Tickets for the 2025 Premier League Darts went on sale today with a pre-sale release available for PDCTV members, however, the PDC have made an official announcement citing heavy ‘bot’ traffic impacting the sale process.
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The in-person atmosphere for the Premier League is one of the best for darts fans, as the top darts players visit some of the UK’s best cities and venues to showcase their talent.
With such high demand coupled with limited ticket availability, there is always a rush for darts fans to secure tickets.
In recent years though, fans have found themselves not only having to hope they can get ahead of fellow fans in the ticket queue but they are also competing with ticket scalpers and automated bots now…
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2025 Premier League Darts Ticket Sales Impacted by 500,000 ‘Bots’
The PDC released tickets for the 2025 Premier League today at 12pm through ticket partner See Tickets.
These tickets were a pre-sale release and only available to PDCTV annual members. These members, who pay £50 per year, get early access to ticket releases for tournaments alongside regular live streaming access to select tournaments not being broadcast by televised partners.
Just an hour into sales though, the PDC took to their social media channels to release an update stating that they are facing heavy bot traffic to the sellers site.
They claimed that this is causing huge delays and queues for genuine customers trying to buy tickets.
The official statement can be seen below:
Ticket Update: 2025 Premier League Darts. pic.twitter.com/M7jSkGwwIe
— PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) October 14, 2024
500,000 sessions through ‘bot traffic’ is substantial and while bot traffic is a huge issue for ticket sellers, many fans believe this shouldn’t have been an issue in the first place.
The ticket release was open to PDCTV members ONLY so the general public or bots should not have even had access to the sales page.
Darts fans inevitably took to social media to vent their frustrations. Some responses that received a lot of engagement on X include:
@ooCLANoc – “This has been going on years and still the system is awful! You guys aren’t bothered who the tickets go to let’s be honest”
@Toggsy27 – “Find me someone who has bought a ticket and I’ll believe you 👍”
@jacckCFC – “I feel sorry for this little stickman who’s been constantly walking for the last hour, poor guy must be shattered” < This comment is in reference to the progress bar for your position in the ticket queue
@harryreynolds96 – “So you mean to tell me there are 500k bots paying for a PDC TV subscription? 🤨”
The responses on the Instagram post were similar:
@tom1james – “Should go back to buying tickets in person/over the phone as digital tickets these darts are a nightmare as it’s always bot/resellers etc etc.”
@_lee_1991 – “So 500,000 bots have added a registered PDC membership email on as well? Been an hour, no indication of even a place in the queue! Sort it out!
@j_crosby92 – “Not really good enough is it, 70 minutes in and still in a queue”
It will be worth keeping an eye on this as tickets are also due to go on general sale tomorrow and Wednesday but most fans are saying that once they finally get through the queue that most of the events are sold out.
We also look forward to seeing future statements from the PDC giving more details on this issue as, like many fans have pointed out, it ‘should’ be an avoidable issue if tickets are only on sale to pre-qualified members 🤔
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