The GDL North America Tour
THIS IS YOUR NORTH AMERICA TOUR HUB
Please read the guidelines fully before continuing. If you ask questions to which the answers are in the guidelines, you might not get a response from the team.
The GDL North America Open is a knockout tournament that any GDL North America Tour Card Holder can attempt to qualify for. There are 4 qualifying events between April 26 2021 and July 9 2011
The qualifying events give players the chance to either automatically qualify or earn enough Order of Merit (OOM) points to be one of the OOM qualifiers.
The winner of each qualifier will be given an automatic spot in the open and the remaining 28 places will be given to the top 28 players on the order of merit.
Players who win an automatic spot to the major are encouraged to play the other qualifiers still, as there are ranking points available for all events that will lead up to the GDL North America Championships at the end of the year.
If an automatically qualified player wins another qualifier, there will be another spot added to the OOM qualifying list.
Ranking (OOM) Points
Ranking points will be awarded to players who play each event. The points are shown below and apply to all grades in the same way.
Qualifiers
| Round | Points |
|---|---|
|
Winner |
2000 |
|
Runner-up |
1000 |
|
Losing Semi-Finalists |
500 |
|
Losing Quarter-Finalists |
200 |
|
Last 16 Losers |
100 |
|
Last 32 Losers |
50 |
|
Last 64 Losers |
25 |
|
Last 128 (prelim) Losers |
|
|
Last 256 (prelim) Losers |
|
Majors
| Round | Points |
|---|---|
|
Winner |
8000 |
|
Runner-up |
4000 |
|
Losing Semi-Finalists |
2000 |
|
Losing Quarter-Finalists |
1000 |
|
Last 16 Losers |
750 |
|
Last 32 Losers |
500 |
Format
There are three different grades of ability on the GDL Tour. These are:
67+ avg.
58-66.99 avg.
45-57.99 avg.
below 45 avg.
Each grade has its own qualifiers and its own majors. A 48avg. player won’t be facing a 78avg. player.
The qualifying event matches are all the same length. These are as follows:
67.5+ avg. – Best of 11 legs
61-67.49 avg. – Best of 11 legs
55-60.99 avg. – Best of 9 legs
45-54.99 avg. – Best of 7 legs
below 45 avg. Best of 7 legs
The Draw
The draws for each qualifying event will be made the day before each event is due to start. Once the draw is made, players can play their games immediately and have up to three days from the start of the event to complete their first game.
When the draw has been made, we will create the competition brackets on the website and you’ll be able to find them via the links below. If there are no links below, then that means the brackets have not been created yet, but will be when the draw has been made.
L64 – 29th March
L16 – 3rd April
QF – 6th April
SF – 8th April
Final – 9th April
Prize Money (Majors)
Cash prizes are available for reaching the last 8 of the major and beyond. The prize breakdown is as follows:
Quarter finalists: $25
Semi finalists: $50
Runner-up: $100
Winner: $200
This is the same throughout the grades.
When the match is completed, the winner must take a full screenshot of the result, including stats, and go to the results page to submit the result
If you are playing on WDA, you MUST make a note of your first 9 average and email results@gdl180.com. This is because WDA doesn’t provide that data in the match summary.
We would prefer that you do not use dartconnect for your games, purely because it is difficult to obtain the stats from DC games.
Have a question? Check the guidelines and this page first.
We are a very small team so we cannot deal with questions that have answers available on this website. Please search around for the answer before messaging us.
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