The 2026 Baltic Sea Darts Open produced a new European Tour champion in Luke Woodhouse, but the weekend in Kiel also landed on a far rarer list for a very different reason. According to a stat revealed by The Red Bit on X, across the entire tournament, there were only four 100+ match averages. That makes the Baltic Sea Darts Open just the third event in European Tour history to finish with fewer than five ton-plus averages across the weekend.
It is a striking return for a circuit where high scoring has become increasingly routine, especially in a 2026 season already packed with big numbers across the Pro Tour and European Tour. The only previous European Tour events to sit in the same category were the 2017 Gibraltar Darts Trophy, which had just three 100+ averages, and the 2023 German Darts Open, which also finished with four. The Baltic Sea Darts Open now joins them after a weekend where drama was easier to find than sustained three-figure scoring.
Woodhouse still produced the defining moment of the tournament, sealing his first European Tour title with a 160 checkout in an 8-4 final win over Ryan Joyce. The final itself finished with Woodhouse averaging 98.61 and Joyce 94.46, keeping with the wider pattern of a competitive event that rarely quite reached the 100-plus average mark. The stat does not strip away from the story of Woodhouse's breakthrough. It simply adds another unusual layer to a Baltic Sea Darts Open weekend that already had its share of quirks, shocks and unlikely routes through the draw.
For only the third time in European Tour history, a tournament ended with fewer than five 100+ averages. Kiel 2026 now has its place on that short and unwanted scoring list.
