By Ryan Segal
The first event of note to take place during the month of March was the maiden European Tour event of 2025, with a number of Team Unicorn representatives touching down on the continent for the Belgian Darts Open.
Cameron Menzies was the first Unicorn player on stage, and in a humdinger of a match, lost 5-6 to Matt Campbell, hitting 6 x 180s and a 156 checkout en route.
Owen Bates followed soon after, being defeated 4-6 despite putting up a 97 average, with Matt Dennant losing 5-6, having missed match darts to progress to Saturday.
Ross Smith stepped up and recorded the first win for a Unicorn player on the ET stage in 2025, recording a 6-5 over Sybren Gijbels, before Thomas Lovely found himself on the wrong side of a last leg decider, going down 5-6 to Mike De Decker.
Onto Saturday, which saw Gary Anderson enter the fray – although not for as long as many in Belgium would have been hoping, as he was beaten 2-6 by Luke Woodhouse.
Ross, however, had that scoreline go in his favour against Rob Cross, annihilating the former World Champion with an average of 112.6, going 6/7 on his doubles in a monstrous display.
James Wade wasn’t as bombastic but was just as effective, starting his European campaign with a 6-4 win over Raymond van Barneveld.
Ross and James both reached the Quarter-Finals with 6-4 wins, against Matt Campbell and Boris Krcmar respectively, and both went one better by reaching the last four, with Smudger taking out 117 in a last leg decider v Stephen Bunting, and The Machine repeating his 6-4 scoreline, this time v Jonny Clayton.
Neither, however, would contest in the showpiece match for the trophy, as James was beaten in his UK Open final rematch with Luke Littler, and Ross in a last leg decider to Mike De Decker.
Attention then turned to the floor, as Team Unicorn amassed in their numbers for Players Championships 5&6.
James Wade produced one of the performances of the season in the L64 of PC5, defeating Women’s World Champion Beau Greaves 6-2 with an average of 115.
The best run across the two days came from our in-form Smudger, who reached the Semi-Final at PC6, even opening with a Bull-25-Bull checkout, before being defeated by Luke Humphries.
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Back on the board, it was the turn of our talented clan of non Tour Card holders to do their thing, as the Challenge Tour came round.
And the weekend, undoubtedly, belonged to Ted Evetts.
After finishing as runner up at CT6, Super Ted kept up his fine form to pick up the crown at CT9, throwing two ton plus averages, including one in the Semi-Final, to add his first Challenge Tour crown to his plethora from the Development Tour.
And with barely a moment to think about anything else, it was time for two more Pro Tour events, with Hildesheim the destination.
Tom Sykes received late call up after the Challenge Tour, and immediately made himself at home in that room of 128, reaching the board final with some superb displays.
The main man of the day, however, was the 2x World Champion with the Tartan sleeve, as Gary Anderson added yet another title to his enormous catalogue, winning PC7 for his title of the 2025 season, and 30th in the Players Championships.
It was then time to go for gold in Göttingen, as ET2 got underway. Cameron Menzies and Ross Smith both progressed through R1 with top quality performances, with Cammy averaging 99 and Smudger 105.
Both progressed into the final day of action with subsequent victories, joined by Gary Anderson, who avenged his prior defeat to Luke Woodhouse to progress.
That trio would all progress to the L8 – where Cammy would bravely bow out, as would Ross, who lost to Gary in an instant classic.
Gary would bravely battle in the Semi-Final, losing in a last leg decider to Nathan Aspinall, with Aspinall forcing the decider off the back of a 170 finish.
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Back to the oche, and it was time for Development Tour action, with Owen Bates picking up his second title of 2025, averaging just shy of 100 in the final.
And as we crossed over into April, we ended March with a couple of Players Championship events and two European Tour qualifiers.
Gary kicked off PC9 in genius fashion, thundering home a 9 darter on stream against Krzysztof Ratajski.
Focus then shifted to Ian ‘Diamond’ White, who produced some of his best darts to average 104 and knock Luke Littler out of the event.
In the Semi-Finals, Ian went head to head with fellow Team Unicorn star Cameron Menzies, emerging victorious to meet Gerwyn Price in the final.
Although he produced the higher average in the match, Diamond had to settle for second place to Gerwyn Price – a brilliant days work nonetheless.
At PC10, Team Unicorn threw some eye catching averages, with Callan Rydz throwing a 106 and Gary just under 112 in respective wins.
Cammy was the man to fly the flag furthest, however, going one better than the day prior to reach the final. Despite landing a 170 finish, it would be a second runner up finish off the year to date for Cammy, losing to Josh Rock.
The Euro Tour Qualifiers would see continued success for Team Unicorn, with Tom Bissell and Ian White qualifying for ET5, and Callan Rydz for ET6.
Although he didn’t qualify for the event, Diamond hit a nine darter in ET6 qualifying, adding a cherry atop a fantastic week for the Stoke Star.