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Grand Slam of Darts
Grand Slam of Darts
Tournament information
Dates	12–20 November 2016
Venue	Civic Hall
Location	Wolverhampton
Country	England
Organisation(s)	PDC
Format	Legs
Prize fund	£400,000
Winner's share	£100,000
High checkout	161 Scott Mitchell
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The 2016 Grand Slam of Darts, also known as the Singha Beer Grand Slam of Darts for sponsorship purposes, will be the tenth staging of the tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event takes place from 12–20 November 2016 at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall.^[1]

The tournament's defending champion is Michael van Gerwen, who won the tournament in 2015 beating Phil Taylor in the final 16–13.^[2]

Prize Money

Position (num. of players)		Prize money^[3]^[4]
Winner	(1)	£100,000
Runner-up	(1)	£50,000
Semi-finalists	(2)	£25,000
Quarter-finalists	(4)	£15,000
Last 16	(8)	£7,500
Third in group	(8)	£5,000
Fourth in group	(8)	£2,500

Group winner bonus	(8)	£2,500

Qualifying

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PDC Qualifying Tournaments

PDC Main Tournaments
Tournament	Year	Position	Player	Qualifiers
PDC World Darts Championship	2016	Winner	Gary Anderson	Gary Anderson Michael van Gerwen Max Hopp Adrian Lewis Phil Taylor Peter Wright Dave Chisnall Mensur Suljović Nathan Aspinall Raymond van Barneveld
Grand Slam of Darts	2015	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
Premier League Darts	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
World Matchplay	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
World Grand Prix	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
PDC World Youth Championship	2015	Winner	Max Hopp
Masters	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
UK Open	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
European Championship	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
Players Championship Finals	2015	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
World Series of Darts Finals	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
Champions League of Darts	2016	Winner	Phil Taylor
PDC World Cup of Darts	2016	Winners	Phil Taylor Adrian Lewis
PDC World Darts Championship	2016	Runner-up	Adrian Lewis
Grand Slam of Darts	2015	Runner-up	Phil Taylor
Premier League Darts	2016	Runner-up	Phil Taylor
World Matchplay	2016	Runner-up	Phil Taylor
World Grand Prix	2016	Runner-up	Gary Anderson
PDC World Youth Championship	2015	Runner-up	Nathan Aspinall
Masters	2016	Runner-up	Dave Chisnall
UK Open	2016	Runner-up	Peter Wright
European Championship	2016	Runner-up	Mensur Suljović
Players Championship Finals	2015	Runner-up	Adrian Lewis
World Series of Darts Finals	2016	Runner-up	Peter Wright
Champions League of Darts	2016	Runner-up	Michael van Gerwen
PDC World Cup of Darts	2016	Runners-up	Michael van Gerwen Raymond van Barneveld
Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.

At most sixteen players could qualify through this method, where the position in the list depicts the priority of the qualification.

PDC European Tour
Tournament	Event	Position	Player	Qualifiers
2016 European Tour
	Dutch Darts Masters	Winner	Michael van Gerwen	James Wade Alan Norris
	German Darts Masters	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	Gibraltar Darts Trophy	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	European Darts Matchplay	Winner	James Wade
	Austrian Darts Open	Winner	Phil Taylor
	European Darts Open	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	International Darts Open	Winner	Mensur Suljović
	European Darts Trophy	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	European Darts Grand Prix	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	German Darts Championship	Winner	Alan Norris
Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.

In case the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments produced fewer than sixteen players, the field of sixteen players is filled from the reserve lists. The first list consists of the winners from 2016 European Tour events, in which the winners shall be selected in ProTour Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.

