How Are Rodeo Team Ropers Ranked?

Video Transcript

"This is Randall Powell for Expert Village and in this clip I am going to tell you about the numbering system when they classify you to become a team roper. When you just start roping, you want to be honest. Really, really honest with the people that you join their organization. You become a member of their organization and you need to be honest and let them know how well you rope or how well you don't rope or how bad you rope. They are going to classify you and give you a number. When you first start out, your number is going to probably be a 2 or 3, a really low number. If you are in the TRA or OTRA, it might be a half and as you get older and progress at your roping skills and get better, they just raise your number ever so often. Usually when you win roping's though they will raise their number and the numbering system is how they determine what roping's you are in. If there is a number 9 roping, that would consists of a 5 and a 4. You know a 5 header and a 4 heeler or vice versa, their numbers have to add up to be the number of the roping. If you are like in a 9 roping and you are 5 and your partner is a 3, you can still rope even though you are still just an 18 but you can't rope if you are a 10 team. Like if you are a 5 and your partner is a 5, you can't rope in the 9. If you are an 18 in the 9, then they have incentives which you can rope and get seconds off or they will pay you after a short average of how many head you brought to your incentive team. So they try and let everybody rope, that is as good or not as good in the roping. So from the 9 and under, like I said a 5 and a 4 would be a 9, 5 and a 3, or 4 and 3, anyone of those could rope in the 9's just based on how well your rope is, what number you are going to have when you start roping. Maybe that will help you in knowing how to become a higher number roper. "