All players in the GDL are classed as equal. No player is any different regardless of their age, sex, race, sexuality, ability, or anything else. If you abuse another player for whatever reason, you will be banned from the GDL without refund. 

The nominal fee for being a GDL Tour Card Holder is £9.95 per month or £99 per year. This is payable in advance every month for monthly subscriptions and the anniversary of the first annual payment. You are paying to have a tour card. You do not pay entry to any of the qualifiers or majors. You must have an ‘active’ membership to be eligible to play in the GDL. Cancellation of membership results in immediate removal from the GDL.

Players are placed in one of five grades: Below 44avg, 44-52 avg, 52-60 avg, 60-68 avg or 68+ avg. Your average will be determined by the GDL team based on information you provide about your online darts presence and your time with a GDL mentor.

All GDL Online World Tour matches are leg play except for the World Championships, which will be set play, and all legs start at 501 (unless otherwise stated).

Players MUST confirm their entry to each qualifier and league season as they see fit by filling the relevant opt-in form on the website.

Players will be advised that the draws are ready to be viewed by way of social media posts or by a notification on the GDL app.

Once the draw is available, players can get in touch with each other by any means of communication that are available to them including the GDL messaging service, Twitter, Facebook etc. Contact details will be on player profiles. To view your opponent’s player profile, click on their name in the draw bracket. If there are no contact details, please submit a support ticket and we will give you the details and update that player profile asap.

All players will be advised of deadlines that the match must be played by. The formats of games and tournaments will be available on the relevant hub for the tournament. To get to the hub, find the link in the menu.

Order of Merit points are only awarded to players in matches which they complete. For example, a player receiving a bye and then withdrawing themselves will not receive Order of Merit points for the bye.

All league matches must be played. No league walkovers are given for any reason.

It is very important that league matches are played in line with the schedule. If a player does not raise a support ticket providing information as to why they’re behind, they may be refused entry to any tour event or Majors until they are up to date, this may include being withdrawn from ongoing tour events or Majors. 

Being timed out or withdrawing in the final  7 days of a League season will result in refusal of entry to the next Tour event, GDL Major or Plate competition. This can include players who do not finish all games in a League season.

If you do not play a league game in the first 14 days of any league phase or 2 games within the first 21 days of any league phase, we will remove you from your division due to the issues caused by players being late playing games. If any player is removed from a league at any stage during the season, the player’s results will become null and void, as if the player was not ever part of the division. 

If you do not play a GDL match at all for 90 consecutive days and your membership subscription has ceased, you will lose any and all ranking points that you have accrued. If you manually cancel your membership subscription, you will lose any and all ranking points that you have accrued and be removed from any competitions that you have entered.

If a player voluntarily leaves their league, there is a £20 admin fee to cover the work required in removing a player’s fixtures and results.

Please show respect for your opponent before, during, and after your game. Communicate with each other. If you’re going to be late or can’t make it, tell your opponent and politely advise of the situation. A minimum of 1 hour’s notice is required to cancel a match unless there is a specific urgent reason to do so. Multiple instances of this happening could lead to you being withdrawn from the competition. There are very few reasons for it to be considered acceptable to not contact your opponent in advance should anything change.

Matches must be played on an appropriate scoring website/app. nakka.com and lidarts.org are our approved scoring sites. this needs to be agreed upon by the players. Each match must be played on camera by a video call or using the cam function on the scoring websites.

Both players must be satisfied with the quality of the view of their opponent’s board before the match starts. If you are not happy with the view, you have the right to A) ask for a better view and B) if the opponent refuses or is unable to provide a better view, refuse to play the game. If there are any issues, raise a ticket. Some players may wish to record the match in case of any issues. You do not have to tell your opponent you’re recording the match.

Be aware that some people might only have their living room to put their board up, for example, so a little bit of background noise can’t be helped sometimes. If there is too much noise going on in your opinion, you have the right to A) ask your opponent to reduce the noise, turn the music down etc. or B) refuse to play the game until things are to your liking. We hope and believe, however, that this type of thing will be rare within the GDL.

Having said this, it is important that you keep your noise down as much as possible. No loud music in the background, no talking on your opponent’s throw, no banging and crashing about.

Multiple instances of being disrespectful will result in being removed from the GDL without refund.

It’s all about respect. We’re all decent adults in the GDL, so please respect each other.

The match will begin with a bull-up. The player that created the match will throw first for the bull. Only 25 and 50 count and if the players score the same, then they throw again, with the other player throwing first for the bull.

During the match, the process for each turn must be as follows:
1. Throw the darts
2. Call out score
3. Enter score
4. Retrieve darts

If there are any big trebles or winning doubles hit, be sure to make it clear that the dart is in the declared section of the board.

Either player can ask respectfully for their opponent to give a clearer view of the darts in the board and the player that threw the darts must oblige by making it clear the dart is in the section declared. Either push/pull the dart away from the wire or move the camera closer to the board.

The request to see the darts must be made before the score is entered on the match. The throwing player must be aware that their opponent has the right to ask to see a clearer view and, as such, must not rush to take their darts out of the board and must follow the process outlined above.

Standard rules apply for winning a leg.

When the match is completed, the winner must take a full screenshot of the result, including ALL stats and go to gdl180.com/results or click the results button on the hub page.

Note that ANY match played to the incorrect format will be rejected and the match will need to be played again from 0-0.

This could lead to BOTH players timing out of tour matches if the match isn’t fulfilled before the deadline.

Leagues Group 4
Champion: 125
Runner-up: 100
Play-off semi-finalists: 75
5th place: 50
6th place: 25
Phase 2 Group topper bonus: 150

Eligibility to the World Championships:

***Any player who is moved UP a grade during the season becomes ineligible for the World Championship of the grade they moved from if their 3-month rolling GDL 3-dart average stays above the 3-dart average threshold for the grade they came from.

Any player who is moved UP a grade during the season remains eligible for the World Championship of the grade they moved from if their GDL 3-dart average falls below the 3-dart average threshold for the grade they came from.

Players are eligible for one Grade World Championship only, the highest Grade that they qualify for.

Those who have moved UP a grade and deemed too good*** to qualify for the Worlds of the grade that they came from BUT failed to finish inside the automatic qualification places of the new grade, are entitled to play a preliminary round at the Worlds for their new grade. The preliminary round will be against the player ranked in the last qualification place in the ‘Race to the Worlds’ OoM. If more than one player qualifies via these methods, the prelim matches will be against the next player up on the OoM.

It is expected that your board view is clear and close up enough for your opponent to see the segments properly.

Below is an example of 2 good boards.

Players must have a microphone enabled in order for their opponent to hear them and they must not have their volume so loud that their opponent has feedback on the sound.