produced a composed surge on Friday night to win the DartConnect Championship in Brownsburg, defeating David Cameron 7-3 in the final to secure his sixth career CDC title.
Long advanced with a 6-1 quarterfinal win over an in-form Nick Linberg, then turned back seventh-seeded Gary Mawson 7-3 in the semifinals before closing out Cameron in the title match. Cameron earned his place in the final by dispatching fifth-seeded Alex Spellman 6–2 and then upsetting top-seeded Adam Sevada 7–3.
The night carried major ranking implications. Cameron’s run to the final makes it virtually impossible for Darryl Christie to catch him for Canada’s top Tour Points spot; it would take Christie winning both remaining events with Cameron exiting in the first round twice. In practical terms, Cameron is all but locked for return to Ally Pally. On the U.S. side, Stowe Buntz sits 21 points behind Sevada in the race for the Jay Tomlinson Trophy, which is awarded to the top overall player on the Tour at the end of the season and also confers the benefit of entering PDC Q-School at Stage 2. Both Buntz and Sevada are already guaranteed World Championship berths but you can bet that neither will let their foot off the gas in pursuit of the Tour Points Championship.
Elsewhere, Larry Butler has slipped outside the top 16 and now risks missing the Continental Cup for the first time other than the year he was sidelined after a heart attack. There are three players within 10 points of the final Cup spot, setting up a tense finish and making every dart critical with only two events to play.
On the stats sheet, Buntz led the field in average at 90.28 over 27 legs, while Cameron topped the 180 chart with 12, three clear of both Long and Mawson. Big finishes lit up the early rounds as Jeremiah Millar and Trevor Buboltz each produced a 170 checkout (Millar’s came in a losing effort to Kiley Edmunds in the last 32).
The weekend continues Saturday in Brownsburg with the A-Z Darts Trophy — a double-in/double-out “Saturday Special,” and the penultimate stop of the 2025 CDC season.
QUARTERFINALS:
Adam Sevada (1) 6-2 Jacob Taylor (8)
David Cameron (4) 6-2 Alex Spellman (5)
Stowe Buntz (2) 5-6 Gary Mawson (7)
Nick Linberg (14) 1-6 Jim Long (6)
SEMIFINALS:
Adam Sevada 3-7 David Cameron
Gary Mawson 3-7 Jim Long
FINAL:
Jim Long 7-3 David Cameron
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Adam Sevada delivered a commanding performance Sunday in Oakbrook Terrace, capturing the Boomerang Tours Fiesta title with a 7-2 victory over Darryl Christie to earn his fifth CDC Tour win of the 2025 season.
Sevada was clinical from start to finish, posting a 91.37 average, second only to Jacob Taylor (91.95), and produced a blistering 107.70 first-nine average – more than 10 points clear of anyone else in the field. After wins over Jason Brandon, Alex Spellman, and Christie, Sevada widened his lead in the 2025 Tour Points standings and took another step toward securing a trip to the PDC World Darts Championship.
The final told the story of missed chances for Christie, who failed to convert key doubles that could have leveled the match at 2-2 or clawed back a break in leg five. Still, his run to the final – his second on the CDC Tour this year – narrows the gap on David Cameron for the top Canadian spot on the Tour Points table, with a World Championship berth on the line.
Jacob Taylor, despite leading the field in average for the second straight event, once again saw his campaign cut short – this time in the quarterfinals in a deciding leg thriller at the hands of Christie. Meanwhile, Alex Spellman led the tournament in 180s, firing in 11, three more than Christie.
Sevada’s semifinal win came over Spellman (7–2), while Christie defeated Stowe Buntz by the same scoreline. In a day where chalk was king, Christie was the only unseeded player to advance beyond the last-16.
As the dust settles in Chicago, all eyes now turn to Indianapolis, where the 2025 CDC regular season concludes September 19–21. With three events remaining, Tour Cards, Continental Cup places, and three World Championship berths remain up for grabs.
