LAS VEGAS (October 19, 2010) - The Professional Bull Riders on Tuesday announced the judges and Dickies® DuraBullfighters for the 2010 Built Ford Tough World Finals as voted by the Top 40 riders on the elite Built Ford Tough Series.
The Dickies DuraBullfighters are Joe Baumgartner, Jesse Byrne, Shorty Gorham and Frank Newsom. The judges will be Lane Foltyn of El Campo, Texas, Paulo Crimber of Decatur, Texas, Dean Randolph of Canyon, Texas, and Chuck Lambert of Vado, N.M. Jeff Shearer of Loma Rica, Calif. will be the replay judge.
Baumgartner has been chosen by the riders to work all 17 years since the Finals began in 1994 while it is the sixth year in a row that Newsom has been selected. Gorham is making his fifth consecutive appearance and Byrne, who is the first Canadian chosen to work the Finals, is making his third, including being selected as an alternate in 2008.
The 2010 PBR World Finals begin Wednesday, Oct. 20, and continue through Sunday, Oct. 24, with bull riding beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. Tickets begin at $21 and can be purchased at the Thomas & Mack Center box office, online at www.unlvtickets.com and by telephone at 866-PBR-SHOW.
The 2010 PBR World Finals will be televised on VERSUS at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and on NBC at 4 p.m. ET on Sunday.
For more information on the World Finals please visit www.pbr.com.
The Finals consist of six rounds of competition. The first five rounds feature all of the riders matched against the toughest bulls. The scores from the five rides will be combined, and the Top 15 riders will advance for an additional round of competition, following the completion of Round 5 on Sunday, Oct. 24.
The 2010 PBR World Champion will be the rider with the most Built Ford Tough Series points accumulated during the regular season and the World Finals. There are a potential 5,500 points available at the World Finals, so any one of the Top 10 riders heading into Las Vegas has the opportunity to win the title. The 2010 PBR season has been the most competitive ever, with 21 different event winners led by top-ranked Austin Meier of Kinta, Okla., with five victories.
Meier leads the BFTS standings with 10,891.75 points, 241.25 points ahead of second-ranked J.B. Mauney of Mooresville, N.C., and 1,300.75 points ahead of third-ranked Renato Nunes of Buritama, Brazil. The standings lead has changed 11 times during the year, with six different riders ranked first. Meier and Mauney have each been ranked first three different times, while Nunes has been on top twice.
About the Professional Bull Riders, Inc. (PBR)
The PBR is the world’s premier bull riding organization. More than 100 million viewers annually watch over 400 hours of primetime PBR programming on VERSUS, NBC, CBS and networks around the world. The PBR has awarded over $100 million in prize money and 20 riders have earned over $1 million including Justin McBride with $5.5 million, the most of any western-sports athlete in history. The PBR was nominated as 2010 Sports League of the Year at the Sports Business Journal Sports Business Awards alongside the National Football League, National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball. Nearly two million fans attend elite Built Ford Tough Series and Touring Pro Division events each year. For more information on the PBR, go to www.pbr.com, or follow on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TeamPBR and http://twitter.com/TEAMPBR.
About Dickies
Dickies® is the leading global brand of innovative and trusted work wear. The brand has an unwavering commitment and proud heritage of providing tough, quality clothing to workers for more than 88 years. The Dickies brand has grown from bib overalls to World War II U.S. military uniforms to its iconic original 874® work pant, to footwear, and much more. Embraced by workers everywhere, Dickies is defined by the people who wear our apparel – independent, no nonsense and a little rough around the edges. As the signature brand in the portfolio owned by Williamson-Dickie Mfg Co., Dickies products are available in more than 60 countries worldwide. For more about Dickies, visit www.dickies.com.
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