CHALLENGER INFORMATION

In an effort to create more opportunities for all women rodeo athletes, the Women’s Rodeo World Championship (WRWC) has launched a tiering system based on earnings and rankings in the respective disciplines at the WRWC. This tiering system will level the playing field by dividing the pro and challenger athletes into their respective pools in the WRWC qualifying rounds and give each group a direct path to compete at center stage.

An athlete’s status as a Pro or Challenger will be determined based on earnings pulled at the start of the segment. All Challenger athlete earnings will be reviewed halfway through the segment (January 15, 2024) and if your earnings exceed the Challenger requirements, you will be promoted to the Pro leaderboard and your points will move with you. If you have earned any Qualifier Series Generic Qualifications, those will move to the Pro competition with you as well.

BARREL RACING CLASSIFICATION

You are a Challenger if your earnings do not exceed the amount listed below in any of the one defined time periods:

·       2018= $20,000 Annually
·       2019= $20,000 Annually
·       2020= $20,000 Annually
·       2021= $20,000 Annually
·       2022= $20,000 Annually
·       2023= $20,000 Annually
·       2024= $20,000 Annually
·       Lifetime Earnings = $100,000

Barrel Racing will use the Equi-Stat ranking system to determine the Challenger classification. Athletes are eligible to participate as a Challenger if their earnings for either (not both) time periods listed above are below the amount listed for that time period.

TEAM ROPING CLASSIFICATION

You are a Challenger Team Roper if…

At or below a #4.5 Header
At or below a #4.5 Heeler

*Based on the Global Handicaps System
All team ropers MUST show proof of current Global Handicaps, or Wrangler Team Roping Championships membership with classification number included to verify Challenger classification.

BREAKAWAY ROPING

You are a Challenger if your earnings do not exceed the amount listed below in any of the one defined time periods:

·       2018= $6,000 Annually
·       2019= $6,000 Annually
·       2020= $6,000 Annually
·       2021= $6,000 Annually
·       2022= $10,000 Annually
·       2023= $10,000 Annually
·       2024= $10,000 Annually
·       Lifetime Earnings = $30,000

Based on Virtual Rodeo Qualifier verified earnings in Breakaway Roping.

*Rodeo Logistics Athlete Classification (RLAC) is a proprietary rankings format developed by Rodeo Logistics and based on athlete earnings derived from select national and regional rodeo associations; select stand-alone events; WRWC 2020-23 events, and WCRA earnings from the 2018-23 calendar years. The RLAC database currently includes over 2,000 Breakaway Roping athletes.

Women’s Rodeo World Championship Leaderboard

The W24 Leaderboard will be separated by Pro’s and Challenger’s using each discipline’s earning classifications.

All athletes that nominate an event for the W24 segment, and earn points, will be placed on the respective leaderboard based on their individual earnings.

If there are any athletes that are classified as Challengers but would rather compete in the Pro Leaderboard, they must email support@wrwc.com within 72 hours of being placed on the W24 Leaderboard to declare their change. Once an athlete has earned over 100 points on the Pro or Challenger Leaderboard, they can no longer switch leaderboards.

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