World Knife Throwing League
The World Knife Throwing League is a sports organization that hopes to be the ruling body for commercial knife throwing venues.
WKTL was founded in 2021 by venue representatives from Canada, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom. It has 5 knife-throwing nations with membership. Members include over 30 member companies. It organizes international tournament events such as the U.S. Open and, most notably, the World Knife Throwing Championship.
It also appoints judges who officiate at all sanctioned leagues and tournaments. It promotes the WKTL Code of Conduct, which sets professional standards of discipline for knife throwing in commercial venues.
Scoring
Scoring is a match system where ten knives are thrown per match. The player with the highest points of their ten thrown knives wins the match. In case of a tie, a "Sudden Death" throw is made for the highest score. Sudden death throws are done until one thrower scores higher than the other. Scoring is determined by where the knife hits the target. The WKTL targets have a red bullseye, followed by five empty rings. The scoring is 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 point respectively. Additionally, there are blue dots in the 1 point ring, known as "Kill-shot," and be hit twice per match for 8 points. Point scoring is based on the highest point value the knife touches when it lands and sticks.Tournaments
In 2021 WKTL started working on a tournament format to help include any throwers who could not regularly participate in the WKTL knife throwing seasons. The first official WKTL tournament is the 2021 US Open Tournament. This is also the first knife throwing tournament to be featured on ESPN| Year | Champion | Location | 2nd Place | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Travis Blank |  ChampionshipThe World Knife Throwing Championship takes place once per year. The format has slight changes from year to year, announced before the beginning of the yearly competition.
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