2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals
San Francisco qualified for the season playoffs as the second seed in the North America region, while Seoul qualified as the fourth seed in the Asia Region. After claiming the top North America seed in the Grand Finals Bracket, San Francisco defeated the Seoul Dynasty and Shanghai Dragons to reach the Grand Finals match. Seoul claimed the second Asia seed in the Grand Finals Bracket, and after losing to San Francisco in the first round, they defeated the Philadelphia Fusion and Shanghai Dragons to reach the Grand Finals match.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals
In the Grand Finals match, the Shock defeated the Dynasty by a score of 4–2 to win their second OWL championship.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals
The Grand Finals are the post-season championship series of the Overwatch League (OWL), a professional international esports league; the teams in the Grand Finals match will compete for a $2.25 million prize pool, where the winners will receive $1.5 million. The 2020 season was the third season in OWL history and consisted of twenty teams. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many changes to the season were made, including switching to online matches, reworking the teams' distributions into two regions – North America and Asia, cancelling certain mid-season events, and introducing mid-season tournaments.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals
The playoffs were contested by twelve teams – eight from the North America region and four from the Asia region. The top two teams from each region's respective playoff bracket qualified for the Grand Finals bracket, where the final two teams in the Grand Finals bracket will play in the Grand Finals match.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals
The finalists, San Francisco and Seoul, finished the 2020 regular season with records of 25–3 and 12–12, respectively. The Shock claimed the second seed of the North America season playoffs, while the Dynasty were awarded the fourth seed of the Asia season playoffs. The two teams faced each other one time in 2020 season – in the first round of the Grand Finals bracket; the Shock won the match 3–2. The Shock are the defending OWL champions, while the 2019 runners-up Vancouver Titans failed to qualify for the 2020 playoffs after being eliminated in the play-in tournament.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, Seoul Dynasty
The Dynasty entered the league in 2018 as one of the twelve founding franchises. In the offseason preceding the 2020 season, the team made many organization changes, including parting ways with head coach Kim "KDG" Dong-gun and promoting assistant coach Park "changoon" Chang-geun to head coach. Seoul made many roster changes as well. Additions to the team included tank Hong "Gesture" Jae-hee, DPS Park "Profit" Joon-yeong, support Kim "Creative" Young-wan, and support Choi "Bdosin" Seung-tae, while departures included support Lee "Jecse" Seung-soo, support Lee "Highly" Sung-hyeok, support Ryu "ryujehong" Je-hong, and off-tank Kim "zunba" Joon-hyeok.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, Seoul Dynasty
Seoul started their season on March 28 with a 3–0 sweep over the Los Angeles Valiant. The team was handed their first loss on April 26 to bring their record to 3–1 prior to the May Melee. On May 14, the team signed former Vancouver Titans main support Kim "SLIME" Seong-joon. The Dynasty struggled to find wins in the regular season portion of the May Melee, finishing last in the Asia seeding with a 1–3 record for May; however, they made it to the finals but were defeated by the Shanghai Dragons.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, Seoul Dynasty
Despite their strong performance in the tournament, Seoul again struggled to win regular season games, losing three straight until a 3–0 sweep over the Chengdu Hunters, giving them the fifth seed in the Summer Showdown tournament. Seoul reached the semifinals of the tournament but were, again, eliminated by the Dragons. Seoul's struggles continued, finishing last in the Countdown Cup seeding with an 0–4 record. On August 6, two days prior to the Countdown Cup tournament, Seoul signed off-tank Lim "Toyou" Hyun-woo to a two-way contract. The team fell to the Hangzhou Spark in the first round of the Countdown Cup.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, Seoul Dynasty
The Dynasty finished the season strong, winning four of their last five final matches to finish the season with 9 wins, 3 bonus wins from midseason tournaments, and 12 losses, giving them an effective regular season record of 12–12 and the fifth seed in the Asia region postseason. After qualifying for a first-round bye in the Asia region play-in tournament, Seoul defeated the Spark in the play-in tournament to claim the fourth seed in the Asia playoffs bracket.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, Seoul Dynasty
The Dynasty swept the second-seeded Guangzhou Charge, 3–0, on September 6 in the first round of Asia playoffs bracket. The win advanced Seoul to the upper bracket finals, where they fell by a 2–3 score to the top-seeded Dragons, sending them to the lower bracket finals. The team rebounded from the loss by handing the third-seeded New York Excelsior a 3–0 sweep in the lower bracket finals and claiming the second Asia seed in the Grand Finals bracket.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, Seoul Dynasty
Seoul faced the North America's top-seeded San Francisco Shock bracket's first round on October 8. After falling to a quick 0–2 deficit, the Dynasty evened up the score, winning the following two maps; however, they were unable to win the final map and fell by a score of 2–3. Falling to the lower bracket, the Dynasty responded to the loss by claiming a 3–0 sweep over North America's second-seeded Philadelphia Fusion. The win advanced the team to the lower bracket finals, where they took on Asia's top-seeded Shanghai Dragons. Despite having not won against the Dragons in any of their previous playoff matches of the season, Seoul won the matchby a score of 3–2 to advance to the Grand Finals match.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, San Francisco Shock
San Francisco entered the league in 2018 as one of the twelve founding franchises. After winning the 2019 Overwatch League Grand Finals, the Shock elected not to re-sign off-tank Andreas "Nevix" Karlsson and picked up sniper specialist Lee "ANS" Seon-chang in the offseason.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, San Francisco Shock
The Shock's first match of the 2020 regular season resulted in a 3–1 win over the Dallas Fuel. After starting the season with a 5–2 record, 2019 Most Valuable Player Jay "sinatraa" Won retired from competitive Overwatch to compete in Valorant. Three weeks later, the Shock transferred DPS Park "Architect" Min-ho to the Hangzhou Spark and signed former Vancouver Titans flex support Lee "Twilight" Jooseok.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, San Francisco Shock
After going undefeated in the regular season for the month of May, the Shock claimed the top seed in the May Melee, where they ultimately defeated the Florida Mayhem in the finals to win the tournament title. Having lost not a match since March, the Shock won all of their regular season matches in June to claim the top seed in the Summer Showdown; however, the team fell to the Paris Eternal in the finals. After the loss, the Shock signed DPS Sean Taiyo "Ta1yo" Henderson from Overwatch Contenders team Third Impact.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, San Francisco Shock
The Shock continued their regular season win streak throughout July and claimed the top seed in the Countdown Cup, where they won their second midseason tournament title after defeating the Philadelphia Fusion. In their first match after the title win, the Shock again faced the Fusion and were swept 3–0, ending their regular season win streak and locking them into the second seed of the North America playoffs bracket.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, San Francisco Shock
The team finished the regular season with 18 wins, 7 bonus wins from midseason tournaments, and 3 losses, giving them an effective regular season record of 25–3. Lee "Ans" Seon-Chang, Choi "Choihyobin" Hyo-Bin, and Park "Viol2t" Min-Ki were awarded the Role Star commendation for DPS, and support, respectively. Choihyobin and Viol2t were also nominated for the league's most valuable player award.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, San Francisco Shock
San Francisco faced the eighth-seeded Washington Justice on September 5 in the first round of the North America playoffs bracket, and after falling 0–2 in the match, the Shock won three straight maps to move on to the second round of the upper bracket. The team next defeated the seventh-seeded Atlanta Reign by a score of 3–1. Moving on to the upper bracket finals, the Shock faced the top-seeded Philadelphia Fusion. Despite keeping the maps close, the Shock came out with a 3–1 victory and advanced to the Grand Finals bracket.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Road to the Grand Finals, San Francisco Shock
As the top North America seed in the Grand Finals bracket, the Shock faced Asia's second-seeded Seoul Dynasty in the bracket's first round on October 8. After the Shock came out with a quick 2–0 lead, the Dynasty evened up the score, winning the following two maps; however, San Francisco won the final map of the match and moved on to the Upper Bracket finals. The team faced Asia's top-seeded Shanghai Dragons in the upper finals, where, again, the Shock started the match with a 2–0 lead, but the Dragons tied up the series after four maps. The Shock won the final map of the match to advance to the Grand Finals match.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Broadcast and viewership
For the first time, the Grand Finals were not broadcast on linear TV. The match was live-streamed on the digital platforms YouTube, Bilibili, Huya, and NetEase CC. Viewership on YouTube peaked at 180 thousand concurrent viewers, while the average minute audience in China was 1.39 million. Globally, the match saw an average viewership of 1.55 million, a 38% increase over the 2019 Grand Finals, making it the most watched match in OWL history.


2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals, Match summary
The Grand Finals was played as a first-to-four series of matches.


2020 Overwatch League playoffs
The 2020 Overwatch League playoffs was the postseason tournament of the 2020 Overwatch League regular season, which began on September 3 and concluded with the 2020 Grand Finals, the third championship match of the Overwatch League (OWL), on October 10.


2020 Overwatch League playoffs
Twelve teams competed in the OWL Playoffs, which was broken down into two double-elimination regional tournaments, the North America Bracket and Asia Bracket, that culminated into the double-elimination Grand Finals Bracket. The winner of each round of the playoffs was determined by a single-match. The final two teams remaining in the tournament advanced to the Grand Finals.


2020 Overwatch League playoffs
The defending OWL champions were the San Francisco Shock, who won the title against the Vancouver Titans in the 2019 OWL Grand Finals. The Shock defeated the Seoul Dynasty in the Grand Finals to claim their second consecutive Overwatch League title.


2020 Overwatch League playoffs, Format
Twelve total teams qualified for the season playoffs split into two regional brackets. In the North America region, eight teams qualified for the North America Bracket. The top five teams from the regular season were awarded the top five seeds and the top three teams from the play-in tournament were awarded seeds six through eight. In the Asia region, four teams qualified for the Asia Bracket. The top two teams from the regular season were awarded the top two seeds and the top two teams from the play-in tournament were awarded three and four.


