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 World Series of Darts Finals tournament held annually, which has taken place in September at the AFAS Live in Amsterdam every year since 2022.
History
The World Series of Darts commenced in 2013 with the Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters. The goal of these series of tournaments was 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 [2014 2014 Singapore Darts Masters|Singapore Darts Masters|Singapore] and [2014 2014 Perth Darts Masters|Perth Darts Masters|Perth] were added to the series, although this would be the only year that Singapore was used for an event.In 2015, both the Japan tournament and Auckland were added. Also in 2015, the series culminated 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 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 China being excluded. It was also confirmed that Amsterdam, Netherlands would replace Vienna as the host of the World Series Finals in 2019.
In 2020, a new tournament, the Nordic Darts Masters, was due to take place in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was also confirmed that Salzburg, Austria would replace Amsterdam as the host of the World Series Finals. The Australian events were supposed to move to Wollongong and Townsville. However, all 2020 World Series events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with only the 2020 World Series of Darts Finals taking place.
The US Darts Masters relocated to New York City in 2022, having been due to move in 2020 before the cancellation of the 2020 US Masters. The events in Wollongong and Townsville were also held in 2022, but the only event in 2021 was the delayed Nordic Masters in Copenhagen, with the finals returning to Amsterdam in October 2021.
Since the return to full World Series schedules, five more events have been introduced: the Dutch Darts Masters in 2022, the Bahrain Darts Masters and Poland Darts Masters in 2023, the Australian Darts Masters in 2024 and the Saudi Arabia Darts Masters in 2026.
Venues
Since the first tournament began in 2013, the World Series has visited eleven countries including the Finals.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.| Stage | Points |
| Winner | 12 |
| Runner-up | 8 |
| Semi-final | 5 |
| Quarter-final | 3 |
| First round | 1 |