Bull Stock Media

No one made multiple qualified rides in Thursday night’s PBR World Finals – Ride For Redemption so all it took was at least 87 points (and a win via tiebreaker to advance).

Elizmar Jeremias, Yan Victor Cunha, Felipe Furlan, Claudio Montanha Jr. and Daniel Keeping locked up the final spots.

Jeremias was named the winner of Ride For Redemption with an 89.5-point ride on Regulator after bucking off Snuggles in Round 1. It did not come with any UTB Points, he did, however, win $6,175. Jeremias will enter AT&T stadium this weekend third in the PBR Rookie of the Year race, trailing Hudson Bolton by 148 points.

Yan Victor Cunha broke the ice with the first qualified ride of the night, 88.25 points on Tchoupitoulas, and it ended up being enough to put him second in the event. He was 87 points the previous night on Army Slasher, making him the only cowboy to advance through both rounds of Ride For Redemption. The other four — Callum Miller, Bob Mitchell, Murilo Henrique de Oliveira, and Maverick Smith — all bucked off their first bull, which eliminated them. Prior to the World Finals, Victor Cunha had ridden in just one UTB event.

Felipe Furlan had a bittersweet advancement to the Championship Rounds, riding for Bad Bob for 87.75 points in Round 2. He moved into third place overall, but the man in fifth at the time was his hero, Joao Ricardo Vieira.

“He was an inspiration for me because he’s one of the older guys here and he’s probably the one that works harder,” Furlan told PBR.com via a translator. “When I have the opportunity to talk to him, he always says, ‘The one that wins is the one that persists.’ I took it for me.”

Other than Vieira, his countryman Claudio Montanha Jr. was the most decorated bull rider in the field Thursday and the 36-year-old veteran was able to scratch out another World Finals trip with an 87.5-point ride on Time Traveler.

The last spot truly came down to the wire as late in the night Daniel Keeping matched Thiago Salgado’s 87-point ride in Round 1 in Round 2. Because he was higher in the World Standings, Keeping snagged the final spot in the Championship Rounds. He was the lone American to make it out of Ride For Redemption.

The PBR World Finals concludes on May 17 and 18 at AT&T Stadium with all 20 remaining riders getting on two bulls a day.