The tournament featured 16 players (eight PDC players facing eight regional qualifiers) and was held at the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on 25 May 2018.

Peter Wright was the defending champion after defeating Phil Taylor 11–4 in the final of the 2017 event,[1] but he lost 8–2 in the semi-finals to Mensur Suljović.

Suljović won his first World Series title by defeating Dimitri Van den Bergh 8–2 in the final.

[2] The event also broke the attendance record for a darts tournament with 20,210 people attending the event, beating the previous record set 70 years earlier.

[4] The eight invited PDC representatives were: The German qualifiers were:[5][6]