BOOMERANG TOURS FIESTA
QUARTERFINALS
Adam Sevada (1) 6-1 Jason Brandon (8)
Kiley Edmunds (13) 1-6 Alex Spellman (5)
Stowe Buntz (2) 6-5 Jacob Taylor (7)
Leonard Gates (3) 5-6 Darryl Christie
SEMIFINALS
Adam Sevada 7-2 Alex Spellman
Stowe Buntz 2-7 Darryl Christie
FINAL
Adam Sevada 7-2 Darryl Christie
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Salate Clinches Ally Pally Berth with Santiago Sweep
/in CDLC Latin America, Events, Uncategorized /by DoubleOut170Argentina’s Jesus Salate left no doubt.
The 2025 CDLC Tour came to a thrilling conclusion on Sunday in Santiago, with Salate sweeping the weekend in dominant fashion, capping off the last event of the year with another 6-0 demolition of Norman Madhoo in the final – identical to his performance the day prior.
While Saturday’s title put the Argentinian squarely in control of the Tour Points race, it was his 6-3 semifinal win over Rashad Sweeting that sealed the deal. Sweeting started strong and led 2–1, but Salate found another gear, punishing missed doubles and reeling off three consecutive legs from 3–3 to punch his ticket to the PDC PaddyPower World Darts Championship.
The final itself was over in just 14 minutes, with Salate producing relentless scoring and flawless finishes, showing no signs of easing up despite having already secured the points title.
Norman Madhoo, ever-consistent, reached his fifth final in six events but once again came up short – unable to convert any into a title. He finishes the season in a distant third behind Salate and Sweeting on the Tour Points List, putting his quest for a fifth World Championship appearance on hold until 2026.
In other standout performances:
Costa Rica’s Guillermo Soto pushed Salate hard in the quarters for the second day in a row but couldn’t hold his early advantage.
Bahamian Nelson Rahming made his first quarterfinal of the year, notching impressive wins over Navarro Bastian and Fitzroy Ellison.
Guyanese standout Sudesh Fitzgerald found the form that has been eluding him for much of the year, reaching the semis where he narrowly fell to his countryman 6-3.
Salate led the field in both scoring and power. His 85.12 average across 40 legs was the best on the day and four 180s put him ahead of Sweeting and Fitzgerald by one/
With four CDLC titles this season, Jesus Salate stands atop the Latin America and Caribbean Tour and will now carry the hopes of Argentina and all Latin America to Alexandra Palace this December.
QUARTERFINALS:
Rashad Sweeting (1) 6-4 Daniel Riveros
Jesus Salate (4) 6-4 Guillermo Soto (5)
Sudesh Fitzgerald (2) 6-3 Jonathan Heron (7)
Norman Madhoo (3) 6-2 Nelson Rahming
SEMIFINALS:
Rashad Sweeting 3-6 Jesus Salate
Sudesh Fitzgerald 3-6 Norman Madhoo
FINAL:
Jesus Salate 6-0 Norman Madhoo
Salate Shines in Santiago
/in CDLC Latin America, Uncategorized /by DoubleOut170Jesus Salate delivered a statement performance in the penultimate event of the 2025 Championship Darts Latin America & Caribbean Tour, storming through the field at CDLC Tour Event #5 in Santiago without dropping a single leg in the final. His 6–0 demolition of Norman Madhoo capped off a brilliant day that saw him seize control of the race for a spot at the PDC World Darts Championship.
Entering the event two points behind Bahamian rival Rashad Sweeting, Salate’s path to the title – and the Tour Points lead – included a critical semifinal win over Sweeting himself, followed by clinical dominance in the final. The Argentinian now holds an 8-point edge heading into Sunday’s finale and is on the cusp of a dream debut at Alexandra Palace. For Sweeting to reclaim the top spot, he’ll need to win Event #6 and hope Salate fails to make the final.
The event marked Salate’s third CDLC title of the season, with Sweeting owning the other two. The match of the quarterfinal round may have come from Costa Rica’s Guillermo Soto, who pushed Salate to the limit before missed doubles proved costly. Soto’s upset bid could’ve all but clinched Sweeting’s World Championship return, but Salate held firm and never looked back.
