All Tour Card Holders must enter before the entry deadline, or you will not be in the event.
European Tour Events will be played with a 48-player main draw consisting of 32 pre-qualified players (the top 16 ranked entered players from the Main Ranking and the next 16 highest ranked players from the ProTour Ranking at the entry deadline) and 16 other qualifiers.
The top 16 ranked entered players from the World Ranking at the entry deadline will be seeded into the second round (last 32) where they will play the 16 winners from the matches involving the remaining 32 players
TOP 16 SEEDS (Exempt to Round Two)
1. Luke Humphries, 2. Gian van Veen, 3. Michael van Gerwen, 4. Jonny Clayton, 5. Gary Anderson, 6. James Wade, 7. Josh Rock, 8. Danny Noppert, 9. Ryan Searle, 10. Gerwyn Price, 11. Chris Dobey, 12. Nathan Aspinall, 13. Martin Schindler, 14. Ross Smith, 15. Damon Heta, 16. Jermaine Wattimena
For the Round One draw, the 32 players will be listed as follows;
PRO-TOUR ‘Q’ 16, numbered in World Ranking order at the entry deadline
Wessel Nijman, Cameron Menzies, Dirk van Duijvenbode, Luke Woodhouse, William O’Connor, Niko Springer, Ryan Joyce, Krzysztof Ratajski, Mike De Decker, Dave Chisnall, Joe Cullen, Niels Zonneveld, Daryl Gurney, Raymond van Barneveld, Ricardo Pietreczko, Peter Wright
TOUR CARD ‘Q’ 10, numbered in World Ranking order at the entry deadline
Michael Smith, Thomas Lovely, Stephen Burton, Adam Lipscombe, Kevin Doets, Sebastian Bialecki, Kim Huybrechts, Brendan Dolan, James Hurrell, Ritchie Edhouse.
HOST NATION ‘Q’ 4
tbc
NORDIC & BALTIC ‘Q’ 1
tbc
EAST EUROPE ‘Q’ 1
Patrick Kovacs
RESERVES
Andrew Gilding, Ian White, Karel Sedlacek, Cor Dekker, Daryl Pilgrim.
Tour Card Holders will be permitted to enter one Host Nation Qualifier for which they are eligible per year instead of the Tour Card Holder Qualifier for that event. To enter players must email PDC Tournament Director Graham Fairhurst to enter [email protected]
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 of the event to avoid a DRA sanction.
DRAW
Draws for European Tour Main Events will be made at 1200 UK time on the day prior to the start of the Event.
Players will be allowed ONE NON-TRANSFERABLE bona-fide guest each for each session which they compete in. (excluding DRA Registered Managers) 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 with PDC-E via [email protected] before 22.00 local time the night prior to the event starting. Failure to submit guest names may result in the guest not being allowed into the venue.
SAFEGUARDING The PDC’s Safeguarding Policy can be seen HERE The Designated Safeguarding Officer at this event is Keith Bisby. Should you have any safeguarding issues, please see the DSO or contact [email protected].
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
PRIZE FUND
Champion £35,000
Runner-Up £15,000
Semi Finals £10,000
Quarter Finals £8,000
Last 16 £5,000
Last 32 £3,500
Last 48 £2,000
TOTAL £230,000