The 11 teams will include seven Sponsor teams and four Rotational teams. The Sponsor teams will be partially drafted and partially filled by rotation as follows: From the top 15 eligible contestants from the year-end 2015 PRCA and/or WPRA World Standings each Sponsor team will draft two (2) franchise contestants from any separate events they choose and also randomly draw two additional event contestants, giving them a total of four drafted contestants. These four contestants will participate in all 2016 Champions Challenge events for the team that drafted them. The remaining three contestant positions will be filled by each team, prior to Rotational Team selections, based upon the remaining top eligible 2016 PRCA and/or WPRA World Standings 30 days prior to each Champions Challenge rodeo. For only the Rapid City (S.D.) and Scottsdale (Ariz.) Champions Challenges, these contestant positions will be based upon year-end 2015 PRCA and/or WPRA world standings. The Coors team will be allowed to draft all seven contestant positions, will keep the same team members all season and will not be subject to the above requirement to rotate team members.
The four Rotational Teams will have all contestant positions filled by the next highest unselected eligible contestants in the PRCA and/or WPRA 2016 world standings 30 days prior to each Champions Challenge rodeo.
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: PRCA Statement
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: The following statement was sent to RFD-TV
: on 1-13-16:
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: The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association
: has worked hard to schedule its events to
: ensure that its members are able to compete
: in the longstanding PRCA events in San
: Antonio, Texas, and Scottsdale and Tucson,
: Ariz., on the weekend of February 27-28. As
: the short round of San Antonio is on
: Saturday night and Tucson’s short round is
: on Sunday afternoon, Sunday night was the
: best option for the Scottsdale Wrangler
: Champions Challenge within the PRCA
: schedule. To be clear, the date and time of
: the 2016 Wrangler Champions Challenge in
: Scottsdale was set months prior to the
: announcement of the American being scheduled
: on the same weekend as these three
: longstanding PRCA rodeos. Finally, tickets
: to the Scottsdale event have been on sale
: for quite some time.
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