Jamaica’s Jonathon Heron continued his rise on the Tour, reaching the semifinals in his return to action after a finals appearance in Panama. Meanwhile, Guyana’s Norman Madhoo made his fourth final of the season but saw his slim bid for a fifth World Championship appearance dashed by the consistency of both Salate and Sweeting. His countryman and former World Cup of Darts partner, Sudesh Fitzgerald exited early at the hands of Costa Rica’s Jafet Vanegas.
Statistically, Salate topped the field with an 85.10 average over 36 legs and shared the 180 lead with Heron — both hitting five. The storyline now turns to Sunday’s Event #6, where the World Championship berth and Tour title will be decided at 2:00 PM local time.
QUARTERFINALS:
Rashad Sweeting (1) 6-0 Daniel Riveros
Jesus Salate (4) 6-4 Guillermo Soto (5)
Jafet Vanegas 3-6 Jonathan Heron (7)
Norman Madhoo (3) 6-2 Roberto Wentz (6)
SEMIFINALS:
Rashad Sweeting 2-6 Jesus Salate
Jonathon Heron 4-6 Norman Madhoo
FINAL:
Jesus Salate 6-0 Norman Madhoo
Gates Closes Out 2025 Regular Season in Style with 13th CDC Tour Title
/in Events, Main Tour, Uncategorized /by DoubleOut170Leonard Gates delivered a vintage performance on Championship Sunday in Brownsburg, Indiana, securing his 13th CDC Tour title, the most by any player in CDC history, with a commanding 7–3 win over Adam Sevada in the final of the CDC Indianapolis 501, the last event of the 2025 regular season.
Gates, who had already booked his return to the PDC/PaddyPower World Darts Championship via his Cross Border Darts Challenge win earlier this year, capped his campaign with a strong run that saw him sweep aside Danny Young, Jason Brandon, and top-seeded Sevada en route to the trophy. The two-time Continental Cup champion found top gear on Sunday, leading the field with 11 180s while averaging just under 88 across his matches.
Despite the loss in the final, Adam Sevada closed out a dream season by officially clinching the Jay Tomlinson Trophy as the CDC Tour Points leader. The top-ranked American not only qualifies for the World Championship but also earns direct entry to Stage 2 of PDC Q-School in 2026, a crucial step for a player pursuing a PDC Tour Card. His 89.12 average over 46 legs was the highest on the day.
The final Tour event also locked in two additional World Championship berths:
David Cameron will represent Canada as the top points-earner from north of the border.
Stowe Buntz, the Tour’s top-ranked player not otherwise qualified, books his return to Alexandra Palace after another standout campaign.
Elsewhere, Mike Scarborough continued to raise eyebrows, following up his run to the quarters on Saturday with another deep push on Sunday, the best back-to-back showing by any CDC Associate player this season.
Meanwhile, Kaidon Newberry and Danny Young both capped off breakthrough sophomore seasons with quarterfinal appearances, officially securing their spots in the 2025 Continental Cup next month in Philadelphia. Joining them will be first-year CDC Tour Card holder Chris McHargue who had a sizzling start to the 2025 Tour and held on to qualify in 16th position.
But there was heartbreak for a legend: Larry Butler, the 1994 World Matchplay champion and inaugural Continental Cup winner, fell just short of qualification, finishing 19th on the Tour Points List. This marks the first full CDC season in which “The Eagle” does not feature in the Tour Championship.
With the regular season now in the books, all eyes turn to Philadelphia on October 17-18, where the top 16 players from the 2025 Championship Darts Circuit will collide at the Continental Cup. The stakes? a $20,000 prize fund and berths in the Grand Slam of Darts, World Championship, and the 2026 US Darts Masters. Tickets are available at ticketsource.com/champdarts.
