Ready, set, GO as the premier series prepares to invade Allstate Arena for two nights of rank riding as the best bull riders in the world travel to Chicago for the seventh event of the 2024 Unleash The Beast campaign:

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RICHARDSON RISES TO NO. 1: Courtesy of back-to-back event wins in the Empire State fueled by strong rider-over-bull scores, Austin Richardson rose to the No. 1 spot in the Unleash The Beast Standings, overtaking No. 2 Cassio Dias, who had held the top spot for the past month. The young Texan is 6-for-7 across his past two events in Albany and New York City, making the most of his outs by averaging an impressive 2.5 rider over bull score in his six rides. Richardson is the third rider to climb to No. 1 this season

NO EXPERIENCE, NO PROBLEM: Three rookies currently sit in the Top 10 of the Unleash The Beast standings, as No. 2 Cassio Dias, No. 7 Julio Cesar Marques and No. 10 Kaiden Loud have all put together a strong start to their individual premier series careers. Dias’s remarkable season has been well documented as the No. 1 rider in the standings for a month. Marques and Loud have both posted solid outings in recent weeks, breaking into the Top 10 for the first time in their respective careers. A member of the Kansas City Outlaws in the PBR Camping World Team Series, Marques finished a career-best third in Albany last weekend before finishing seventh in Madison Square Garden last week. The Brazilian is currently four for his last seven and is set to face My Bad in Round 1 on Friday. Loud, a protected rider for the Nashville Stampede, has already proven his resilience on the premier series early in this season. After going 1-for-2 in Tucson, Arizona, in his UTB debut, the Texan was mired in a seven-out buckoff streak but finally found his top form in Albany to end the year, going a perfect 3-for-3 and finishing second. Parlaying that into another Top 15 finish in New York last weekend, Loud is starting to show the talent that led him to be the first pick in the second round by the Stampede in the 2023 PBR Teams Draft. He is paired with God Bless America in Round 1 on Friday

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