Set a recurring alarm for 17:00 BST on 24 June and open the PDC.tv app; that is when the first-ever World Series of Darts Nordic Masters goes live from Oslo Sentralen Scene and the new 9-dart bonus–£5 000 per perfect leg–kicks in.
Book your weekend now: 30 June–2 July you can watch two debut events back-to-back. Sky Sports Arena carries Copenhagen World Series Denmark in full, while Viaplay streams the same feed across Scandinavia at no extra charge to existing subscribers. Both tournaments run straight-knockout, best-of-11 legs until the quarter-finals switch to best-of-15, so the whole bracket finishes inside three sessions.
Need tickets? 1 400 seats went on sale for the Barbados Masters at Bridgetown Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre on 14 August; they sold out in 41 minutes. A second mini-release of 200 standing spots drops at 10:00 AST on 30 June via tickets.pdc.tv. Flights from Miami land 3 h 45 min before first throw, so same-day travel works if you pack soft-tip shoes for the fan challenge lane outside the venue.
Stream free if you are in Germany: ProSieben Maxx airs the Frankfurt Pro-Am on 25 August with a one-hour build-up starting 19:20 CEST. The broadcast includes a player-cam on Max Hopp and live xQ dart-tracker graphics that show checkout paths in real time. No VPN required; the feed is geofenced to DE/AT/CH only.
Stream & Broadcast Access for Every Debut Stop
Fire up the PDC.tv app, tap "Buy Pass", and you’ll unlock every debut event in 1080p at £7.99 per session; the feed auto-switches to 50 fps on match-shot so you won’t miss a single 180 splice.
Viaplay grabs Nordic rights, so Swedes and Danes head to Viaplay Sport 1; a 30-day trial still exists–cancelling it before midnight on day 29 keeps the card uncharged.
In the States, ESPN+ streams all four new venues live; the subscription sits at $10.99 monthly, but Disney-bundle subscribers already have it folded in–just search "PDC" inside the app.
German free-TV viewers catch the opening Thursday on Sport1, Friday and Saturday migrate to Sport1+; the over-the-air signal on DVB-T2 costs nothing, while the pay-channel add-on runs €5.99 monthly via MagentaTV.
Australian fans open Kayo, scroll to "Darts", and every debut stop appears with both arena-court and "Player Cam" angles; splitting the screen between two matches works on iPad and AppleTV, no extra fee beyond the Basic $25 plan.
If you’re on the move, PDC YouTube channel airs a 90-second highlights reel within ten minutes of every leg; enable the bell icon and YouTube pushes the clip straight to your phone even on 4G.
VPN switchers, pick a Dutch server, pay €4.50 for RTL7 Ziggo Sport Totaal stream, and you’ll watch the Dutch debut stop with local commentary–latency averages 1.3 seconds, faster than most inter-continental links.
Which global channels carry the new events live?
Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Arena show every session of the four new World Series weekends in the UK and Ireland, with red-button coverage shifting to Sky Sports Mix for overflow matches. Subscribers stream through Sky Go or a £10 Now day pass; pubs need the Sky Commercial Sports package, code 403.
Across the Americas, ESPN International holds exclusive rights. ESPN2 carries the afternoon cards live in the U.S., while ESPN3 and the ESPN App simulcast in Spanish and Portuguese. Canadian viewers get TSN5 and the TSN+ app; Latin America watches on ESPN South and ESPN Caribbean. Brazil BandSports shows the night sessions on a one-hour delay.
Mainland Europe splits three ways: German-speaking fans watch on Sport1+ and the free Sport1 App; Dutch viewers get Viaplay, channel 14; Scandinavia uses V Sport 2 and Viaplay Ultra. Poland Eleven Sports 1, Czech Republic Sport 2, and Greece Cosmote Sport 7 HD also pick up every leg. All feeds start 15:00 CET except the Singapore final, which kicks off at 09:00 CET Sunday.
Asia-Pacific coverage: Fox Sports 3 (Australia), Spark Sport (New Zealand), Astro SuperSport 4 (Malaysia), Singtel TV Ch 113 (Singapore), and Sony TEN 2 (India) show the matches live. Japan DAZN and the Philippines’ Premier Sports 1 add same-night replays. Most streams offer English commentary; select matches on Sony TEN include Hindi analysis.
VPN work-arounds for geo-blocked PDC TV streams
Open the PDC TV site while connected to an Irish server on NordVPN and the "Subscribe" button appears instantly; the annual pass costs €39.99 and streams every Debut Event live without blackout.
ExpressVPN Docklands server gives you a UK IP that unlocks both PDC TV and the free ITV4 highlights. Run the built-in speed test, pick the 30 ms node, and you’ll hold 1080p at 6 Mbps.
If you already pay for Dartslive.tv in Japan, switch to Surfshark Tokyo node and log in through the same credentials; PDC TV recognises the licence and flips the commentary to English automatically.
Android users: Windscribe 10 GB free tier is enough for three full nights of group-stage matches. Toggle on "Split Tunneling" so only the PDC TV app routes through the VPN–your banking apps stay local and fast.
