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2025 German Darts Grand Prix
The 2025 German Darts Grand Prix, known as the 2025 Elten Safety Shoes German Darts Grand Prix for sponsorship reasons, was a professional darts tournament taking place at the Kulturhalle Zenith in Munich, Germany from 19–21 April 2025. It was the fourth of fourteen PDC European Tour events on the 2025 PDC Pro Tour. It featured a field of 48 players and £175,000 in prize money, with £30,000 going to the winner. Luke Humphries was the defending champion after defeating Michael van Gerwen 8–1 in the 2024 final. Humphries decided not to participate in the tournament, thus did not defend his title. Van Gerwen beat Gian van Veen 8–5 in the final to win the tournament for the fourth time, his 38th European Tour title in all. In the fifth leg of his third-round match against , Van Gerwen hit his fourth nine-darter on the European Tour. Prize money The prize fund remained at £175,000, with £30,000 to the winner: * Pre-qualified players from the Orders of Merit who lose in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zenith (building)
The Kulturhalle Zenith (also known as the Zenith Halle or simply Zenith) is an events hall located in the Schwabing-Freimann borough of Munich, Germany. Originally opening in 1918 as a part of a railway repair shop, the hall was converted into performance venue in 1994. Since its opening in August 1996, it has hosted concerts, fairs and company presentations. History The venue was built in 1918 as Halle 5 of the Ausbesserungswerk München-Freimann. Used as a railway construction and reparation hall, the venue faced massive damage during World War II. The hall reopened in 1927, becoming a boiling shop for locomotives. The shop remained in operation until 1992. It was sold by Deutsche Bahn to local entrepreneur Wolfgang Nöth. In 1994, Nöth began converting the space into a performance venue. The space, now known as Kulturhalle Zenith, opened August 1996. The venue can hold nearly 6,000 guests. Noted performers *Arctic Monkeys * Bullet for My Valentine *Brandy * Breaking Ben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 German Darts Grand Prix
The 2024 German Darts Grand Prix, known as the 2024 NEO.bet German Darts Grand Prix for sponsorship reasons, was a professional darts tournament that took place at the Kulturhalle Zenith in Munich, Germany from 30 March–1 April 2024. It was the second of thirteen European Tour events on the 2024 PDC Pro Tour. It featured a field of 48 players and £175,000 in prize money, with £30,000 going to the winner. Michael Smith was the defending champion after defeating Nathan Aspinall 8–5 in the 2023 final. However, he lost 6–4 to Josh Rock in the third round. Luke Humphries won the German Darts Grand Prix for the second time, his sixth European Tour title in all, beating Michael van Gerwen 8–1 in the final. Prize money The prize fund remained at £175,000, with £30,000 to the winner: * Pre-qualified players from the Orders of Merit who lose in their first match of the event shall not be credited with prize money on any Order of Merit. A player who qualifies as a qualifier, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 In Darts
This topic lists the darts events for the 2025 year. Professional Darts Corporation Major events * December 15, 2024 – January 3: 2025 PDC World Darts Championship in London ** Winner: Luke Littler * January 30 - February 2: 2025 PDC World Masters in Milton Keynes ** Winner: Luke Humphries * February 6 – May 29: 2025 Premier League Darts ** Winner: Luke Humphries * February 28 -March 2: 2025 UK Open in Minehead ** Winner: Luke Littler * June 12-15: 2025 PDC World Cup of Darts in Frankfurt ** Winner: * July 19-27: 2025 World Matchplay in Blackpool ** Winner: * October 6–12: 2025 World Grand Prix in Leicester **Winner: * October 23-26: 2025 European Championship in Dortmund **Winner: * November 8-16: 2025 Grand Slam of Darts in Wolverhampton **Winner: * November 21-23: 2025 Players Championship Finals in Minehead World Series of Darts * January 16-17: 2025 Bahrain Darts Masters in Sakhir ** Winner: Stephen Bunting * January 24-25: 2025 Dutch Darts Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three-dart Average
The three-dart average in darts is the average of the total score achieved with each turn of three darts. Averages are the most cited statistics in matches as they give a rough estimate of a player's form. The longer a match lasts, the harder it is to maintain a high average, as low-scoring legs or missed darts when aiming for a double bring the average down. While there have been match averages of over 130 in floor tournaments, the world record only lists televised matches, which are easy to verify. Definition To compute the average score of a dart the total amount of points scored is divided by the number of darts thrown. This is sometimes used and called the one-dart average. The three-dart average then is just that number multiplied by three. When a Player Busts on the First Dart of a Throw: The bust counts as a complete throw (i.e., 3 darts) even though only one dart is physically thrown. The remaining two darts in that turn are considered "used" but not scored because the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PDC Pro Tour
The PDC Pro Tour is a series of non-televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). They comprise Professional Dart Players Association (PDPA) Players Championships and European Tour events. Only four players have gone on to win at least 30 titles on the PDC Pro Tour. Michael van Gerwen has won the most Pro Tour titles with 89. Phil Taylor is second on the list winning 70 events. Gary Anderson is in third, winning 39 events, and Peter Wright is in fourth, winning 34 events, as of May 2025. 2024 PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit as of 31 Oct:Prize money in the tables is in units of £1,000. Pro Tour Card Since 2011, the PDC Pro Tour has operated a Tour Card system. 128 players are granted Tour Cards, which enables them to participate in all Players Championships. In 2011, Tour Cards were awarded to: *101 players from the PDC Order of Merit after the 2011 World Championship *2 finalists from the 2010 PDC Women's World Championship *25 quali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seeding (sports)
