World Series of Darts 2015

The World Series of Darts is a series of invitation tournaments organized by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). She takes the world's best darts players to Southeast Asia , Australia and New Zealand .

format

A minimum of eight and a maximum of 16 players take part in the tournament series. The field of participants consists of the six best placed players of the PDC Order of Merit , two wildcard players and up to eight local qualifiers.

The tournaments are all played in the knockout system . Game mode in all tournaments is a best of legs . The distance of the best of legs is different in the tournaments.

In addition to the eight seeded players, 16 players qualified in a separate qualifying tournament after the six events for the 2015 World Series of Darts Finals . Such a final round was held for the first time this year.

Venues

The third World Series of Darts was held in the United Arab Emirates , Australia , New Zealand , Japan and Scotland .

Dubai Sydney Perth Auckland Yokohama Glasgow

Prize money

The 2015 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

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

Attendees

The following players were qualified for the World Series of Darts 2016:

• The first 6 players in the PDC Order of Merit - as of January 3, 2016; after the PDC World Darts Championship 2016
• The 2 wildcard participants
• up to 8 local participants

PDC Order of Merit

1. Michael van Gerwen
2. Phil Taylor
3. Gary Anderson
4. Adrian Lewis
5. Peter Wright
6. James Wade

Wildcard participant

• Stephen Bunting
• Raymond van Barneveld

Results

No.	date	Event	venue	winner	Result	finalist
1	28-29 May	Dubai Darts Masters	Dubai , Dubai Tennis Stadium	Michael van Gerwen	11: 8	Phil Taylor
2	27.-28. July	Japan Darts Masters	Yokohama , Osanbashi Hall	Phil Taylor	8: 7	Peter Wright
3	14.-16. August	Perth Darts Masters	Perth , HBF Stadium	Phil Taylor	11: 7	James Wade
4th	20.-22. August	Sydney Darts Masters	Sydney , Qantas Credit Union Arena	Phil Taylor	11: 3	Adrian Lewis
5	28-30 August	Auckland Darts Masters	Auckland , Trusts Arena	Adrian Lewis	11:10	Raymond van Barneveld
6th	21-22 November	World Series of Darts Finals	Glasgow , Braehead Arena	Michael van Gerwen	11:10	Peter Wright

Ranking list

The results of the individual tournaments formed a separate ranking list.

The ranking list is created according to the following point system:

round	Points
victory	12
final	8th
Semifinals	5
Quarter finals	3
Round of 16	1

Final result of the ranking

space	player	Points
1	Phil Taylor	49
2	Adrian Lewis	31
3	Michael van Gerwen	28
4th	Peter Wright	22nd
4th	James Wade	22nd
4th	Raymond van Barneveld	22nd
7th	Gary Anderson	21st
8th	Stephen Bunting	11
9	Simon Whitlock	5
10	Craig Caldwell	3
10	Laurence Ryder	3
10	Kyle Anderson	3
10	Paul Nicholson	3
10	David Platt	3
15th	Masumi Chino	1

space	player	Points
15th	Shintaro Inoue	1
15th	Haruki Muramatsu	1
15th	Morihiro Hashimoto	1
15th	Kimberly Lewis	1
15th	Sho Katsumi	1
15th	Chikara Fujimori	1
15th	Katsuya Aiba	1
15th	Yuki Yamada	1
15th	Adam Rowe	1
15th	Clinton Bridge	1
15th	Warren Parry	1
15th	Cody Harris	1
15th	Mark Cleaver	1
15th	Rob Modra	1
15th	Rob Szabo	1

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

• Report on darts1.de

Individual evidence

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