TACOMA TWO-STEP: This week, for the third consecutive season and 15th overall, PBR’s elite 2024 Unleash The Beast travels to Tacoma, Washington, for PBR Tacoma, presented by Cooper Tires, the twenty-second event of the 24-event 2024 individual season. The Tacoma Dome will host the PBR for two days of action on Saturday, April 20 at 6:45 p.m. PDT and Sunday, April 21 at 1:45 p.m. PDT:

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ALAN DE SOUZA SUPERB IN EVERETT: No. 2 John Crimber seemed in complete control earlier this week in Everett, winning Round 1 courtesy of an event-high 88.5-point outing on Try Me and Round 2 by making the 8 aboard Brown Bomber for 88 points. However, No. 5 Alan de Souza wouldn’t be denied, going a perfect 3-for-3 and spoiling Crimber’s incredible performance after the 18-year-old phenom was bested by Flapjack in a heartbreaking 7.66 seconds in the third to last out in the Championship Round. Souza began his flawless run to the event title on Get At Me for a modest 83.25 points before following that up with an 86.75-point dance with Smoke Down in Round 2. Knowing he needed to convert to jump to the top of the leaderboard, the Brazilian roared out of the chutes on Centerfold in the championship round and hung on for 85.5 points to take the lead. After no other rider was able to make the 8 in the final round, Souza was left victorious. The win in Everett, Washington, is his second career premier series victory and his first since Minneapolis, Minnesota, in October of 2019. While the Brazilian cowboy hadn’t found the win column yet this season, he has been a persistent presence inside the Top 10 of the Unleash The Beast standings, and is currently an impressive 29-for-53 (54%) on the top tour, trailing only No. 30 Jose Vitor Leme (9-for-14, 64.29%) in ride percentage. Souza attempts to keep rolling on Fort Knox in Round 1 on Saturday.

COOL WHIP CLOSES IN ON BUSHWACKER: Currently ranked No. 23 in the 2024 YETI PBR World Champion Bull race, Cool Whip has now bucked off 39 consecutive riders on the premier series after taking care of Mason Taylor in 3.18 seconds in the Championship Round in Everett, Washington, earlier this week, putting him just three buck offs short of Bushwacker’s historic 42-out run. That buck-off streak was the longest in premier series history, spanning from November 1, 2009, to August 16, 2013 and was ended by two-time PBR World Champion J.B. Mauney, who made the 8 for a monstrous 95.25 points in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Cool Whip’s streak dates back to May 12, 2022, when he bucked off the soon-to-be-crowned World Champion Daylon Swearingen in 3.91 seconds. After finishing fourth in the 2023 PBR World Champion Bull race, the powerful animal athlete has bucked off all nine riders he has faced on the elite Unleash The Beast this season and once again looms in the championship pen in Tacoma.

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