The Adult Elite Provincial Championship Program is one of the longest standing Darts Alberta programs.
The objective of the program is to host competitions starting at the Zone Level to establish a team to represent Alberta at the
NDFC Canadian Adult National
Championship.
Zone Qualifiers
Members begin competing in this program at the zone level in Zone Qualifier Playoffs. Although it is likely more convenient to compete within your own zone, members do not have to compete in the zone where they reside. A series of 3 zone qualifier playoffs are held each year in each participating zone, typically during the months of November and December (annual deadline December 31), to qualify to compete at the Darts Alberta Elite Provincial Championship. Members may compete in one, two or all three rounds of the zone qualifier events. The format of the event consists of Round Robin play advancing to a double knockout. Players are issued points based on their finishing position each round. At the end of the three rounds, the points are tallied to determine the finishing position of each competitor in that zone. Individuals must be a
member of DA/NDFC member in order to participate at any level of this program.
Zone Qualifier Registration Fees:
 $30.00 per person (whether playing in 1, 2 or all 3 rounds)
Provincial Championship
The Provincial Championship is typically held in Calgary (even years) or in Edmonton (odd years), always on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday of the Family Day Long Weekend.
A maximum of 80 men and 64 women are eligible to compete in the Elite Provincial Championship. Eligibility is determined by:
Earning participation through Invitational Qualification, or
Earning participation through Zone Qualification, or
Entering by exercising the Individual Buy-In option.
Once all of the Invitational Qualifiers have been confirmed, the remaining provincial spots are allocated to Zone Qualifiers based on a percentage of their zone qualifier participation in comparison to all other zone participation, in accordance with
Darts Alberta Policy
09. If maximum participation is not reached, individuals that have not participated in zone qualifiers may enter into the draw as an independent Buy-In Competitor.
Each competitor earns seeding points from the DA Seeding Points
Chart, based on the number of participants that competed in the zone qualifiers and their finishing position. Initial ties are broken based on each person’s current DA Ranking (February 1 issue). From those seeding points and the tie breaker, each competitor is issued an Initial Seed Number going into the provincials.
For Day 1 of the provincials, competitors are seeded into the round robin draw based on their initial seed number.
For Day 2, competitors will be seeded into the round robin draw based on the number of points achieved from Day 1. All ties are broken based on their initial seed number.
For Day 3, competitors will be seeded into the round robin draw based on the accumulative number of points achieved from Day 1 and Day 2. Again, all ties will be broken based on their initial seed number.
The format of the Provincials consists of Round Robin play advancing to a double knockout. Players are issued points based on their finishing position each day. At the end of the three days, the points are tallied to determine the finishing position of each competitor.
Provincial Championship Registration Fees:
$80.00 per person
Team Alberta
From the final results of the Provincial Championship, the top 8 men, plus alternate (9th) and the top 8 women, plus alternate (9th) form Team Alberta to represent our province at the NDFC Canadian National Championship, accompanied by the Provincial Director, one male coach and one female coach.
Nationals Championship
The National Championship is held in early June in a different province each year. Often a pre-tournament warm-up is held the weekend prior to the National Championships and the WDF Ranked Canadian Open is typically held on the weekend following the Nationals.
This initiative is funded in part by Alberta Sport. Team Alberta travel to the Nationals is funded in a great part through Gaming Proceeds:
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