ATLANTA - Bigger venues and new formats bring with them new configurations for bucking chutes and back pen areas.

"I actually enjoy the challenges of configuring something different," said Jerome Robinson, who has been heading the PBR production team since 1994, and is busy preparing the Georgia Dome for the first of four Built Ford Tough Series stadium events.

"There's no real extra stress - not on my crew anyway," he said. "There's a lot of extra work that we normally don't have, but there's a lot of work we normally have that is eliminated, too."

'There's a lot of extra work that we normally don't have, but there's a lot of work we normally have that is eliminated, too.'

One time-consuming task that has been eliminated for the stadium events is building the "people pens," as they're affectionately known as, that typically sit 10 feet above the bucking chutes. Robinson called it the "least appealing job on the whole tour."

The heavy steel structure takes longer than the rest of the arena for Robinson's crew to assemble.

This week's stadium event is set up like two arena configurations. The typical configuration in a hockey or basketball arena is 85 feet wide, while the one designed for the Georgia Dome is 185 feet wide.

"Setting up two areas and the extra pens is essentially the same as putting up one arena and a VIP platform," Robinson said.

The 12 bucking chutes - two sets of six separated by a 12-foot centerpiece - span what would be the 50-yard line for an Atlanta Falcons game, while the front-of-house production area and in-arena announcers are on a stage that would essentially sit in the end zone.

For Jerome Robinson and his crew, new venues are old hat. They built a bull riding arena in Times Square in 2010, and well, if they can make it there, they'll make it anywhere.

Instead of two truckloads of steel fencing, the crew unloaded three trucks' worth of paneling, because additional bull pens are being built to serve as bull housing.

Most of the bulls arrived Friday evening, and will be loaded out immediately following the event. Normally, bulls are housed at ranches that can be anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours from the event.

"We had plenty of room, so we built extra pens for them, and then we'll move them up into the more confined holding pens for the event," Robinson explained.

 "We have twice as many pens to work with, so you wouldn't have to be too sharp. In some of the smaller buildings, it amazes me some of the work that our crew does to accomplish what they do …  We have twice the pens we normally have. In Baltimore, we had 60 bulls in there and no way of getting them in or out, so that doesn't allow for very much error."

'In some of the smaller buildings, it amazes me some of the work that our crew does to accomplish what they do.'

Robinson's crew unloaded everything in Atlanta Tuesday, the dirt was hauled in Wednesday, and then Thursday and Friday, the arenas were assembled and readied for Saturday night's event, with a walkthrough and last-minute adjustments made Saturday morning.

Atlanta and Detroit will have very similar configurations, while Houston and Dallas will use the entire stadium floor with a set of three or four bucking chutes in each of the four corners of the two end zones.

Houston and Dallas will also feature a center stage in the middle of the stadium floor. Unlike in Dallas, where the two ends are separated by a walkway, the two sides in Houston will not be divided.

TUNE IN TONIGHT: Action from the Georgia Dome will be broadcast Saturday on NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus - same number, new name) at 9 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. CT, 7 p.m. MT, and 6 p.m. PT.