2020 Overwatch League playoffs, Format
Each playoff bracket is a double-elimination tournament. However, the winners of the upper and lower finals in each respective bracket did not face each other. Instead, they both qualified for the Grand Finals bracket – another double-elimination tournament. The winners of the upper and lower bracket in the Grand Finals bracket played in the Grand Finals match. All match winners were determined by which team won three maps, except for the Grand Finals match, where the winner was determined by which team won four maps.


2020 Overwatch League playoffs, Brackets
Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding in the bracket, and the numbers to the right indicate the number of maps the team won in that match.


2020 Overwatch League playoffs, Brackets, Grand Finals
The Grand Finals Bracket will take place from October 8 to 10 in Asia.


2020 Overwatch League playoffs, Winnings
Teams in the playoffs competed for a total prize pool of US$4 million, with the payout division detailed below.


2020 Overwatch League playoffs, Broadcast and viewership
All matches of the playoffs were live-streamed and on-demand on YouTube.


2020 Overwatch League season
The 2020 Overwatch League season is the third season of the Overwatch League (OWL), a professional esports league for the video game Overwatch. The regular season began on February 8, 2020 and concluded on August 23. It was the first season that the league implemented a city-based, home-and-away format, with teams traveling between the global home venues to play regular season matches, making the OWL the first major esports league to feature such a format. However, this format was abandoned on March 31 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and all matches were thereafter played online, with the league introducing three midseason tournaments.


2020 Overwatch League season
An expanded 20-team postseason began on September 3. The Grand Finals bracket began on October 8, with the Grand Finals occurring on October 10. The San Francisco Shock won the Grand Finals over the Seoul Dynasty to win their second straight OWL championship.


2020 Overwatch League season, League changes announced prior to season, Schedule
Prior to the 2020 season, the majority of all OWL matches took place at Blizzard Arena in Burbank, California. In the 2019 season, three homestand weekends took place – the Dallas Fuel Homestand Weekend hosted by the Dallas Fuel, the Atlanta Reign Homestand Weekend hosted by the Atlanta Reign, and the Kit Kat Rivalry Weekend hosted by the Los Angeles Valiant – in efforts to test how a completely localized match schedule would work. For the 2020 season, the league adopted a "homestand" model. Every team was to host two to five homestands throughout the season.


2020 Overwatch League season, League changes announced prior to season, Schedule
Each team would still play 28 matches and would be responsible for the selection and operation of their respective home venues. In addition to homestands, every team would have been required to host at least three team events for the community in their respective home cities. The season marked the first time that a major esports league featured a city-based, home-and-away format.


2020 Overwatch League season, League changes announced prior to season, Schedule
In the 2018 and 2019 seasons, the Overwatch League equally divided teams into two divisions – the Atlantic and Pacific. With the large amount of travelling that was to take place in the homestand model, the Atlantic and Pacific Divisions were renamed to the Atlantic and Pacific Conferences, and each conference was equally subdivided into two divisions, the Pacific East and West Divisions and the Atlantic North and South Divisions. The smaller divisions were implemented in efforts to reduce the amount of time and money spent on travel.


2020 Overwatch League season, League changes announced prior to season, Schedule
With the large amount of localized play and travel, the season was no longer split into four stages. Instead, a midseason tournament was to be held at the same time as the All-Star Weekend. The tournament would have featured the Atlantic and Pacific Conference leaders as well as the next best two teams, regardless of conference, based on the regular season standings through Week 10.


2020 Overwatch League season, League changes announced prior to season, Rules
In the prior seasons, the winner of each match was determined by a best-of-four map series, with a fifth tiebreaker map, if necessary. The league announced at BlizzCon that match winners would be determined by a first-to-three map series, similar to that of the 2019 playoffs. Activision Blizzard senior director of product strategy and business operations Jon Spector noted that due to the elimination of Stage Playoffs, map differential would be less important, as it is not very likely that many teams would have the same regular season record heading into the playoffs. Every match still begins with a control map followed by a rotation between assault, escort, and hybrid maps. Similar to previous seasons, should a match still be tied after four maps, a fifth tiebreaker map will be played on a control map.


2020 Overwatch League season, League changes announced prior to season, Rules
After the announcement of hero pools in Overwatch for the competitive season starting in February 2020, the league announced that it would adopt the hero pool system beginning in the fourth week of play in March in effort to prevent stagnant metas. Each week, the league randomly selects one tank, two damage, and one support hero from a list of the most played heroes in the OWL from the previous two weeks of play; these heroes are then considered "banned" and cannot be selected during that week. Banned heroes cannot be banned in the immediately-following week. The hero pool system is only used in the regular season, and will not be enforced during the midseason tournament, the play-in tournament, and the playoffs.


2020 Overwatch League season, League changes announced prior to season, Prize pool
The total prize pool remained unchanged at US$5,000,000, although the allocation changed due to the discontinuation of Stage Playoffs. The Midseason Tournament champions will win $500,000, the runners-up will win $250,000, and the third and fourth place teams will earn $150,000. The All-Star event will have a prize pool for the first time, with a total pool of $250,000.


2020 Overwatch League season, League changes announced prior to season, Prize pool
For the postseason earnings, the Grand Champion team will earn $1.5 million (up from $1.1 million), second place will earn $800,000 (up from $600,000), third place will earn $500,000 (up from $450,000), fourth place will earn $300,000 (down from $350,000), fifth and sixth place will earn $200,000 (down from $300,000), and seventh and eighth place will earn $100,000 (down from $200,000).


2020 Overwatch League season, League changes announced prior to season, Broadcasting
Prior to the start of the season, several of the shoutcasters for the League, including Malik Forté, Auguste "Semmler" Massonnat, Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles, Erik "DoA" Lonnquist, and Chris Puckett, left for various reasons ranging from dissatisfaction with their salaries to concerns over the new management of the league following Nate Nanzer's departure as league commissioner in 2019.


2020 Overwatch League season, League changes announced prior to season, Broadcasting
YouTube has replaced Twitch as exclusive broadcaster of the league, as part of a deal covering all Activision Blizzard esports events. The company also announced a deal to make Google Cloud Platform the preferred infrastructure provider for its game servers.


2020 Overwatch League season, Rule and schedule changes due to COVID-19, Homestand events
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Blizzard cancelled all four homestand events planned in China in February and March 2020. Four of the teams in the league are based in China, where travel restrictions and quarantines from the outbreak were enacted; the restrictions affected teams that were traveling to China to play matches there. Two of the Chinese teams, Guangzhou Charge and Shanghai Dragons, announced the relocation of their teams to South Korea, while the Chengdu Hunters remained in China.


2020 Overwatch League season, Rule and schedule changes due to COVID-19, Homestand events
The cancelled matches were originally planned to be rescheduled in Seoul, South Korea during two weekends in March, with some matches being played during Seoul Dynasty's homestand event the same month. However, Blizzard later cancelled all South Korean events in March 2020, including the Dynasty homestand, over concerns of the outbreak. In March, French Health Minister Olivier Véran announced that all public gatherings of more than 1,000 people were banned in the country until April 15; the ban effectively cancelled the Paris Eternal homestand event that was scheduled to be held April 11–12. After the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 virus a global pandemic on March 11, the Overwatch League announced that it would be cancelling all remaining scheduled live events in March and April.


2020 Overwatch League season, Rule and schedule changes due to COVID-19, Regions
For the March and April matches, the league abandoned the Atlantic and Pacific conferences and instead divided teams into three groups based on geography – Atlantic, Pacific, and China – where teams would only play intra-regionally in an effort to reduce latency. Due to the inequity of the number of games played by each team, the All-Star Weekend was moved to the postseason, while the Midseason Tournament was canceled altogether. On March 31, the Overwatch League announced that they were abandoning the Homestand model entirely in favor of moving matches for the remainder of the season online.


2020 Overwatch League season, Rule and schedule changes due to COVID-19, Midseason tournaments
On April 26, the league introduced the league announced a new tournament structure for the month of May called the May Melee. The league divided the 20 teams into two geographical regions, 13 in North America and 7 in Asia, where teams would only play interregionally. After three weeks of play, the top teams from each region played in their respective regional tournament. Teams earned $5000 for each win in the tournaments (with receiving a bye counting as a win) and earned a bonus win towards their regular season standings for each win after, and including, the quarterfinals.


2020 Overwatch League season, Rule and schedule changes due to COVID-19, Midseason tournaments
There were no hero pools for the tournaments, and winners were determined by which team won three maps, except for the finals, which were determined by which team won four maps. Following the conclusion of the May Melee, the league announced two more tournaments with the same ruleset for the months of June and July – the Summer Showdown and the Countdown Cup, respectively.


2020 Overwatch League season, Rule and schedule changes due to COVID-19, Season playoffs
On July 15, the league announced its playoff format for the season. All 20 teams played in the postseason, with teams divided by the same two regions as the three midseason tournaments. The lowest seeds played in regional play-in tournaments. Twelve total teams qualified for the season playoffs split into two regional brackets. In the North America region, eight teams qualified for the North America Bracket, and in the Asia region, four teams qualified for the Asia Bracket. Each playoff bracket is a double-elimination tournament. However, the winners of the upper and lower finals in each respective bracket did not face each other. Instead, they qualified for the Grand Finals bracket – another double-elimination tournament. The winners of the upper and lower bracket in the Grand Finals bracket will play in the Grand Finals match.


2020 Overwatch League season, Postseason, Play-in tournaments
The play-in tournaments were two regional single-elimination tournaments that took place September 3–5. All match winners were determined by which team wins three maps. The winners of each first round match advanced to the second round. The teams that qualified for a bye into the second round each selected which opponent they would face between the winners of the first round (or the Toronto Defiant or Seoul Dynasty in the North America and Asia region, respectively). The winners of the second round advanced to the playoffs.


2020 Overwatch League season, Postseason, Playoffs
The playoffs will be contested by twelve teams – eight from the North America region and four from the Asia region. The top two teams from each region's respective playoff bracket will qualify for the Grand Finals bracket, where the final two teams in the Grand Finals bracket will play in the Grand Finals match.


