Barrie Bates

Barrie Bates
Personal information
Nickname	"Champagne" [1] "Batesy"
Born	(1969-10-17) 17 October 1969 (age 56) Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
Home town	Bedlinog, Taff Bargoed Valley, Wales
Darts information
Playing darts since	1997
Darts	23g Red Dragon Signature
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	"House of Fun" by Madness
Organisation (see split in darts)
PDC	2002–2022, 2024 (Tour Card: 2011–2012, 2019–2020)
PDC premier events – best performances
World Championship	Quarter-final: 2009
World Matchplay	Last 16: 2007
World Grand Prix	Quarter-final: 2010
UK Open	Runner-up: 2006
Grand Slam	Group Stage: 2007, 2011, 2012
Ch'ship League	Initial groups, Semi-final: 2008
Desert Classic	Last 16: 2006
US Open/WSoD	Last 16: 2007
PC Finals	Last 32: 2011
Other tournament wins
Le Skratch Montreal Open 2006 PDC Eastbourne Open 2006 Players Championships (2x) 2006, 2010

Barrie Bates (born 17 October 1969) is a Welsh former professional darts player who competed in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. His original nickname was Batesy, but since 2007 he was known as Champagne.

Career

Bates made his PDC televised debut at the 2003 UK Open reaching the third round. In 2005 he narrowly lost a last-32 match to Lionel Sams at the UK Open and made a superb run to the final in 2006 before losing to Raymond van Barneveld.

He made a great impression on the circuit in 2006, winning the John Smiths Singles in February and May's Le Skratch Sarantos Retsinas Memorial event in Montreal. He also reached two Regional Finals of the UK Open in March (losing to Chris Mason and to van Barneveld in November. He reached two PDPA Players Championship finals in 2006 losing to Colin Lloyd in the Isle of Wight in June, but beat Phil Taylor to take his biggest title to date in the Netherlands event in November.

His success at events away from the television cameras during 2006 helped him to win the award of "Best Floor Player" at the first PDC Awards Dinner. It refers to the non-televised events which feature many boards alongside each other on a smaller arena floor.

He made his World Championship debut in 2007 as the number 17 seed but suffered a surprise first-round defeat to Canadian Brian Cyr. In the 2008 World Championship, Bates got to the third round only to lose to Kirk Shepherd. In the 2009 tournament, Bates defeated Northern Ireland's Felix McBrearty and American Bill Davis to reach the third round again, this time meeting Mark Dudbridge, winning 4–0 with checkout percentage of 60% to reach the quarter-finals for the very first time. He lost in the quarters, however, falling to twelfth seed Mervyn King by five sets to two.

In 2010, he represented Wales in the inaugural PDC World Cup of Darts alongside Mark Webster, where despite losing all seven singles in which he competed in, he and Webster reached the final, after defeating New Zealand, Spain, Scotland and Australia (thanks to Bates's 116 checkout in the sudden death leg), before losing to the Netherlands pairing of Raymond van Barneveld and Co Stompé.

In January 2019, after several years struggling with injury and playing his darts on the PDC Challenge Tour, Bates won back his PDC Tour Card for the first time since 2012. He squeezed into the top eleven of the UK Q-School Order of Merit to seal a two-year Tour Card. ^{[2] [3]}

He participated in 2024 Q–School but failed to re-gain his Tour Card.

World Championship results

PDC

• 2007: 1st round (lost to Brian Cyr 2–3) (sets)
• 2008: 3rd round (lost to Kirk Shepherd 2–4)
• 2009: Quarter-finals (lost to Mervyn King 2–5)
• 2010: 2nd round (lost to Kevin McDine 0–4)
• 2011: 1st round (lost to Kevin McDine 1–3)

Career statistics

Performance Table Legend
W	Won the tournament	F	Finalist	SF	Semifinalist	QF	Quarterfinalist	#R RR Prel.	Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round	DQ	Disqualified
DNQ	Did not qualify	DNP	Did not participate	WD	Withdrew	NH	Tournament not held			NYF	Not yet founded