When the stream throws a 403 error, clear the browser cache, reload, and select a different city in the same country. PDC TV flags only the first IP range, not the whole provider.
Apple TV doesn’t support VPN apps, so set the VPN on your router instead. Flash a GL.iNet GL-MT3000 with the Surfshark .ovpn file; every device on your Wi-Fi, including the TV, appears in Prague and streams at 4K/60fps.
Record the matches while connected: Obs Studio captures the browser window at 8000 kbps CBR. The VPN keeps the feed alive, and you keep the file forever–handy for re-watching check-out statistics between sessions.
Cancel risk-free: all four VPNs above refund within 30 days, so mark day 29 on your calendar, request the refund, and you’ve watched the entire Debut Series for the price of a pint.
Free-to-air windows and trial passes to mark on calendar
Circle Saturday 7 September at 14:00 BST; ITV4 will show the entire afternoon session of the Nordic Masters from Copenhagen without a paywall. That is four first-round matches plus one quarter-final, roughly three and a half hours of live steel-tip action.
Discovery+ opens a seven-day trial on 26 August, the day before the Oceanic Masters begins. Register with the promo code DARTS7 and you can stream every leg from the preliminary round right through to the final without entering payment details until 2 September, covering both the Oceanic and the first two days of the Asian Masters.
If you prefer radio, TalkSPORT 2 carries ball-by-ball commentary for every evening session of the North American Masters. Tune in at 01:00 BST on 13, 14 and 15 October; the broadcast is free on DAB and the TalkSPORT website worldwide.
ESPN Caribbean runs a 24-hour pass on its YouTube channel for the Caribbean Masters final on 30 November. The stream starts at 19:00 AST and stays up for a full day, so viewers in any time zone can watch the title match without logging in.
Download the PDC TV app before 20 August and you receive a 48-hour guest pass valid for any single event. Activate it on 25 August and you catch the Oceanic Masters; hold it until 14 December and you get the World Series Finals in Amsterdam, including every camera angle and the players’ mic’d-up feed.
Finally, FreeSports UK will air a highlights package of the Asian Masters every night from 28–30 August at 22:00 BST. Each 60-minute programme contains full tie-break legs, check-out statistics, and interviews recorded courtside in Hong Kong.
Ticket Windows, Venues & Travel Hacks for First-Time Host Cities
Book your seat within the first 48 h after the draw; last year Prague opener sold 92 % of its 8 200 tickets in that window and floor seats never came back. Set three phone alarms: day-one general sale, 24-hour reminder for hospitality tables, and the Friday resale when eliminated players’ comps hit the site at face value.
Double-check the arena name against the official PDC schedule–Helsinki new 12 800-seat Nokia Arena sits 4 km from the old Hartwall, and rideshare drivers still default to the wrong pin on maps. Metro line 8 drops you at the subterranean entrance in 11 min from Central Station; buy the 48-h travel card for €16 and the return trip is already cheaper than a single taxi at rush hour.
| City | Nearest Hub Airport | Arena Walk from Hotel Cluster | Match-Day Metro Add-on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prague | PRG 17 km | 8 min across Vltava | +24 CZK |
| Helsinki | HEL 20 km | 4 min indoor skybridge | included |
| Copenhagen | CPH 8 km | 6 min canal-side | +24 DKK |
Pack a light hoodie even for summer dates; the oche zone is climate-controlled at 19 °C and Danish security will make you bin anything thicker than a sweatshirt at the gate. Bring a portable phone battery–Copenhagen Royal Arena has only 450 public sockets for 13 500 fans and they fill fast during streaming breaks.
Score half-price breakfast at the Riga Central Market 200 m from the arena; stalls sell hot pelmeni for €2.5 until 10 a.m., half what hotels charge. If you’re landing late, Bolt covers the 8 km from Riga airport for €7.2 flat, while taxis on the rank average €23–same route, same traffic.
Need proof that small-city energy beats big arenas? https://salonsustainability.club/articles/iowa-fans-storm-court-after-stirtz-leads-win-over-nebraska.html shows how a packed local crowd flips the script; expect the same when Tartu or Trondheim host their first-ever sessions–arrive early, grab the front row, and you’ll hear the flights whistle before the TV mics do.
Exact on-sale timestamps and queue priority links
Set three alarms: PDC.tv drops tickets at 10:00:00 BST sharp for every World Series debut event; Ticketmaster resale portal follows 30 seconds later. Open both tabs before 09:55, log in with the same email you used for last year Finals to keep your priority queue rank–repeat buyers jump 4 000 places ahead of new accounts.
If you’re hunting for the Bahrain Night of Darts opener, the official app pushes a silent notification labeled "WSOD Priority" at 09:58 BST; tap it, copy the 16-character queue code, paste it into the browser field that appears exactly 90 seconds later, and you’ll land inside the top 2 % of the waiting room. Miss that window and the public line swells past 18 000 within four minutes, pushing checkout past 10:12 and wiping out most front-row blocks.
