PUEBLO, Colo. – With the 2024 PBR Teams New Rider Draft the last offseason event separating each of the 10 PBR Camping World Team Series squads from their respective training camp ramp-up activities, the third year of 5-on-5 fun is merely a month away.

Knowing the Oklahoma Wildcatters are set to kick off year three with their first-ever homestand inside Paycom Center July 12-14 just over a month from now, the drama is climbing once again as teams begin to trim down their rosters and figure out who they’ll be going to war with this summer.

But for every head-to-head showdown that will comprise the 2024 campaign for all that it becomes, there’s a top-tier animal athlete that will be part of each of those equations. It’s man vs. beast after all, and with the PBR’s ever-talented bovines taking another victory lap this spring after dominating the collective Unleash The Beast pack for a second-straight session, we know they’ll be well-rested and ready to buck come July.

Which made us think back to last summer’s standouts, including the likes of eventual 2024 YETI World Champion Bull Man Hater, annual contenders Ridin’ Solo, UTZ BesTex Legend and beyond!

Knowing that the world’s most talented bulls will eventually combine their Top 2 scores from the 2024 PBR Teams circuit with their six most-productive outs during the upcoming 2025 slate, next year’s bovine world title race itself begins very soon …

… So know that when these bulls are competing this summer, they aren’t just bucking around.

They’re attempting to set themselves up for a run in 2025.

Looking back on the top scores from last summer’s slate, PBR.com is breaking down the Top 8 bull scores from the 2023 PBR Camping World Team Series campaign as we prepare to shift gears back to the camaraderie-driven competition!

No. 8: 45.75 points (Tulsa Time x Dalton Kasel) When he’s not going for 90 points as his nickname suggests, Dalton Kasel still knows how to show off a bull, qualified ride or not. Be it his aggressive nature in sacrificing a bit of positioning and control for an opportunity to spur and get his own score up or his slender frame and overall lighter weight, he’s been responsible for some of the flashier 90s throughout the past few seasons.

However, you (or in the summer series, your coach) have to pick your bovines wisely when looking to top the charts. And while we’ve seen the pair team up in the past for a positive ride score or two, it was Tulsa Time who earned the victory lap last season after ditching the Austin Gamblers athlete in a brief 1.65 seconds!

Earning the highest-scored ride marked within the 45-and-change category from last summer, which also represented the lone occurrence of the specific score, Tulsa Time turned in a career-high 45.75 points after allowing Kasel to earn a quality 90.25-point conversion a few weekends prior.

T-No. 5: 46 points (Hard Candy x Cassio Dias) One of three bull scores to come in at a well-rounded 46 points from the 2023 slate of 5-on-5 action, it was Hard Candy who paired up with the eventual 2023 PBR Teams MVP runner-up in Cassio Dias.

While Dias was arguably riding almost everything put underneath him during his breakout rookie season riding with the Kansas City Outlaws, we marked this one down to remember, as it was one of the few times it appeared Dias may have been indeed, mortal.

Dancing with the bovine for a sound 3.59 seconds during a Gambler Days showdown in Austin, Texas, he was eventually sent to the dirt less than halfway to the buzzer. Partially because of his own doing, but more so an ode to the bucking power the Valentine’s Day favorite provided from the very moment he roared out of the chutes.

Having been around since 2022, the animal athlete’s new career-high bull score of 46 points was awarded as the judges not only saw the bull’s work of art, but whom he accomplished it against!

T-No. 5: 46 points (Flyin Wired x Andrew Alvidrez) Just a few months after recording the highest-scored ride at the 2023 PBR World Finals: Unleash The Beast inside Dickies Arena, Missouri Thunder captain Andrew Alvidrez was feeling himself fresh off a campaign where he won consecutive event titles en route to powering himself to the No. 1 overall spot within the 2023 UTB rankings.

Typically accepting the challenge of going head-to-head with some of his team’s hardest bucking matchups weekend in and out when the summer series rolls around, he entered a showdown against Flyin Wired in year two as the circuit visited Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, last September.

Unfortunately for the Seminole, Texas, native, it was his bovine opponent who exited their first-and-only dance in the win column, courtesy of his professional-best 46-point bull score in Fort Worth, Texas.

