The PDC Winter Series ended the PDC ProTour season and for the most part the World Championship field is now confirmed with only the Grand Slam of Darts and Players Championship Finals able to change this now.
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The provisional list takes into account prize money being removed from the respective tournaments two years ago and first round money for both added, so it could change but ever so slightly.
Michael van Gerwen is currently top seed but it has already been duly noted that the likelihood of him remaining World Number One is fairly unlikely with Peter Wright likely to take over the top spot at the end of 2020.
But he will be at least for the World Championship with Wright in second. Gerwyn Price is currently third as he looks to defend the first of his two Grand Slam titles. He is ahead by some distance though to Michael Smith and Rob Cross who are fourth and fifth.
Nathan Aspinall, Dave Chisnall, James Wade and Ian White round out the top 10 going into the World Championship.
While the likes of Gary Anderson and Glen Durrant sit on the fringes with the latter in particular heading towards the top 10 in only his second year.
Further down, Devon Petersen and Jose de Sousa are two players who have also had excellent years and especially in the case of the former, he will qualify through the Order of Merit likely for the first time after years of having his Tour Card potentially on the line at the season ending event.
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The ProTour Qualifiers list is also stacked with Damon Heta leading the way after a superb first year which has seen him claim a maiden PDC title albeit with not being able to take part in a section of the season due to the Coronavirus travel restrictions.
First time winners Ryan Searle and Ryan Joyce also find themselves high on the list. While Dirk van Duijvenbode, a major finalist will make his return for the first time since his infamous game against Raymond van Barneveld in 2016 when he busted 180.
Martijn Kleermaker, Jeff Smith, Derk Telnekes, Scott Waites have all come through their first year in the PDC with a spot after for the most part barring Smith all playing at the BDO version a year ago.
The last player currently qualified is John Henderson and this will only not be the case if Justin Pipe who is set to appear at the Grand Slam of Darts wins the tournament.
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In terms of the International Qualifiers, the likes of Challenge Tour standout David Evans will make his debut, Keane Barry will return and Lisa Ashton and Deta Hedman will be involved after winning the Women's Series.
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There are also returns for CDC duo Matt Campbell and Danny Baggish. While German ace Nico Kurz was one of the first to qualify at the restart through the German Superleague.
The ever improving multiple Soft Tip World Champion, Boris Krcmar nearly was in the ProTour spots but has qualified anyway. With other players such as Ryan Meikle and Haupai Puha also on the list.
There are still 13 players still to be confirmed which include spots designated for the PDC Asian Tour which couldn't take place so there is still some interesting developments to come on that side.
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Provisional top-32 PDC Order of Merit (order can still change)
Position - Name - Prize money
1 Michael van Gerwen £1.377.750
2 Peter Wright £985.000
3 Gerwyn Price £800.500
4 Michael Smith £569.750
5 Rob Cross £527.500
6 Nathan Aspinall £514.250
7 Dave Chisnall £381.250
8 James Wade £378.000
9 Ian White £345.000
10 Dimitri Van den Bergh £338.250
11 Daryl Gurney £333.500
12 Glen Durrant £322.750
13 Gary Anderson £312.750
14 Krzysztof Ratajski £278.500
15 Joe Cullen £259.000
16 Mensur Suljovic £249.750
17 Jonny Clayton £244.500
18 Adrian Lewis £228.750
19 Chris Dobey £219.000
20 Simon Whitlock £210.000
21 Jeffrey de Zwaan £203.500
22 Mervyn King £200.750
23 Jermaine Wattimena £199.000
24 Danny Noppert £194.750
25 Stephen Bunting £192.500
26 Vincent van der Voort £175.500
27 Jamie Hughes £171.250
28 Brendan Dolan £168.250
29 Devon Petersen £161.250
30 Jose de Sousa £160.750
31 Steve Beaton £160.750
32 Ricky Evans £160.000
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33 Gabriel Clemens £159.000
34 Keegan Brown £152.250
35 Luke Humphries £149.000
36 William O'Connor £149.000
37 Ryan Joyce £135.250
38 Kim Huybrechts £133.750
39 Max Hopp £133.750
40 John Henderson £133.500
41 Ryan Searle £128.000
42 Ross Smith £113.500
43 Steve West £109.250
45 Dirk van Duijvenbode £105.500
46 Darius Labanauskas £101.250
47 Steve Lennon £85.000
48 Justin Pipe £80.250
55 Luke Woodhouse £69.000
71 Damon Heta £36.250
73 Maik Kuivenhoven £33.500
74 Martijn Kleermaker £33.250
78 Jason Lowe £23.000
Pro Tour Qualifiers
Damon Heta
Ryan Searle
Gabriel Clemens
Dirk van Duijvenbode
Ross Smith
Madars Razma
Ryan Joyce
Martijn Kleermaker
Kim Huybrechts
Jeff Smith
William O'Connor
Steve Lennon
Jason Lowe
Maik Kuivenhoven
Derk Telnekes
Darius Labanauskas
Mickey Mansell
Adam Hunt
Max Hopp
Scott Waites
Andy Boulton
Ryan Murray
Keegan Brown
Luke Woodhouse
Luke Humphries
Callan Rydz
Mike De Decker
Ron Meulenkamp
Steve West
Wayne Jones
Andy Hamilton
(John Henderson)
International Qualifiers (19/32)
Lisa Ashton
Danny Baggish
James Bailey
Keane Barry
Matt Campbell
Cameron Carolissen
David Evans
Dmitriy Gorbunov
Deta Hedman
Boris Krcmar
Nico Kurz
Daniel Larsson
Danny Lauby
Chengan Liu
Gordon Mathers
Ryan Meikle
Haupai Puha
Edward Shoji
Kim Viljanen
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