For as little as $10 (standard ticket fees may apply), fans will experience more than two hours of the world’s best bull riding athletes – cowboys and bulls – battling for the coveted Nampa Invitational event title and positioning for the $1,000,000 PBR World Championship title. Tickets can be purchased in person at the Idaho Center Box Office, online at www.ictickets.com, or by phone at 208 442 3232.

“Titanium Tough” cowboy and reigning Nampa Invitational champ, Luke Snyder (Raymore, Mo.); PBR superstars, J.B. Mauney (Mooresville, N.C.), Brendon Clark (Morpeth, AUS), Kasey Hayes (Liberal, Kan.), and Brian Canter (Randleman, N.C.), as well as home state favorite Wiley Petersen (Fort Hall, Idaho) who will be in attendance along with reigning PBR World Champion Guilherme Marchi (Leme, SP, Brazil).

The elite event will consist of four rounds of competition with the first three rounds featuring the top 40 bull riders matched against the PBR’s toughest bulls. The scores from the three rides will be combined and the riders with the top 15 scores will advance to the Built Ford Tough Championship Round after intermission on Sunday. In the end, the cowboy with the highest total score on four bulls will be declared the winner of the Nampa Invitational!

The Nampa event will be one of the featured stops on the 2009 Bull Team Challenge Tour where fourteen teams are competing for their a total tour purse of over $500,000. In stop number five of nine, the Bull Team Challenge will present $10,000 to the team whose total score is the highest for the weekend and $5,000 to the second-highest scoring team.

For more information and the official rules on the PBR’s 2009 Bull Team Competition, please visit http://www.pbrnow.com/competition/BullTeams.

The PBR is the premiere bull riding organization in the world, boasting contestants from the United States, Mexico, Australia, Brazil, and Canada. Its events air weekly on VERSUS, NBC, and FOX and in recent years it has been tagged the ‘fastest growing sport in the country.’ For more information on the Nampa Invitational, please visit www.pbrnow.com or contact Katharine Sherrer at 719 252 6967 or Anne Wiman at 719 289 6289.

Don’t miss out on any of the action at the 2009 Built Ford Tough World Finals in Las Vegas, Nev. The world-class event will take place on Oct. 30-Nov 1 and Nov. 5-8 at the Thomas & Mack Center---get your tickets NOW at 866.PBR.SHOW or unlvtickets.com!

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About the PBR:
More than 100 million viewers tune in each year to the PBR on FOX, NBC, ESPN, VERSUS, and on a host of foreign networks across the globe. With approximately 500 hours of prime time programming annually, PBR ranks among the most prolific sports on air, in addition to attracting over 1.7 million live event attendees each year with its multi-tiered event structure which includes the marquee Built Ford Tough Series, the Copenhagen Bull Riding Challenger Tour, the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Tour, and the Discovery Tour, designed specifically for entry level contestants. The PBR is headquartered in Pueblo, Colo., with additional offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico. The PBR prides itself in its 1,000 plus stock contractor relationships and over 1,200 PBR bull riders competing in more than 300 PBR sanctioned competitions in five countries.