2024 Grand Slam of Darts

The 2024 Grand Slam of Darts (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2024 Mr Vegas Grand Slam of Darts) was a professional darts tournament that was held at Aldersley Leisure Village in Wolverhampton, England from 9–17 November 2024.^[1] It was the eighteenth staging of the Grand Slam of Darts organised by the Professional Darts Corporation.

2024 Grand Slam of Darts
Tournament information
Dates	9–17 November 2024
Venue	Aldersley Leisure Village
Location	Wolverhampton, England
Organisation(s)	Professional Darts Corporation (PDC)
Format	Legs
Prize fund	£650,000
Winner's share	£150,000
High checkout	170 Danny Noppert Stephen Bunting
Champion(s)
Luke Littler
«2023 2025»

Luke Humphries was the defending champion, having defeated Rob Cross 16–8 in the 2023 final.^[2][3] He was eliminated in the group stage, after losing his first two matches.^[4] Michael van Gerwen was eliminated in the group stage for the first time since 2010,^[5] while 2022 champion Michael Smith was also unable to qualify from his group, meaning all former champions present at the tournament were eliminated before the knockout stage.^[6]

Luke Littler won the tournament, defeating Martin Lukeman 16–3 in the final for his first ranking major title.^[7]

Prize money

The prize fund for the Grand Slam remained the same as last year at £650,000.^[8]

Position (num. of players)		Prize money (Total: £650,000)
Winner	(1)	£150,000
Runner-up	(1)	£70,000
Semi-finalists	(2)	£50,000
Quarter-finalists	(4)	£25,000
Last 16	(8)	£12,250
Third in group	(8)	£8,000
Fourth in group	(8)	£5,000
Group winner bonus	(8)	£3,500
Nine Dart Finish	n/a	£10,000

Qualification

The qualifying criteria for the Grand Slam were as follows:^[9]

• Finalists from PDC televised events over the previous twelve months (up to a maximum of 16 players),
• Additional qualifiers (up to a maximum of 8 players),
• European Tour events winners (to fill up to 24 players),
• Players Championship event winners (to fill up to 24 players)

The qualifiers were:^[10]

PDC Televised Event Finalists

Tournament	Year	Position	Player		Qualifiers
PDC World Darts Championship	2024	Winner	Luke Humphries		Luke Humphries  Luke Littler  Mike De Decker  Stephen Bunting  Dimitri Van den Bergh  Ritchie Edhouse  Michael Smith  Rob Cross  Michael van Gerwen  Jermaine Wattimena  Rowby-John Rodriguez  Mensur Suljović
Grand Slam of Darts	2023	Winner	Luke Humphries
Premier League Darts	2024	Winner	Luke Littler
World Matchplay	2024	Winner	Luke Humphries
World Grand Prix	2024	Winner	Mike De Decker
Masters	2024	Winner	Stephen Bunting
UK Open	2024	Winner	Dimitri Van den Bergh
European Championship	2024	Winner	Ritchie Edhouse
Players Championship Finals	2023	Winner	Luke Humphries
World Series of Darts Finals	2024	Winner	Luke Littler
PDC World Cup of Darts	2024	Winners	Luke Humphries  Michael Smith
PDC World Darts Championship	2024	Runner-up	Luke Littler
Grand Slam of Darts	2023	Runner-up	Rob Cross
Premier League Darts	2024	Runner-up	Luke Humphries
World Matchplay	2024	Runner-up	Michael van Gerwen
World Grand Prix	2024	Runner-up	Luke Humphries
Masters	2024	Runner-up	Michael van Gerwen
UK Open	2024	Runner-up	Luke Humphries
European Championship	2024	Runner-up	Jermaine Wattimena
Players Championship Finals	2023	Runner-up	Michael van Gerwen
World Series of Darts Finals	2024	Runner-up	Michael Smith
PDC World Cup of Darts	2024	Runners-up	Rowby-John Rodriguez  Mensur Suljović

Additional Qualifiers

Tournament	Year	Position	Player
PDC World Youth Championship	2023	Winner	Luke Littler
		Runner-up	Gian van Veen
PDC Challenge Tour	2024	Order of Merit Winner	Connor Scutt
PDC Development Tour	2024	Order of Merit Winner	Wessel Nijman
Women's World Matchplay	2024	Winner	Beau Greaves
PDC Women's Series	2024	Order of Merit Winner	Beau Greaves
PDC Women's Series	2024	Order of Merit Runner-up	Noa-Lynn van Leuven
PDC Asian Championship	2024	Winner	Lourence Ilagan
CDC Continental Cup	2024	Winner	Leonard Gates

European Tour

As the list of qualifiers did yet not fill twenty-four places, the remaining places were filled with winners from 2024 European Tour events who were not yet qualified, in which the winners were ordered firstly by number of wins, then Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.