PDC Players Championships
Tournament	Event	Position	Player	Qualifiers
2016 Players Championships	Players Championship 1	Winner	Peter Wright	Benito van de Pas Ian White Gerwyn Price Simon Whitlock
	Players Championship 2	Winner	Stephen Bunting
	Players Championship 3	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	Players Championship 4	Winner	Benito van de Pas
	Players Championship 5	Winner	Ian White
	Players Championship 6	Winner	Josh Payne
	Players Championship 7	Winner	Gerwyn Price
	Players Championship 8	Winner	Gerwyn Price
	Players Championship 9	Winner	Benito van de Pas
	Players Championship 10	Winner	Dave Chisnall
	Players Championship 11	Winner	Ian White
	Players Championship 12	Winner	Gary Anderson
	Players Championship 13	Winner	Ian White
	Players Championship 14	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	Players Championship 15	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	Players Championship 16	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	Players Championship 17	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	Players Championship 18	Winner	Simon Whitlock
	Players Championship 19	Winner	Simon Whitlock
	Players Championship 20	Winner	Benito van de Pas
Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.

In case the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments and the European Tour produced fewer than sixteen players, the field of sixteen players is filled from the reserve lists. The second list consists of the winners from 2016 Players Championship events, in which the winners were selected in ProTour Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.

PDC Qualifying Event

A further eight places in the Grand Slam of Darts were filled by qualifiers from a PDC qualifier in Barnsley on October 23, 2016.

Robert Thornton
Dimitri Van den Bergh
Ted Evetts
Brendan Dolan
Chris Dobey
James Wilson
Nathan Derry
Darren Webster

BDO Qualifying Tournaments

Tournament	Year	Position	Player
BDO World Darts Championship	2016	Winner	Scott Waites
BDO World Darts Championship	2016	Runner-up	Jeff Smith
World Masters	2015	Winner	Glen Durrant
BDO World Trophy	2016	Winner	Darryl Fitton

BDO Ranking Qualifiers

The remaining four BDO representatives will be the top four non-qualified players from the BDO Invitational Rankings on September 30.

Pools

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
(PDC Seeded Players)	(PDC Qualifiers)		(BDO Qualifiers)
Michael van Gerwen (1) Gary Anderson (2) Adrian Lewis (3) (Group Stage) Phil Taylor (4) Peter Wright (5) James Wade (6) Mensur Suljović (7) Robert Thornton (8)	Dave Chisnall (Group Stage) Ian White (Group Stage) Raymond van Barneveld Benito van de Pas Simon Whitlock Gerwyn Price Alan Norris (Group Stage) Brendan Dolan	James Wilson Max Hopp (Group Stage) Darren Webster (Group Stage) Chris Dobey Dimitri Van den Bergh Nathan Aspinall Nathan Derry (Group Stage) Ted Evetts (Group Stage)	Glen Durrant Scott Mitchell (Group Stage) Danny Noppert Jamie Hughes Martin Adams (Group Stage) Scott Waites Darryl Fitton Jeff Smith

Draw

Group stage

All group matches are best of nine legs
From each group the numbers one and two after three games qualify for the knock-out stage, the numbers three and four are eliminated

NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Average = 3-dart average; Pts = Points; Status = Qualified to Knockout Stage

Group A

Pos.	Player	P	W	L	LF	LA	+/–	Pts	Status
1	Michael van Gerwen (1)	3	3	0	15	4	+11	6	Q
2	Brendan Dolan	3	2	1	11	12	–1	4	Q
3	Max Hopp	3	1	2	10	13	–3	2	Eliminated
4	Martin Adams	3	0	3	8	15	–7	0	Eliminated

November 12


(93.65) Brendan Dolan	5 – 4	Max Hopp (89.00)
(93.64) Michael van Gerwen	5 – 2	Martin Adams (91.47)

November 13


(104.58) Michael van Gerwen	5 – 1	Brendan Dolan (95.13)
(86.36) Max Hopp	5 – 3	Martin Adams (80.47)

November 14


(95.93) Michael van Gerwen	5 – 1	Max Hopp (87.37)
(80.87) Brendan Dolan	5 – 3	Martin Adams (80.96)