CDC Indianapolis 501 results
QUARTERFINALS:
Adam Sevada (1) 6-1 Kaidon Newberry
David Cameron (4) 3-6 Alex Spellman (5)
Mike Scarborough 5-6 Jason Brandon (10)
Leonard Gates (3) 6-3 Danny Young
SEMIFINALS:
Adam Sevada 7-5 Alex Spellman
Jason Brandon 5-7 Leonard Gates
FINAL:
Adam Sevada 3-7 Leonard Gates
Continental Cup Qualifiers:
Adam Sevada
Stowe Buntz
David Cameron
Leonard Gates
Alex Spellman
Darryl Christie
Gary Mawson
Jason Brandon
Doug Boehm
Kiley Edmunds
Jim Long
Jacob Taylor
Kaidon Newberry
Nick Linberg
Danny Young
Chris McHargue
2026 Cross Border Darts Challenge Automatic Qualifiers:
Team Canada
David Cameron
Darryl Christie
Kiley Edmunds
Jim Long
Jacob Taylor
John Part
Team USA
Adam Sevada
Stowe Buntz
Leonard Gates
Alex Spellman
Gary Mawson
Jason Brandon
Cameron Seals Return to London with Stunning Comeback in A-Z Darts Trophy
/in Events, Main Tour, Uncategorized /by DoubleOut170David Cameron capped a high-stakes Double-In/Double-Out Saturday Special with a dramatic 7–6 victory over Stowe Buntz to claim the A-Z Darts Trophy in Brownsburg and cement his return to the World Darts Championship.
Cameron arrived needing only one match win to secure his return to the Ally Pally stage but proved a point by winning the event – his 10th CDC Tour title, a milestone matched only by Leonard Gates. After negotiating the early rounds, he edged Mike Scarborough 6-5 in the quarterfinals, defeated Jacob Taylor 7-3 in the semifinals, and finished with a blazing comeback in the final.
The title match was electric. Buntz burst to a 3-0 lead and stretched it to 5-2 behind three ton-plus finishes (157, 155, and 152). The momentum turned in leg eight when Cameron replied with a 127 checkout of his own, and from there he won four of the last five legs to snatch the trophy in a last-leg decider. It marked Buntz’s sixth final of the season and only the second that ended in heartbreak for the Virginia man.
Earlier, Taylor eliminated top seed Adam Sevada 6-5 in the quarterfinals before falling to Cameron in the semis. On the other side, Buntz defeated Jason Roker 6-4 and then saw off Leonard Gates 7-5 to reach the final. Scarborough and Nick McCoy became the first players from the Associates List to make a quarterfinal this year, while Roker returned to the last eight for the first time since Event 6 in Chicago.
On the stat sheet, Cameron led the event with an 86.00 average over 55 legs in the DI/DO format. Roker topped the maximums chart with seven 180s. Taylor’s consistency continued as he has now reached at least the quarterfinals in six of his nine appearances this season after missing the first half of the Tour due to family commitments.
The CDC season concludes Sunday in Brownsburg with the CDC Indianapolis 501, which will determine the 16 Continental Cup qualifiers, the six automatic berths (per country) for the 2026 Cross Border Darts Challenge, and the winner of the Jay Tomlinson Trophy.
QUARTERFINALS:
Adam Sevada (1) 5-6 Jacob Taylor (8)
David Cameron (4) 6-5 Mike Scarborough
Stowe Buntz (2) 6-4 Jason Roker
Leonard Gates 6-3 Nick McCoy
SEMIFINALS:
David Cameron 7-3 Jacob Taylor
Stowe Buntz 7-5 Leonard Gates
FINAL:
David Cameron 7-6 Stowe Buntz
Long lifts sixth CDC crown as Cameron closes in on World Championship return
/in Events, Main Tour, Uncategorized /by DoubleOut170Jim Long produced a composed surge on Friday night to win the DartConnect Championship in Brownsburg, defeating David Cameron 7-3 in the final to secure his sixth career CDC title.
Long advanced with a 6-1 quarterfinal win over an in-form Nick Linberg, then turned back seventh-seeded Gary Mawson 7-3 in the semifinals before closing out Cameron in the title match. Cameron earned his place in the final by dispatching fifth-seeded Alex Spellman 6–2 and then upsetting top-seeded Adam Sevada 7–3.