Event	Player		Qualifiers
Belgian Darts Open	Luke Littler		Dave Chisnall  Martin Schindler  Peter Wright  Josh Rock  Gary Anderson
German Darts Grand Prix	Luke Humphries
International Darts Open	Martin Schindler
European Darts Grand Prix	Gary Anderson
Austrian Darts Open	Luke Littler (2)
Baltic Sea Darts Open	Rob Cross
Dutch Darts Championship	Josh Rock
European Darts Open	Dave Chisnall
German Darts Championship	Peter Wright
Flanders Darts Trophy	Dave Chisnall (2)
Hungarian Darts Trophy	Michael van Gerwen
Swiss Darts Trophy	Martin Schindler (2)
Czech Darts Open	Luke Humphries (2)

If there were still less than the 24 qualified players after the winners of the European Tour events are added, then the winners of the 2024 PDC Players Championship series events would've been added, firstly by winners of multiple events then by Order of Merit order, but that was not required for this year's edition.

PDC Tour Card Holder Qualifying Event

A further eight places were filled by qualifiers from a PDC Tour Card Holder qualifier held on 1 November in Leicester.

These were the qualifiers:^[11]

•  Keane Barry
•  Martin Lukeman
•  Ryan Joyce
•  Danny Noppert
•  Cameron Menzies
•  James Wade
•  Mickey Mansell
•  Ross Smith

Pools

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
(Seeded Players)	(Qualifiers)
Luke Humphries (1)  Michael Smith (2)  Michael van Gerwen (3)  Rob Cross (4)  Dave Chisnall (5)  Stephen Bunting (6)  Dimitri Van den Bergh (7)  Danny Noppert (8)	Peter Wright  Josh Rock  James Wade  Luke Littler  Gary Anderson  Ross Smith  Martin Schindler  Mike De Decker	Ritchie Edhouse  Gian van Veen  Ryan Joyce  Jermaine Wattimena  Cameron Menzies  Martin Lukeman  Keane Barry  Mickey Mansell	Mensur Suljović  Wessel Nijman  Rowby-John Rodriguez  Connor Scutt  Leonard Gates  Beau Greaves  Lourence Ilagan  Noa-Lynn van Leuven

Group stage

All group matches are best of nine legs.
After three games, the top two in each group qualify for the knock-out stage.^[12]

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

Group A Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1  James Wade 3 2 1 13 9 +4 4 Q 2  Mickey Mansell 3 2 1 11 11 0 4 3  Luke Humphries (1) 3 1 2 11 11 0 2 Eliminated 4  Rowby-John Rodriguez 3 1 2 9 13 –4 2 9 November 103.12 James Wade  3–5  Mickey Mansell 100.87 97.64 Luke Humphries  3–5  Rowby-John Rodriguez 92.95 10 November 97.27 Mickey Mansell  5–3  Rowby-John Rodriguez 93.82 95.80 Luke Humphries  3–5  James Wade 87.73 11 November 101.52 Luke Humphries  5–1  Mickey Mansell 94.32 87.48 James Wade  5–1  Rowby-John Rodriguez 86.81

Group B Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1  Danny Noppert (8) 3 3 0 15 8 +7 6 Q 2  Cameron Menzies 3 1 2 10 12 –2 2 3  Martin Schindler 3 1 2 9 11 –2 2 Eliminated 4  Beau Greaves 3 1 2 8 11 –3 2 9 November 94.79 Danny Noppert  5–2  Beau Greaves 91.92 91.11 Martin Schindler  2–5  Cameron Menzies 98.91 10 November 96.76 Danny Noppert  5–4  Cameron Menzies 90.44 98.44 Martin Schindler  5–1  Beau Greaves 83.43 11 November 89.80 Cameron Menzies  1–5  Beau Greaves 95.17 106.28 Danny Noppert  5–2  Martin Schindler 109.15

