European Darts Tour 2020

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The European Darts Tour 2020 is the ninth edition of the darts tournament series in the PDC . It is part of the PDC Pro Tour 2020 and was originally supposed to consist of thirteen tournaments spread over the year in different European cities, as in the previous year . With the Belgian Darts Championship a tournament will take place in Belgium for the first time . After the COVID-19 pandemic largely paralyzed darts, some events were canceled.

The results there have an impact on the PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit , which is jointly responsible for the qualification of several major tournaments, as well as the European Tour Order of Merit, which is the basis for the European Darts Championship 2020 .

Qualification mode

The qualification mode has changed compared to the previous year. As in the previous year, the top 16 players of the PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit, who are set in the second round, qualify. In addition, the two highest placed players from the country in which the tournament is taking place automatically qualify. These 18 players must win their first game to receive prize money.

The PDC Tour Card Qualifiers for players from Great Britain and Ireland and those from the rest of Europe will be merged. This means that a total of 24 players qualify via a Tour Card Qualifier. The Nordic & Baltic Qualifier and the East Europe Qualifier will remain. The number of qualification places in the Host Nation Qualifier is limited to 2. The last two starting places will be awarded in an Associate Member Qualifier to players who could not earn a Tour Card at the Q-School.

Venues

European Tour Events

These are the current European Darts Tour events in 2020:

No. date Event venue winner Result finalist
2 February 28–1. March Belgian Darts Championship BelgiumBelgium Hasselt , Ethias Arena WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Gerwyn Price 8: 3 EnglandEngland Michael Smith
2 25-27 September German Darts Championship GermanyGermany Hildesheim , Hall 39
3 TBA TBA GermanyGermany TBA
4th TBA TBA GermanyGermany TBA
5 29.-31. May European Darts Grand Prix GermanyGermany Sindelfingen , Glass Palace Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
6th 7th-9th August European Darts Open GermanyGermany Leverkusen , Ostermann Arena
7th July 31-2 August German Darts Grand Prix GermanyGermany Munich , Zenith
8th 1st - 3rd May Austrian Darts Open AustriaAustria Premstätten , Premstättner Hall
9 22.-24. May International Darts Open GermanyGermany Riesa , Saxony-Arena
10 26.-28. June European darts matchplay GermanyGermany Trier , Arena Trier
11 11-13 September Dutch Darts Masters NetherlandsNetherlands Leeuwarden , WTC Expo
12 4th-6th September Hungarian Darts Open HungaryHungary Budapest , ÉRD Aréna
13 11-13 September German Darts Open GermanyGermany Jena , Sparkassen-Arena
14th 25-27 September Gibraltar Darts Trophy GibraltarGibraltar Gibraltar , Victoria Stadium
15th 16.-18. October Czech Darts Open Czech RepublicCzech Republic Prague , Královka Arena

format

Since the European Darts Tour 2018 , the semi-finals have been played in the distance best of 13 legs and the final best of 15 legs. The other games are played in the best of 11 legs mode .

Prize money

A total of £ 140,000 in prize money was distributed per tournament. The prize money is distributed among the participants as follows:

Position (number of players) Prize money
winner (1) £ 25,000
finalist (1) £ 10,000
Semi-finalists (2) £ 6,500
Quarter finalists (4) £ 5,000
Round of 16 players (8th) £ 3,000
2nd round loser (16) £ 2,000
Loser of the preliminary round (16) £ 1,000
£ 140,000

European Tour Order of Merit

The top 32 of the European Tour Order of Merit are qualified for the European Darts Championship 2020 . (As of March 1, 2020)

space player Prize money
01 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Gerwyn Price £ 25,000
02 EnglandEngland Michael Smith £ 10,000
03 NetherlandsNetherlands Dirk van Duijvenbode £ 6,500
ScotlandScotland Peter Wright £ 6,500
05 AustriaAustria Scale length Suljović £ 5,000
EnglandEngland Mervyn King £ 5,000
EnglandEngland Nathan Aspinall £ 5,000
PolandPoland Krzysztof Ratajski £ 5,000
09 NetherlandsNetherlands Jeffrey de Zwaan £ 3,000
EnglandEngland Rob Cross £ 3,000
NetherlandsNetherlands Martijn Kleermaker £ 3,000
EnglandEngland James Wade £ 3,000
EnglandEngland Steve West £ 3,000
EnglandEngland Jamie Hughes £ 3,000
NetherlandsNetherlands Danny Noppert £ 3,000
NetherlandsNetherlands Michael van Gerwen £ 3,000
17th EnglandEngland Steve Beaton £ 2,000
GermanyGermany Gabriel Clemens £ 2,000
EnglandEngland Ryan Searle £ 2,000
BelgiumBelgium Ronny Huybrechts £ 2,000
BelgiumBelgium Dimitri Van den Bergh £ 2,000
AustraliaAustralia Damon Heta £ 2,000
BelgiumBelgium Kim Huybrechts £ 2,000
IrelandIreland Steve Lennon £ 2,000
BelgiumBelgium Mike De Decker £ 2,000
EnglandEngland Andy Hamilton £ 2,000
NetherlandsNetherlands Wesley Plaisier £ 2,000

German-speaking participants

The results of all German-speaking participants are listed below.

country player Belgian Darts Championship German Darts Championship TBA TBA
GermanyGermany Gabriel Clemens Last 32
AustriaAustria Rowby-John Rodriguez Last 48
AustriaAustria Scale length Suljović Quarter finals

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PDC European Tour 2020 accessed on December 10, 2019
  2. ↑ PDC European Tour structure confirmed ahead of 2020 season. skysports.com, November 19, 2019, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Four PDC European Tour dates confirmed, accessed on May 29, 2020 (English)
  4. ↑ Further changes to 2020 European Tour schedule accessed on August 5, 2020
  5. ↑ European Tour Order of Merit accessed on July 12, 2020