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Soots Slams "Free Money for the Top 16"

Alan Soutar has taken aim at the PDC’s revamped European Tour format, describing it as a system that makes life “extremely hard” for anyone outside darts’ inner circle.Under the new rules, the top 16 players on the main Order of Merit receive automatic byes to the second round of European Tour events – while those ranked below must slog their way through qualifiers and early rounds just to stand on the same stage. The gulf between darts’ aristoc…
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And if the top players could reduce the new Masters 1000 to twelve to eight days? This could happen if instead of just one bye they were granted two. Obviously to respect a fair play with the other players who would fight instead from the first round you should not attribute the ATP points usually assigned to those who exceed the first two rounds. So it would be up to the top player to opt for a solution or for the other. Do you want to arrive l…

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Darts World Magazine broke the news in on Thursday, November 13, 2025.
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