User:Callum K Brew/2023 PDC Asian Championship

The 2023 PDC Asian Championship is a tournament affiliated by the PDC for any players from the Asian continent. The upcoming event will once again feature 48 players from all across the continent, with 32 pre-qualified players, 16 from the PDC Asian Tour Order of Merit.

Format
The 48 main-player event will precede 2 days of Asian Series qualifying events in Shimonoseki on October 5 and 6.

Once the qualifying event are completed, the main event begins with a round-robin on October 7, with the qualified players splits into 12 groups of 3, with the winner of each group going into a the draw for the last 16 on the same day, and the finals taking place on October 8. In addition, a 2024 PDC World Darts Championship spot is available to any player from Japan who fails to make it to the final.

Prize Money
The total prize fund will be US$100,000. The winner and runner-up will earn a place in the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship and the winner will earn a place in the 2023 Grand Slam of Darts as well.

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 qualifiers are:


 * Top 16 on PDC Asian Tour Order of Merit


 * 1)  Lourence Ilagan
 * 2) 🇯🇵 Tomoya Goto
 * 3)  Paolo Nebrida
 * 4)  Reynaldo Rivera
 * 5) 🇭🇰 Man Lok Leung
 * 6) 🇭🇰 Lee Lok Yin
 * 7) 🇯🇵 Jun Matsuda
 * 8) 🇸🇬 Paul Lim
 * 9)  Rosendo Lubaton
 * 10) 🇮🇳 Nitin Kumar
 * 11) 🇨🇳 Xiaochen Zong
 * 12)  Alexis Toylo
 * 13)  Christian Perez
 * 14) 🇲🇾 Modh Nasir Jantan
 * 15) 🇯🇵 Haruki Muramatsu
 * 16) 🇯🇵 Mitsuhiko Tatsunami

 Asian Series Qualifiers
 * Events 1 & 2 (October 5th)


 * Events 3 & 4 (October 6th)

Asian Qualifiers: Order of Merit

Regional Qualifiers
 * 🇨🇳 Xicheng Han
 * 🇮🇳 Shailender Singh Thakur
 * Jemel Modesto
 * 🇹🇼 Yuan Lun Han
 * 🇸🇬 Cher Kai Ang
 * 🇹🇭 Chaiyan Paiaree
 * 🇧🇭 Hasan Haji Jafaar
 * 🇰🇷 Jin-Wook Lee
 * 🇲🇳 Altantulkhuur Myagmarsuren
 * 🇲🇾 Jenn Ming Tan
 * 🇲🇴 Kam Weng Cheng
 * Hussain Ali
 * 🇵🇰 Rizwan Ahmed
 * 🇮🇩 Andersen Tjeong
 * 🇯🇵 Sho Okano