
Sioux Falls three-round format boosts winner to 100 points
Unleash The Beast comes to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for Stop No. 16, the First PREMIER Bank PBR Sioux Falls, at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center this weekend, Friday–Sunday. Sessions will run Friday and Saturday at 7:45 p.m. CT, with Championship Sunday at 1:45 p.m. CT. U.S. streaming coverage will be on Paramount+, the tour’s primary home this year, and coverage begins at 9:00 p.m. ET Friday and Saturday and at 3:00 p.m. ET Sunday.
Sioux Falls uses a three-round format that raises the aggregate winner’s points from 80 to 100 and offers deeper Top-10 payouts. Go-round points remain 20 for a win down to 7 for 10th. The stop is pivotal as riders chase World Finals points, with only 211 points separating the top five in the championship race and three regular-season stops remaining. Organizers say the outcome in Sioux Falls could reshape the World Championship picture ahead of the PBR World Finals, scheduled May 14-17 at Dickies Arena.
The weekend will feature the YETI World Champion Bull race, with contenders including Ransom and Pegasus. Several contenders are sidelined by injuries, including Jose Vitor Leme and Leandro Zampollo, and Keyshawn Whitehorse has been excused to be home. The Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour continues in Oakland the same weekend, offering alternate qualification pathways for riders trying to move up into Unleash The Beast.
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