2020 Overwatch League season, All-Star Games
The 2020 Overwatch League All-Star Games will be the Overwatch League's third edition of an all-star game that involves the All-Star players of the league. For the first time, the All-Stars will be split into two regions – Asia and North America. The Asia All-Star Game will be played on September 26, while the North America All-Star Game will be played on October 3. Both games will be the culmination of their respective All-Star Weekend, an event that consists of the Talent Takedown, a Widowmaker 1v1 tournament, as well as other various skills challenges.


2020 Overwatch League season, Winnings
Teams in the 2020 season competed for a total prize pool of US$4,775,000 across midseason tournaments and playoffs. By League rules, at least 50% of these winnings are split among the team's members, the remaining going to the team's owner.


2020 PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup
The 2020 PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup was the ninth Aspirants' Cup season of the PBA D–League, the official minor league basketball organization owned by the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The conference commenced on February 13. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a concern for the league organizers, halting the season opening as a preventive measure against the outbreak. The conference started on March 2 but the league forced indefinite suspension of games nine days later.


2020 PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup
On September 30, 2020, PBA commissioner Willie Marcial announced that the tournament has been officially cancelled on October 12.


2020 PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup, Format
Twelve teams participate in the conference. The tournament will be conducted in four stages:


2020 PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup, Venues
Most games will be played at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig. Other venues include the Paco Arena in Manila and JCSGO Gym in Quezon City. Filoil Flying V Centre was only used on the opening games of the season.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup
The 2020 Philippine Cup, also known as the 2020 Honda PBA Philippine Cup for sponsorship reasons,  is the only conference or tournament of the 2020 PBA season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The 42nd PBA Philippine Cup started on March 8, 2020. The tournament does not allow teams to hire foreign players or imports.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup
Three days later, the PBA board of governors decided to indefinitely postpone the tournament, together with the PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup, and the launching of the PBA 3x3 league, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country and the enforcement of the various quarantine restrictions throughout the country.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup
During their meeting on September 17, the PBA Board of Governors decided to resume the tournament and create the "PBA bubble" (similar to the successful NBA bubble) within the Clark area in Pampanga. The games were played at the Angeles University Foundation Sports and Cultural Center while the players stayed at the Quest Hotel inside Clark. On September 24, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) gave the league a provisional approval to have scrimmages and five-on-five games. The 12 PBA teams arrived in Clark by batches on September 28 and 29, 2020.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup
On October 6, the league published its complete eliminations schedule. The elimination round games of the Philippine Cup resumed in the "PBA bubble" on October 11 and played daily with two games scheduled per day.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup
The tournament was temporarilly postponed between October 30 to November 2 after a Blackwater Elite player and one of the league's referees tested positive for COVID-19.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup
After new protocols have been added, the games resumed starting November 3. In order for the league to finish the elimination round by November 11, two to four games were scheduled per day. This was the first time that the PBA had a quadruple-header game day and an official game scheduled in the morning.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup, Format
The following format will be observed for the duration of the conference. The two of the quarterfinals match-ups were originally be a best-of-three series, and the semifinals be a best-of-seven series but was revised to all quarterfinal match-ups be in a twice-to-beat format, and the semifinals be in a best-of-five series during the planning for the "PBA bubble":


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals
The 2020 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup Finals was the best-of-7 championship series of the 2020 PBA Philippine Cup, the lone conference of the season. The Barangay Ginebra San Miguel and the TNT Tropang Giga competed for the 42nd Philippine Cup championship and the 128th overall championship contested by the league. For the first time in six seasons and after winning the previous five titles, the San Miguel Beermen was not able to defend their Philippine Cup title after being eliminated by the Meralco Bolts in the quarterfinals.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals
This was the first time that the two teams met in the Philippine Cup finals since the 2004–05 season when Barangay Ginebra won the championship against Talk 'N Text, four games to two.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals
Barangay Ginebra defeated TNT, four games to one, to win the franchise's fourth Philippine Cup (almost 13 years after their last Philippine Cup championship in 2007) and their 13th title overall. LA Tenorio was named the Finals' MVP.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Background, Barangay Ginebra San Miguel
Before the season started, Ginebra suffered a major blow when Greg Slaughter decided to take a break from basketball, following the expiration of his contract. Ginebra added Arvin Tolentino, Jerrick Balanza, and Kent Salado to the roster after selecting them in the 2019 PBA draft.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Background, Barangay Ginebra San Miguel
Ginebra started the season with four straight wins. However, they suffered from two straight setbacks after losing to Magnolia and Rain or Shine. Ginebra would eventually go 4–1 over their final five games to finish the eliminations round with an 8–3 record. Their record was tied with Phoenix for the best in the league, but Ginebra took the first seed as they defeated Phoenix in the eliminations. They advanced to the quarterfinals, holding a twice-to-beat advantage.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Background, Barangay Ginebra San Miguel
In the quarterfinals, Ginebra faced off against Rain or Shine. They defeated them in one game, 81–73, to advance to the semifinals. In the best-of-5 semifinals, Ginebra faced off against Meralco. This marked the fifth time in the last five years that both teams met in the playoffs. The series went to the distance after the two teams alternated wins in the first four games. In the do-or-die game 5, both teams were tied at 80 with 14.5 seconds left. In the game's final possession, Scottie Thompson drilled the game winning triple with 0.6 seconds left to send Ginebra to the Philippine Cup finals.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Background, TNT Tropang Giga
Before the season started, TNT, NLEX, and Blackwater completed a three-team trade that sent Poy Erram, a former Defensive Player of the Year, to TNT.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Background, TNT Tropang Giga
TNT started the season strong after pulling off five straight wins. However, TNT struggled over their last six games, going 2–4 to finish the eliminations round with a 7–4 record, tied for the second best in the league. TNT would eventually get the third seed after quotients were applied. As part of the top 4 seeded teams, TNT advanced to the quarterfinals with a twice-to-beat advantage.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Background, TNT Tropang Giga
In the quarterfinals, TNT faced off against Alaska. They would advance to the semifinals after defeating Alaska in one game, 104–83. In the semifinals, TNT faced Phoenix, who held the second seed. After winning the first game, TNT fell to the brink of elimination after losing two straight games. TNT would eventually bounce back, defeating Phoenix in the final two games to advance to the Philippine Cup finals.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 1
Ginebra won Game 1, 100–94, in overtime to take a 1–0 series lead. Japeth Aguilar led Ginebra with 25 points and 16 rebounds on an efficient 11–14 shooting while Stanley Pringle had 24 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 assists. Three other players scored in double digits for Ginebra. Bobby Ray Parks Jr. paced the scoring for TNT with 20 points before fouling out in overtime.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 1
In the first quarter, TNT started off strong, leading by as much as 7 before taking a 5 point lead heading to the second quarter. Scoring slowed down in the second quarter, with Ginebra outscoring TNT, 19–14, to tie the game heading into halftime. Ginebra began to pull away in the third quarter as they led by as much as 9 with 6:55 left in the quarter. However, TNT went on a 20–6 run to end the quarter with a 5 point lead. Both teams went back-and-forth in the fourth quarter.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 1
In the final minutes of regulation, TNT hit three consecutive three pointers to take a 1 point lead with 36 seconds left. Ginebra had a chance to take the lead but Pringle lost the ball out of bounds. Parks was fouled on the ensuing possession, but he split his free throws. With 11 seconds to go, LA Tenorio drove to the basket before passing to a cutting Arvin Tolentino, who hit the game-tying layup with 5 seconds left. With a chance to win, Jayson Castro missed a floater before time expired.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 1
In overtime, TNT struggled to find its offense, scoring only 2 points in overtime as Ginebra slowly pulled away. Ginebra effectively sealed the game when Tenorio found a wide open Aguilar for an uncontested dunk, giving them a 6 point lead with 19 seconds left.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
After trailing by as much as 15 in the third quarter, Ginebra came back to win Game 2, 92–90, to take a 2–0 lead in the series. Stanley Pringle led Ginebra with 34 points, 6 rebounds, and 8 assists while Aljon Mariano was an X-factor off the bench, scoring 20 points as the other role players for Ginebra struggled. For TNT, they were dealt a big blow before Game 2 when Bobby Ray Parks Jr., the team's leading scorer, was listed as doubtful to play after he suffered from a left calf strain in Game 1. In Parks' absence, Roger Pogoy waxed hot for TNT, scoring 38 points.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
The game started off slow for both teams, with Ginebra taking a 4 point lead, 21–17, heading to the second quarter. Pringle provided most of the offense for Ginebra, scoring 12 points in that quarter alone. In the second quarter, Pogoy started to hit his shots while Ginebra continued to struggle from the field. The two teams headed to halftime with TNT holding a 4 point lead. TNT began to pull away in the third quarter, starting with a 14–3 run to erect their biggest lead of the game at 15.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
Pogoy did most of the damage as he scored 15 points in the quarter alone. However, Ginebra managed to claw their way back using a lineup that featured only one starter in Pringle. Pringle and Mariano combined for 24 points in the third to cut TNT's lead to 2 heading into the final quarter.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
In the fourth quarter, both teams remained close, with TNT holding the lead for most of the quarter. With 4 minutes left, Pogoy hit a three pointer that gave TNT a 7 point lead. Ginebra answered with a 7–0 run that tied the game with 2 minutes left. After the two teams traded misses, with 53 seconds to go, Jayson Castro was fouled while he was going for the offensive rebound. Castro split his free throws to give TNT a 1 point lead.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
On the ensuing possession, Pringle found Scottie Thompson for a wide open three that went in, giving Ginebra a 2 point lead with 30 seconds to go. The three was Thompson's only points and field goal in the game. With a chance to tie or take the lead, Castro missed a three pointer but LA Tenorio split his free throws, still making it a one-possession game. With a chance to send the game to overtime, Pogoy missed his three pointer as Tenorio sealed the game at the foul line.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
TNT avoided an 0–3 hole after dominating Ginebra in Game 3, 88–67, cutting Ginebra's series lead to 2–1. For the second straight game, TNT missed the services of their leading scorer, Bobby Ray Parks Jr.. However, TNT had a balanced scoring effort, with Roger Pogoy scoring a team-high 19 points. Four other players scored in double figures for TNT. LA Tenorio paced Ginebra with 19 points but the other players struggled. After scoring 34 in Game 2, Stanley Pringle was limited to 11 points.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
In the first quarter, Ginebra raced off to an early 9 point lead but TNT was able to cut the lead to 5 at the end of the quarter. Tenorio started the game strong, scoring 12 points including 4 three pointers. TNT would start the second quarter with an 11–0 run to take the lead as Ginebra struggled to score. TNT outscored Ginebra, 23–8, in the quarter to take a 10 point lead into halftime.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
TNT would extend their lead to as much as 15 in the third quarter but much like in Game 2, Ginebra would stage a rally, cutting their deficit to 2. However, TNT ended the third quarter with a 10–2 run, extending their lead to 10 before the fourth quarter. TNT would not look back as they continued to extend their lead in the final quarter.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 4
Ginebra moved to within 1 win away from taking the Philippine Cup title after defeating TNT, 98–88, to take a commanding 3–1 lead. Japeth Aguilar and LA Tenorio led Ginebra with 22 points apiece while Stanley Pringle added 16 of his own. Scottie Thompson had a near triple-double with 11 points, 11 rebounds, and 9 assists. For TNT, Roger Pogoy paced their scoring once again with 34 points. Poy Erram and Troy Rosario added 19 and 16, respectively. They played their third straight game without Bobby Ray Parks Jr.. Adding to their injury woes, Jayson Castro aggravated a left knee injury in the third quarter. He did not return for the rest of the game.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 4
Both teams started slow in the first quarter, with Ginebra taking a 17–14 lead heading into the second quarter. The scored remained close in the second quarter before Ginebra went on an 8–0 run to go to halftime with a 10 point lead. Ginebra continued to outplay TNT in the third quarter, extending their lead to as much as 17 before heading into the final quarter with a 16 point lead. In the fourth quarter, Ginebra extended their lead further to 18 points before TNT staged a big rally.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 4
Pogoy waxed hot, scoring 16 of his 34 in the final quarter to lead TNT's rally. Back-to-back three pointers from Pogoy cut Ginebra's lead to just 3 with 2:50 left. Tenorio answered with a three pointer of his own before Pogoy hit his third consecutive three to make it a one-possession game once again. Tenorio would answer once again with another three to bring their lead back to 6 with 1:43 left. TNT would fail to score for the rest of the game as Ginebra sealed the win with a layup from Thompson and a mid-range jumper from Tenorio.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 5
Ginebra defeated TNT in Game 5, 82–78, to win the franchise's 4th Philippine Cup and their 13th title overall. The title was also Ginebra's second consecutive title after winning last year's Governors' Cup title. Japeth Aguilar led Ginebra in scoring with 32 points, tying his career-high. Stanley Pringle had 13 points, with 11 of those coming in the crucial fourth quarter after he struggled from the field in the first three quarters. LA Tenorio added 10 points and 6 assists and he was named Finals' MVP for the fourth time in his career.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 5
For TNT, Roger Pogoy once again top-scored with 23 points. Poy Erram, Simon Enciso, and Troy Rosario added 18, 17, and 12 points respectively. TNT struggled to find offense from their bench as they were limited to just 2 bench points. Jayson Castro and Bobby Ray Parks Jr. did not play due to their injuries.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 5
In the first quarter, TNT came out with more energy as they held a 7 point lead early on. Ginebra would end the quarter with a 9–2 run to tie the game at 19 heading to the second quarter. After picking up two early fouls in the opening quarter, Aguilar scored 16 of Ginebra's 19 points in the second quarter. Ginebra led TNT, 38–36, going into halftime. TNT threatened to pull away in the third quarter, unleashing a 12–1 run to lead by 7. Pogoy scored 11 points in the quarter after struggling from the field in the first half. However, Ginebra slowly came back as the quarter ended with TNT taking a 1 point lead.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 5
In the fourth quarter, Ginebra started with a 9–2 run to take a 6 point lead. Pringle, who was limited to 2 points on 1–10 shooting in the first three quarters, scored the first 5 points for Ginebra in the quarter. Later in the quarter, TNT countered with an 11–0 run of their own to take a 5 point lead with 5 minutes left in the game. However, Ginebra unleashed a 12–0 run to take a 7 point lead with less than a minute left.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game 5
During the run, Pringle knocked down back-to-back three pointers that gave Ginebra a 76–73 lead with 3:18 left. TNT struggled to score during the finishing minutes of the game while Aguilar scored on an alley-oop dunk and Joe Devance scored on a layup to cap Ginebra's run. TNT cut the lead to 3 with 9 seconds left but Tenorio clinched the game and the title with two free-throws.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Broadcast notes
The Philippine Cup Finals was aired on TV5 with simulcasts on One Sports and PBA Rush (both in standard and high definition). TV5's radio arm, Radyo5 provided the radio play-by-play coverage.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Broadcast notes
One Sports provided online livestreaming via their official YouTube account and Facebook fan page using the TV5 feed.


