RULES & CONDITIONS 

Welcome to the home page representing the Eric Evans Memorial Shield 2026 .

This year the competition will be held exclusively at The Barton Mills Bell Public House , and shall have a prize pot of over £1200.00. All information regarding the events will be able to be viewed on this website

The competition will be held over five Sundays in August and September 

The first four Sundays will be known as Qualifiers 1 to 4 The fifth Sunday will be known as Finals Night 

Each qualifier will have a maximum of 16 entrants 

Each entrant shall pay an entry fee of £10.00

Four entrants from each of the qualifiers shall progress to the Finals Night .

A raffle and football cards shall be in operation on each of the five nights as we attempt to raise a little money for charity , please give generously , raffle prizes will be gratefully received by the volunteering organising committee .

Each entrant may select which of the four Qualifiers he or she wishes to play in 

The sixteen places in each of the Qualifiers shall be allocated on a first come , first served basis . 

No one will be deemed to have entered the competition until their entry fee has been paid 

Entrants are responsible for attending the Qualifiers and Final on time , ahead of the advertised Draw Time 6pm

Any entrant not in attendance at the advertised time shall be eliminated from either the Qualifier or Finals Night .

No refunds will be given for non attendees .

Each Qualifier shall provide four entrants to Finals Night ;

via a series of knock out matches to take the numbers from 16 to 12 ,

a round robin to take numbers from 12 to 8 ,

four Quarter Finals to take the numbers from 8 to 4 .

The Finals Night shall operate in the same way as the Qualifiers although two Semi Finals and a Final shall be played to determine the winner .

Each Qualifier shall begin with eight knock out matches (301 Double in , Double out , best of three legs) , the eight winners shall progress to the Round Robin stage , the eight losers will then play in four knock out matches (301 Double in , Double out , best of three legs) with the winners also moving to the Round Robin Stage .

Therefore each entrant will play a minimum of two matches .

The Round Robin stage will consist of four groups with three entrants in each . Each entrant in a particular group will play each other once (301 Double in , Double out , best of three legs), with the overall winner and second placed entrant progressing to the Quarter Finals . In the event of a tie in the Round Robin stage , leg difference will be used to determine the winner , if this does not resolve the tie a nine dart shoot out will be bought into play , with the entrant scoring most points with nine darts being deemed the winner .

Therefore every entrant who progresses to the Round Robin will play a minimum of three matches in the Qualifier . 

The eight entrants who progress from the Round Robin will play in the Quarter Finals on a knock out basis (301 Double in , Double out , best of five legs) , the four winners will be promoted to Finals Night .

The four entrants that progress to Finals Night will have played a minimum of four matches in the Qualifier .

Each Qualifier will operate with 8 initial Knock Out Matches , 4 losers Knock Out Matches , 12 Round Robin Matches and 4 Quarter Final Matches , a total of 28 matches played over two boards

Finals Night will operate on the same basis with the addition of two Semi Finals (301 Double in , Double out , best of five legs) and a Final (301 Double in , Double out , best of seven legs) , therefore an additional three matches taking the total to 31 .

  Prizes (on condition all sixty four Qualifier spaces are filled )

The overall winner of Finals Night will receive £500.00

The Runner Up will receive £200.00

The two losing Semi Finalists will receive £100.00 each

  The four losing Quarter Finalists on Finals night will receive £50.00 each 

Other prize money for players eliminated on Finals Night to be published when all entries have been confirmed 

In the event of all Qualifier spaces not being filled the prize fund will be adjusted accordingly with all changes to the prize structure being published prior to Finals Night .