2020 European Darts Grand Prix

The 2020 European Darts Grand Prix is a planned PDC European Tour event on the 2020 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament will take place at the Glaspalast, Sindelfingen, Germany. It will feature a field of 48 players and £140,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.

2020 European Darts Grand Prix
Tournament information
DatesTBA
VenueGlaspalast
LocationSindelfingen
Country Germany
Organisation(s)PDC
FormatLegs
Prize fund£140,000
Winner's share£25,000
«Event 1 Event 3»

Ian White will be the defending champion after defeating Peter Wright 8–7 in the final of the 2019 tournament.

The tournament was postponed from its original date of 20–22 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.[1] It was originally rescheduled for 29–31 May 2020[2], but has now been postponed once again.[3]

On 29 May the tournament was officially cancelled.

Prize money

This is how the prize money is divided, with the prize money being unchanged from the 2019 European Tour[4]:

Stage (num. of players) Prize money
Winner (1) £25,000
Runner-up (1) £10,000
Semi-finalists (2) £6,500
Quarter-finalists (4) £5,000
Third round losers (8) £3,000
Second round losers (16) £2,000*
First round losers (16) £1,000*
Total £140,000
  • Seeded players who lose in the second round and Host Nation invitees who lose in the first round do not receive this prize money on any Orders of Merit.

Qualification and format

The top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 4 February will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.[5]

The remaining 32 places will go to players from four qualifying events and to two invitees – 24 from the Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 14 February), two from the Associate Member Qualifier (held on 28 May), two from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 28 May), one from the Nordic & Baltic Associate Member Qualifier (held on 12 October 2019), and one from the East European Associate Member Qualifier (held on 8 February).

The two highest ranked German players on the cut-off date will also qualify.

From 2020, all Tour Card holders will enter into one qualifier instead of two separate ones for the UK and Europe. For this tournament, Daniel Larsson qualified as the Nordic & Baltic qualifier, even though he won a PDC Tour Card at 2020 Q-School, as this was due to the qualifying event taking place before Q-School.

The following players will take part in the tournament:

Draw
  First round
(best of 11 legs)		 Second round
(best of 11 legs)		 Third round
(best of 11 legs)		 Quarter-finals
(best of 11 legs)		 Semi-finals
(best of 13 legs)		 Final
(best of 15 legs)
                                                         
    1 Michael van Gerwen  
     
   
   
16 Jermaine Wattimena
     
   
   
    8 Mensur Suljović  
     
 
   
9 James Wade
     
   
   
    4 Peter Wright  
     
 
   
13 Jonny Clayton
     
 
   
    5 Dave Chisnall  
     
 
   
12 Nathan Aspinall
     
    2 Ian White  
     
   
   
15 Adrian Lewis
     
   
   
    7 Daryl Gurney  
     
 
   
10 Glen Durrant
     
 
   
    3 Gerwyn Price  
     
 
   
14 Rob Cross
     
 
   
    6 Krzysztof Ratajski  
     
 
   
11 Joe Cullen
     

References
  1. Allen, Dave. "Third European Tour event postponed". PDC. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  2. https://www.pdc.tv/news/2020/03/14/new-may-dates-european-darts-grand-prix
  3. https://www.pdc.tv/news/2020/04/22/events-update-may-june-2020
  4. https://www.pdc.tv/pdc-order-merit-rules
  5. https://www.pdc.tv/news/2019/11/19/2020-european-tour-structure-confirmed
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