Group B

Pos.	Player	P	W	L	LF	LA	+/−	Pts
1	Robert Thornton (8)	2	2	0	10	7	+3	4
2	Gerwyn Price	2	1	1	9	7	+2	2
3	Dimitri Van den Bergh	2	1	1	9	9	0	2
4	Scott Waites	2	0	2	5	10	–5	0

November 12


(92.26) Gerwyn Price	4 – 5	Dimitri Van den Bergh (90.15)
(96.00) Robert Thornton	5 – 3	Scott Waites (91.15)

November 13


(96.90) Robert Thornton	5 – 4	Dimitri Van den Bergh (90.56)
(84.46) Gerwyn Price	5 – 2	Scott Waites (84.83)

November 15


Robert Thornton	–	Gerwyn Price
Dimitri Van den Bergh	–	Scott Waites

Group C

Pos.	Player	P	W	L	LF	LA	+/−	Pts	Status
1	Peter Wright (5)	2	2	0	10	1	+9	4	Q
2	Simon Whitlock	2	1	1	5	6	–1	2
3	Jeff Smith	2	1	1	6	9	–3	2
4	Ted Evetts	2	0	2	5	10	–5	0	Eliminated

November 12


(92.08) Simon Whitlock	5 – 1	Ted Evetts (85.69)
(93.78) Peter Wright	5 – 1	Jeff Smith (86.33)

November 13


(107.36) Peter Wright	5 – 0	Simon Whitlock (87.95)
(90.43) Ted Evetts	4 – 5	Jeff Smith (89.29)

November 15


Peter Wright	–	Ted Evetts
Simon Whitlock	–	Jeff Smith

Group D

Pos.	Player	P	W	L	LF	LA	+/−	Pts	Status
1	Phil Taylor (4)	3	2	1	10	7	+3	4	Q
2	Darryl Fitton	3	2	1	11	13	–2	4	Q
3	Darren Webster	3	1	2	12	10	+2	2	Eliminated
4	Ian White	3	1	2	10	13	–3	2	Eliminated

November 12


(93.62) Ian White	5 – 3	Darren Webster (93.49)
(104.30) Phil Taylor	5 – 1	Darryl Fitton (84.90)

November 13


(92.94) Phil Taylor	5 – 1	Ian White (84.13)
(88.99) Darren Webster	4 – 5	Darryl Fitton (87.30)

November 14


(87.08) Phil Taylor	0 – 5	Darren Webster (96.35)
(88.86) Ian White	4 – 5	Darryl Fitton (87.27)

Group E

Pos.	Player	P	W	L	LF	LA	+/–	Pts	Status
1	Gary Anderson (2)	3	3	0	15	6	+9	6	Q
2	Glen Durrant	3	2	1	14	6	+8	4	Q
3	Nathan Derry	3	1	2	5	14	–9	2	Eliminated
4	Alan Norris	3	0	3	7	15	–8	0	Eliminated

November 12


(97.65) Alan Norris	4 – 5	Nathan Derry (91.56)
(100.66) Gary Anderson	5 – 4	Glen Durrant (98.52)

November 13


(89.46) Gary Anderson	5 – 0	Nathan Derry (82.44)
(95.25) Alan Norris	1 – 5	Glen Durrant (94.87)

November 14


(97.33) Gary Anderson	5 – 2	Alan Norris (94.60)
(76.20) Nathan Derry	0 – 5	Glen Durrant (97.60)

Group F

Pos.	Player	P	W	L	LF	LA	+/−	Pts
1	Raymond van Barneveld	2	2	0	10	3	+7	4
2	Mensur Suljović (7)	2	1	1	8	8	0	2
3	Danny Noppert	2	1	1	7	8	–1	2
4	Nathan Aspinall	2	0	2	4	10	–6	0

November 12


(98.40) Mensur Suljović	3 – 5	Danny Noppert (101.06)
(110.15) Raymond van Barneveld	5 – 1	Nathan Aspinall (97.46)

