The full results from the Boylsports Grand Slam of Darts, which features players from both the PDC and BDO, at the Aldersley Leisure Village in Wolverhampton from November 9-17.
The 12th staging of the Grand Slam of Darts is over, with Gerwyn Price successfully defending the title he so controversially won in a heated final with Gary Anderson 12 months ago.
A field of 32 players, featuring eight representatives from the BDO, were split into eight groups of four players for the round-robin phase, with the top two players from each group then progressing to the knockout stage.
This year we've also seen two female stars from the BDO - world champion Mikuru Suzuki and Lakeside legend Lisa Ashton - battle it out with the men for the right to lift the Eric Bristow Trophy.
Here, you can look back on how the event unfolded with the group standings, results, round ups, details of how the players qualified and a look back at previous winners.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
* Although Durrant is now in the PDC, he qualified for the tournament as BDO World Champion
Scoring System: Each competitor plays each other once in a best-of-nine legs match, with two points going to the winner. The top two from each group will then progress to the knockout stages. Any two-way points tie in any position, the player with best leg difference will finish higher. If two players are still level then the winner of the match between them will progress. There is the potential for a Nine-Dart Shoot-Out should three or more players be tied for points and leg difference. For more details see the format section further down.
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Saturday November 9
Afternoon Session (1pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Group Matches E-H (Best of 9 legs)
Evening Session (8pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Group Matches A-D (Best of 9 legs)
Sunday November 10
Afternoon Session (1pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Group Matches E-H (Best of 9 legs)
Saturday's winners face each other, and Saturday's losers face each other.
Evening Session (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Group Matches A-D (Best of 9 legs)
Monday November 11 (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Group Matches E-H (Best of 9 legs)
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Tuesday November 12 (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Group Matches A-D (Best of 9 legs)
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Wednesday November 13 (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Second Round (Best of 19 legs)
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Thursday November 14 (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Second Round (Best of 19 legs)
Friday November 15 (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Quarter-finals (Best of 31 legs)
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Saturday November 16 (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Quarter-finals (Best of 31 legs)
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Sunday November 17
Afternoon Session (1pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Semi-finals (Best of 31 legs)
Evening Session (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Final (Best of 31 legs)
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Every session of the Grand Slam of Darts will be televised live on Sky Sports.
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Michael van Gerwen is unsurprisingly the 11/10 favourite to get his hands back on this trophy and make it four TV titles out of five over the past couple of months.
The Dutchman has won the World Grand Prix, Champions League of Darts and World Series of Darts Finals in recent weeks, and will travel to Wolverhampton in confident mood as he targets a fourth title here.
Recently-crowned European champion Rob Cross is next in the running at 8/1 while Peter Wright is 9/1 ahead of defending champion Gerweyn Price at 11/1.
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PDC Representatives (invited in the following order up to a maximum of 16 players)
BDO Representatives:
Group Stage (Potentially complicated!!)
The 32 players are drawn into eight groups of four players during the round-robin stage, and they will play each other once. The opening games are decided by a draw, with the second set of matches seeing the two winners from the first games meeting each other, and the two losers also playing each other. The third set of matches will consist of the pairings which have not previously met.
Two points are awarded for a win and no points will be awarded for a loss. Each game is the best of nine legs.
The top two players in each group will progress to the knockout phase. Should there be a two-way points tie for first place in any group, then the player with the best leg difference will be deemed to have won the group. If both players have the same leg difference, then the player who won the group match between the two players will be deemed to have won the group.
Should Points, Leg Difference, Tournament Average and Legs Won Against Throw not be able to separate three players, then if one player has defeated both of the other two players then this player will be deemed to have finished higher, and the winner of the group match between the remaining two players will be the ‘second’ of the three. Should the three players have secured one win apiece against each other, then a Nine-Dart Shoot-Out will be played between the relevant players to determine final standings, with the highest aggregate score over nine darts being used to separate players.
In the event a “Nine-Dart Shoot-Out” finishes level between two or more players, those players who have tied on the most points will continue to throw three darts each in the same order until one player scores more points than the other player(s) with his three darts.
From the second round onwards, the tournament will be in a knockout format.
Knockout stage (far more simple!)
From the second round onwards, the tournament will be in a knockout format. There will be no tie-break rule employed in any match.
For ticket information, and details of car parking and shuttle buses, visit www.ticketmaster.co.uk/grand-slam-of-darts-tickets
The Grand Slam of Darts brings together the best players from the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) and the British Darts Organisation (BDO) in a unique event which is now in its 12th year and has always been staged in Wolverhampton - although 2018 was be the first time the tournament switches from the Civic Hall to the Aldersley Leisure Village.
Phil Taylor won the first three finals against Andy Hamilton, Terry Jenkins and Scott Waites - averaging over 100 in each one - but he failed at the quarter-final stages to Steve Beaton in 2010.
That year, Waites bounced back from his 16-2 hammering at the hands of 12 months to become the first ever BDO player to win the event by coming from 8-0 down to defeat James Wade. No other BDO player has ever reached the final.
Taylor averaged over 109 in a 16-4 thrashing of Gary Anderson to reclaim the title in 2011 before Raymond van Barneveld edged a thrilling all-Dutch battle to beat Michael van Gerwen in 2012.
Two more titles for The Power followed in 2013 and 2014 to take his overall tally to six when he defeated Robert Thornton and Dave Chisnall but he would lose his first final in 2015 when Michael van Gerwen triumphed 16-13 in a high-quality showdown.
The Dutchman twice successfully defended his crown in 2016 and 2017 with victories over James Wade and Peter Wright respectively but the next year Gerwyn Price would bag his first televised title with a controversial victory over Gary Anderson.
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