T-No. 5: 46 points (Ridin’ Solo x Jose Vitor Leme) Having bested two-time YETI World Champion Bull Ridin’ Solo for an epic 94.75 points back in 2022 during an entertaining 15/15 Bucking Battle in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the two-time champ himself knew what he was opting into. However, the talented animal athlete improved to 2-1 all-time against Leme last summer at the tour’s 2023 iteration of Thunder Days in Ridgedale, Missouri.

Any time a pair of All-World athletes team up for a dance, we know fireworks are possible. But this time, the flowers went to the bovine, as he logged the final 46-pointer of the season. Representing one of the bull’s 17 professional outs to come at or above 46 points, there’s a reason he’s been an annual world title contender, regularly able to make quick work of even the world’s top-tier riders like Leme.

Sending the fellow two-time World Champion in Leme to the dirt in just 4.8 seconds, the bovine reminded Leme’s Gamblers teammates that the Brazilian is talented, but not invincible!

No. 4: 46.25 points (Man Hater x Leonardo Castro) There are a lot of ways to make one’s rookie debut against the eventual World Champion to-be. And if we had to guess, Outlaws’ rookie Leonardo Castro would’ve liked a re-do after bucking off Man Hater during 2023’s Rattler Days showcase. Not that he didn’t give his all, nearly exiting the showdown with a huge conversion, albeit eventually dispatched in 6.19 seconds.

But when Gene Owen and Jane Clark say they’ve found the next “superstar” bull, that’s not a name you’re looking to see next to yours too often in the draw.

Able to produce the fourth-highest score of the 2023 PBR Teams season, despite the pack executing more than 400 outs over the course of the summer, Man Hater wasn’t waiting around for his reputation to develop. And he sure doesn’t appear to skip leg day by any means!

J.W. Hart and Guilherme Marchi undoubtedly developed a reputation of their own for successfully scouting Brazilian talent. But the rookie just wasn’t ready to shine aboard one of the industry’s most revered bovines quite yet!

T-No. 2: 46.75 points (UTZ BesTex Legend x Sandro Batista) Each of the season’s Top 3-rated bull scores stemmed from the 2023 PBR Teams Championship inside the elegant T-Mobile Arena. And with Sandro Batista the only competitor of the three riders involved in said bovine-forward performances to currently have a spot on a squad in 2024, it says a lot about just how influential these outs could’ve been for both the world title-contending bulls and cowboys themselves.

Beginning with a showdown featuring Batista and the ever-rank UTZ BesTex Legend, who not only slung his opponent to the dirt in a brief 3.51 seconds during the second day of postseason action – but did so in helping to eliminate the Outlaws from a third day of competition, as they eventually dropped the game to the Arizona Ridge Riders.

And for the record, Legend doesn’t care what the circumstances are. He shows up ready for work, evident once again via his flashy 46.75 points of effort, which tied a career-high mark for the standout bucker who just turned in a No. 3 overall finish during the 2024 UTB campaign.

T-No. 2: 46.75 points (Man Hater x Qynn Andersen) One day later, on the final session of team-based Championship Sundays, it was Australian cowboy Qynn Andersen who found himself on the wrong end of a matching score. But this one was produced by the most talented bull of the year, No. 1 Man Hater.

Getting his back legs rather vertically right out of the gates, the bovine initially took a step right, as the scouting report suggested he would. But with a sudden change of heart, he decided to throw Andersen for a whirl, opting to finish his out rearing to the left, which instantly proved troublesome for the international talent.

Ejected to the dirt in a mere 3.32 seconds, he was lucky to exit with just his no-score, as the bovine spared him during an extra leap or two on the way out.

The craziest part about this out? It was Man Hater’s second-best out of the weekend.

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No. 1: 47 points (Man Hater x Trevor Reiste) Normally the rankest of moments are reserved for said Championship Sunday. But when it comes to Man Hater, he’ll punch the clock any day of the week. Any week of the year.

Noticeably enduring some of the bovine’s best stuff of the summer, the former Oklahoma Freedom talent in Trevor Reiste went flying forward over the bull’s shoulders, both doing a vertical flip while spinning horizontally, as if performing a figure skating move.

Thankfully, he was alright and able to exit the dirt under his own power. But that will be one of those rides he can look back on in 20 years with his kids and say “That’s a World Champion bull, for you.”

Photo courtesy of Andy Watson/Bull Stock Media