The night carried major ranking implications. Cameron’s run to the final makes it virtually impossible for Darryl Christie to catch him for Canada’s top Tour Points spot; it would take Christie winning both remaining events with Cameron exiting in the first round twice. In practical terms, Cameron is all but locked for return to Ally Pally. On the U.S. side, Stowe Buntz sits 21 points behind Sevada in the race for the Jay Tomlinson Trophy, which is awarded to the top overall player on the Tour at the end of the season and also confers the benefit of entering PDC Q-School at Stage 2. Both Buntz and Sevada are already guaranteed World Championship berths but you can bet that neither will let their foot off the gas in pursuit of the Tour Points Championship.
Elsewhere, Larry Butler has slipped outside the top 16 and now risks missing the Continental Cup for the first time other than the year he was sidelined after a heart attack. There are three players within 10 points of the final Cup spot, setting up a tense finish and making every dart critical with only two events to play.
On the stats sheet, Buntz led the field in average at 90.28 over 27 legs, while Cameron topped the 180 chart with 12, three clear of both Long and Mawson. Big finishes lit up the early rounds as Jeremiah Millar and Trevor Buboltz each produced a 170 checkout (Millar’s came in a losing effort to Kiley Edmunds in the last 32).
The weekend continues Saturday in Brownsburg with the A-Z Darts Trophy — a double-in/double-out “Saturday Special,” and the penultimate stop of the 2025 CDC season.
QUARTERFINALS:
Adam Sevada (1) 6-2 Jacob Taylor (8)
David Cameron (4) 6-2 Alex Spellman (5)
Stowe Buntz (2) 5-6 Gary Mawson (7)
Nick Linberg (14) 1-6 Jim Long (6)
SEMIFINALS:
Adam Sevada 3-7 David Cameron
Gary Mawson 3-7 Jim Long
FINAL:
Jim Long 7-3 David Cameron
Sevada Scoring Power, Christie Double Trouble, Send The Reaper to the Winner’s Circle
/in Events, Main Tour, Uncategorized /by DoubleOut170Adam Sevada delivered a commanding performance Sunday in Oakbrook Terrace, capturing the Boomerang Tours Fiesta title with a 7-2 victory over Darryl Christie to earn his fifth CDC Tour win of the 2025 season.
Sevada was clinical from start to finish, posting a 91.37 average, second only to Jacob Taylor (91.95), and produced a blistering 107.70 first-nine average – more than 10 points clear of anyone else in the field. After wins over Jason Brandon, Alex Spellman, and Christie, Sevada widened his lead in the 2025 Tour Points standings and took another step toward securing a trip to the PDC World Darts Championship.
The final told the story of missed chances for Christie, who failed to convert key doubles that could have leveled the match at 2-2 or clawed back a break in leg five. Still, his run to the final – his second on the CDC Tour this year – narrows the gap on David Cameron for the top Canadian spot on the Tour Points table, with a World Championship berth on the line.
Jacob Taylor, despite leading the field in average for the second straight event, once again saw his campaign cut short – this time in the quarterfinals in a deciding leg thriller at the hands of Christie. Meanwhile, Alex Spellman led the tournament in 180s, firing in 11, three more than Christie.
Sevada’s semifinal win came over Spellman (7–2), while Christie defeated Stowe Buntz by the same scoreline. In a day where chalk was king, Christie was the only unseeded player to advance beyond the last-16.
As the dust settles in Chicago, all eyes now turn to Indianapolis, where the 2025 CDC regular season concludes September 19–21. With three events remaining, Tour Cards, Continental Cup places, and three World Championship berths remain up for grabs.
BOOMERANG TOURS FIESTA
QUARTERFINALS
Adam Sevada (1) 6-1 Jason Brandon (8)
Kiley Edmunds (13) 1-6 Alex Spellman (5)
Stowe Buntz (2) 6-5 Jacob Taylor (7)
Leonard Gates (3) 5-6 Darryl Christie
SEMIFINALS
Adam Sevada 7-2 Alex Spellman
Stowe Buntz 2-7 Darryl Christie
FINAL
Adam Sevada 7-2 Darryl Christie