Performance timeline

Tournament	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011		2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
PDC World Championship	DNQ				1R	3R	QF	2R	1R		DNQ
UK Open	3R	3R	5R	F	4R	4R	3R	3R	1R		DNQ					3R	DNQ	1R	2R
World Matchplay	DNQ			1R	2R	DNQ		1R	DNQ
World Grand Prix	DNQ			1R	1R	DNQ		QF	DNQ
European Championship	Not held					DNQ		2R	DNQ
Grand Slam of Darts	Not held				RR	DNQ			RR		RR	DNQ
Players Championship Finals	Not held						DNQ		1R	DNQ
Non-ranked televised events
PDC World Cup of Darts	Not held							F	NH		DNP
Past major events
Las Vegas Desert Classic	DNQ			2R	DNQ	1R	DNQ	Not held
International Darts League	DNP				RR	Not held
Championship League Darts	Not held					RR	RR	DNQ				Not held
US Open	Not held				5R	3R	Not held
Career statistics
Year-end ranking	83	83	64	17	12	22	36	31	65	109		143	168	144	178	142	169	153	139

PDC European Tour

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
2014	DNQ			ADO 1R	DNP/DNQ
2015	DNP/DNQ					EDO 1R	DNP/DNQ
2018	Did not qualify						GDT 1R	DNQ			DDC 2R	DNQ

PDC Players Championships

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37
2004	BLA DNP	NEW DNP	DUB 2R	ROT DNP	EDI 4R
2005	IOW 3R	IOW QF	BLA 3R	NEW 1R	DUB 2R	IRV 3R	LIS 2R	LIS 2R
2006	GIB 2R	HAI F	HAI 2R	BLA 2R	NEW 4R	DUB 3R	IRV 1R	LIS 4R	LIS W
2007	GIB 4R	GIB 1R	BAD 4R	ANT 4R	SCH SF	HEE 4R	HAI 4R	HAI QF	LVE QF	BLA QF	ATL DNP	CAS DNP	CHI DNP	NEW 3R	DUB 2R	IRV 3R	KIR 3R	KIL 4R	LIS 3R	LIS 3R
2008	GIB DNP		ESS 3R	WIG 2R	BAD 3R	BAD 2R	TEL 3R	TEM 1R	GLA 3R	AMS 2R	BRI 3R	BRI 2R	LVE 3R	BLA 3R	NSW DNP	KIT 3R	ATL 4R	EIN 3R	EIN 1R	DRO 3R	CHI 3R	NEW QF	NEW 3R	DUB 3R	DUB 3R	IRV 2R	IRV 3R	KIR 2R	KIL SF	LEI 3R	LEI 1R
2009	DON 1R	GIB 1R	GIB 4R	GLA 3R	GLA 1R	IRV PR	WIG 2R	BRE 1R	COV 2R	NUL 2R	NUL 2R	TAU 2R	DER 3R	NEW 2R	BAR 4R	BAR 2R	DIN 4R	DIN 1R	LVE 3R	SYD DNP	ONT 3R	ATL 3R	ATL 3R	SAL 2R	SAL 3R	DUB 1R	DUB 2R	KIL 2R	NUL 2R	NUL 3R	IRV 3R	IRV 1R
2010	GIB 1R	GIB 2R	SWI 1R	DER 2R	GLA 3R	GLA 3R	WIG 1R	CRA W	BAR QF	DER 1R	WIG QF	WIG 3R	SAL 4R	SAL 4R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	HAA 2R	HAA 2R	LVE 4R	LVE 3R	LVE 3R	SYD DNP	ONT 3R	ONT 4R	CRA 1R	CRA 1R	NUL 1R	NUL 1R	DUB 1R	DUB 4R	KIL QF	BAD 1R	BAD 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	DER 2R	DER 3R
2011	HAL 2R	HAL 2R	DER 1R	DER 3R	CRA 1R	CRA 2R	VIE 2R	VIE 1R	CRA 1R	CRA 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	NUL 1R	NUL 1R	ONT 2R	ONT 2R	DER 1R	DER 2R	NUL 1R	NUL 1R	DUB 1R	DUB 1R	KIL 1R	GLA 1R	GLA 1R	ALI 1R	ALI 1R	CRA 1R	CRA 2R	WIG 2R	WIG 1R
2012	ALI 1R	ALI 2R	REA 1R	REA 1R	CRA 1R	CRA 1R	BIR 1R	BIR 1R	CRA 1R	CRA 1R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	DUB 2R	DUB 1R	KIL 1R	KIL 1R	CRA 1R	CRA 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R
2013 [nb 1]	BAR DNP		WIG 2R	WIG 1R	DNP				DUB PR	DUB 1R	KIL 2R	KIL PR	WIG 1R	WIG 2R	BAR DNP
2014 [nb 1]	Did not participate
2015 [nb 1]	Did not participate					COV 3R	COV 3R	COV 1R	CRA 1R	CRA 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	WIG 1R	WIG 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	DUB 2R	DUB 1R	COV 1R	COV DNP
2016 [nb 1]	Did not participate					BAR 1R	Did not participate							BAR 2R	BAR DNP	BAR 3R	DNP
2017 [nb 1]	Did not participate														BAR 1R	BAR 2R	DNP				BAR 2R	BAR 1R
2018 [nb 1]	Did not participate																BAR 1R	Did not participate
2019	WIG 2R	WIG 1R	WIG 2R	WIG 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	WIG 1R	WIG 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	WIG 2R	WIG 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	HIL 2R	HIL 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	DUB 2R	DUB 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R
2020	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	WIG 1R	WIG 1R	WIG 1R	WIG 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	MIL 1R	MIL 1R	MIL 1R	MIL 1R	MIL 1R	NIE 1R	NIE 1R	NIE 1R	NIE 1R	NIE 1R	COV 1R	COV 1R	COV 1R	COV 1R	COV 1R