2020 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Broadcast notes
The PBA Rush broadcast provided English-language coverage of the Finals.


2020 PBA Tour season
The 2020  PBA Tour season, the 61st season of play for the U.S. Professional Bowlers Association's ten-pin bowling tour, began on January 14, 2020 with the PBA Hall of Fame Classic in Arlington, Texas, and concluded with the final round of the PBA Tour Playoffs on October 12 in Centreville, Virginia.


2020 PBA Tour season
2020 is the first full PBA season under the new ownership of Bowlero Corporation, the world's largest operator of bowling centers. Bowlero's acquisition of the PBA was announced in September 2019.


2020 PBA Tour season
All PBA Tour events were suspended in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A limited return to competition began on June 6. Due to cancellations of the USBC Masters, the PBA Summer Swing and all international events, the 2020 PBA season had only 14 title events (13 singles events and one doubles event) versus 29 title events in 2019.


2020 PBA Tour season, Media rights
All announced 2020 PBA Tour events (through June) are broadcast on Fox Sports channels, with a commitment for 24 first-run broadcasts on FS1 and five broadcasts on Fox network affiliates. Prize funds for the events on the Fox Sports calendar have increased $400,000 over 2019, with two major championships (PBA Tournament of Champions and PBA World Championship) offering a $100,000 top prize in the new season. The PBA World Championship winner's share was later increased to $150,000.


2020 PBA Tour season, Media rights
CBS Sports Network covered the PBA Tour Finals in July, as it has since the tournament's inception in 2017.


2020 PBA Tour season, Season overview
In 2020, all five majors were scheduled to be contested within the first three months of the Fox schedule. While the PBA Tournament of Champions and PBA Players Championship majors continued to be held in February, they were now followed in late February by the U.S. Open, which moved to the winter schedule for the first time since 2012. These three majors plus the Go Bowling! PBA Indianapolis Open on Feb. 29 and PBA World Championship on March 15 all offered a $1 million bonus for any player who rolls a 300 game in the championship match.


2020 PBA Tour season, Season overview
The PBA's World Series of Bowling XI (which includes three standard PBA title events and the PBA World Championship — the season's fourth major) was scheduled to take place March 6–18 in Las Vegas, while the season's fifth and final major, the USBC Masters, was scheduled to take place March 23–29 in Reno, Nevada. The PBA World Championship concluded March 15, but the match play and final rounds of the animal pattern tournaments were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the USBC Masters, PBA Tour Playoffs, and PBA League were also postponed. On July 15, the USBC announced that the 2020 USBC Masters would be cancelled.


2020 PBA Tour season, Season overview
On May 20, the PBA announced that it would resume competition beginning in June with several non-title, made-for-TV special events, including the PBA Strike Derby (June 6), PBA Summer Clash (June 13), and PBA King of the Lanes (July 20–22). These events were held at Bowlero Jupiter in Jupiter, Florida with no fans in attendance. Regularly scheduled PBA Tour events, such as the remainder of the World Series of Bowling, the PBA League and PBA Tour Playoffs, were rescheduled for the fall.


2020 PBA Tour season, Season overview
The PBA announced on June 11 that the PBA Tour Finals, which features the top eight Tour points leaders over the last two seasons in an elimination-style tournament, would be held July 18–19 in Jupiter, Florida, despite the fact that top points earner Jason Belmonte of Australia could not attend due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. The #9 player in points, Norm Duke, took Belmonte's place. This was the first title event to be held since the COVID-19 pandemic halt. CBS Sports Network aired all rounds of the tournament (nine hours) in live broadcasts over the two days.


2020 PBA Tour season, Season overview
The PBA League held its draft on May 17, and announced that the League has expanded to ten teams (up from eight in previous seasons). On June 23, following the cancellation of the 2020 PWBA Tour season, the PBA further announced that two all-women's teams will be added the to PBA League, bringing the team total to 12. The draft for the two women's teams (10 players total) was held July 7 from a pool of the top 35 PWBA players in 2019 season points.


2020 PBA Tour season, Season overview
The day after the women's draft, the PBA announced that the PBA League would take place September 26–28 in Portland, Maine. On August 20, it was announced that the PBA League was changing its location for 2020 to Centreville, Virginia and will be held without fans in attendance. The PBA further announced that television coverage on FS1 would be expanded to 12 hours over four days. Following the seeding rounds on September 26, the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals were all broadcast live September 27–30 on FS1.


2020 PBA Tour season, Season overview
On September 25, the PBA announced that the PBA League will be immediately followed by the match play rounds and TV finals for the World Series of Bowling animal pattern tournaments (postponed from March and relocated to Centreville, VA), with the final rounds airing October 4 and 5. Finally, the PBA Tour Playoffs were rescheduled for an October 10 start, with air dates spread out between October 10 and November 8. Further, the PBA announced Guaranteed Rate mortgage as the official sponsor of all Fall 2020 events.


2020 PBA Tour season, Season overview, Season awards
Note: The Harry Golden PBA Rookie of the Year Award was not given this season.


