 On 2 October, the BDO announced that the 2007 Championships would contain 16 seeded players for the first time since 1981.Two days later they announced that the top 26 players from the Invitational table would also qualify automatically.Defending champion Jelle Klaasen had slipped to 19 in the rankings at the time the seedings were announced, and has therefore missed out on being seeded.