Group C Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1  Martin Lukeman 3 3 0 15 6 +9 6 Q 2  Rob Cross (4) 3 2 1 13 8 +5 4 3  Leonard Gates 3 1 2 10 14 –4 2 Eliminated 4  Peter Wright 3 0 3 5 15 –10 0 9 November 95.04 Rob Cross  5–2  Leonard Gates 87.65 84.75 Peter Wright  0–5  Martin Lukeman 98.88 10 November 83.44 Peter Wright  4–5  Leonard Gates 83.31 98.51 Rob Cross  3–5  Martin Lukeman 87.96 11 November 93.56 Martin Lukeman  5–3  Leonard Gates 85.09 91.21 Rob Cross  5–1  Peter Wright 83.55

Group D Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1  Ritchie Edhouse 3 3 0 15 5 +10 6 Q 2  Ross Smith 3 2 1 11 7 +4 4 3  Connor Scutt 3 1 2 7 10 –3 2 Eliminated 4  Dave Chisnall (5) 3 0 3 4 15 –11 0 9 November 93.35 Dave Chisnall  0–5  Connor Scutt 104.38 82.93 Ross Smith  1–5  Ritchie Edhouse 103.99 10 November 80.45 Dave Chisnall  2–5  Ross Smith 89.00 84.03 Ritchie Edhouse  5–2  Connor Scutt 85.87 11 November 86.16 Dave Chisnall  2–5  Ritchie Edhouse 105.00 97.60 Ross Smith  5–0  Connor Scutt 85.42

Group E Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1  Jermaine Wattimena 3 3 0 15 7 +8 6 Q 2  Mike De Decker 3 2 1 12 7 +5 4 3  Michael Smith (2) 3 1 2 6 12 –6 2 Eliminated 4  Mensur Suljović 3 0 3 8 15 –7 0 9 November 99.80 Michael Smith  5–2  Mensur Suljović 98.62 99.06 Mike De Decker  2–5  Jermaine Wattimena 104.32 10 November 88.77 Mike De Decker  5–2  Mensur Suljović 78.66 92.93 Michael Smith  1–5  Jermaine Wattimena 97.50 12 November 95.95 Jermaine Wattimena  5–4  Mensur Suljović 98.77 90.91 Michael Smith  0–5  Mike De Decker 100.20

Group F Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1  Luke Littler 3 3 0 15 4 +11 6 Q 2  Dimitri Van den Bergh (7) 3 2 1 11 7 +4 4 3  Keane Barry 3 1 2 6 13 –7 2 Eliminated 4  Lourence Ilagan 3 0 3 7 15 –8 0 9 November 86.76 Dimitri Van den Bergh  5–1  Lourence Ilagan 82.71 112.16 Luke Littler  5–0  Keane Barry 93.10 10 November 88.93 Keane Barry  5–3  Lourence Ilagan 96.63 92.78 Dimitri Van den Bergh  1–5  Luke Littler 106.98 12 November 102.05 Luke Littler  5–3  Lourence Ilagan 91.57 104.58 Dimitri Van den Bergh  5–1  Keane Barry 83.96

Group G Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1  Gary Anderson 3 3 0 15 7 +8 6 Q 2  Ryan Joyce 3 2 1 11 12 –1 4 3  Michael van Gerwen (3) 3 1 2 13 10 +3 2 Eliminated 4  Noa-Lynn van Leuven 3 0 3 5 15 −10 0 9 November 113.20 Gary Anderson  5–1  Ryan Joyce 89.85 96.35 Michael van Gerwen  5–0  Noa-Lynn van Leuven 86.48 10 November 87.36 Ryan Joyce  5–3  Noa-Lynn van Leuven 81.39 90.12 Michael van Gerwen  4–5  Gary Anderson 105.19 12 November 95.75 Gary Anderson  5–2  Noa-Lynn van Leuven 85.85 93.43 Michael van Gerwen  4–5  Ryan Joyce 93.45

