To England County Members,
Firstly on behalf of the Directors of England Darts we would like to thank you for your continued support of England Darts, despite the difficulties we have all faced over of the last 12 months+ with the covid restrictions due to the world pandemic.
We would like to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy and successful new year, and please keep yourselves safe during the next few difficult weeks and beyond.
It has particularly a difficult time for us in performing all the preparation work in the hope of our events being able to take place, only to see all our efforts being in vain.
The Lakeside World Championships next month have also fallen foul to the continuing problems; as members of the W.D.F it is our opinion that all efforts should be made to assist them in their attempts to re-schedule the event at the earliest possible time.
The WDF contacted the three home countries with the a proposal that they were given by Eurosport/Discovery Channels and Lakeside on a re-scheduled date, however the date given to them was the date we had in the calendar for the 2022 British Internationals, it is imperative that we assist them to maintain the delivery of a World Championship, after the recent debacle surrounding the event, and the credibility of our darts globally.
It was unanimously agree that we would find another date for the 2022 British Internationals, and we are now in negotiations to resolve this situation at the earliest possible suitable date.
It is a 100% a priority from all the Tri-Nation Member Countries that the event will run in 2022, and as near to the original date as possible.
As you will be aware the 1st January each calendar year is when the England membership renewal is due. The current fee for renewing or a new membership request is £250.
Applications for membership from counties, who are not members in 2022, will in 2023 have an additional membership application fee to pay, along with the yearly membership fee.
We fully agree that elected executives of Counties make the decisions they feel is in the best interests of their members, and will not interfere in this right.
We would however implore all counties who are not renewing their England membership, to make their members aware of their decision, either in their internal communications or on their website, as your decision will have direct implications on all your players being involved in any consideration during the International selection process.
It became known to us during last year that many Counties who didn’t renew in 2021, didn’t inform their members of that decision, which cannot be in their best interests and unfair, and this lack of clarity from these counties directly prevented them from making alternative arrangements of their own.
We are aware that at least three players with a realistic chance of gaining International recognition will not feature in the selection process in the next couple of weeks as a direct result of their associated county not being members of England Darts.
As organisers of darts in England we are all doing our best to give all our players as many options in our sport as possible and natural justice would seem to be that all the players in England are aware of their options going forward from day 1.
For a County with just 100 members the England membership equates to 5p per week per player, a no brainer really, but again your choice.
We have this year produced a brand new website, where we keep everyone informed of our activities, along with the membership benefits, it also includes up to date ranking tables for our events and county, we regularly maintain our social media platforms on virtually a daily basis.
www.englanddarts.co.uk
England Darts facebook.
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The England County Rankings will be updated following the 2022 January scheduled matches, only Counties who are members of England Darts in 2022 will have their players included into our County Ranking table, there will be “no” retrospective inclusions for counties who don’t renew by the deadline of 31st January 2022, their players will not have their records included with any games completed in January.
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