2020 PBA Tour season, Tournament summary
The 2020 PBA tournament schedule is shown below. Major tournaments are in bold. Career PBA title numbers for winners are shown in parenthesis (#). Winner's share prize money is shown in US dollars.


2020 PBA Tour season, Tournament summary
Tour points are awarded for most events. Besides the season-ending Harry Smith PBA Points Winner award, points are one consideration for Player of the Year voting, and also affect eligibility for the PBA Playoffs, PBA Tour Finals (combined with 2019 points), and the 2021 DHC PBA Japan Invitational. Points for tournaments are awarded differently based on a "tier" system. The tier of each qualifying tournament is shown in the Notes column on the tournament schedule, and is explained below.


2020 PBA Tour season, Tournament summary
+ Tommy Jones won an additional $10,000 for rolling a 300 game in the title match.


2020 PBA season
The 2020 PBA season was the 45th season of the Philippine Basketball Association.


2020 PBA season
Due to the major adjustments in the last season's league calendar, the start of the league's 45th season was set on March 1, 2020, at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. However, the start of the 2020 season has been delayed until at least March 8 due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 PBA season
The PBA Leo Awards for the 2019 season were held before the opening ceremonies. The first official activity for this season was the 2019 PBA draft, held before the semifinals of the 2019 PBA Governors' Cup.


2020 PBA season
The season was suspended on March 11, three days after its opening ceremonies, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the enforcement of the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon.


2020 PBA season
The league initially planned to use the three-conference format, starting with the Philippine Cup. The Commissioner's Cup and the Governors' Cup were supposed to be the second and third conferences for this season.


2020 PBA season
On September 17, the PBA Board of Governors have approved a plan to restart the season on October 11 (originally on October 9), then was given a provisional approval by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) on September 24. All games were played in the "PBA bubble"  in Angeles City, the isolation zone specifically created for league operations.


2020 PBA season
This was first time that the league played only one tournament or conference in a season.


2020 PBA season
Since the season only had one conference, the Most Valuable Player was not awarded. In lieu of the Leo Awards usually given at the end of the season, the league held a special awards night on January 17, 2021, to award the Best Player of the Conference, Outstanding Rookie, Most Improved Player, Samboy Lim Sportsmanship Award and Outstanding/Elite Five.


2020 PBA season, Player quotas, Filipino-foreigners
The PBA allows for each team to have up to five players classified as "Filipino-foreigners" in their roster. Filipino-foreigners are natural born Filipinos born outside the Philippines.


2020 PBA season, Player quotas, Imports
There are no imports who played for the 2020 PBA season due to the cancellation of the Commissioner's Cup and the Governors' Cup.


2020 PBA season, Arenas
In a usual PBA season, like several Metro Manila-centric leagues, most games are held at arenas within Metro Manila, either the Smart Araneta Coliseum or the Mall of Asia Arena, and sometimes, in the Ynares Center in Antipolo. Games outside this area are called "out-of-town" games, and are usually played on Saturdays. Provincial arenas usually host one game, rarely two; these arenas typically host only once per season, but a league may return within a season if the turnout is satisfactory. Typically, all playoff games are held in Metro Manila arenas, although playoff and Finals games have been seldom played in the provinces.


2020 PBA season, Arenas
Only one game day was done prior to the suspension of league activities due to COVID-19 pandemic; this was the opening day game held after the opening ceremonies at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.


2020 PBA season, Arenas
After the league decided to resume the season under a bubble setup, it was decided that the Clark Freeport and Special Economic Zone in Pampanga shall host the bubble, with the Angeles University Foundation hosting the actual games.


2020 PBA season, Opening ceremony
The opening ceremony for this season was held at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City on March 8, 2020. The PBA Leo Awards for the 2019 season was held before the opening ceremonies.


2020 PBA season, Opening ceremony
The first game of the Philippine Cup between the San Miguel Beermen and the Magnolia Hotshots was played after the opening ceremonies.


2020 PBA season, 2020 PBA Philippine Cup
The 2020 Philippine Cup started on March 8, 2020. The opening game which won by the San Miguel Beermen against the Magnolia Hotshots, 94–78, was the only game played for the tournament before the start of the quarantine period.


2020 PBA season, 2020 PBA Philippine Cup, Playoffs, Quarterfinals
*Team has twice-to-beat advantage. Team #1 only has to win once, while Team #2 has to win twice.


2020 PBA season, Suspension and restart of Philippine Cup
On March 11, hours before Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19 (causing the NBA to suspend its season), the PBA Board of Governors postponed the games of the Philippine Cup due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the enforcement of the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon. They have also decided to indefinitely postpone the ongoing PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup and the launching of the PBA 3x3 league.


2020 PBA season, Suspension and restart of Philippine Cup
On April 7, the PBA Board of Governors have decided to shorten the season to a two-conference format during their special meeting. There is also a possibility that the season will only have a single conference if the Enhanced Community Quarantine in Luzon will be further extended until April 30.


2020 PBA season, Suspension and restart of Philippine Cup
After the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila and nearby provinces was extended until May 31, the Board of Governors have decided to set a deadline on August if the season will still be continued with a single tournament or if it will be cancelled.


2020 PBA season, Suspension and restart of Philippine Cup
On July 3, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) announced that training for professional basketball and football are allowed after the PBA and Philippines Football League, together with the Philippine Sports Commission, Games and Amusements Board and the Department of Health, drafted guidelines for training for areas under General Community Quarantine (GCQ) and Modified General Community Quarantines (MGCQ). Metro Manila was classified as a GCQ area since June 1. The IATF-EID Joint Administrative Order was released on July 24.


2020 PBA season, Suspension and restart of Philippine Cup
The planned player swab testing and resumption of team practices were postponed after Metro Manila and its surrounding provinces were put under Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) on August 3 due to the surge of COVID-19 cases.


2020 PBA season, Suspension and restart of Philippine Cup
After Metro Manila returned to General Community Quarantine status on August 19, player swab testing was immediately done. Teams resumed their training sessions on August 25.


2020 PBA season, Suspension and restart of Philippine Cup
The league planned to resume the Philippine Cup in a "bubble setup" similar to how the NBA implemented their own bubble. The Araneta City in Cubao, the Inspire Sports Academy in Calamba, Laguna and the Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga were considered as venues for the PBA bubble.


2020 PBA season, Suspension and restart of Philippine Cup
The PBA Board of Governors decided to hold the "PBA bubble" in the Clark area in Pampanga during their meeting on September 17. The games will be played at the Angeles University Foundation gymnasium while the players will stay at the Quest Hotel inside Clark. The league also plans to resume the Philippine Cup by October 11 if the league gets the approval from the IATF-EID. On September 24, the IATF-EID gave the league a provisional approval to have scrimmages and five-on-five games. The 12 teams of PBA arrived in Clark by batches on September 28 and 29, 2020.


2020 PBA season, Suspension and restart of Philippine Cup
On October 6, the league published its complete eliminations schedule. The elimination round games of the Philippine Cup were played daily, with two games scheduled per day. The league also decided to retain the results of the San Miguel Beermen's 94–78 win over the Magnolia Hotshots on March 8, 2020; the only game played prior to the suspension of the Philippine Cup.


2020 PBA season, Suspension and restart of Philippine Cup
On October 21, the league announced that one of the referees who officiated the Blackwater-Alaska game a day before has tested positive for COVID-19. The referee was sent to the Athlete's Village in Capas, Tarlac. The said facility was used during the 2019 Southeast Asian Games and is the primary quarantine facility for OFWs during the pandemic. The said referee was tested negative on his RT-PCR test four days after. On the same day, it was announced that one of the players of Blackwater Elite had tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, three games involving TNT and Blackwater have been postponed as of October 29. The games will be rescheduled on a later date once the approval from the IATF-EID will be given.


2020 PBA season, Suspension and restart of Philippine Cup
On October 30, 2020, the league announced through their social media accounts that the games will be postponed to ensure the integrity of the PBA bubble and until the new protocols set by the IATF-EID and the Department of Health are in place.


2020 PBA season, Suspension and restart of Philippine Cup
The following day, the PBA announced that they will resume its games on Tuesday, November 3 after the IATF-EID issued the following new guidelines:


2020 PBA season, Suspension and restart of Philippine Cup
A quarantine facility will be set up within the Clark bubble for future COVID-19 positive cases.


2020 PBA season, Suspension and restart of Philippine Cup
In order for the league to finish the elimination round by November 11, two to four games were scheduled per day. This was the first time that the PBA held a quadruple-header game day.


2020 PCS season
The 2020 PCS season was the first year of the Pacific Championship Series (PCS), a professional esports league for the MOBA PC game League of Legends. The PCS was created in late 2019 as a merger between the League of Legends Master Series (LMS) and League of Legends SEA Tour (LST).


2020 PCS season
The spring regular season was initially set to begin on 8 February, but was postponed until further notice on 29 January due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. It was later announced on 18 February that the 2020 season would officially begin on 29 February.


2020 PCS season, Spring, Teams and rosters
G-Rex was originally announced as one of the PCS' ten franchise partners, but on 25 September 2019 it was announced that the team had disbanded and forfeited its spot in the PCS as a result of internal restructuring by their parent company Emperor Esports Stars. Five days later, Machi Esports was announced as G-Rex's replacement.


2020 PCS season, Summer, Teams and rosters
Prior to the start of the summer split, Talon Esports announced that its League of Legends team had partnered with PSG Esports and would henceforth compete as PSG Talon.


2020 PDC Calendar
This is a list of the 2020 Professional Darts Corporation calendar of events with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage where applicable.


2020 PDC Calendar
The list includes European tour events, Players Championships events, World Series of Darts events and PDC majors. It includes some regional tours, such as the ones in North American, Asian and Oceanic regions, but does not include British Darts Organisation (BDO) or World Darts Federation (WDF) events.


