World Series of Darts 2013

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The World Series of Darts is a series of invitation tournaments of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), which was held for the first time in 2013. In the first year it consisted of two events, which were held in Dubai and Sydney .

format

Eight or 16 players took part in the tournament series. The field of participants consisted of the eight best placed players of the PDC Order of Merit and up to eight local qualifiers.

The tournaments were played in a knockout system . Game mode at all tournaments was a best of legs . The distance of the best of legs was different in the tournaments.

Venues

The first World Series of Darts was held in the United Arab Emirates and Australia .

Prize money

The 2013 Dubai Darts Masters totaled $ 245,000 in prize money. The prize money was distributed among the participants as follows:

Position (number of players) Prize money
winner (1) $ 65,000
finalist (1) $ 40,000
Semi-finalists (2) $ 30,000
Quarter finalists (4) $ 20,000
$ 245,000

At the Sydney Darts Masters 2013 , the prize money was limited to $ 73,000.

Position (number of players) Prize money
winner (1) $ 20,000
finalist (1) $ 10,000
Semi-finalists (2) $ 7,500
Quarter finalists (4) $ 5,000
Round of 16 players (8th) $ 1,000
$ 73,000

Since it was an invitation tournament, the prizes won were not taken into account when calculating the PDC Order of Merit.

Attendees

For the World Series of Darts 2013 the top 8 of the PDC Order of Merit were automatically qualified.

These were the following players:

  1. EnglandEngland Phil Taylor
  2. NetherlandsNetherlands Michael van Gerwen
  3. EnglandEngland Adrian Lewis
  4. EnglandEngland James Wade
  5. AustraliaAustralia Simon Whitlock
  6. EnglandEngland Andy Hamilton
  7. EnglandEngland Wes Newton
  8. NetherlandsNetherlands Raymond van Barneveld

Results

No. date Event venue winner Result finalist
1 23–24 May Dubai Darts Masters United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Dubai , Dubai Tennis Stadium NetherlandsNetherlands Michael van Gerwen 11: 7 NetherlandsNetherlands Raymond van Barneveld
2 29.-31. August Sydney Darts Masters AustraliaAustralia Sydney , Luna Park EnglandEngland Phil Taylor 10: 3 NetherlandsNetherlands Michael van Gerwen

transmission

In the German-speaking countries, the events were not broadcast on TV.

Internationally, all games were broadcast by the PDC on livepdc.tv.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of the prize money in the database of DartsDatabase.co.uk (English)