Group H Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1  Gian van Veen 3 3 0 15 7 +8 6 Q 2  Stephen Bunting (6) 3 2 1 11 11 0 4 3  Josh Rock 3 1 2 9 13 –4 2 Eliminated 4  Wessel Nijman 3 0 3 11 15 –4 0 9 November 103.02 Stephen Bunting  5–4  Wessel Nijman 106.51 105.83 Josh Rock  2–5  Gian van Veen 110.39 10 November 99.06 Josh Rock  5–3  Wessel Nijman 105.39 104.17 Stephen Bunting  1–5  Gian van Veen 114.71 12 November 103.99 Gian van Veen  5–4  Wessel Nijman 111.10 106.66 Stephen Bunting  5–2  Josh Rock 99.64

Knockout stage

Second round (best of 19 legs) 13–14 November[13][14]

Quarter-finals (best of 31 legs) 15–16 November[13][15]

Semi-finals (best of 31 legs) 17 November

Final (best of 31 legs) 17 November[7]

A1

James Wade 95.92

9

B2

Cameron Menzies 93.50

10

B2

Cameron Menzies 88.21

15

A2

Mickey Mansell 91.19

16

B1

Danny Noppert 95.71 (8)

7

A2

Mickey Mansell 99.05

10

A2

Mickey Mansell 92.28

12

C1

Martin Lukeman 99.66

16

C1

Martin Lukeman 95.75

10

D2

Ross Smith 94.85

5

C1

Martin Lukeman 98.34

16

C2

Rob Cross 94.63 (4)

11

D1

Ritchie Edhouse 94.13

4

C2

Rob Cross 98.68 (4)

10

C1

Martin Lukeman 93.42

3

F1

Luke Littler 107.08

16

E1

Jermaine Wattimena 91.19

10

F2

Dimitri Van den Bergh 91.90 (7)

9

E1

Jermaine Wattimena 92.69

2

F1

Luke Littler 105.11

16

F1

Luke Littler 103.48

10

E2

Mike De Decker 104.49

9

F1

Luke Littler 103.81

16

G1

Gary Anderson 100.17

15

G1

Gary Anderson 99.95

10

H2

Stephen Bunting 98.96 (6)

6

G1

Gary Anderson 99.13

16

H1

Gian van Veen 97.38

14

H1

Gian van Veen 106.45

10

G2

Ryan Joyce 93.84

2

Top averages

The table lists all players who achieved an average of at least 100 in a match.^[12][13] If any player has multiple records, this is indicated by the number in brackets.

#	Player	Round	Average	Result
1	Gian van Veen	Group Stage	114.71	Won
2	Gary Anderson		113.20	Won
3	Luke Littler		112.16	Won
4	Wessel Nijman		111.10	Lost
5	Gian van Veen (2)		110.39	Won
6	Martin Schindler		109.15	Lost
7	Luke Littler (2)	Final	107.08	Won
8	Luke Littler (3)	Group Stage	106.98	Won
9	Stephen Bunting		106.66	Won
10	Wessel Nijman (2)		106.51	Lost
11	Gian van Veen (3)	Second Round	106.45	Won
12	Danny Noppert	Group Stage	106.28	Won
13	Josh Rock		105.83	Lost
14	Wessel Nijman (3)		105.39	Lost
15	Gary Anderson (2)		105.19	Won
16	Luke Littler (4)	Quarter final	105.11	Won
17	Ritchie Edhouse	Group Stage	105.00	Won
18	Dimitri Van den Bergh		104.58	Won
19	Mike De Decker	Second Round	104.49	Lost
20	Connor Scutt	Group Stage	104.38	Won
21	Jermaine Wattimena		104.32	Won
22	Stephen Bunting (2)		104.17	Lost
23	Ritchie Edhouse (2)		103.99	Won
	Gian van Veen (4)		103.99	Won
24	Stephen Bunting (3)		103.82	Won
25	Luke Littler (5)	Semi Final	103.81	Won
26	Luke Littler (6)	Second Round	103.48	Won
27	James Wade	Group Stage	103.12	Lost
28	Luke Littler (7)		102.05	Won
29	Luke Humphries		101.52	Won
30	Mickey Mansell		100.87	Won
31	Mike De Decker (2)		100.20	Won
32	Gary Anderson (3)	Semi Final	100.17	Lost