2020 PDC Calendar, March
Dimitri Van den Bergh  Rob Cross  Jelle Klaasen  Jamie Hughes


2020 PDC Calendar, July
Simon Whitlock  Krzysztof Ratajski  Vincent van der Voort  Adrian Lewis


2020 PDC Calendar, October
Michael van Gerwen  Gary Anderson  Joe Cullen  Jeffrey de Zwaan


2020 PDC Calendar, November
Vincent van der Voort  Damon Heta  Peter Wright  Conan Whitehead


2020 PDC Calendar, December
Michael van Gerwen  Dirk van Duijvenbode  Krzysztof Ratajski  Daryl Gurney


2020 PDC Home Tour
The 2020 Unibet Home Tour was a special tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation for players to play indoor tournaments at their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 PDC Home Tour
It began on 17 April 2020, and ended on 18 May 2020, with the 2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs following on afterwards. The tournament was open to all players who had a PDC Tour Card in 2020.


2020 PDC Home Tour
The winner was awarded a place in the 2020 Grand Slam of Darts.


2020 PDC Home Tour
Luke Woodhouse hit a nine-darter in his Group 2 match with Gerwyn Price.


2020 PDC Home Tour, Format
Beginning on 17 April 2020, four Tour Card players would play against each other over the course of an evening, with the winner of each night going into a last 32 stage, beginning on 26 May 2020.


2020 PDC Home Tour, Format
In the first phase, each match will be a best of 9 legs match, with the winner of each match getting two points on the table. Should there be a tie on points after all the matches, the leg difference will determine the winner, should that also be equal, the result between the two players is taken into account. Should there be a three-way tie for first place, the overall average of the players will then be taken into account.


2020 PDC Home Tour, Format
In the second phase taking place between 26 May and 2 June, the 32 winners will again be put into groups of four, where all players will play each other over one night, but each match is now a best of 11 legs match, but all other rules being the same. The eight winners in the second phase will then move into a semi-final group stage taking place on 3 & 4 June, with the top two in each group moving forward to the Championship Group stage, where the winner will become the champion.


2020 PDC Home Tour, Format
Players opting to not take part were Michael Van Gerwen, Daryl Gurney, Mensur Suljović, Adrian Lewis, Jeffrey De Zwaan, Mervyn King, Steve West, Vincent Van Der Voort, Brendan Dolan, William O'Connor, Steve Lennon, Josh Payne, Benito Van Der Pas, Mark McGeeney, Madas Razma, Marko Kentele, Yordi Meeuwisse, Barrie Bates, Michael Barnard, Jason Lowe, Aaron Beeney, Stefan Siepmann, Wesley Harms, Derk Telnekes, Boris Krcmar, Darren Penhall, Wayne Jones.


2020 PDC Home Tour, Darts At Home
Whilst the format was being finalised, there were 2 weeks of matches under the banner Darts At Home, which followed the same rules as the new PDC Home Tour, although the first week featured 5 players (in best-of-7 leg matches), as opposed to the 4 (in best-of-9 leg matches) which was then adopted later on.


2020 PDC Home Tour, Darts At Home
NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Avg = Three-Dart average in group matches; Pts = Group Points


2020 PDC Home Tour, Darts At Home, Week 1 – 1 April
NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Avg = Three-Dart average in group matches; Pts = Group Points


2020 PDC Home Tour, Phase One
NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Avg = Three-Dart average in group matches; Pts = Group Points


2020 PDC Home Tour, Phase One, Group 12 – 28 April
Keegan Brown was also due to play in Group 12, but suffered Internet issues and had to be eliminated. It meant the result from the only game he played, a 5–3 defeat to Conan Whitehead, was voided, with the group becoming a three-man round robin, each player playing each other twice.


2020 PDC Home Tour, Phase One, Group 20 – 6 May
Jeffrey de Zwaan was due to play in Group 20, but suffered a shoulder injury and was therefore replaced by Jermaine Wattimena.


2020 PDC Home Tour, Phase One, Group 21 – 7 May
Derk Telnekes was due to play in Group 21, but had to withdraw for family reasons, and was replaced by Karel Sedláček.


2020 PDC Home Tour, Play-Off Phase
In the play-offs phase taking place between 26 May and 2 June, the 32 winners will again be put into groups of four, where all players will play each other over one night, but each match is now a best of 11 legs match, but all other rules being the same. The eight winners in the second phase will then move into a semi-final group stage taking place on 3 & 4 June, with the top two in each group moving forward to the Championship Group stage, where the winner will become the champion.


2020 PDC Home Tour 2
The 2020 Home Tour 2 was the second staging of the Home Tour tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation for players to play indoor tournaments at their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 PDC Home Tour 2
It began on 31 August 2020 and concluded on 20 October 2020. The tournament was open to the 70 lowest-ranked PDC Tour Card holders who entered, although the tournament also featured Top-32 players like Krzysztof Ratajski, Chris Dobey, Jonny Clayton, Stephen Bunting, Jermaine Wattimena, Jeffrey de Zwaan, Steve Beaton and Ricky Evans.


2020 PDC Home Tour 2
Luke Humphries was crown the 2020 Home Tour 2 champion, as he won the final Championship Group. In a high-class and tight affair he won ahead of Jonny Clayton on leg-difference, with five wins each. Damon Heta, who hit an 118.96 average during the Championship Group matches, the highest in both PDC Home Tours, finished third in the Championship Group.


2020 PDC Home Tour 2, Format
Beginning on 31 August 2020, seven Tour Card players would play against each other over the course of a day, with the top three from each day and the five best fourth-best players going into a last 35 stage, beginning on 30 September 2020.


2020 PDC Home Tour 2, Format
In the second phase, the 35 players will again be put into groups of seven, where all players will play each other over one day. The top four in each group and the best fifth-placed player in the second phase will then move into a semi-final group stage taking place from 12 to 14 October, with the top two in each group and the best third-placed player moving forward to the Championship Group stage on 20 October, where the winner will become the champion.


2020 PDC Home Tour 2, Format
In all phases, each match will be a best of 9 legs match, with the winner of each match getting two points on the table. Should there be a tie on points after all the matches, the leg difference will determine positions, should that also be equal, the result between the two players is taken into account. Should there be a three-way tie or more, the overall average of the players will then be taken into account.


2020 PDC Home Tour 2, Phase One
NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Avg = Three-Dart average in group matches; Pts = Group Points


2020 PDC Home Tour 2, Phase Two
NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Avg = Three-Dart average in group matches; Pts = Group Points


2020 PDC Home Tour 2, Phase Two
Jamie Lewis and Devon Petersen have withdrawn, therefore Luke Woodhouse and Matthew Edgar qualified as the next best-performing fourth placed players in Phase One. Andy Hamilton withdrew due to a hand injury and was replaced by Alan Tabern.


2020 PDC Home Tour 2, Phase Three
NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Avg = Three-Dart average in group matches; Pts = Group Points


2020 PDC Home Tour 2, Championship Group (20 October)
NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Avg = Three-Dart average in group matches; Pts = Group Points


2020 PDC Home Tour 3
The 2020 Home Tour 3 was the third tournament of the Home Tour Series organised by the Professional Darts Corporation for players to play indoor tournaments at their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 PDC Home Tour 3
It began on 26 October 2020 and concluded on 11 December 2020. 45 various players competed during the Home Tour 3 tournament, including Home Tour 2 winner Luke Humphries, Top-32 players like Michael Smith, Krzysztof Ratajski, Simon Whitlock, Chris Dobey, Stephen Bunting and Steve Beaton.


2020 PDC Home Tour 3
Australian's Damon Heta was crown the 2020 Home Tour 3 champion, beating Chris Dobey of England 4–2 in the final, averaging just under 109. Heta also won the highly-competitive final Championship Group with five wins.


2020 PDC Home Tour 3
Daniel Larsson hit a nine-darter, the second of the Home Series, in his Group 2 match with Krzysztof Kciuk.


2020 PDC Home Tour 3, Format
During Phase One, beginning on 26 October 2020, seven Tour Card players would play against each other over the course of a day, forming a round-robin format. Each player will participate in three groups, resulting in 18 groups. The results of all 18 groups will form the combined league table.


2020 PDC Home Tour 3, Format
The championship group will contain the top seven players of the league table.


2020 PDC Home Tour 3, Format
In all phases, each match will be a best of 7 legs match, with the winner of each match getting two points on the table. Should there be a tie on points after all the matches, the leg difference will determine positions, should that also be equal, the result between the two players is taken into account, following separated by legs won. Is there still no difference, the overall average of the players will then be taken into account.


2020 PDC Home Tour 3, Phase One
NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Avg = Three-Dart average in group matches; Pts = Group Points


2020 PDC Home Tour 3, Phase One, Group 5 – 3 November
Nathan Derry had to withdrew after 4 games played. The results of the 4 games involving Derry did not count towards the tables.


2020 PDC Home Tour 3, Phase One, Group 17 – 9 December
Final two games are an addition to the schedule, further to two matches not played in Group 5. These fixtures do not count towards the Group 17 or Overall League Tables.


2020 PDC Home Tour 3, League table
NB: P = Games Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Avg = Three-Dart average in group matches; Pts = Group Points


2020 PDC Home Tour 3, League table
All results from the 18 groups of Phase One are combined into the League table. The top 7 players qualify for the Championship group.


2020 PDC Home Tour 3, League table
Should there be a tie on points after all the matches, the leg difference will determine positions, should that also be equal, the result between the two players is taken into account, following separated by legs won. Is there still no difference, the overall average of the players will then be taken into account.


2020 PDC Home Tour 3, Championship Group (11 December)
NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Avg = Three-Dart average in group matches; Pts = Group Points


2020 PDC Home Tour 3, Championship Group (11 December)
The top two players of the Championship Group qualified for the Championship Final to decide the Home Tour III Winner.


2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs
The 2020 Low6 Home Tour Play-Offs was a special tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation for players to play indoor tournaments at their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs
It began on 17 April 2020 with the 2020 PDC Home Tour, with the Play-Offs commencing on 26 May 2020, and ended on 5 June 2020. The tournament was open to all players who had a PDC Tour Card in 2020.


