Super League Darts 2019

Super League Darts 2019
Tournament status
Tournament type	Qualifying tournament
organizer	PDC Europe
venue
Tournament dates
Defending champion	Robert Marijanović
Attendees	16
Opening game	19th January 2019
Endgame	17th November 2019
Match days	6th
winner	Nico Kurz
statistics
Nine dart finish	Dragutin Horvat
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The Super League Darts 2019 (officially Unicorn Super League Darts Germany 2019 ) was a qualification tournament, which was organized by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) for the seventh time. It was used to determine a German participant in the PDC World Darts Championship 2020 .

The tournament began on January 19, 2019 with the first match day and ended on November 17, 2019 with the final round.

Nico Kurz secured the victory , who beat Martin Schindler with 10: 6-legs in the final.

qualification

The 13 best players from last year will take part in the Super League Darts. Since Stefan Stoyke withdrew his participation in 2019, the organizers gave Christian Bunse a wildcard . The remaining 3 places were awarded by the Super League Qualifier. Conditions for participation are 16 years of age, German citizenship and the payment of an entry fee of 30 €. The qualification tournament took place on November 16, 2018 at the Maritim Hotel in Düsseldorf .

The following players were part of the Super League Darts 2019:

player	Qualified as	best result
Martin Schindler	1. of the previous year	Play-Offs ( 2016 )
Gabriel Clemens	2. of the previous year	2. ( 2018 )
Maik Langendorf	3rd of the previous year	Final ( 2013 , 2015 )
Robert Marijanović	4th of the previous year	Winner ( 2018 )
Nico Kurz	5th of the previous year	Quarter Finals ( 2018 )
Manfred Bilderl	6. of the previous year	Quarter Finals ( 2018 )
Dragutin Horvat	7th of the previous year	Winner ( 2016 )
René Berndt	9th of the previous year	Semi-finals ( 2017 )
Nico Blum	10. of the previous year	Semi-finals ( 2018 )
Kevin Münch	11th of the previous year	Winner ( 2017 )
René Eidams	12th of the previous year	Winner ( 2015 )
Sascha Stein	13th of the previous year	Final ( 2014 )
Christian Bunse	Wildcard	debut
Karsten Koch	Qualifier	10. ( 2013 )
Ricardo Pietreczko	Qualifier	Semi-finals ( 2015 )
Thomas Köhnlein	Qualifier	debut

Preliminary round

The preliminary round matches were played on a total of 5 tournament weekends. Every tournament weekend was played in the mode of everyone against everyone . Every win brings one point. The 8 best players qualify for the play-offs at the end of the preliminary round. The players in places 15 and 16 will be relegated from the Super League. The player in 14th place can compete again in the Super League Qualifier. The preliminary round games were played in the mode Best of Legs and the game variant Double-Out . The first player to throw exactly 501 points won a leg . The last throw of a leg had to be on a double field. The game mode was best of 11 legs .

Venues

Tournament weekend	date	state	city
1	19./20. January 2019	Hesse	Schwalmstadt
2	9/10 March 2019	North Rhine-Westphalia	Steinfurt
3	27./28. July 2019	North Rhine-Westphalia	Wins
4th	24./25. August 2019	Hesse	Darmstadt
5	12./13. October 2019	North Rhine-Westphalia	Bielefeld

table

Pl.	player	Sp.	Legs	Diff.	Points
1.	Nico Kurz	71	388: 267	+121	56
2.	Martin Schindler	71	390: 246	+144	54
3.	Gabriel Clemens	71	371: 270	+101	52
4th	Dragutin Horvat	71	367: 282	+85	43
5.	Maik Langendorf	71	349: 296	+53	43
6th	Robert Marijanović	71	335: 302	+33	39
7th	Christian Bunse	71	335: 309	+26	39
8th.	Thomas Köhnlein	71	344: 328	+16	37
9.	Manfred Bilderl	71	322: 313	+9	37
10.	Kevin Münch	71	319: 315	+4	35
11.	René Eidams	71	305: 352	−47	29
12.	Sascha Stein	71	283: 367	−84	26th
13.	Karsten Koch	71	283: 351	−68	25th
14th	René Berndt	71	257: 367	−110	21st
15th	Nico Blum	71	221: 380	−159	17th
16.	Ricardo Pietreczko 1	15th	51: 175	−124	2

Qualified for the play-offs Already qualified for the World Championship via the PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit Participants in the Super League Qualifier for 2020 Relegation from the Super League Darts

¹ Pietreczko was excluded from the Super League Darts after two missed game days.

Play-offs

The play-offs took place on November 17, 2019 in Hildesheim .

The number next to the player indicates the thrown 3-dart average.

Quarter-finals 11/17/2019 best of 15 legs

Semi-finals 11/17/2019 best of 17 legs

Final 11/17/2019 best of 19 legs

1

Nico Kurz 87.8

8th

8th

Manfred Bilderl 79.9

7th

1

Nico Kurz 90.5

9

4th

Maik Langendorf 86.8

6th

4th

Maik Langendorf 85.6

8th

5

Robert Marijanović 87.0

6th

1

Nico Kurz 94.2

10

2

Martin Schindler 87.1

6th

2

Martin Schindler 86.9

8th

7th

Thomas Köhnlein 89.9

7th

2

Martin Schindler 86.8

9

6th

Christian Bunse 85.4

5

3

Dragutin Horvat 86.0

4th

6th

Christian Bunse 85.0

8th

Results at the World Cup

Nico Kurz was able to achieve some successes at the PDC World Darts Championship 2020 . Kurz won his first round match against Englishman James Wilson 3-1 in sets. Here he achieved eight perfect darts. Kurz also won the second round, this time against number 15 in the world, the Englishman Joe Cullen , 3-1 in sets. It was only stopped in the third round when he lost to Englishman Luke Humphries with 2-4 sets.

Web links

• Match report on dartn.de
• Match report on darts1.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kurz secures the World Cup ticket accessed on January 21, 2020
2. ↑ Nico Kurz wins Super League and travels to London accessed on January 21, 2020
3. ↑ Nico Kurz surprisingly reaches the second round, accessed on January 21, 2020
4. ↑ Next win for Nico Kurz - Debutant in round three accessed on January 21, 2020
5. ↑ Incredible crime thriller! Kurz saves himself spectacularly, but then loses against Humphries accessed on January 21, 2020