1. Not a Tour card holder

PDC Challenge Tour

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	Prize money	Ranking
2014	WIG PR	WIG L128	REA L128	REA L64	WIG L64	WIG L64	COV L128	COV L128	WIG L64	WIG L128	COV L128	COV L32	COV L128	COV L128	WIG L64	WIG L128									£350	95th
2015	WIG L128	WIG L128	WIG L256	WIG L256	WIG L32	WIG L256	WIG L256	WIG L128	WIG DNP				COV L128	COV L16	COV L128	COV L128									£300	113th
2016	WIG L128	WIG L64	WIG L32	WIG L64	WIG L256	WIG L32	WIG L32	WIG L128	MIL L128	MIL L128	MIL QF	MIL SF	WIG L32	WIG QF	WIG L128	WIG F									£2600	14th
2017	MIL QF	MIL L256	MIL L16	MIL L64	BAR L32	BAR L128	BAR L64	BAR L16	MIL L128	MIL L64	MIL L128	MIL L16	MIL L64	MIL PR	MIL L32	MIL F	WIG L128	WIG L16	WIG L64	WIG L128					£2550	21st
2018	WIG L64	WIG L128	WIG L256	WIG L128	MIL L64	MIL L64	MIL L16	MIL L256	WIG L256	WIG L128	WIG SF	WIG L128	WIG DNP		WIG QF	WIG QF	PET L128	PET L128	PET L64	PET L64					£1550	39th
2021 UK	MIL L64	MIL L32	MIL L256	MIL L32	MIL L256	MIL L256	MIL L64	MIL L256	MIL L64	MIL L64	MIL L64	MIL L256													£450	78th
2022	MIL L128	MIL L256	MIL L16	MIL L128	MIL L128	HIL Did not participate										LEI Did not participate									£200	196th

Performance Table Legend
W	Won the tournament	F	Finalist	SF	Semifinalist	QF	Quarterfinalist	#R RR Prel.	Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round	DQ	Disqualified
DNQ	Did not qualify	DNP	Did not participate	WD	Withdrew	NH	Tournament not held			NYF	Not yet founded

PDC major finals: 1

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score [N 1]
Runner-up	1.	2006	UK Open	Raymond van Barneveld	7–13 (l)

PDC team finals: 1

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Team	Teammate	Opponents in the final	Score [N 1]
Runner-up	1.	2010	World Cup of Darts	Wales	Mark Webster	Netherlands – Raymond van Barneveld and Co Stompé	2–4 (p)

1. (l) = score in legs, (s) = score in sets, (p) = score in points.

References

1. "Barrie Bates". Mastercaller. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
2. "Barrie Bates Player Profile". www.dartsdatabase.co.uk. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
3. "Our Players | Barrie Bates | Red Dragon Darts". www.reddragondarts.com. Retrieved 1 May 2021.

External links

• Barrie Bates player profile at Darts Orakel