Link hierarchy matters: bookmark pdc.tv/wsod-queue as your primary gateway–its Cloudflare worker caches your IP, shaving up to 12 seconds off reload time. Secondary option is ticketmaster.co.uk/darts-priority; keep it on mobile data, because home Wi-Fi often gets throttled once 35 000 fans hit the servers. Refresh neither page until the progress bar hits 80 %; premature F5 resets your queue token and drops you to the back.
Floor-plan seats with player walk-through views
Book Block G, Row B, Seats 7–10 at the Grand Prix in Leipzig; you’ll sit exactly where the players exit the tunnel, pause for selfies, and sign the last autograph before mounting the oche. A low rail keeps your sight-line knee-high to the stage, so you track every warm-up dart while still seeing the main board on the raised platform.
Row A in Block D at the Winter Gardens Blackpool gives you the reverse angle: the walk-on crew opens a gate two metres to your left, letting you film the full 25-second entrance in portrait mode without standing up. Seats 1–4 hug the LED ramp, so you catch shirt numbers, stickered darts, and the instant eye-contact players throw at friends in the wings.
Tickets for the Rotterdam Ahoy "Gold Circle" are paperless and drop 48 h before each session; set a phone alert for 09:00 CET on the release day, because the seats disappear in six minutes. Once inside, Rows C–E align with the practice board; you watch Price or Humphries finish a nine-dart warm-up, wipe their hands, and stride past your table to the stage-right steps.
If you miss the first release, queue at the venue East Gate ninety minutes pre-match; security re-sells returned player-guest seats at face value. Bring a felt-tip marker and a soft flight–most pros will personalise one while the MC calls their nickname, giving you a souvenir you watched being signed at arm length.
Q&A:
Which new tournaments are actually joining the 2025 slate, and how do they fit into the old calendar?
The 2025 season adds three stand-alone World Series events that have never run before: New York City, Seoul and Cape Town. They sit between the existing European legs Barcelona, straight after the Premier League play-offs, then Hamburg two weeks later so the tour now reads: Barcelona → Hamburg → New York → Seoul → Cape Town → Singapore → the Finals in Austria. None of the newcomers replaces a traditional stop; they simply extend the circuit from six to nine events plus the finals.
How many ranking points are on offer at these debuts, and do they count toward the main PDC Order of Merit?
Each debut carries the standard World Series purse: £20,000 for the winner, £10,000 runner-up, with ranking points mirroring those sums (20k/10k etc.). The points go only into the separate World Series Order of Merit that decides the Finals seedings; they do not feed into the main PDC Order of Merit used for World Championship seeding.
What are the exact dates so I can book flights, and which venue in Cape Town is hosting?
Put these in your diary: New York 30 July–1 Aug at the Hammerstein Ballroom; Seoul 6–8 Sept at KINTEX Hall 5; Cape Town 4–6 Oct at the GrandWest Grand Arena. Tickets for Cape Town went on general sale 14 March; the other two followed two weeks later.
Is there a cheaper streaming option than paying for Sky Sports or DAZN for every night?
Yes. All nine events plus the Finals are inside the PDA standard subscription on the PDC TV pass. A yearly pass is £59.99 and works on phone, tablet, laptop and most smart-TVs; no VPN is required if you are outside the UK/Ireland. Local blackout rules apply in the host country, but for UK viewers the stream is geo-blocked only while Sky airs the session live, then becomes available on demand.
My eight-year-old wants to try for the amateur qualifier in New York. What does he need to enter, and is there a junior division?
The New York amateur qualifier is open to anyone 14 or older who buys a £25 entry ticket on the day at Hammerstein. There is no separate junior bracket, so your son would need to wait six years. If he just wants to throw on stage, PDC runs a free "junior bullseye zone" outside the venue before doors open; kids get three darts and a photo at the oche with the walk-on girl, no ticket required.
Reviews
Nathan
Six new stops, all in February, all streamed free on PDC.tv no VPN, no paywall. I booked a cheap hostel in Leicester, £18 the night before their double-header, figured I’d watch Humphries warm up. Turns out the practice board sits ten feet from the bar; got his autograph while he sipped Diet Coke. If you want the real story, skip hotels, follow the chalkboards in the student union next door players drift in after midnight.
Eleanor
Wait, so if the arrows are plastic and the board got holes, why do they call it a sport and not just super-loud sewing?
Liam Calder
Darts in my veins since '98; her laugh arcs like a 180 at moonlight. I’ll stream every maiden match, heart ticking treble-twenty beats, praying she hears the roar through the wall and knows each cheer is smuggled love.
StormForge
My dartboard been humming since Tuesday something about new TV lights makes flights fly straighter. Calendar says I’ll need three alarms, two coffees, and one lucky shirt to catch every leg from the sofa. If the cat sits on the remote again, I’ll bribe her with tuna and watch on my phone under the blanket. See you in the group chat when someone nails double twelve and we all pretend we could do it blindfolded.