2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs
The winner was Nathan Aspinall, who won the final Championship Group finishing ahead of Gary Anderson, Jonny Clayton and Jelle Klaasen. Therefore Aspinall was awarded with a place in the 2020 Grand Slam of Darts.


2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs, Format
In the play-offs phase taking place between 26 May and 2 June, the 32 winners will again be put into groups of four, where all players will play each other over one night, but each match is now a best of 11 legs match, but all other rules being the same. The eight winners in the second phase will then move into a semi-final group stage taking place on 3 & 4 June, with the top two in each group moving forward to the Championship Group stage, where the winner will become the champion.


2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs, Format
Each match will be a best of 11 legs match, with the winner of each match getting two points on the table. Should there be a tie on points after all the matches, the leg difference will determine the winner, should that also be equal, the result between the two players is taken into account. Should there be a three-way tie for first place, the overall average of the players will then be taken into account.


2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs, Play-Off Groups
NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Avg = Three-Dart average in group matches; Pts = Group Points


2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs, Play-Off Groups, Play-Off Qualifiers
All 32 2020 PDC Home Tour winners are put into a pool based on their PDC Order of Merit ranking. The groups they were put in were pre-determined by their PDC Order of Merit ranking.


2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs, Play-Off Groups, Play-Off Qualifiers
Peter Wright (2) Rob Cross (4) Nathan Aspinall (7) Gary Anderson (9) Dave Chisnall (11) Jonny Clayton (15) Joe Cullen (16) Stephen Bunting (17)


2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs, Play-Off Groups, Play-Off Qualifiers
Glen Durrant (19) Chris Dobey (20) Max Hopp (24) Darren Webster (27) Luke Humphries (34) Jamie Hughes (41) Ryan Searle (42) Cristo Reyes (46)


2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs, Play-Off Groups, Play-Off Qualifiers
Jelle Klaasen (48) Luke Woodhouse (57) José de Sousa (59) Jamie Lewis (60) Geert Nentjes (71) Carl Wilkinson (89) Jeff Smith (92) Alan Tabern (97)


2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs, Play-Off Groups, Play-Off Qualifiers
Mike De Decker (100) Martijn Kleermaker (101) Scott Waites (102) Damon Heta (106) Nick Kenny (109) Jesús Noguera (127) Daniel Larsson (130) Ryan Murray (135)


2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs, Semi-Final Groups
The semi-final groups consisted of the eight winners from the Last 32 stages, with the winners of Groups 1–4 in Semi-Final Group 1 and the winners of Groups 5–8 in Semi-Final Group 2.


2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs, Semi-Final Groups
NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Avg = Three-Dart average in group matches; Pts = Group Points


2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs, Championship Group – 5 June
The Championship Group consisted of the top 2 players from the 2 semi-final groups.


2020 PDC Home Tour Play-Offs, Championship Group – 5 June
NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Avg = Three-Dart average in group matches; Pts = Group Points


2020 PDC Pro Tour
The 2020 PDC Pro Tour was a series of non-televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Players Championships and European Tour events are the events that make up the Pro Tour. There were 27 PDC Pro Tour events held, 23 Players Championships and 4 European Tour events.


2020 PDC Pro Tour
This page also includes results from the PDC's affiliated tours including the Development and Challenge Tours and all the regional tours as well as the results from the World Championship regional qualifiers. There were 10 Challenge Tour events, 10 Development Tour events, 2 PDC Nordic and Baltic Events, 6 Dartplayers Australia Pro Tour events, 3 EuroAsian Darts Corporation Pro Tour Events and 8 Championship Darts Circuit Pro Tour events during the 2020 season.


2020 PDC Pro Tour
All tours were disrupted, and in the case of the PDC Asian Tour cancelled, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, Prize Money
The prize money for the Players Championship and European Tour events was unchanged from the 2019 levels.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Tour Card
128 players are granted Tour Cards, which enables them to participate in all Players Championships events, the UK Open and all the European Tour events.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Tour Card, Tour Cards
Afterwards, the playing field will be complemented by the highest qualified players from the Q School Order of Merit until the maximum number of 128 Pro Tour Card players had been reached. In 2020, that means that a total of 19 players will qualify this way.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Tour Card, Q-School
The PDC Pro Tour Qualifying School (or Q-School) was split into a UK and European Q-School. Players that are not from Europe could choose which Q-School they wanted to compete in.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Tour Card, Q-School
The following players won two-year tour cards on each of the days played:


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Tour Card, Q-School
An Order of Merit was also created for each Q School. For every win after the first full round (without byes) the players were awarded 1 point.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Tour Card, Q-School
To complete the field of 128 Tour Card Holders, places were allocated down the final Qualifying School Order of Merits in proportion to the number of entrants. The following players picked up Tour Cards as a result:


2020 PDC Pro Tour, Players Championships
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a significant number of events were postponed, including all from mid-March to the end of June. The PDC scheduled five events from July 8 at the Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes, to make up. These events were branded the "PDC Summer Series". Following this a "PDC Autumn Series" was arranged in Niedernhausen, Germany, with a "PDC Winter Series" following in Coventry.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, European Tour
The European Tour was announced at 13 events, including events in Belgium and Hungary for the first time. Due to the COVID-19, only 4 events will take place with the others having been cancelled.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Challenge Tour
The PDC Challenge Tour was planned to increase from 20 to 24 events for 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom was only ten events.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Challenge Tour
The top two players win a Two-Year PDC Tour Card for 2021–2022, with the players finishing from third to eighth earning free entry to the 2021 PDC Qualifying School. The Order of Merit leader is also invited to compete in the 2020/21 World Darts Championship.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Challenge Tour
David Evans topped the rankings and qualified for the World Championship and was awarded a Tour Card for the next two years, while Ritchie Edhouse took second and also earned a Tour Card.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Challenge Tour
The top eight unqualified players will also qualify for the 2021 UK Open.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Development Tour
The PDC Development Tour was planned with 20 events for 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom there were only ten events.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Development Tour
The top two players earned a PDC Tour Card for 2021/2022, with the players from third to eighth receiving free entry to the 2021 PDC Qualifying School (if they do not already possess a Tour Card). The top two players also earned a place in the 2021 World Championship.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Development Tour
Ryan Meikle topped the Development Tour Order of Merit, with Keane Barry finishing second, both gaining their place at the 2021 World Championship. As Meikle is already a Tour Card holder, the second automatic tour card goes to the third ranked Berry van Peer, with Keane Barry being the other tour card winner.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Development Tour
The top eight unqualified players will also qualify for the 2021 UK Open.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Women's Series
The PDC Women's Series was introduced to replace the separate World Championship qualifiers that had been held the last two years. The top two players both qualified for the World Championship.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, PDC Women's Series
Tour card holder Lisa Ashton topped the weekend table with two event victories to qualify for the 2021 PDC World Darts Championship. Though Deta Hedman and Fallon Sherrock tied the weekend on earnings, Hedman was granted the second spot on the tiebreaker with 85 legs won over the series to Sherrock's 83 legs won.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, Professional Darts Corporation Nordic & Baltic (PDCNB)
The Professional Darts Corporation Nordic & Baltic had 10 events scheduled. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, planned events in Copenhagen and Gothenburg were postponed. A planned season restart in Riga was also cancelled, and the season was settled based on the first two events.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, Professional Darts Corporation Asian Tour
The Professional Darts Corporation Asian Tour was scaled down to 10 events, taking place from August to November. The postponements were due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 11 August 2020 the Tour was cancelled.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, Dartplayers Australia (DPA) Pro Tour
The tour was suspended after the sixth event and was not restarted in 2020. Gordon Mathers, who was top of the DPA rankings at the time of the suspension, took the place at the 2021 PDC World Darts Championship.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, EuroAsian Darts Corporation (EADC) Pro Tour
Originally six events were due to take place on the EADC Tour, but owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, only the first three took place.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, Championship Darts Corporation (CDC) Pro Tour
The Championship Darts Corporation will host 8 events held over 2 weekends, one in the United States and one in Canada. Players are only able to enter the events held in their own country and the top player from each group of 4 events will qualify for the 2021 PDC World Darts Championship. There were originally due to be more events, but the schedule was heavily disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 PDC Pro Tour, Championship Darts Corporation (CDC) Pro Tour
Matt Campbell and Danny Baggish topped the Canadian and USA Series Order of Merits respectively and qualified for the World Championship.


2020 PDC World Cup of Darts
The 2020 BetVictor World Cup of Darts was the tenth edition of the PDC World Cup of Darts. It took place behind closed doors from 6–8 November 2020 at the Salzburgarena in Salzburg, Austria. The event was originally due to be held between 18–21 June 2020 at the Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg, Germany, but was postponed and relocated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was also relocated away from a second planned venue of the Premstättner Halle in Graz.


2020 PDC World Cup of Darts
Scotland were the defending champions, after defeating the Irish team of William O'Connor and Steve Lennon 3–1 in the 2019 final, Peter Wright and Gary Anderson did not defend the title for Scotland this year, as both withdrew from taking part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and were replaced by John Henderson and Robert Thornton, making Scotland the first defending champions of this tournament to be unseeded at the following tournament. The new-look Scotland team were beaten 2–1 by Wales in the second round.


2020 PDC World Cup of Darts
Wales, represented by Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton, won their first World Cup of Darts title by defeating the English team of Michael Smith and Rob Cross 3–0 in the final.


2020 PDC World Cup of Darts, Format
The tournament remained at 32 teams this year, with the top 8 teams being seeded and the remaining 24 teams being unseeded in the first round. As with recent years, the tournament is a straight knockout.


2020 PDC World Cup of Darts, Format
First round: Best of nine legs doubles. Second round, quarter and semi-finals: Two best of seven legs singles matches. If the scores are tied, a best of seven legs doubles match will settle the match. Final: Three points needed to win the title. Two best of seven legs singles matches are played, followed by a best of seven doubles match. If necessary, one or two best of seven legs singles matches in reverse order are played to determine the champion.


