World Series of Darts
The World Series of Darts is a series of invitation tournaments organized by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). It was held for the first time in 2013 and then consisted of two events. After eight tournaments in the 2017 season , the World Series of Darts in 2021 is expected to consist of six tournaments.
format
In the course of the year, various tournaments of this series are held in venues around the world, as well as the final at the end of the season in Europe, which is a PDC major tournament.
16 players take part in the tournaments and 24 in the finals. The field of participants consists of the 4 best placed players of the PDC Order of Merit , 4 wildcard players and 8 local qualifiers.
The results of the individual tournaments form a separate ranking list. The top 24 of this ranking will qualify for the World Series of Darts Finals at the end of the year. In addition, in each tournament, the eight seeded players form two lottery pots with the current places 1–4 and 5–8, which are intended to prevent the highest-ranking players from meeting in the first duel.
The ranking list is created according to the following point system:
| position | Points |
|---|---|
| winner | 12 points |
| finalist | 8 points |
| Semi-finalists | 5 points |
| Quarter finalists | 3 points |
| 1 round | 1 point |
The tournaments are played in a knockout system . Game mode in all tournaments is a best of legs . The distance of the best of legs varies from tournament to tournament.
Tournaments
Current tournaments
- World Series of Darts Finals (since 2015)
Future tournaments
- US Darts Masters (2017-2019; from 2021)
- New South Wales Darts Masters (from 2021)
- NZ Darts Masters (2019; from 2021)
- Nordic Darts Masters (from 2021)
- Queensland Darts Masters (from 2021)
Former tournaments
- Dubai Darts Masters (2013-2017)
- Sydney Darts Masters (2013-2016)
- Singapore Darts Masters (2014)
- Perth Darts Masters (2014-2017)
- Tokyo Darts Masters (2015-2016)
- Auckland Darts Masters (2015-2018)
- Shanghai Darts Masters (2016-2018)
- Melbourne Darts Masters (2017-2019)
- German Darts Masters (2017-2019)
- Brisbane Darts Masters (2018-2019)
Prize money
A total of £ 60,000 in prize money will be awarded to each tournament. The prize money is distributed among the participants as follows:
| Position (number of players) | Prize money | |
|---|---|---|
| winner | (1) | £ 20,000 |
| finalist | (1) | £ 10,000 |
| Semi-finalists | (2) | £ 5,000 |
| Quarter finalists | (4) | £ 2,500 |
| Round of 16 players | (8th) | £ 1,250 |
| £ 60,000 | ||
Since these are invitation tournaments, the prize money won will not be taken into account when calculating the PDC Order of Merit.
Attendees
Eight players are automatically qualified for the World Series of Darts.
- the first four players of the PDC Order of Merit - status: after the world championship
- four wildcard participants
- additionally up to eight local participants
Most successful participant
| player | Victories | Finals |
|---|---|---|
 Michael van Gerwen
|
14th | 21st |
 Phil Taylor
|
8th | 10 |
 Gary Anderson
|
6th | 7th |
|
Peter Wright
|
3 | 8th |
|
Rob Cross
|
1 | 4th |
|
Michael Smith
|
1 | 4th |
|
Adrian Lewis
|
1 | 3 |
|
James Wade
|
1 | 3 |
 Damon Heta
|
1 | 1 |
|
Kyle Anderson
|
1 | 1 |
 Scale length Suljović
|
1 | 1 |
|
Nathan Aspinall
|
1 | 1 |
transmission
In the German-speaking countries, the events are not broadcast on TV.
Internationally, all games are broadcast by the PDC on livepdc.tv.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of the prize money in the database of DartsDatabase.co.uk (English)