World Series of Darts 2016

The World Series of Darts is a series of invitation tournaments organized by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). She took the world's best darts players to Southeast Asia , Australia and New Zealand in 2016 .

format

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

The tournaments were all played in the 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 fourth World Series of Darts was held in the United Arab Emirates , Australia , New Zealand , Japan , China and Scotland .

Dubai Sydney Perth Auckland Tokyo Shanghai Glasgow

Prize money

Only the prize money of the Dubai Darts Masters 2016 was publicly announced. That totaled $ 245,000. 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 these are invitation tournaments, the prizes won were not taken into account when calculating the PDC Order of Merit.

Attendees

The following 8 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. Gary Anderson
3. Adrian Lewis
4. Phil Taylor
5. Peter Wright
6. James Wade

Wildcard participant

• Raymond van Barneveld
• Dave Chisnall

Results

No.	date	Event	venue	winner	Result	finalist
1	26.-27. May	Dubai Darts Masters	Dubai , Dubai Tennis Stadium	Gary Anderson	11: 9	Michael van Gerwen
2	17th-19th June	Auckland Darts Masters	Auckland , Trusts Arena	Gary Anderson	11: 7	Adrian Lewis
3	25-26 June	Shanghai Darts Masters	Shanghai , Himalaya Theater	Michael van Gerwen	8: 3	James Wade
4th	6-7 July	Tokyo Darts Masters	Tokyo , Kokuritsu Yoyogi Kyōgijō	Gary Anderson	8: 6	Michael van Gerwen
5	18.-20. August	Sydney Darts Masters	Sydney , The Star	Phil Taylor	11: 9	Michael van Gerwen
6th	25-27 August	Perth Darts Masters	Perth , HBF Stadium	Michael van Gerwen	11: 4	Dave Chisnall
7th	5th-6th November	World Series of Darts Finals	Glasgow , Braehead Arena	Michael van Gerwen	11: 9	Peter Wright

Ranking list

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

In addition to the eight seeded players, 16 other players qualified via the PDC Order of Merit or additional qualifying tournaments for the World Series of Darts Finals 2016 .

In each tournament, the eight seeded players formed two lottery pots with the current places 1–4 and 5–8 in the ranking list, which should prevent the highest-ranking players from meeting in the first duel.

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	Michael van Gerwen	51
2	Gary Anderson	45
3	Phil Taylor	29
3	Dave Chisnall	29
5	Adrian Lewis	25th
5	James Wade	25th
7th	Peter Wright	22nd
8th	Raymond van Barneveld	20th
9	Kyle Anderson	4th
9	Corey Cadby	4th
11	Rhys Mathewson	3
11	Rob Szabo	3
13	Cody Harris	2
13	Simon Whitlock	2
13	David Platt	2
16	Warren Parry	1
16	Damon Heta	1
16	Ken Moir	1
16	Clinton Bridge	1
16	Bernie Smith	1
16	Stuart Leach	1
16	Paul Lim	1
16	Scott MacKenzie	1
16	Royden Lam	1
16	Yunfei Jiang	1
16	Yuanjun Liu	1
16	Shiyan Lai	1
16	Lihao Wen	1
16	Jianhua Shen	1
16	Keita Ono	1
16	Haruki Muramatsu	1
16	Masahiro Hiraga	1
16	Seigo Asada	1
16	Masumi Chino	1
16	Tsuneki Zaharias	1
16	Shintaro Inoue	1
16	Chikara Fujimoro	1
16	Harley Kemp	1
16	Adam Rowe	1
16	Kim Lewis	1
16	Koha Kokiri	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)
2. ↑ China Added To World Series Schedule. March 2, 2016, archived from the original on March 14, 2016 ; accessed on March 14, 2016 (English).