Grand Slam of Darts

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The Grand Slam of Darts is a darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation which is scheduled to be held for the first time in 2007. The tournament will also invite the best performing players from the PDC's rival the British Darts Organisation. There have been two previous head-to-head matches between the champions of the two organisation and a few tournaments have also featured BDO v PDC clashes, but this tournament will be the first of its kind to be held in the UK.

1 Dates and venue
2 Television
3 Prize money
4 Qualifiers
5 Previous BDO v PDC tournaments
6 External links

[edit] Dates and venue

The Grand Slam of Darts will be staged at the Wolverhampton Civic between November 17 and November 25.

[edit] Television

No UK broadcasters have yet agreed to televise the tournament, despite massive interest in a cross-code showdown.

[edit] Prize money

Total £250,000

Winner £60,000

Runner-Up £30,000

Semi-Finalists £15,000

Quarter-Finalists £10,000

Second Round Losers £5,250

First Round Losers £3,000

[edit] Qualifiers

32 players will be inivited and PDC Chairman announced on February 21 that all major tournament finalists for the past two years from both the BDO and PDC will be invited to the event. Also World Championship semi-finalists from the same period would receive an invite.

This would include 18 certain qualifiers for the tournament.

Martin Adams (BDO World champion 2007)
Raymond van Barneveld (PDC World Champion 2007)
Barrie Bates (UK Open finalist 2006)
Michael van Gerwen (World Masters champion 2006)
Shaun Greatbatch (BDO World semi-finalist 2006)
Andy Hamilton (PDC World Semi-finalist 2007)
Andy Jenkins (PDC World Semi-finalist 2007)
Terry Jenkins (World Grand Prix finalist 2006)
Mervyn King (BDO World semi-finalist 2007)
Jelle Klaasen (BDO World champion 2006)
Göran Klemme (World Masters runner-up 2005)
Peter Manley (PDC World finalist 2006)
Wayne Mardle (PDC World semi-finalist 2006)
Phill Nixon (BDO World finalist 2007)
John Part (Las Vegas Desert Classic winner 2006)
Niels de Ruiter (BDO World Semi-finalist 2007)
Phil Taylor (PDC World Champion 2006)
James Wade (World Matchplay finalist 2006)

Further possible qualifiers subject to their tournaments being classified as "majors"

Roland Scholten (Premier League runner-up 2006)
Gary Robson (World Darts Trophy winner 2005)
Adrian Lewis (World Series of Darts finalist 2006)

[edit] Previous BDO v PDC tournaments

There have been previous tournaments in which players from both the PDC and BDO have competed. Between 1998 and 2001 several BDO players competed in the World Matchplay - this was as a result of a 1997 Tomlin Order which allowed freedom of players to enter more events. This was later restricted when eligibility rules allowed only Professional Dart Players Association members to compete in the tournament.

The 2005 Masters of Darts was the first tournament to feature the top players from each organisation, and in 2006 the Dutch organisers of the International Darts League and World Darts Trophy invited some PDC players to compete alongside BDO players.