It was the first and only edition of the competition, which was established by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) to capitalise on the potentially large North American market.

[1] It was launched in early 2006 by sports promoter and Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) chairperson Barry Hearn, and executive producer Michael Davies.

[9] There were 12 places decided by a series of qualifying rounds held between 4 February and 19 April at various locations across the United States.

[a][9] The tournament was broadcast in the United States on ESPN and ESPN2 as a series of eight one-hour highlight programmes through July to September 2006.

[12][13] In the United Kingdom, Sky Sports broadcast a weekly highlights programme of the event from August to October.

[14] The event had a total prize fund of $300,000 for all PDC entrants;[9] a special $1,000,000 bonus was put up for an American champion because of British dominance in world darts.

[11] The breakdown of prize money is shown below:[9] Entrants in each of the 12 regional qualifying rounds had to be aged 21 or over and be a citizen of the United States.

The qualifying events were staged as single-elimination tournaments and featured a total prize fund of $9,600; $800 was available for each competition.

There were four seeds given to the four highest-ranked participants at each competition, based on the Bull's Eye News Pro Rankings.

[15] The two-stage Mohegan Sun tournament "Friday Night Madness" was held late on 19 May.

Players had to be citizens of the United States and aged 21 or over; those who were in a previous qualifier could enter.

[16] The first stage saw players attempt to achieve as low a score as possible in the fewest number of throws.

The 16 players with the lowest overall scores including tiebreaks advanced to stage two, which was a single-elimination, bracket system and best-of-seven leg matches with no seeds.

[17] The draw for the first round of the championship was conducted by tournament director Tommy Cox as well as Lloyd and Taylor on 27 April.

Adrian Lewis averaged 81.98 points over three throws in his 6–0 whitewash of Jim Widmayer before fellow qualifier Tom Curtin achieved a 95 checkout in his 6–1 loss to Andy Jenkins.

The game between Denis Ovens and Bill Davis began with both players sharing the opening two legs.

[19] Mark Walsh, the 2005 UK Open finalist, led Friday Night Madness qualifier Jeff Russell 4–0,[19] before his opponent made checkouts of 54 and 121 to go 4–3 behind.

[20] Roland Scholten produced checkouts of 91 and 76 and a finish on the double 20 ring to lead Roger Carter 3–0.

[20] Mark Dudbridge, a former World Championship finalist, made checkouts of 101 and 66 and a finish on the double 20 ring to whitewash Joe Slivan 6–0.

Walsh achieved a Shanghai (a 120 checkout) to claim leg seven after Manley failed five times to secure the win.

Baxter appeared set for a comfortable victory as he led 7–1 over Mardle with a finish on the double 20 ring and a 97 checkout entering the interval.

Baxter failed to win the match in the 14th leg, allowing Mardle to finish on the double 6 ring.

Lewis' average fell to 98.72 in the next two legs to beat Priestley 11–1 and qualify for the first major broadcast final of his career.

[25] Taylor achieved a three-dart average of 102.72 and earned $100,000 prize money for winning the competition.

[16][18] The figures in brackets to the right of a competitor's name state their three-dart averages in a match.