The World Series of Darts Finals is a non-ranking darts tournament held by the
Professional Darts Corporation
The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) is a professional darts organisation in the United Kingdom, established in 1992 when a group of leading players split from the British Darts Organisation (BDO) to form what was initially called the World ...
. It is classed as a PDC premier event. The tournament was held annually in November, but in 2020, it moved to September, and moved to October in 2021. The first three events were held in the
Braehead Arena in
Glasgow,
Scotland, moved to the Multiversum Schwechat,
Vienna,
Austria for 2018, and moved to the
AFAS Live,
Amsterdam,
Netherlands in 2019. In 2020, it returned to Austria, in the
Salzburgarena,
Salzburg, before its return to Amsterdam in 2021.
The playing field includes the top eight of the
World Series of Darts
The World Series of Darts is a series of darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation.
Beginning in 2013, the World Series has comprised between two and seven tournaments across the world, where a mixture of the top-ranked PD ...
ranking, and a further 16 players, which are a mix of invited players by the PDC and qualifiers.
History
The
World Series of Darts
The World Series of Darts is a series of darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation.
Beginning in 2013, the World Series has comprised between two and seven tournaments across the world, where a mixture of the top-ranked PD ...
began in 2013. The goal of these series of tournaments is to make darts more popular across the globe.
Two World Series tournaments were held in the first year: the
Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters and the
Sydney Darts Masters. In 2014, events in
Singapore and
Perth were added to the series, followed by
Japan
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(
Yokohama, then
Tokyo in 2016) and
Auckland in 2015,
Shanghai in 2016, and
the USA (
Las Vegas)
Melbourne and
Germany (
Düsseldorf) in 2017.
Brisbane was added to the roster in 2018, and
Gelsenkirchen
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replaced Düsseldorf for the German Masters. In 2019, the German Masters again moved, this time to
Cologne, and the Auckland Masters became the
New Zealand Darts Masters, and was relocated to
Hamilton.
The best 8 players from the World Series Darts tournaments qualified for the finals tournament, which was inaugurated in 2015. This ranking is formed by the points that the player earns in the World Series tournament.
Stage points
The distribution of the points in each World Series tournament is:
Finals
Statistics
;Finalist appearances
High averages
References
External links
World Series of Darts official websiteWorld Series Of Darts Finals Winners
at dartsdatabase.co.uk
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Professional Darts Corporation tournaments
Recurring sporting events established in 2015
2015 establishments in Europe
Annual sporting events