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The 2006 Topic International Darts League was a darts tournament held in The Hague, Netherlands. The tournament was sponsored by Topic, a Dutch-based electronics software and hardware manufacturer.
It began as a tournament for BDO players but Dutch broadcaster SBS-6 invited five PDC/non-WDF players for the first time in this event, with Raymond van Barneveld's switch to the PDC earlier in the year being the vital part in that decision.
"ROUND ROBIN" BEST OF 11 LEGS. BEST TWO IN EACH GROUP GO FORWARD TO "ROUND ROBIN" ROUND TWO
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ROUND TWO "ROUND ROBIN" BEST OF 13 LEGS. BEST TWO IN EACH GROUP GO FORWARD TO QUARTERFINALS
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| Quarter Finals Best of 11 sets best of three legs per set May 10 | Semi Finals Best of 17 sets best of three legs per set May 11 | Final Best of 25 sets best of three legs per set May 12 | ||||||||||||
| PDC |  Raymond van Barneveld 100.29 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| WDF | Michael van Gerwen 97.14 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| PDC | Raymond van Barneveld 95.37 | 9 | ||||||||||||
| WDF |  Simon Whitlock 92.88 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| PDC |  Phil Taylor 101.52 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| WDF | Simon Whitlock 101.22 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| PDC | Raymond van Barneveld 99.54 | 13 | ||||||||||||
| PDC | Colin Lloyd 95.25 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| WDF | Ted Hankey 93.18 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| PDC | Colin Lloyd 86.55 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| PDC | Colin Lloyd 94.35 | 9 | ||||||||||||
| PDC | Roland Scholten 93.18 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| WDF | Martin Adams 94.50 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| PDC | Roland Scholten 86.79 | 6 | ||||||||||||
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