Rules & Regulations

Players eligible to participate in PERFECT Malaysia tournaments are:

PERFECT Malaysia tournaments are conducted as follows:

Round Robin group assignments are determined by draw no later than the day before the tournament. The group draw may be conducted either online or offline.

All participating players must comply with the official PERFECT Malaysia Tournament Rules & Regulations. Players may participate after completing the required registration and paying the applicable participation fee.

A player who pays the applicable PERFECT Pro Annual Fee and enters a tournament is deemed to have agreed to comply with these regulations.

All participating players must complete tournament registration within the designated registration period. If more than one third of participating players fail to register on time for any reason, the Tournament Operations Headquarters may suspend or postpone the tournament.

If the absent referee was assigned during the Preliminary Round, the player assigned as referee is disqualified. If the absence occurs during the Final Tournament, the assigned referee receives a warning.

Players must remain available until they have completed any referee duty assigned for the following match. Leaving without permission, or failing to perform assigned referee duties, may result in a warning.

Once a match begins, only the competing players and the referee may enter the playing area — the space between the table and the darts machine. An exception may be made where authorised personnel are required to resolve a machine issue.

Players must remain sufficiently behind the player who is throwing and must not interfere with or distract them.

However, if the opponent raises the issue with the referee before throwing their first dart, the incorrect leg will be void and must be replayed.

Before each match, both players are permitted, on the assigned tournament machine:

If the referee determines that the match has been clearly interrupted, both players may be allowed an additional six darts of practice.

Machine mis-scoring may be corrected after confirmation by both players and the referee.

Machine reaction takes priority. Scores are determined based on the machine's registered reaction.

Players must play according to the official Round Robin table prepared from the group draw.

If a player is disqualified or withdraws while matches remain, all matches played by that player are void and group standings are recalculated using only the results of the remaining players.

Players must check all results entered on the Round Robin table. Once the table has been submitted to the Operations Headquarters, errors cannot be corrected even if discovered later.

The referee assigned to each Preliminary Round match must record the match result on the Round Robin table. If a match result is omitted during an ongoing Round Robin, both the player and the referee may be disqualified.

If a result is submitted without the player's signature, the submitted result is still treated as official, even if it contains an error.

Players are responsible for checking their qualification status and the published bracket.

The PPD from the final leg is not included when calculating Average PPD.

If an error in the bracket is discovered after the Final Tournament has started, the Operations Headquarters may decide not to correct it where correction is no longer reasonably possible due to elapsed time.

Match Cards are prepared by the Operations Headquarters for use during the Final Tournament.

If an error is discovered later and correction is no longer possible because of elapsed time, the tournament may continue using the submitted result. If a player submits an incorrectly completed record without checking it, the submitted result stands — though if both players agree, it may be corrected to the original result.

PERFECT Malaysia manages sponsor advertising used during its tournaments. Players may not wear uniforms displaying advertisements for products, companies or brands that have not received prior approval from PERFECT Malaysia.

Approval must be requested according to the official PERFECT Malaysia Uniform Regulations published on the official website.

All players must complete the participation check while wearing their official tournament attire. Player attire must be suitable for a professional sports competition, and the Operations Headquarters may refuse participation if a uniform is considered inappropriate.

Female players may wear skirts provided the skirt length is below the knee.

The tournament host and Operations Headquarters have authority to sanction players who violate these regulations, and may deny participation on the day where a player's attire does not comply. Players unsure whether a uniform complies must submit an image to PERFECT Malaysia for approval before participating. All costs related to tournament uniforms are the responsibility of the participating player.

Tournament darts must clearly consist of:

The tip must be made of smooth, needle-shaped plastic.

Tournament darts machines must be approved by PERFECT Malaysia.

② Cancel function — the machine must allow cancellation of the previously registered dart at least:

Adjacent scoring segments must use different colours to allow clear distinction.

The effective target area is measured according to the centreline of the spider.

The back edge of the raised oche must align with the front edge of the throw line.

If the game ends after one or two darts, the remaining darts do not need to be thrown. Players alternate throwing turns.

All darts must be thrown from behind the oche. When throwing from either side, the player must remain behind the imaginary extension of the oche line. Players must not cross the designated playing-area boundary between machines.

A score obtained while any part of the player's foot crosses the front edge of the throw line will not be recognised. The opponent must report the violation to the referee.

A dart thrown before the player's proper turn will not be recognised as a valid score. Manually operating the machine to register such a dart is also not permitted.

Feigning or faking a throw after entering the set-up position is prohibited. The set-up position begins once the player's centre foot has entered the throwing position.

When the 40-Second Rule is activated, the player must complete their throw within 40 seconds.

The rule applies to both players, including the player who requested it. The 40-second period is measured from the time one player retrieves their darts and returns behind the throw line until the opposing player completes their turn and returns behind the throw line.

The score and Cricket marks recorded during that round are void.

In the final leg, the coin toss and diddle determine both starting order and game-selection rights.

Each player throws one dart toward the centre of the board. The player whose dart is closest to the centre of the bull wins the diddle and receives the applicable right to choose first throw, second throw, or game selection. The throwing order for the diddle is determined by coin toss.

The first player's dart remains in the board. However, if the first dart lands in the centre hole, the second player may ask the referee to remove it before throwing. Players continue throwing until a dart remains stuck in the board.

Referees for the Preliminary Round are assigned according to the order shown on the Round Robin table. For the Final Tournament, the loser of the previous match acts as referee for the following match.