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 PDC players take on local qualifiers in a knockout format. Since 2015, there has been a finals tournament held annually in November at the Braehead Arena in Glasgow, Scotland, although in 2018, it moved to the Multiversum Schwechat in Vienna, Austria, and moved again to the AFAS Live in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2019, and will move again to the Salzburgarena, Salzburg in 2020.

History

The World Series of Darts commenced in 2013 with the Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters. The goal of these series of tournaments is to make darts more popular across the globe.
Later that year, the Sydney Darts Masters took place, which as well as including 8 top-ranked PDC players, also featured 8 players from Australia and New Zealand to take part in the tournament. In 2014, tournaments in Singapore and Perth were added to the series, although this would be the only year that Singapore was used for an event.
In 2015, but the Japan tournament and Auckland were added. Also in 2015, ended the series with the World Series of Darts Finals. In 2016, the PDC expanded into China with the addition of the Shanghai Darts Masters, and in 2017, both North America and Europe had their own tournaments with the US Darts Masters in Las Vegas, and the German Darts Masters in Düsseldorf, along with Melbourne over from Sydney in the Australian leg of the tour.
In 2018, Brisbane joined the fray and replaced Perth, whilst Dubai was excluded. It was also confirmed that Vienna, Austria would replace Glasgow as the host of the World Series Finals in 2018.
In 2019, it was announced that Cologne and Hamilton would host World Series events for the first time, with Dubai seemingly still on a back burner and China also excluded. It was also confirmed that Amsterdam, Netherlands will replace Vienna as the host of the World Series Finals in 2019.
In 2020 a new tournament, the Nordic Darts Masters, will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was also confirmed that Salzburg, Austria will replace Amsterdam as the host of the World Series Finals in 2020. The two Australian events will move to Wollongong and Townsville.
The US Darts Masters will relocate to New York City in 2021, having been due to move in 2020 before the cancellation of the 2020 US Masters due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Venues

Since the first tournament began in 2013, the World Series has visited ten countries including the Finals.
EventVenueFirst heldLast heldUpcomingCurrent/last champion
Dubai Tennis Centre20132017None scheduled Gary Anderson
Sydney Darts MastersLuna Park
Hordern Pavilion
Qantas Credit Union Arena
The Star 		20132016None scheduled Phil Taylor
Singapore Darts MastersSingapore Indoor Stadium20142014None scheduled
Perth Darts MastersHBF Stadium
Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre 		20142017None scheduled Gary Anderson
Japan/Tokyo Darts MastersOsanbashi Hall, Yokohama
Yoyogi National Gymnasium 		20152016None scheduled Gary Anderson
Auckland Darts MastersThe Trusts Arena20152018None scheduled Michael van Gerwen
Shanghai Darts MastersPullman Hotel Shanghai South20162018None scheduled Michael Smith
US Darts MastersTropicana Las Vegas
Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas
Hulu Theater, New York City 		201720192021 Nathan Aspinall
Melbourne Darts MastersHisense Arena20172019None scheduled Michael van Gerwen
German Darts MastersCastello Arena, Düsseldorf
Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen
Lanxess Arena, Cologne 		201720192020 Peter Wright
Brisbane Darts MastersBrisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre20182019None scheduled Damon Heta
New Zealand Darts MastersClaudelands Arena, Hamilton201920192021 Michael van Gerwen
Nordic Darts MastersForum CopenhagenN/AN/A2020
New South Wales Darts MastersWIN Entertainment Centre, WollongongN/AN/A2021
Queensland Darts MastersTownsville Entertainment & Convention CentreN/AN/A2021
World Series of Darts FinalsBraehead Arena, Glasgow
Multiversum Schwechat, Vienna
AFAS Live, Amsterdam
Salzburgarena, Salzburg 		201520192020 Michael van Gerwen

Points in the World Series tournament

Since the World Series of Darts Finals were announced in 2015, each event includes ranking points that all players earn dependent on how far they go to through each tournament. The top 8 ranked players automatically qualify for the Finals.
StagePoints
Winner12
Runner-up8
Semi-final5
Quarter-final3
First round1

Event Finals

Finalists

Up to and including the 2019 World Series of Darts Finals.