2020 PDC World Cup of Darts, Teams and seedings
All the countries that participated at the 2019 event returned for the 2020 event, although notably owing to the changes of personnel in their teams, neither Scotland nor Australia will be seeded at this tournament for the very first time. On 18 October, the Philippines expressed concerns due to logistics issue caused by COVID-19 travel restrictions, and have threatened to withdraw, but they were cleared to participate in the end.


2020 PDC World Cup of Darts, Teams and seedings
On 2 November, Singapore withdrew from the competition as Harith Lim couldn't fly to Austria, because of new regulations in Singapore (whereas his teammate Paul Lim was based in Hong Kong), so they were replaced by Portugal (represented by José de Sousa and José Marquês), while Kim Viljanen, Cristo Reyes and Xicheng Han of Finland, Spain and China respectively, were replaced by Veijo Viinikka, Jesús Noguera and Zizhao Zheng. On the eve of the tournament, the Chinese team of Zizhao Zheng and Di Zhuang were forced to withdraw after issues with their flights to Austria, with standby team Latvia, represented by Madars Razma & Janis Mustafejevs, taking their spot.


2020 PDC World Cup of Darts, Teams and seedings
The competing nations were confirmed following the conclusion of the 2020 World Grand Prix on 12 October, all players named on the seeded nations are the top 2 of each nation on the PDC Order of Merit, although team selection was subject to change. The Top 8 nations based on combined Order of Merit rankings on 12 October will be seeded.


2020 PDC World Cup of Darts, Results, Second round
Two best of seven legs singles matches. If the scores were tied, a best of seven legs doubles match settled the match.


2020 PDC World Cup of Darts, Results, Quarter-finals
Two best of seven legs singles matches. If the scores were tied, a best of seven legs doubles match settled the match.


2020 PDC World Cup of Darts, Results, Semi-finals
Two best of seven legs singles matches. If the scores were tied, a best of seven legs doubles match will settle the match.


2020 PDC World Cup of Darts, Results, Final
Three match wins were needed to win the title. Two best of seven legs singles matches followed by a best of seven doubles match. If necessary, one or two best of seven legs reverse singles matches were played to determine the champion.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship
The 2020 PDC World Darts Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2020 William Hill World Darts Championship) was the 27th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation. The event took place at Alexandra Palace in London from 13 December 2019 to 1 January 2020.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship
Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion, after defeating Michael Smith 7–3 in the 2019 final.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship
Raymond van Barneveld announced his intention to retire from professional darts with this tournament, playing his planned last match in the first round against Darin Young. He subsequently reversed this decision after a year out.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship
Fallon Sherrock became the first female player to win a match at a PDC World Championship, beating Ted Evetts 3–2 in the first round. She then went on to beat Mensur Suljović 3–1 in the second round, before losing 2–4 to Chris Dobey.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship
Peter Wright won his first World Championship, beating Van Gerwen 7–3 in the final.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification
The 2020 PDC World Darts Championship was the 27th World Darts Championship to be organised by the Professional Darts Corporation; and the thirteenth to be held at Alexandra Palace, London. It was held between 13 December 2019 and 1 January 2020, the culmination of the 2019 Professional Darts Corporation season.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification
96 players competed in the championship, with the thirty-two highest ranked players on the PDC Order of Merit being seeded to the second round, and the next thirty-two highest ranked players from the 2019 PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit and thirty-two players from the various qualifiers going into the first round.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification
Michael van Gerwen, the reigning champion from the 2019 championship, who also won the 2014 and 2017 championship, was top of the two-year PDC Order of Merit and number one seed going into the tournament, having won six of the ten premier singles events held since the previous championship. 2018 world champion and reigning World Matchplay and European champion Rob Cross took the second seeding. As well as Van Gerwen and Cross, two other previous PDC world champions qualified as seeds, two-time champions Gary Anderson (5th seed) and Adrian Lewis (13th seed). Three-time consecutive reigning BDO world darts champion Glen Durrant took the 27th seeding on his PDC debut. As well as Durrant, 17th seed Stephen Bunting and 25th seed Steve Beaton were also previous champions of the BDO World Darts Championship.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification
The top seeds below Van Gerwen and Cross were two-time Grand Slam of Darts winner Gerwyn Price, 2019 World Championship runner-up Michael Smith, Gary Anderson, 2018 Players Championship Finals winner Daryl Gurney and 2019 German Darts Masters champion Peter Wright. 2019 UK Open champion Nathan Aspinall was the 12th seed.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification
2019 Czech Darts Open champion Jamie Hughes, in his first year as a full PDC tour card holder, was the highest-ranked non-seed on the 2019 PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit. As well as Hughes, five other qualifiers from the Pro Tour made their PDC World Championship debuts; Harry Ward, Ritchie Edhouse, Mark McGeeney, Luke Woodhouse and Ryan Meikle.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification
2007 PDC world champion Raymond van Barneveld qualified via the Pro Tour in his final year before retirement. Both Van Barneveld and fellow Dutchman Jelle Klaasen were former champions of the BDO World Darts Championship who qualified via the Pro Tour. Other players to qualify through the Pro Tour included 2019 World Grand Prix semi-finalist Chris Dobey, 2019 PDC World Youth Champion Luke Humphries and the 2019 PDC World Cup of Darts finalists from Ireland, William O'Connor and Steve Lennon.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification
The final group of 32 qualifiers was determined by a series of international qualifiers and secondary tours. 2019 Brisbane Darts Masters champion Damon Heta, the first player to win a World Series of Darts event in their own country, topped the Dartplayers Australia rankings, while Keane Barry won the Tom Kirby Memorial Irish Matchplay to qualify, having already qualified to play in the Junior Darts Corporation World Championship final held during the tournament. Barry was the youngest player at the 2020 championships and the third youngest all-time.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification
Two qualifiers were held for female players. The UK & Ireland qualifier was won by Fallon Sherrock, the 2015 BDO Women's World Championship runner-up, while the Rest of the World Qualifier was won by Mikuru Suzuki, the reigning women's champion from the 2019 BDO World Darts Championship. The final three places went to the three winners of a tournament between unqualified Tour Card holders, the winners being Benito van de Pas, Kevin Burness and Matthew Edgar.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification
Fifteen international qualifiers made their debuts; Danny Baggish, Keane Barry, Matt Campbell, Damon Heta, José Justicia, Robbie King, Nico Kurz, Benjamin Pratnemer, Madars Razma, Ben Robb, Callan Rydz, Fallon Sherrock, Mikuru Suzuki, Ciarán Teehan & Yuki Yamada. Razma was the first Latvian ever to qualify for the PDC World Championship.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Background and qualification, Qualifiers
The top 32 from the PDC Order of Merit began the competition in the second round. The 32 highest ranked players on the PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit (not already qualified) and 32 qualifiers from around the world, including two female players, began in the first round.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Format
All matches were played as single in, double out; requiring the players to score 501 points to win a leg, finishing on either a double or the bullseye. Matches were played to set format, with each set being the best of five legs (first to three). For all rounds except the first, the final set had to be won by two clear legs, unless the set score went to 5–5, in which case a deciding leg would be played with the players throwing for the bull to decide who threw first.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Prize money
The prize money for the tournament was £2,500,000 in total – the same as in the previous year. The winner's share was £500,000. A special prize of £100,000 was available to any player who hits two nine-dart finishes, a feat which has never previously been achieved at any World Championship.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary
The top quarter of the draw saw number one seed & reigning champion Michael van Gerwen easily reach the quarter-final, recovering from losing the first set to Jelle Klaasen in the second round to win, before consecutive 4–0 victories over Ricky Evans and former BDO World Champion Stephen Bunting. Lithuanian Darius Labanauskas reached the quarter-final stage for the first time, knocking out seeds including world number 9 Ian White and former BDO Champion Steve Beaton. In the quarter-final, Van Gerwen triumphed over Labanauskas, 5–2, to qualify for the semi-final for the seventh time in eight championships.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary
In the second quarter, fourth seed & 2019 runner-up Michael Smith was eliminated in the second round following a 3–1 defeat to debutant Luke Woodhouse. Reigning UK Open champion Nathan Aspinall reached the quarter-final with wins over Krzysztof Ratajski and two-time World Champion Gary Anderson, while two-time World Youth Champion Dimitri Van den Bergh defeated Woodhouse and two-time World Champion Adrian Lewis to also reach the quarter-final. In that quarter-final, Aspinall won 5–3 to reach his second semi-final in two attempts at the World Championship.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary
In the third quarter, 2018 champion Rob Cross was an early exit, losing to Kim Huybrechts in the second round without winning a set. 2007 champion Raymond van Barneveld was another early faller, crashing out to American Darin Young 3–1 in the first round. Van Barneveld had planned to retire after this tournament, but after sitting out the 2020 season announced his intention to return for 2021. Reigning World Youth Champion Luke Humphries came through a sudden-death leg against Jermaine Wattimena in the second round before defeating Nico Kurz and Huybrechts to reach consecutive quarter-finals.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary
2014 runner-up Peter Wright survived a match dart at bullseye to win a sudden-death leg against Noel Malicdem in the second round, before beating Seigo Asada and Jeffrey de Zwaan to reach the quarter-finals, where he triumphed 5–3 over Humphries to reach the semi-final for the first time since the 2017 tournament.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary
In the fourth quarter, Fallon Sherrock defeated Ted Evetts in the first round, becoming the first female player to win a match at the World Championships, before following that win with a 3–1 victory over 11th seed Mensur Suljović in the second round. Sherrock's run, which PDC chairman Barry Hearn said could be the "dawn of a new era" for darts, was ended in the third round by Chris Dobey.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary
Third seed Gerwyn Price beat John Henderson and Simon Whitlock to reach his first World Championship quarter-final, while three-time reigning BDO World Champion Glen Durrant joined him in the quarter-final on his PDC debut with wins over sixth seed Daryl Gurney and Dobey. In the quarter-final Price dominated Durrant, winning 5–1 to reach his first semi-final.