PBR GLOBAL CUP TO DEBUT IN EDMONTON, AB NOVEMBER 9-11, 2017
Riders excited to join forces with countrymen to battle for a global title.
Which country will take home the crown?
3-Day Packages on sale February 28, 10:00 AM at RogersPlace.comWhich country will take home the crown?
$1,000,000 Purse on the Line for the World’s Best Bull Riders
PBR (Professional Bull Riders) and Oilers Entertainment Group (OEG) today announced Rogers Place in Edmonton,
AB will be the first-ever Canadian host of the PBR Global Cup on November 9-11, 2017.
The three-day event will feature the world’s best bull riders from
Canada, the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Australia, all competing
for their country and a Canadian-record
purse of $1,000,000.
3-Day ticket packages for this highly-anticipated event begin at $190 and go on sale to the public at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, February 28 at RogersPlace.com.
The
Edmonton event will award the largest purse for bull riding in Canada
and the second-largest payout in North America, next to the PBR World
Finals in Las Vegas. A first-of-its-kind event for Rogers Place,
Edmonton will welcome the best bull rider and best bulls from around
the world as PBR headlines a celebration of western lifestyle with other
community events and festivities planned across the city.
On Thursday, November 9,
Rogers Place will be the scene for the Canadian National Team Qualifier
event, following the multi-city Monster Energy Canada Tour. On November 10 and 11,
forty of the world’s top cowboys,
including 12 from Canada will then compete in the PBR Global Cup – a
year-long tournament that will visit five countries to decide which
nation can claim to be the world’s best bull riding nation. Each
participating country – the US, Australia, Brazil, Canada
and Mexico – will host a three-day PBR Global Cup event. Similar to the
format in Edmonton, the first day will feature a Nation Team qualifier
with the Global Cup competition held the remaining two days.
The full Global Cup schedule at iconic settings around the world will be announced at a later date.
“Each
year, the PBR crowns a world champion, which is an extraordinary
individual honor. But sports is also a team endeavor, and the PBR Global
Cup adds a new team element to our sport,
allowing a band of bull-riding brothers to battle on their native soil
in a quest to call themselves the best in the world,” said Sean Gleason,
CEO, PBR. “When the world’s best come to Rogers Place as fellow
countrymen and teammates competing for national
pride, the excitement and drama is sure to kick up. We are thrilled to
partner with OEG on this competitive enhancement to the PBR, which will
headline an important western lifestyle festival.”
“There
is no better venue for PBR than Rogers Place, one of North America’s
premier and most technologically advanced sports and entertainment
venues. We will give
fans of the sports and people looking for an amazing time an experience
like nothing else, with the best bull riders and best bulls competing
for the PBR Global Cup,” said Bob Nicholson, OEG Vice Chair & CEO.
“Edmonton’s future is bright as we see ICE District
changing the face of sports and entertainment in our city, but our
roots are firmly planted in western lifestyle and community, which is
right at the heart of the PBR experience.”
With
each country hosting a battle on their native soil to establish a new
world order in fan and rider bragging rights for the title of Toughest
Nation on Dirt, the Global Cup Trophy will
be made of five vessels representing each participating country. The
winning country at each event will get to take the host nation’s dirt in
their piece of the Trophy, which is now being designed by Montana
Silversmiths. ~PBR Media
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