Joe Cullen's place in the 2020 BoyleSports Grand Slam of Darts has been confirmed following last weekend's Unibet European Championship.
European Championship finalists Peter Wright and James Wade had already qualified for the tournament, and as such no further players qualified at that event, meaning debutant Cullen's place is now guaranteed.
At least one player will qualify from the World Cup of Darts this weekend, with only one of the 32 nations having both players already qualified (England's Michael Smith & Rob Cross).
The highest ranked player on the Winter Series Order of Merit will also be guaranteed a spot, plus eight from the PDC Tour Card Holder Qualifier on Monday November 9 (1800 GMT start).
The draw for the BoyleSports Grand Slam of Darts will be made on Saturday November 14 following confirmation of the final qualifiers for the event at the end of the PDC Winter Series.
2020 BoyleSports Grand Slam of Darts – Qualifying Structure
PDC Competitors
Qualifying Players: (invited in the following order up to a maximum of 22 players. Current provisional qualifiers in Bold)
2019/20 PDC World Champion; PETER WRIGHT - 1
2019 Grand Slam Champion; GERWYN PRICE - 2
2020 Premier League Champion; GLEN DURRANT – 3
2020 World Matchplay Champion; DIMITRI VAN DEN BERGH - 4
2020 World Grand Prix Champion; (Gerwyn Price)
2019 World Youth Champion; LUKE HUMPHRIES - 5
2020 Masters Champion; (Peter Wright)
2020 UK Open Champion; MICHAEL VAN GERWEN - 6
2020 European Champion; (Peter Wright)
2019 Players Champion; (Michael van Gerwen)
2020 World Series of Darts Finals Champion; (Gerwyn Price)
2020 World Cup winners;
2020 PDC Home Tour Champion: NATHAN ASPINALL – 7
2020 PDC Summer Series OOM Highest-Placed Player: JAMES WADE - 8
2020 PDC Autumn Series OOM Highest-Placed Player: DAMON HETA - 9
2020 PDC Winter Series OOM Highest-Placed Player:
2020 PDC Women’s Qualifier: LISA ASHTON - 10
2019/20 PDC World Championship runner-up; (Michael van Gerwen)
2019 Grand Slam runner-up; (Peter Wright)
2020 Premier League runner-up; (Nathan Aspinall)
2020 World Matchplay runner-up; GARY ANDERSON - 11
2020 World Grand Prix runner-up; DIRK VAN DUIJVENBODE - 12
2019 World Youth Championship runner-up; ADAM GAWLAS - 13
2020 Masters runner-up; MICHAEL SMITH - 14
2020 UK Open runner-up; (Gerwyn Price)
2020 European Championship runner-up; (James Wade)
2019 Players Championship runner-up; (Gerwyn Price)
2020 World Series of Darts Finals runner-up; ROB CROSS – 15
2020 World Cup runners-up (2 players with highest individual taking preference if only one spot available);
This list can produce a maximum of 31 players. (CURRENTLY 15 QUALIFIED WITH 5 PLACES REMAINING)
Eight further players will be found at the PDC’s Full Member Qualifier on Monday November 9.
If the above criteria produces fewer than 30 places then additional places shall be filled from the reserve list. Players shall be separated within the reserve list first by the number of Events in each category they have won and then by their position in the PDC main Order of Merit on the cut-off date.
Reserve List
2020 European Tour winners (in Order of Merit order at Nov 15): (Gerwyn Price ET1), DEVON PETERSEN (ET2), JOSE DE SOUSA (ET3), JOE CULLEN (ET4)
2020 Players Championship winners (in Order of Merit order at Nov 15): (Gary Anderson PC1), (Nathan Aspinall PC2, PC7), RYAN SEARLE (PC3) , KRZYSZTOF RATAJSKI (PC4), (Peter Wright PC5, PC13, PC14), (Gerwyn Price PC6, PC17, PC18), IAN WHITE (PC8), (Michael van Gerwen PC9, PC11, PC16), RYAN JOYCE (PC10), (James Wade PC12), (Damon Heta, PC15)
Current Reserve List order (as of November 2)
Joe Cullen (17)
Devon Petersen (33)
Jose De Sousa (37)
Ian White (12)
Krzysztof Ratajski (14)
Ryan Joyce (40)
Ryan Searle (41)
The remaining two places shall be filled with two invited players from the BDO system:
WAYNE WARREN - 2020 BDO Champion
MIKURU SUZUKI - 2020 BDO Women's Champion
For the draw, the 30 competing PDC players shall be ordered in three pots of eight players each and one of six, determined in Order of Merit order after the Grand Slam qualifier.
The top eight ranked PDC players shall be seeded as per the bracket order in Groups A–H with the remaining players placed in main Order of Merit order in to the three remaining pots.
The two BDO invited players shall be placed into the third pot as numbers 31 & 32 for the draw.