These events see the top players on the PDC Order of Merit and PDC ProTour Order of Merit compete against players from a tour card holder qualifier and three different regional qualifiers.
[1] These events differ from others held on the Pro Tour as they are played on one board in front of an audience.
The only exception being in 2021, when owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the only two events held that year took place in Hungary and Gibraltar.
[3] The prize fund has been divided as follows: Twenty-one nine-darters have been thrown on the European Tour.
Since Michael van Gerwen broke the curse at the 2018 European Darts Matchplay, there have been fourteen more nine-dart finishes.