Bobby Mote is eying a fifth gold buckle, Brandon Beers is back on top of his game, and Austin Foss is headed to his first world championships.

The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association ended its regular season last weekend, and as usual, a host of Central Oregon cowboys will be headed to the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas based on top-15 finishes in the world standings in their respective events.

Mote, a part-time Culver resident, highlights the list of local rodeo stars who qualified for this year’s NFR, as he finished the 2013 PRCA regular season atop the bareback money list with $126,194 in winnings. Making his 13th consecutive NFR appearance, Mote is looking to win his fifth world championship — he claimed world titles in 2002, 2007, 2009 and 2010. No bareback rider has been better at the NFR than Mote, as he has 22 go-round wins, the most ever by a bareback contestant.

Redmond’s Steven Peebles and Terrebonne’s Foss, who are eighth and ninth in the bareback standings, respectively, also are headed to Vegas for the year-end rodeo, a 10-day event that runs Dec. 5-14. Peebles is making his fifth straight NFR trip, while Foss has qualified for Vegas for the first time.

Team ropers Beers, of Powell Butte, and Charly Crawford, of Prineville, round out the local contingent of qualifiers for the 2013 NFR. After finishing 53rd in the 2012 header standings, Beers has a fighting chance to win a world title this year with partner Jim Ross Cooper, of Monument, N.M., as he ended the regular season third on the money list ($97,373), about $15,000 back of leader Clay Tryan, of Billings, Mont. Cooper is third on the heeler list with $105,195 in winnings.

Crawford, a header who has been to the NFR six times previously in his career, is in 13th place in the header standings. He ropes with Weatherford, Texas, cowboy Ryan Motes, who is 13th on the heeler money list.

Other NFR qualifiers from around Oregon are steer wrestler Trevor Knowles, of Mount Vernon, and bull rider Cody Campbell, from Summerville, near La Grande. Knowles is second in the bulldogging standings, and Campbell is third on the money list in bull riding.