Premier League Darts

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Premier League Darts, known for sponsorship purposes in 2024 as BetMGM Premier League Darts, is a darts tournament which launched on 20 January 2005 on Sky Sports. Now played weekly from February to May, the event originally started as a fortnightly fixture in small venues around the United Kingdom. The tournament originally featured seven players, gradually expanded to ten by 2013, before reduced again from 2022 to eight players from the Professional Darts Corporation circuit competing in a knockout style format, with nights also hosted in Europe at different venues. The top four players in the PDC Order of Merit are joined by four wildcard selections to make up the eight-person field. Alongside the World Championship and the World Matchplay, it is considered part of the sport's Triple Crown.

While active, Phil Taylor dominated the event, winning six of the thirteen tournaments he appeared in. He went unbeaten throughout the first three seasons before James Wade ended his 44 match run in the first match of the 2008 season. A new champion was to be crowned after Mervyn King defeated him in the 2009 semi-finals, where Wade defeated King 13–8 in the final, to pick up the £125,000 first prize. Taylor defeated Wade the following season to claim his fifth title in the competition in 2010, achieving two nine-dart finishes in the final, the only player to achieve this accomplishment.

Although there have been seven overall winners of the Premier League, the league stage has been dominated by Taylor and Michael van Gerwen, with Taylor topping the table for each of the first eight editions and van Gerwen winning the next seven. In 2020, Glen Durrant became the third player to finish top after all league fixtures had been completed. He went on to win the title, meaning all three players both topped the table and won the play-offs at their first attempt.

The prize fund has risen from £265,000 in the early years of the tournament, steadily increasing each year for a prize fund of £1,000,000 in 2022. The winner currently receives £275,000.

프리미어 리그 다트는 영국의 프로페셔널 다트 토너먼트입니다. 매년 개최되며 PDC(프로페셔널 다트 코퍼레이션)가 주최합니다. 프리미어 리그 다트는 세계 최고의 다트 선수들이 참가하는 토너먼트로, 2005년부터 개최되고 있습니다.

프리미어 리그 다트는 총 16개의 주말 경기로 구성되어 있으며, 각 경기는 목요일부터 일요일까지 4일간 진행됩니다. 각 주말 경기는 8명의 선수가 참가하며, 라운드 로빈 방식으로 경기를 치릅니다. 라운드 로빈 방식이란 각 선수가 다른 모든 선수와 한 번씩 경기를 치르는 방식입니다.

프리미어 리그 다트의 우승자는 가장 많은 포인트를 얻은 선수입니다. 포인트는 각 경기에서 승리하면 2점, 무승부이면 1점을 얻을 수 있습니다. 만약 모든 선수가 같은 포인트를 얻은 경우, 타겟을 가장 많이 적중한 선수가 우승자가 됩니다.

프리미어 리그 다트는 세계 최고의 다트 선수들이 참가하는 토너먼트로, 매년 많은 관중들이 모여듭니다. 프리미어 리그 다트는 다트의 인기를 높이는 데 큰 기여를 하고 있으며, 다트를 세계적인 스포츠로 만들고 있습니다.