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RETURN ON INVESTMENT
In the past 10 years, team roping as a whole has seen big payoffs, but it typically costs a couple of thousand dollars, or more, per entry. The NTR accomplishes big payoffs with fees of only a couple of hundred dollars per entry.

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Introducing The National 12
After seeing the payouts of the National Nine and National Eight the past two years, I’ve had a lot of requests from the higher-number ropers for the NTR to include a division for them also to compete for $100,000.

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NTR High Call
Cody Stahly, Rapid City, S.D., and Tyler Thorton, Box Elder, S.D., roped four steers in 32.18 seconds to take home $10,260 from the Western Frontier Finale. The Invitational was the highest paying roping of the three-day event held in Rapid City. For more Finale winners turn the page.

Western Frontier Finale Tour Recap
“My stepmom has a place in Queen Creek, and I have a step sister who has a place down there with her four kids,” Schieck explained. “I can go down and take my horses and rope once a year. Now with Ty’s finals being so good, that’s my one week a year I go to Arizona.

Western Frontier Finale
September 11 • 12 • 13 CENTRAL STATES FAIRGROUNDS RAPID CITY, S.D.

Taming The West
“It’s like golf,” Woolsey said of team roping. “One day you think you’re a hero and the next day you’re not. I love it because it’s competitive. We went to Oklahoma one year and I was third high team back for a lot of money and I missed that steer. Then I was hooked.

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Family Affair: From ranching to roping the Ballek family is united as one.
It was a huge summer in the National Team Roping Tour for the Ballek family of Clearmont, Wyo. Dan and Julie and their two kids, Misty and Cody, are regular competitors at many NTR events, both in the North, during the summer, and occasionally in Arizona during the winter months.

Rancho Rio
WICKENBURG, AZ.

TIBBS TOPS TRUCK ROPING
Kevin Tibbs, of Mitchell, South Dakota, won the Truck Roping at the NTR’s Cowboy Christmas in Rapid City, South Dakota, last July..

Battling Back
They’d had a great winter and at Reno were well inside the top 15. But they’d gone weeks without a single paycheck at the summer rodeos—and a week without money on the rodeo road is an eternity when you’re shelling out thousands in fuel, food and fees.

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NTR WINTER TOUR STOPS
Mar. 6-12 NTR National Finals, Wickenburg, AZ *.

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Snowbirds: Matt & Robin Wikum
Matt Wikum qualified for the NTR National Eight Finale at the Red, White & Blue tour stop in Gill, Colo., in July heeling for Josh Clarkson.

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