to reflected on the tournameur tournament as a whole, i'm joined by matt porter. even at this early stage, let's start off by saying what markers do you look at to determine whether or not this was a successful world championship or the most successful world championship for you >> from our point of view it was the biggest world championship we had 2.5 million pounds prize money. 96 players 85,000 fans live live tv coverage worldwide from a scalable point of view, this was the biggest darts tournament in the world, and a world class iconic sporting event now. michael was the world number one, perhaps not had the year he wanted in terms of winning tv tournaments. he still won tournaments across the globe in 2018. it's right and fitting that he's starting 2019 as our world champion >> it has been pointed out this was the first world championship final to feature two men under 30 michael smith being the other one. it has been almost 36 years. does this show darts is becoming a young man's sport? >> it shows the change in the game in the old days as people will rememb