Days of ’47 Bull Riding Contestants

By: Justin Felisko
July 19, 2018

PUEBLO, Colo. – Thirty-two talented bull riders will be descending upon Salt Lake City, beginning on Thursday, for the upcoming Days of ’47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo at the Utah State Fair Park.

Bull riders from various organizations, associations and backgrounds will be competing in a unique format at the $1 million WCRA Rodeo.

Each winner of the nine rodeo disciplines will take home $50,000 and qualify for the next three $1 million WCRA rodeos.

The Days of ‘47 features four Semi-Final performances (July 19-21, July 23) and one Gold Medal Round (July 24).

Ten riders will compete in the Gold Medal Round. The top-two finishers from each Semi-Final performance advance to the Gold Medal Round. The final two spots will go to the two highest finishers from any of the four semifinal bull ridings that had failed to qualify.

CBS national television will air “B&W Trailer Hitches Days of ’47” on July 29 at 1 p.m. ET.

The winner of the bull riding gold medal will also earn 120 world points.

Rodeo athletes qualified for the Days of ’47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo in various ways.

Below is a list of the bull riding competitors, how they qualified and which Semi-Final performance they will be competing in.

THURSDAY, JULY 19 (How they qualified)

Four-time PRCA champion J.W. Harris (2018 Rodeo Houston Super Series)
2012 PRCA champion Cody Teel (PBR World Standings)
2011 PRCA champion Shane Proctor (2018 Fort Worth Super Shootout)
Garrett Smith (2017 Calgary Stampede)
Josh Frost (2018 DO47 Lewis Field Bulls & Broncs Event)
Stetson Lawrence (PBR World Standings)
Ty Wallace (2017 Days of ’47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo)
Cody Rodeo Tyler (2018 Des Moines, Iowa, RVT winner)

FRIDAY, JULY 20

Brennon Eldred (PBR World Standings)
Derek Kolbaba (PBR World Standings)
Chandler Bownds (2018 WCRA VRQ Standings)
Coleman Entze (2018 WCRA VRQ Standings)
Logan Beckett (2018 WCRA VRQ Standings)
Luke McCoag (2018 WCRA VRQ Standings)
Miles Englebert (2018 WCRA VRQ Standings)
Nick Goncalves (2018 WCRA VRQ Standings)

SATURDAY, JULY 21

Three-time PBR World Champion Silvano Alves (2018 WCRA VRQ Standings)
Alisson de Souza (2018 Casper, Wyoming, RVT Winner)
Colten Jesse (No. 1 rider in the Real Time Pain Relief Velocity Tour)
Dakota Buttar (PBR World Standings)
Fabiano Vieira (2018 Columbus, Ohio, UTB winner)
Jess Lockwood (2018 Sioux Falls, South Dakota, UTB winner)
Keyshawn Whitehorse (PBR World Standings)
Ouncie Mitchell (Wichita, Kansas, RVT Winner)

MONDAY, JULY 23

2016 PBR World Champion Cooper Davis (2018 RFD-TV’s THE AMERICAN)
Claudio Montanha Jr. (2018 Billings, Montana, UTB winner)
Cody Nance (2018 Albuquerque, New Mexico, UTB winner)
Dakota Louis (2018 Denver Rodeo All Star winner)
Jeffrey Ramagos (2017 Days of ‘47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo)
Rylan Wright (2018 DO47 Lewis Field Bulls & Broncs Event)
Tyler Bingham (2017 Days of ‘47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo)
Will Centoni — 2018 College National Finals Champion

Seven bull riders qualified through the WCRA’s virtual qualifier. Originally, only four would qualify this way, but four PBR riders turned out of the event and had to be replaced in the draw – World leader Kaique Pacheco, Eduardo Aparecido, Dener Barbosa and Valdrion de Oliveira.

The WCRA formula ranks rodeos/events using objective data to break the entire sport down into four divisions. Total payout is the greatest weighing factor that places each rodeo/event into each division.

Division 4 (Total payout $0-14,999 Nomination Fee – $50)
Division 3 (Total payout $15,000-$49,000 Nomination Fee – $100)
Division 2 (Total payout $50,000-$249,000 Nomination Fee – $150)
Division 1 (Total payout $250,000 or higher Nomination Fee –$200)

Once an athlete has nominated a rodeo/event, points will be awarded if/when the athlete places at the rodeo/event and earns money. Points are weighted differently for each division, and are scaled for go rounds and final rounds/aggregates.

The biggest beneficiary of the WCRA’s VRQ Qualifying system was three-time World Champion Silvano Alves.

The 30-year-old has nominated himself at various rodeos this summer as he tries to qualify for the NFR for the first time.

Alves is currently ranked second on the bull riding leaderboard with 52.5 points, according to the WCRA website.

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