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DULUTH, Ga. – At the first neutral site PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Camping World Team Series event of the 2024 season this past weekend in Duluth, Georgia, the league’s reining Champion Texas Rattlers went 1-2 in game play, returning to the Lone Star State ranked No. 7 in the league.
As competition got underway, the Texas Rattlers took on the Florida Freedom. The Rattlers’ title-winning form was on full display, as Brady Oleson and Marcelo Procopio Pereira converted in the first two frames to lead them past Florida by 86.5 points, 174.25-87.75.
When Texas returned to Gas South Arena on Saturday night, they looked to repeat their success as they played the Arizona Ridge Riders. Texas, however, stumbled, falling to Arizona by two ride scores, 172-341.5. The 8-second efforts from Joao Ricardo Vieira and Brady Fielder, were not enough to hold off a hard-charging Arizona squad that went 4-for-5.
Texas then looked to conclude their outing inside Gas South Arena with a win against the 2022 PBR Teams Champion Nashville Stampede. The game marked the first time two PBR Teams World Champions played one another.
In uncharacteristic form, Texas was shutout by PBR’s bovine superstars, going 0-for-5 as they lost to Nashville 0-258.75.
Going 1-2 in Georgia, the Rattlers are now 2-3 across 2024. They slipped from No. 6 to No. 7 in the league, now trailing the No. 1 Carolina Cowboys by three games.
Merit Street Media will broadcast all three days of action from Gas South Arena. Viewers can watch on the Merit+ app or go to https://www.meritstreetmedia.com/channel-finder to find the Merit Street Media cable channel in their area. On-demand replays of all the PBR Teams action will be available the following day on the Merit+ app. RidePass on Pluto TV will also air Teams replays five days later.
The PBR Camping World Team Series will next travel to Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Florida, for Freedom Days, the third event of the 2024 season. The event will begin on Friday, August 2 at 7:45 p.m. EDT, Saturday, August 3 at 7:45 p.m. EDT and Sunday, August 4 at 2:45 p.m. EDT.
The Texas Rattlers will have a bye on the opening night of competition in Sunrise.
The Texas Rattlers will welcome the league for the third time from September 26-28. The 2024 edition of Rattler Days will begin at Cowtown Coliseum on Thursday, September 26, before travelling to Dickies Arena as the event concludes on Friday, September 27 and Saturday, September 28. The competition begins nightly at 7:45 p.m. CDT.
Tickets for Rattler Day action inside Cowtown Coliseum are on sale now and can be purchased AXS.com and PBR.com, the Cowtown Coliseum Box Office, or by calling PBR customer service at 1-800-732-1727.
Tickets for PBR Rattler Days at Dickies Arena are also on sale now, and can be purchased online at Ticketmaster.com and PBR.com, at the Dickies Arena Box Office, or by calling PBR customer service at 1-800-732-1727.
Three-day ticket packages for PBR Rattler Days at Cowtown Coliseum Dickies Arena are available, offering fans a 15% discount on select price levels.
Under the leadership of General Manager, Chad Blankenship, the Ariat Texas Rattlers are coached by PBR co-founder Cody Lambert, and owned by the Fisher Family and Leonard Firestone. In 2023, the Rattlers etched their name in the history books, crowned the 2023 PBR Teams Champions. The Ariat Texas Rattlers team, based in Fort Worth, will host its third Rattler Days homestand event September 26-28, 2023 at Cowtown Coliseum and Dickies Arena.
Fisher Family investments include footwear and apparel, real estate, timberland and forest products, and education and sports, including ownership of the Oakland Athletics (MLB) and San Jose Earthquakes (MLS). Through its Ariat brand, the Official Boot of PBR, the Fisher family have been longtime supporters of PBR. The family is actively involved with a number of philanthropic causes, including SFMOMA, The KIPP Foundation, and UCSF. Leonard Firestone is a Fort Worth entrepreneur and civic leader. He was a co-founder of the Firestone & Robertson Distilling Company, which is the producer of the highly regarded TX Whiskey and TX Bourbon brands. A former Fort Worth City Councilman, Firestone currently serves on the Board of Managers for the John Peter Smith (JPS) Health Network serving the healthcare needs of Tarrant County.
ABOUT THE PBR CAMPING WORLD TEAM SERIES:
The PBR Camping World Team Series is an elite league featuring the world’s top bull riders competing on teams in five-on-five games leading to a Team Championship at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. During the 2024 season, the league’s third, each of the 10 teams – Austin Gamblers of Austin, TX; Arizona Ridge Riders of Glendale, AZ; Carolina Cowboys of Greensboro, NC; Florida Freedom of Sunrise, FL; Kansas City Outlaws of Kansas City, MO; Nashville Stampede of Nashville, TN; New York Mavericks of Brooklyn, NY; OK; Oklahoma Wildcatters of Oklahoma City, OK; Missouri Thunder of Springfield, MO; and Texas Rattlers of Fort Worth, TX– will host a homestand. Neutral-site games in Anaheim, CA and Duluth, GA are planned as well.
PBR Teams, launched in July 2022, builds on the existing structure of professional bull riding with the same basic rules for judging and scoring qualified 8-second bull rides. In events staged in a tournament-style format, all teams compete in head-to-head matchups against a different opponent each day. Each game features five riders per team squaring off against another team. Full team rosters are comprised of seven riders on the Protected Roster and five Reserve riders. The team with the highest aggregate score of qualified rides among its riders is declared the winner of each game. All PBR Teams events are carried on either the CBS Television Network, streaming live on Paramount+, or Merit Street Media.
