PBR | Top 8 ride scores from 2024 Unleash The Beast campaign

PUEBLO, Colo. – Rightfully so, PBR turned its attention to the enticing PBR Camping World Team Series just days after seeing a pair of 2024 World Champions in Cassio Dias and Man Hater complete their standout campaigns inside AT&T Stadium.

And with the 2024 PBR Teams New Rider Draft officially in the books, with budding superstars in John Crimber, Clay Guiton, Marco Rizzo and beyond set to begin settling in with their new 5-on-5 squads, we couldn’t help but look back at the proving grounds in which many of this year’s rowdy rookies embraced the limelight in establishing themselves as top talents.

Not to mention a healthy sprinkle of veterans continuing to remind the collective premier series pack that they still have what it takes to compete with the first-year riders.

Taking a look at some of the individual season’s rankest highlights, PBR.com is breaking down the Top 8 ride scores from the 2024 Unleash The Beast campaign as we drum up some additional excitement for the 2024 PBR Teams season, set to begin in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, inside Paycom Center July 12-14, home to J.B. Mauney’s Oklahoma Wildcatters!

T8: 91.75 points (Cassio Dias x Cy Young) One of four dances to meet the 91.75-point mark throughout the tour’s most recent premier series campaign, Cassio Dias didn’t waste any time in reminding fans and riders alike just how elite his rookie PBR Teams season riding with the Kansas City Outlaws was.

Not to mention coming up just one qualified ride short of edging out two-time PBR Teams MVP and Austin Gamblers rider Jose Vitor Leme with the highest season-long aggregate score. But if anything, the scenario may have provided the 22-year-old some extra motivation for what ended up becoming a world title-earning effort during his first complete season competing on Unleash The Beast! Perhaps the most insane part of the mark? It continues to rank as just the cowboy’s fourth-best ride of the year!

T8: 91.75 points (Dalton Kasel x Doze You Down) Matching the eventual 2024 PBR Rookie of the Year’s mark just over a month later in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one round ahead of one of the industry’s most explosive short round sessions ever, Dalton Kasel exited his head-to-head showdown against Doze You Down with an epic effort.

Earning one of his six regular season round victories via the 91.75-point conversion, “Mr. 90 Points” was alive and well as he put on a show in the heart of bull country! Representing his best-scored out of 2024 and one of his three 90s on the season, he’ll undoubtedly play a big role for his Austin Gamblers squad once again this summer. A squad that’s reloaded and ready to get over the hump after acquiring 2018 World Champion Kaique Pacheco during the offseason.

T8: 91.75 points (Joao Ricardo Vieira x Flyin Wired) As one of an unthinkable seven riders to meet the coveted 90-point mark during the absolute mayhem unfolding inside BOK Center back in January, veteran Joao Ricardo Vieira stamped his 2024 resume with a big win, courtesy of his epic out aboard Flyin Wired.

Besting each of the competitive event’s six other contests to come in above the 90-point mark, he turned in a chart-topping 91.75-point go en route to staying perfect on the weekend (3-for-3) and tying Gary Richard as the oldest rider in PBR history to win a premier series event at 39 years old. With two other cowboys staying flawless on the weekend as well in John Crimber and Wingson Henrique da Silva, the 2023 PBR Teams Texas Rattlers Champion couldn’t have picked a better time to produce his highest score of the year.

T8: 91.75 points (Kaiden Loud x Doze You Down) Sure, it was Crimber and Dias who ultimately shined brightest during the last of three mid-May postseason stages. But it was Nashville Stampede star Kaiden Loud who commanded the attention of the pack during the 2024 PBR World Finals: Unleash The Beast – Eliminations inside Cowtown Coliseum.

Continuing the trend of riders able to survive the requisite 8 seconds of greatness aboard a transitioning talent money bull in Doze You Down, Loud recorded the highest-scored ride of his career and second overall 90-point mark en route to powering himself to become the event’s eventual winner, collecting a large check for $150,000 in the process as he outrode Dias, Crimber and each of the other 42 riders who gathered inside the historic venue May 9-12. Eventually exiting his rookie season ranked No. 6 overall, he was the only man throughout World Finals to string together five rides, with 2024 PBR World Finals event winner Sage Steele Kimzey stealing the buckle courtesy of his 3-for-4 effort inside AT&T Stadium.

No. 4: 92.5 points (Cassio Dias x Ricky Vaughn) When you lead the tour with a rookie record-shattering nine 90-point conversions, you’re 100% going to show up in the Top Ride recaps several times, just as 2024 World Champion Cassio Dias has. Somehow just his third-best effort of the season by ride score, it may have ultimately been the most clutch of his career, as he delivered the qualified ride just seven days after being back-boarded out Cowtown Coliseum with a back injury.

But when you continue to live and learn alongside the likes of J.W. Hart and Guilherme Marchi, his PBR Teams coaches, you’re going to show up and give it your all, regardless of health. Exactly what Dias did, despite being backed into a corner by a surging John Crimber, who did everything in his power to come from behind and attempt to upset his fellow rookie. Dias, however, delivered, throwing doing an extremely rank 92.5-point out during the final afternoon of 2024 attempts!

No. 3: 93.25 points (Cassio Dias x Man Hater) If you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk. In our case, he’s going to ask for a rematch with the very bull that most riders aren’t too thrilled to see their name next to. But for an exceptional talent like Dias has proven to be, you lean into those types of matchups, if not continue to excel in them. And, well, Dias continues to chose the latter, unafraid of 2024 YETI World Champion Bull Man Hater or any of the tour’s chart-topping animal athletes!

While the score itself came in a little less potent than the first time the duo danced in Los Angeles, it still continues to rank as the Kansas City Outlaws star’s second-best effort. Securing one of many round wins via his epic 93.25 points of greatness, it was just another day in the life for the runaway rookie, who used the conversion to propel himself to one of his endless Top 3 performances during his World Championship campaign.

No. 2: 94.75 points (Cassio Dias x Man Hater) Opting into another short round dance with one of the best in the game, Dias knew he had the skillset to break Man Hater’s ever-growing buckoff streak. Which is why he chose the bull in the first (and second) place.

When we say Crypto.com Arena exploded in approval when the banged-up rider (who nursed a knee injury for a majority of his midseason stretch), we MEAN it, as hats went flying, announcers went wild and Dias donned his famous dance and wave. Apart from Crimber’s eventual season-best effort inside AT&T Stadium, this was THE ride of the season. Nothing against Big Bank, but anytime the world’s No. 1 rider converts atop the world’s No. 1-ranked bull, it’s very much a spectacle!

No. 1: 95 points (John Crimber x Big Bank) Arguably the most dramatic conversion of the 2024 slate and easily the most productive for the trending 18-year-old star in John Crimber, the future Florida Freedom cowboy gave Championship Sunday’s audience 95 reasons to jump out of their seats and go CRAZY on the final night of the season.

Celebrating with a lofty helmet fling before presenting himself to the crowd with his arms extended in celebration, the tour’s eventual runner-up (albeit by a mere 238.5 UTB points) returned back to the chutes and received another embrace from his father and soon to be coach, Paulo Crimber, who couldn’t be more proud of his son’s UTB-best effort.

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