Champions Awards Professional Bull Riders: Heroes and Legends Tours Statistics
Two-day events featured two preliminary rounds in which the top 45 bull riders who each rode one bull per night; the top 15 riders by score from these preliminaries rode in a short go-round, called the Built Ford Tough Championship Round in 2002, on the second night.
[4] Upon conclusion of the PBR's regular season, the 45 bull riders who had earned the most money in Bud Light Cup Series and Challengers Tour events combined qualified for the PBR Bud Light Cup World Finals in Las Vegas.
The Qualifier Standings showed which riders were in the hunt for a berth to the Bud Light Cup World Finals.
[5] Source:[5] After a small series of PBR-sanctioned events televised on The Nashville Network (TNN) with Bud Light as the primary sponsor took place in 1993, the organization had its first official season with a year-end world finals event in 1994, with TNN remaining its official television partner.
The inaugural PBR World Finals took place at Las Vegas, Nevada's MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Also, the number of riders on the BLC series increased from 30 to 45, and the top 45 money-earners based on money won at all PBR-sanctioned events would qualify for the World Finals.
Starting with the BLC event in Billings, Montana, the PBR adopted a half-point scoring system in their events (whereas in prior seasons they scored rides in whole points), a change that would remain in place until the end of the 2005 Built Ford Tough Series season (when a quarter-point system would be implemented full-time).
After five years at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, the PBR World Finals moved to Las Vegas' Thomas and Mack Center.