All Tour Card Holders (Seeds/Qualifiers) must enter this event prior to the entry deadline. The draw for this event will be made on Thursday 25th April, 24hrs prior to the start of the event and will appear here when done. Games from the Last 16 onwards will be played in the Draw Bracket order.
Players will be required to register at the PDC Control Desk at the Players Entrance no later than one hour before the scheduled time of their match. Any player who fails to register as above will face referral to the DRA. Should a player not register within 30 minutes of their scheduled match then they will be disqualified from the event without exception and not be entitled to receive any prize money from the event.
Any player who wishes to familiarize themselves with their stage before their first match may do so 90 minutes before the start of play, all players must have cleared the stage by the time that doors open to the public.
Withdrawals
Any player who needs to withdraw from this event must do so prior to the Tour Card Qualifier, or at the very latest prior to the draw which is 24 hours prior to the start to avoid a DRA sanction.
Contact Prior to event:
PDC Graham Fairhurst [email protected] 07930 975240
Contacts at event:
PDC Keith Bisby [email protected] 07860 155885
PDPA Andy Scott [email protected] 07946 180180
Players will be allowed ONE NON-TRANSFERABLE bona-fide guest each for each session which they compete in. Please note that football shirts, shorts or three-quarter length trousers will not be acceptable and persons wearing them will not be admitted.
Players are required to register their guest’s name with PDC Europe via [email protected] before 22.00 local time on Thursday April 25th. Failure to submit guest names may result in the guest not being allowed into the venue.
IN FULL - THE EUROPEAN TOUR & HOW IT WORKS
At the Entry Deadline, if entered, qualifiers in this order.
Top 16 Main Order of Merit.
The next 16 on ProTour table outside of these 16 OoM players.
16 Further players then come from Qualifiers
10 Tour Card
4 Host Nation
1 Nordic and Baltic
1 East European
WHO IS SEEDED
At the deadline, we will have 32 qualifiers, the 16 seeds from this 32 are taken from the ProTour table. These 16 seeds start the event in the Last 32 (2nd Round) against the winners from the round of 48 (1st Round
WHO KEEPS PRIZE MONEY ON RANKINGS
If any of the 32 Pre-Qualified players (Top 16 OoM & Next 16 PTOoM) lose their opening match, the prize money does not go on any Order of Merit tables, but players receive the money.
QUALIFIERS 48
16 Seeds (Round 2) from PTOoM Table - 1. Dave Chisnall 2. Damon Heta 3. Luke Humphries 4. Gerwyn Price 5. Rob Cross 6. Jonny Clayton 7. Michael van Gerwen 8. Gary Anderson 9. Josh Rock 10. Dirk van Duijvenbode 11. Ryan Searle 12. Danny Noppert 13. Peter Wright 14. Ricardo Pietreczko 15. Stephen Bunting 16. Ross Smith
16 other merit table qualifiers - Krzysztof Ratajski, Joe Cullen, Daryl Gurney, Andrew Gilding, Raymond van Barneveld, Gian van Veen, Chris Dobey, Martin Schindler, Ryan Joyce, Jose de Sousa, James Wade, Brendan Dolan, Luke Littler, Dimitri Van den Bergh, Gabriel Clemens, Mike De Decker
Tour Card Qualifiers (10) - Danny Lauby, Jeffrey De Zwaan, Karel Sedlacek, Dom Taylor, Wessel Nijman, Martin Lukeman, Arron Monk, Graham Hall, Madars Razma, Ritchie Edhouse.
Host Nation Qualifiers (4) - 25th April
East Europe Qualifier (1) - Romeo Grbavac
Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (1) - Darius Labanauskas
FORMAT:
The format is best of 11 legs up to and including the quarter-final, with the semi-final the best of 13 legs and the final the best of 15 legs.
SESSION TIMES:
Friday
Afternoon Session (1300-1700 local time, 1200-1600 GMT)
First Round x8
Evening Session (1900-2300 local time, 1800-2200 GMT)
First Round x8
Saturday
Afternoon Session (1300-1700 local time, 1200-1600 GMT)
Second Round x8
Evening Session (1900-2300 local time, 1800-2200 GMT)
Second Round x8.
Sunday
Afternoon Session (1300-1700 local time, 1200-1600 GMT)
Third Round x8
Evening Session (1900-2300 local time, 1800-2200 GMT)
Quarter-Final, Semi-Final, Final
PRIZE FUND:
Champion £30,000
Runner-Up £12,000
Semi Finals £8,500
Quarter Finals £6,000
Third Round £4,000
Second Round £2,500
First Round £1,250
TOTAL £175,000