Belgium stole the headlines at the World Cup of Darts second round with a sensational sudden-death leg win over Netherlands in Frankfurt.
The third day of action saw 16 nations competing across two sessions as the knockout phase of the tournament began.
Reigning champions Australia and four-time winners England were joined by double winners Scotland and 2020 champions Wales in moving through to the quarter-finals.
The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland both crashed out of the tournament on Friday. The former suffered a surprise 4-1 defeat to Croatia, who took top spot in Group E, while Northern Ireland's 4-0 win over Ukraine was not enough as France beat the Ukrainians by the same margin to finish first in Group D.
Netherlands were the only former champions to exit on Saturday as they suffered their first second-round exit for a decade following a thrilling clash with Belgium.
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Kim Huybrechts' classy 108 checkout gave Belgium a 7-5 lead but Dirk van Duijvenbode kept Dutch hopes alive by hitting successive doubles to force a deciding leg, but he was unable to finish 109 for glory to allow Dimitri Van den Bergh in on double 16 to joyfully continue Belgium's progress.
Reigning champions Australia survived a scare in their last 16 tie against Croatia, as Damon Heta and Simon Whitlock battled their way to an 8-6 success against Boris Krcmar and Romeo Grbavac which sets up a tie with Belgium.
Top seeds England began their bid to win a fifth World Cup in comfortable style by seeing off Latvia 8-4, ending the hopes of Madars Razma and Dmitriy Zhukov.
England's quarter-final opponents will be home favourites Germany, as the traditional rivals in football's World Cup clash on the oche.
Gabriel Clemens and Martin Schindler booked their place in the last eight with a narrow 8-6 win over Poland's Krzysztof Ratajski and Krzysztof Kciuk - who had produced a world record Pairs average in Friday's group stage decider but were out-lasted by the German duo.
Gary Anderson inspired two-time champions Scotland to victory on his World Cup return, as the fourth seeds recovered from 5-4 down to defeat Philippines’ Lourence Ilagan and Christian Perez.
The Scots now meet France, after Jacques Labre and Thibault Tricole continued their impressive form to reach a maiden World Cup of Darts quarter-final with a convincing 8-4 success against South Africa.
Second seeds Wales impressed with an average of almost 100 as Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton ended the hopes of Danish duo Vladimir Andersen and Benjamin Drue Reus.
Wales now meet another Nordic nation in the last eight, after Dennis Nilsson and Oskar Lukasiak produced a superb display to dump out Canada's highly-fancied pairing of Matt Campbell and Jeff Smith, as they steered Sweden into the quarter-finals for the first time in World Cup history.
Sunday sees the £450,000 tournament conclude across two sessions in Frankfurt, with the quarter-finals in the afternoon session and the semi-finals and final in the evening session.
