POL Qualifier League Details

Signup Fee: $25 per player per Qualifier

• Players must pay a $25 Signup Fee for each Qualifier League that they participate in. The $25 Signup Fee(s) must be paid to the Phoenixdarts operator of the POL Qualifier, before the first match of the Qualifier League.
• Signup Fees help cover the operational costs for running POL Finals tournaments.
• Players can qualify for as many divisions as they fit in but must complete a Qualifier League for each division that they intend to compete in at the POL Finals Tournament.
• Example:

If a player wants to compete in the Silver Doubles and Bronze Doubles divisions at the POL Season 1 League Finals Tournament:

• Find a partner with whom they fit within the Bronze Doubles division caps and form a Bronze team for the POL Season 1 League Finals Tournament.
• Find a partner with whom they fit within the Silver Doubles division caps and form a Silver team for the POL Season 1 League Finals Tournament.
• Complete both the POL Season 1 Bronze Doubles and POL Season 1 Silver Doubles Qualifier Leagues.
• Player is now qualified to compete at the POL Season 1 League Finals Tournament in the Bronze Doubles and Silver Doubles events with his/her respective teammates.

The same steps above must be repeated for POL Season 2 Qualifier League(s) when qualifying for the POL Season 2 League Finals Tournament.
League Fee: $15 per player per match

• Players must pay a $15 League Fee for each match of their Qualifier League.
• $7.50 of every $15 League Fee collected is pooled for the division’s POL Season League Finals Tournament payout.
• Since payouts are pooled for a POL Season’s League Finals Tournament, there is no self-ending payout for the Qualifier Leagues.
• Players must compete in their division’s POL Season’s League Finals Tournament to win any payout. POL Season’s League Finals Tournament payouts pay down to the bottom place (except for the Diamond Singles division, which has a top-heavy payout).
• 1st Place Teams in a Doubles Qualifier League may claim a $100 prize at the POL Season’s League Finals Tournament, regardless of their performance in the League Finals.
• 1st Place Players in a Singles Qualifier League may claim a $50 prize at the POL Season’s League Finals, regardless of their performance in the League Finals.
• The $7.50 payout portion remains in the payout pool for the division of the Qualifier League it was collected from. Therefore, the more players that qualify for a division, the higher the payout will be for that division at the POL Finals tournament.

• Example:
  If there are 10 Bronze Doubles POL Season 1 Qualifier Leagues with each league having 4 teams and 15 matches on the schedule, the total amount of league fees inserted into the machines for POL Season 1’s Bronze Doubles division would be $18,000.
  
  $18,000 league fees = 4 teams [8 players] x $15 League Fee x 15 matches x 10 Leagues
  
  Since $7.50 of the $15.00 league fee is used for the payout, the POL Season 1 Bronze Doubles League Finals will have a $9,000 total payout.
  *Un-Played Match Fee: $15 per un-played match

*Un-Played Match Fee: $15 per un-played match

• This $15 Un-Played Match Fee is not an additional fee on top of the original match fee. It is exactly the $15 league fee that the player did not insert into a machine because the match was not played.
• All players who compete in the POL Season’s League Finals Tournament must have played all scheduled matches in their POL Qualifier League, or at the very least, paid for them.
• The division’s POL Finals Tournament payout is shorted by every un-played match. Therefore, any player or team with un-played matches must pay for those matches when signing up for their division’s POL Season’s League Finals Tournament.
• Players or teams who refuse to pay for their un-played matches will not be allowed to sign up for their division’s POL Season’s League Finals Tournament.
• Players that repeatedly fail to play all their scheduled matches may be banned from participating in future POL Qualifier Leagues.

Refer to the POL Qualifier Leagues – League Rules section for the rules enforced in Qualifier Leagues.

POL Qualifier League Formats

Below are the standard Qualifier League formats for each division. Your operator may have a different format approved by Phoenixdarts USA. If you have any questions, please check with your operator before signing up for his/her Qualifier League.

How to sign up for a POL Qualifier

• Your local Phoenixdarts Operator will take POL Qualifier League Signups.
• Phoenixdarts is not involved in the signup process for POL Qualifier Leagues. You must follow whatever signup procedure your local Phoenixdarts Operator has in place at the time.
• If you do not have a local Phoenixdarts Operator, or your local operator does not offer any POL Qualifier Leagues, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will connect you to a POL operator.
• POL Qualifier Leagues can be run as an Online League to eliminate any geographic restrictions.
• It’s helpful to already have your team formed before contacting your local Phoenix Operator to sign up.
• Refer to Team Formation rules and POL Division Caps on pages 5-6.
• If you plan to qualify for multiple POL divisions, make sure that both you and your partner do not sign up for divisions that have conflicting POL League Finals start times.
• Make sure that you and your teammate have used your General Rating when calculating if your team fits within the division you are signing up for.

Your General Rating can be found by:

• Logging into http://www.phoenixdarts.com/us/main and clicking My Page (pictured below):

• Scan your card on a Phoenixdarts machine at the Card menu (pictured below), look at General Rating at the bottom (not to be confused with Card Rating):

• Your Local Operator will confirm that you have done this correctly.
• Phoenixdarts reserves the rights to review a player’s divisional qualification and reassign them to an appropriate division at any time. If there are any signs of attempts to cheat the system in any way, additional sanctions may apply.

• Your $25 Signup Fee(s) must be paid to the Phoenixdarts operator whose POL Qualifier you’ve signed up for before the first match of your Qualifier League.

• The teammate that you played with in the POL Qualifier will be the same teammate that you play with at the POL Finals Tournament. In the case that you need a substitute player for the POL Finals Tournament, refer to the POL Finals Tournament – Tournament Rules section.

• Qualifier League match counts are Round Robins and the duration is based on the number of teams in the Qualifier League:
• 8 Teams = 2 Round Robins = 14 Matches
• 7 Teams = 2 Round Robins = 12 Matches (1 Bye per Round Robin)
• 6 Teams = 3 Round Robins = 15 Matches
• 5 Teams = 3 Round Robins = 12 Matches (1 Bye per Round Robin)
• 4 Teams = 5 Round Robins = 15 Matches
• No more than 8 teams and no less than 4 teams allowed per Qualifier League.

• NOTE: Regardless of scheduled matches, all players who are qualifying for a POL Finals Tournament division must pay for 15 matches (totaling $225 in League Fees). It’s not fair for some players to qualify in a 15 match Qualifier League and pay $225 whereas others qualify in a 12 Match Qualifier League and only pay $180. The difference will be collected from applicable players at the POL Finals Tournament signups, along with any Un-Played Match Fees.