Career
He reached the final of the Soft Tip NDA World Championship a year later but lost against Alexander Kohler. He began competing in Dartslive Soft Tip events in 2012 and progressed through to the final of the Hong Kong event where Paul Lim beat him. In 2014 he qualified for the 2015 World Championship by winning the World Dartslive Soft Tip Qualifier.
Kirchner lost the opening set in a deciding leg but leveled the match by taking the second without reply.
Kirchner missed one dart at double 11 for a 124 finish in the decider of the third set and would go on to lose 3–1. Kirchner has a rare style of play, when coming to the oche to throw his set of three darts he will throw an imaginary dart at the board first before using that as a basis for throwing the three real darts.
This greatly slows down his play and has been known to cause frustration to opponents that prefer a quicker style of play. Personal Digital Cellular
2015: First round (lost to Gary Anderson 1–3).