In sport, seeding is the practice of separating the most skilled competitors from each other in the early rounds of a tournament. Players or teams are "planted" into the bracket in such a manner that the best do not meet until later in the competition, usually based on ranking from the regular season. The term was first used in tennis, and is based on the notion of scattering the top players' names across the bracket in the way that a farmer scatters seeds. Sometimes the remaining competitors in a single-elimination tournament will be "re-seeded" so that the highest surviving seed is made to play the lowest surviving seed in the next round, the second-highest plays the second-lowest, etc. This may be done after each round, or only at selected intervals. Tennis Professional tennis tournaments seed players based on their rankings. The number of seeds varies from tournament to tournament. Generally the bigger the event the more seeds there tend to be relative to lesser events. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PDC Order Of Merit
The PDC Order of Merit is a world ranking system used by one of the darts organisations, the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Following the 2007 PDC World Darts Championship it superseded a world ranking system based on points being awarded for performances in ranking tournaments. Methodology The Professional Darts Corporation adopted an Order of Merit system in 2007, which is based on prize money won over two years for the main Order of Merit and separate one-year rankings for other PDC Pro Tour events. PDC Order of Merit Secondary Orders of Merit In addition to the main two-year Order of Merit, the PDC also operates secondary Orders of Merit for their different tours. These include the: * ProTour Order of Merit, which counts money earned in Players Championships and European Tour events over a 12-month rolling period. In addition to qualification for televised tournaments, this ranking determines the seedings for Pro Tour events. * European Tour Order of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gian Van Veen
Gian van Veen (born 23 April 2002) is a Dutch professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is currently ranked world number twenty-three. Nicknamed "the Giant", Van Veen made his first major semi-final at the 2023 European Championship. He won his first ranking PDC title at 2025 Players Championship 6. He also won on the PDC's secondary tour, at 2022 Challenge Tour 12. In his youth career, Van Veen won the 2024 PDC World Youth Championship and nine PDC Development Tours, making him one of the most successful players in the history of the PDC's youth system. Career 2022 Van Veen attended 2022 PDC Pro Tour Qualifying School. He reached the final stage but lost his opening games on the first two days, losing 6–3 to Mario Vandenbogaerde in the last 16 in event three and to Ricardo Pietreczko 6–4 in the last 32 in event four. This meant he failed to gain a PDC Tour Card but gained access to the secondary tour, the 2022 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Sport
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC BBC Television, television, BBC Radio, radio and BBC Online, online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as ''Match of the Day'', ''Test Match Special'', ''Ski Sunday'' and ''Today at Wimbledon''. Results, analysis and coverage is also added to the #BBC Sport Online, BBC Sport website and through the BBC Red Button interactive television service. History The BBC has broadcast sport for several decades under individual programme names and coverage titles. ''Grandstand (TV programme), Grandstand'' was one of the more notable sport programmes, broadcasting sport for almost 50 years. The BBC first began to brand sport coverage as 'BBC Sport' in 1988 for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, by introducing the programme with a short animation of a globe circumnavigated by four c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Humphries
Luke Humphries (born 11 February 1995) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is currently ranked PDC Order of Merit, world number one. He is a former PDC World Darts Championship, PDC World Champion, having won the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship, 2024 World Championship, defeating Luke Littler in the final. He is the reigning World Matchplay (darts), World Matchplay, Premier League Darts, Premier League, Players Championship Finals and PDC World Masters, World Masters champion. Nicknamed "Cool Hand Luke" in reference to Cool Hand Luke, the 1967 film, Humphries has won eight PDC major singles titles since his first at the 2023 World Grand Prix (darts), 2023 World Grand Prix. He also won the 2024 PDC World Cup of Darts, 2024 World Cup of Darts for List of PDC World Cup of Darts teams#England, England, partnering Michael Smith (darts player), Michael Smith. He won his first World Series of Darts title at the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is not a state of its own. It ranks as the 11th-largest city in the European Union. The metropolitan area has around 3 million inhabitants, and the broader Munich Metropolitan Region is home to about 6.2 million people. It is the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, third largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Munich is located on the river Isar north of the Alps. It is the seat of the Upper Bavaria, Upper Bavarian administrative region. With 4,500 people per km2, Munich is Germany's most densely populated municipality. It is also the second-largest city in the Bavarian language, Bavarian dialect area after Vienna. The first record of Munich dates to 1158. The city ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
