Joe Beaver and Sid Steiner’s “Jokers” won Kid Rock’s Rock N Rodeo late Friday night, May 16, with the help of breakaway ropers Cheyanne McCartney and Madison Outhier.
The team defeated Cody Ohl’s “Convoy” in the championship round for a total of $500,000—or $27,778 per team member.
“We got beat bad last year, and we were down,” Beaver said. “So we changed some things, got our game back good, and this year we were straight offense, no defense. Sid and I are that kind, we’ve never been ones to play defense.
Kid Rock’s Rock N Rodeo Breakaway Play-by-Play
Each rodeo event followed a bracket-style format, with teams facing off head-to-head in elimination rounds. In breakaway roping, each franchise had two ropers, and the coach chose which duo to send into Round 1.
For the Jokers, that meant Cheyanne McCartney started things off, beating the Free Rider’s Taylor Raupe.
“Lexus handled it good, I got to come this morning and run a practice calf,” McCartney said. “I rode her at Houston, but otherwise have never ridden her somewhere [this chaotic]. She was looking around at the lights on the ground this morning and some people were giggling at me, but I wasn’t worried because I knew if she couldn’t handle it, I would get on Rooster.”
That win advanced them to Round 2, where her teammate—Madison Outhier—took over to rope against Convoy’s Macy Auclair. Outhier took a fast shot that resulted in a top knot.
Convoy went on to win the preliminary breakaway roping—and eventually rematched with the Jokers in the Championship Round.
In the Championship Round, each team picked one athlete in each discipline to duke it out for the title. McCartney roped again for the Jokers, defeating Convoy’s Shelby Meged. Her win put the Jokers up three event wins to Convoy’s two—bringing momentum that eventually sealed Kid Rock’s Rock N Rodeo Championship.
“From a coaching aspect, it’s a, ‘I want you to give me everything you’ve got every time,'” Beaver explained. “You never know what the other competition is doing over there.”
Beaver expressed his hope for growing rodeos with team formats in the future, naming his experience on team rodeos in the 1980s as a fun an successful business model.