November 13


(104.66) Raymond van Barneveld	5 – 2	Danny Noppert (103.88)
(99.50) Mensur Suljović	5 – 3	Nathan Aspinall (97.79)

November 15


Mensur Suljović	–	Raymond van Barneveld
Nathan Aspinall	–	Danny Noppert

Group G

Pos.	Player	P	W	L	LF	LA	+/–	Pts	Status
1	James Wade (6)	2	2	0	10	6	+4	4	Q
2	Jamie Hughes	2	1	1	8	6	+2	2
3	James Wilson	2	1	1	8	7	+1	2
4	Dave Chisnall	2	0	2	3	10	–7	0	Eliminated

November 12


(88.73) Dave Chisnall	2 – 5	James Wilson (84.13)
(91.31) James Wade	5 – 3	Jamie Hughes (86.55)

November 13


(95.85) James Wade	5 – 3	James Wilson (85.21)
(102.51) Dave Chisnall	1 – 5	Jamie Hughes (106.32)

November 15


James Wade	–	Dave Chisnall
James Wilson	–	Jamie Hughes

Group H

Pos.	Player	P	W	L	LF	LA	+/–	Pts	Status
1	Benito van de Pas	3	3	0	15	7	+8	6	Q
2	Chris Dobey	3	2	1	14	11	+3	4	Q
3	Scott Mitchell	3	1	2	9	11	-2	2	Eliminated
4	Adrian Lewis (3)	3	0	3	6	15	–9	0	Eliminated

November 12


(95.91) Benito van de Pas	5 – 4	Chris Dobey (94.36)
(97.62) Adrian Lewis	1 – 5	Scott Mitchell (107.78)

November 13


(95.61) Benito van de Pas	5 – 1	Scott Mitchell (83.35)
(108.68) Adrian Lewis	3 – 5	Chris Dobey (97.42)

November 14


(100.19) Adrian Lewis	2 – 5	Benito van de Pas (100.90)
(92.74) Chris Dobey	5 – 3	Scott Mitchell (92.61)

Knockout stage

Second round (best of 19 legs)
16–17 November

Quarter-finals (best of 31 legs)
18–19 November

Semi-finals (best of 31 legs)
20 November

Final (best of 31 legs)
20 November

A1

Michael van Gerwen (1)

B2

B1

A2

Brendan Dolan

C1

Peter Wright (5)

D2

Darryl Fitton

D1

Phil Taylor (4)

C2

E1

Gary Anderson (2)

F2

F1

E2

Glen Durrant

G1

H2

Chris Dobey

H1

Benito van de Pas

G2

References

^ "Tournament Calendar 2016". PDC. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
^ "Michael van Gerwen beats Phil Taylor 16-13 to win the Grand Slam of Darts". SKY Sports. 15 November 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
^ "2015 Grand Slam Of Darts Prize Money". Darts Database. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
^ "No Boost in 2016 Grand Slam Of Darts Prize Money". Darts Database. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
^ "2015 Grand Slam Of Darts Qualification Criteria". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
^ "Waites Set for Grand Slam Return". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
^ "Adams Amongst BDO Stars For Grand Slam". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 4 October 2016.

External links

PDC netzone, Schedule, results

[1] "Tournament Calendar 2016". PDC. Retrieved 9 January 2016.

[2] "Michael van Gerwen beats Phil Taylor 16-13 to win the Grand Slam of Darts". SKY Sports. 15 November 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2016.

[3] "2015 Grand Slam Of Darts Prize Money". Darts Database. Retrieved 8 November 2013.

[4] "No Boost in 2016 Grand Slam Of Darts Prize Money". Darts Database. Retrieved 9 January 2016.

[5] "2015 Grand Slam Of Darts Qualification Criteria". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 11 October 2015.

[6] "Waites Set for Grand Slam Return". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 16 September 2016.

[7] "Adams Amongst BDO Stars For Grand Slam". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 4 October 2016.

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