2022 PDC Asian Championship explained

Tournament Name:	2022 PDC Asian Championship
Dates:	24–25 September 2022
Venue:	Fukuoka Convention Center
Location:	Fukuoka
Organisation:	PDC
Format:	Legs
Prize Fund:	US$100,000
Winners Share:	US$15,000
High Checkout:	170 (Last 16)

The 2022 PDC Asian Championship was a tournament organized by the Professional Darts Corporation for Asian players. The tournament featured 48 players from all around Asia, with the four semi-finalists earning a place in the 2023 PDC World Darts Championship and the winner also earning a place in the 2022 Grand Slam of Darts.

won the tournament, defeating 7–5 in the final. Perez, Nebrida, plus semi-finalists and all qualified for the World Championship as a result of this tournament, with Perez also qualifying for the Grand Slam, becoming only the second Asian player after to do so.^[1]

This was the first edition of the tournament, which was created following the inability to revive the successful PDC Asian Tour, which had not been able to be run since 2019, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]

Format

The 48-player main event on 24–25 September was preceded by two days of Asian Series qualifiers in Fukuoka, with four qualifying events being split across 22–23 September.

The 48 player main event began with a round-robin stage on 24 September, with the players split into 16 groups of three.

Each group winner progressed to compete in the last 16 later on 24 September, with 25 September featuring the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.

Match Format

Round	Best of (legs)
Asian Series Qualifiers	7
Round Robin Stage	9
Last 16	9
Quarter-finals	11
Semi-finals	11
Final	13

In the Asian Series Qualifiers, players will receive one point per victory from the first full round drawn without byes to form the Order of Merit.

Prize money

The total prize fund will be US$100,000. The four semi-finalists of the tournament will earn a place in the 2023 PDC World Darts Championship and the winner will earn a place in the 2022 Grand Slam of Darts as well.

Position (no. of players)		Prize money (Total: US$100,000)
Winner	align=center	(1)	align=center	US$15,000
Runner-up	align=center	(1)	align=center	US$7,000
Semi-finalists	align=center	(2)	align=center	US$5,000
Quarter-finalists	align=center	(4)	align=center	US$3,000
Last 16	align=center	(8)	align=center	US$2,000
Second in Group	align=center	(16)	align=center	US$1,500
Third in Group	align=center	(16)	align=center	US$1,000

Qualifiers

The 48-player main event was preceded by two days of Asian Series qualifiers in Fukuoka, with four qualifying events, two being held on 22 September, two being held on 23 September.

The last four players from each qualifier secured a place in the main event, alongside a further 10 players from an Asian Series Order of Merit.

The main event also featured the eight players who competed in the 2022 PDC World Cup of Darts for Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines and Singapore, plus one additional qualifier per country.

A further ten regional qualifiers - held in Bahrain, mainland China, India, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates - each produced one qualifier.

The qualifiers were:

Asian Series Qualifiers

Event 1^[3]

• Raymond Copano

• Jun Matsuda

• Seigo Asada

• Takayuki Masatsu

Event 2^[4]

• Keita Ono

• Edward Foulkes

• Yutaka Sunakawa

• Yuichiro Ogawa

Event 3^[5]

• Alain Abiabi

• Ryuki Morikubo

• Yuki Yamada

• Teppei Nishi

Event 4^[6]

• Sho Katsumi

• Kota Suzuki

• Gan-Erdene Sharavsambuu

• Royden Lam

Asian Series Order of Merit Qualifiers

• Tomoya Tsumura

• Shingo Enomata

• Mikuru Suzuki

• Teng Lieh Pupo

• Yoshihisa Baba

• Paolo Nebrida

• Ryusei Azemoto

• Enkhbold Surenjav

• Ao Ishihara

• Akito Yamagata

Regional Qualifiers

• Basem Mohamed

• Zhiwei Lin

• Mohd Adbul Mannan Syed

• Kam Weng Cheng

• Jenn Ming Tan

• Purevloov Tungalag

• Yong-Seok Kim

• Yan-Bin Chen

• Chaiyan Paiaree

• Hussain Nadir Ali

2022 PDC World Cup of Darts Participants

• Lok Yin Lee

• Ho Tung Ching

• Toru Suzuki

• Tomoya Goto

• Lourence Ilagan

• RJ Escaros

• Paul Lim

• Harith Lim

Qualifiers From World Cup of Darts Nations

• Man Lok Leung

• Mitsuhiko Tatsunami^[7]

• Christian Perez

• Zhao Chen Tay^[8]

