FORT WORTH, Texas – Ahead of the second season of the ground-breaking PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Team Series, the Texas Rattlers today announced that their annual homestand, PBR Rattlers Days, will return to Dickies Arena October 6-8.
Tickets for the crucial final 2023 PBR Team Series regular season event go on sale Friday, March 10 at 10 a.m. CST, and start at $22, taxes and fees not included. They 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.
The Rattlers are Dallas-Fort Worth’s first-ever professional bull riding team, competing in the PBR Team Series, which transforms bull riding from an individual to team-formatted competition. Under the leadership of Head Coach and PBR co-founder Cody Lambert, the team features a talent-packed roster including Texans Joao Ricardo Vieira (Decatur), Daniel Keeping (Montague), Brady Oleson (Bowie) and Braidy Randolph (Stephenville).
During the 2023 regular season, each of the eight founding teams will compete in 28 head-to-head, five-on-five bull riding games, held across 10 events. The team with the highest aggregate score will be the game winner.
Each team will host a three-day homestand, welcoming the seven other teams, while also competing in two neutral site events, beginning with the season-launch event on July 24-25 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The season will conclude in Las Vegas Oct. 20-22 when the teams will go head-to-head in the PBR Team Series Championship, vying to be crowned the 2023 Team Series Champions.
PBR Rattler Days will mark the final regular season event of the 2023 PBR Team Series season, during which two teams will secure the coveted first and second seeds into the Championship event.
The Texas Rattlers will return to the arena keen to repeat their 2022 Rattler Days event win on the way to their first PBR Team Series Championship.
In 2022, the Texas Rattlers delivered an incredible second-half surge, winning a league-leading three events, including their inaugural homestand, and a record 10 consecutive games. Finishing the regular-season with a 16-12 record, the Rattlers earned one of two coveted byes into the Teams Championship in Las Vegas. Despite a loss in Round 2, the Rattlers rebounded in the last chance game to advance to the final day of the season, ultimately concluding 2022 third in the league.
During the offseason for PBR Teams, the Rattlers’ riders have proved a force on the premier individual tour, the PBR Unleash The Beast. Keeping briefly led the race for the World Championship courtesy of his two event wins to date, while Rafael Jose de Brito has caught fire, winning his first premier series event and cracking the Top 10 in the world. De Brito is currently No. 6 in the PBR World Standings and Keeping is No. 7, with both also battling atop the Rookie of the Year standings.
The Rattlers will be one of the featured bull riding teams in the highly anticipated upcoming docuseries The Ride, debuting later this year on Prime Video.
The bull riding action for the 2023 PBR Team Series’ Rattlers Days at Dickies Arena begins at 7:45 p.m. CT on Friday, October 6, 6:45 p.m. CT on Saturday, October 7 and 1:45 p.m. CT on Sunday, October 8.
Three-day ticket packages are available, offering fans a 15% discount on select price levels.
For more information about Ariat Texas Rattlers, visit https://pbr.com/teams/rattlers/, Texas Rattlers on Facebook, or @TexasRattlers_ on Instagram and Twitter.
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