I would like to thank the World Darts Federation & the Latvian Darts Organisation for asking me to host and ref this prestiges event.

It’s gonna be my 2nd Europe Cup Youth here in Riga, last year I made my debut in Vienna, Austria.

For the people who don’t know me; normally I’m a referee at various WDF tournaments like a lot of opens in different countries and all the majors for the last 12 years. For example, I refereed 10 Lakeside World Championships. I’m also a floor-official at Europe Cups & World Cups for the last couple of years.

I’m really grateful to be back in Riga for this amazing event; when I started my ‘career’ in darts I was really young so I feel a lot of comparisons with all the Youth players. Some of the players I reffed for 10-15 years ago they are now a professional player in the PDC!

So I want to say to all the players, have a great week here in Riga and I wish you all the best this upcoming week! And who know, Maybe I see you later this weekend on stage with the finals and hopefully in a couple of years on the biggest stages in World Darts!

Marco Meijer
Master of Ceremony and Floorofficial