Draw

Group stage

All group matches are best of nine legs
Only winners in each group qualify for the knock-out stage

NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs for; LA = Legs against; = Plus/minus record, in relation to legs; AVG = mean average; Pts = Points; Status = Qualified to knockout stage

Group A

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	1	1	8	7	+1	71.35	2	Q
2		2	1	1	7	7	0	73.27	2
3		2	1	1	7	8	–1	74.49	2

24 September

Group B

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	2	0	10	4	+6	85.70	4	Q
2		2	1	1	9	9	0	82.87	2
3		2	0	2	4	10	–6	82.94	0

24 September

Group C

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	2	0	10	4	+6	84.46	4	Q
2		2	1	1	7	6	+1	81.33	2
3		2	0	2	3	10	–7	75.82	0

24 September

Group D

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	1	1	9	7	+2	83.47	2	Q
2		2	1	1	7	8	–1	76.91	2
3		2	1	1	8	9	–1	77.87	2

24 September

Group E

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	1	1	9	7	+2	71.89	2	Q
2		2	1	1	9	9	0	81.16	2
3		2	1	1	7	9	–2	66.44	2

24 September

Group F

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	2	0	10	3	+7	79.98	4	Q
2		2	1	1	7	8	–1	79.23	2
3		2	0	2	4	10	–6	71.07	0

24 September

Group G

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	2	0	10	6	+4	75.46	4	Q
2		2	1	1	9	5	+4	83.50	2
3		2	0	2	2	10	–8	74.55	0

24 September

Group H

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	2	0	10	3	+7	79.96	4	Q
2		2	1	1	6	8	–2	72.54	2
3		2	0	2	5	10	–5	83.31	0

24 September

Group I

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	1	1	9	5	+4	78.15	2	Q
2		2	1	1	9	9	0	76.61	2
3		2	1	1	5	9	–4	69.79	2

24 September

Group J

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	2	0	10	2	+8	96.31	4	Q
2		2	1	1	7	9	–2	84.18	2
3		2	0	2	4	10	–6	78.86	0

24 September

Group K

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	2	0	10	4	+6	87.94	4	Q
2		2	1	1	8	6	+2	79.67	2
3		2	0	2	2	10	–8	78.72	0

24 September

Group L

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	2	0	10	4	+6	85.73	4	Q
2		2	1	1	8	7	+1	80.12	2
3		2	0	2	3	10	–7	75.19	0

24 September

Group M

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	2	0	10	4	+6	81.23	4	Q
2		2	1	1	7	5	+2	74.20	2
3		2	0	2	2	10	–8	66.90	0

24 September

Group N

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	1	1	8	6	+2	96.96	2	Q
2		2	1	1	7	8	–1	89.46	2
3		2	1	1	6	7	–1	83.94	2

24 September

Group O

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	2	0	10	2	+8	76.13	4	Q
2		2	1	1	7	5	+2	75.56	2
3		2	0	2	0	10		57.81	0

24 September

Group P

Pos.!width=200

Player	width=25	P	width=25	W	width=25	L	width=25	LF	width=25	LA	width=25		width=35	AVG	width=25	Pts	width=50	Status
1		2	2	0	10	6	+4	79.29	4	Q
2		2	1	1	9	7	+2	76.71	2
3		2	0	2	4	10	–6	66.14	0

24 September

Knockout stage

Statistics

Top averages

This table shows the highest averages achieved by players throughout the tournament.

	Player	Round	Average	Result
1		Group J	104.38	Won
2		Group N	98.83	Won
3		Last 16	96.35	Won
4		Group N	95.26	Won
5		Group N	95.08	Lost
6		Last 16	93.70	Lost
7		Last 16	93.24	Won
8		Last 16	92.91	Won
9		SF	91.75	Won
10		QF	90.03	Won

Notes and References

1. Web site: Philippines' Perez wins 2022 PDC Asian Championship . PDC . 26 September 2022.
2. Web site: Innovative PDC Asian Championship introduced for September 2022. 6 June 2022. PDC.tv. 4 July 2022.
3. Web site: 2022 PDC Asian Series Qualifier 1.
4. Web site: 2022 PDC Asian Series Qualifier 2.
5. Web site: 2022 PDC Asian Series Qualifier 3.
6. Web site: 2022 PDC Asian Series Qualifier 4.
7. Web site: Japan Asian Championship Qualifier.
8. Web site: В Сингапуре прошёл отбор на чемпионат Азии PDC. 11 July 2022. 11 July 2022.