Gambler Days, the fifth event of the 2026 PBR Teams season, concluded Sunday with some massive team standings shake-ups.

The Missouri Thunder went 3-0 for the second straight weekend and now sit just a game behind No. 1 Nashville, who had their first down weekend of the season.

The home team Gamblers would’ve liked a do-over after a disappointing 1-2 weekend, however, the Austin fans did get to see and celebrate MVP frontrunner Jose Vitor Leme as he extended his ride-streak to nine in a row.

The New York Mavericks finally finished with more wins than losses and took a big first step toward climbing out of last place.

Before the 2026 season reaches a new boiling point at Thunder Days next weekend, here’s everything you missed in Austin.

Missouri Thunder

The Thunder became the hottest team in the league after going undefeated for the second straight weekend, reaching second place in the standings with a 9-5 record.

They’ve won six in a row and ridden 18-of-30 rides in that time, including 10-of-15 at Gambler Days this last weekend. They rode four more bulls than any other team, and it’s only the second time this season a team has rode 10 in a single weekend.

The Thunder scored 889.85 aggregate points, which is the most points scored at an event by any team so far this year.

Six of the Thunder’s 10 qualified rides belonged to leadoff man Paulo Eduardo Rossetto and closer Maverick Smith, who were each a perfect 3-for-3.

Rossetto has now ridden six in a row, aligning with the team’s win streak. He remains No. 2 in the MVP race, one bull behind Jose Vitor Leme, but two rides ahead of third. Smith was previously 0-for-3 before Austin, but turned things around and tallied 267 points for his team.

Julio Cesar Marques rode 2-of-3 and improved to 14th in the MVP standings, passing teammate Felipe Furlan who, after a 0-for-2 weekend, fell to 17th. Ramon Fiorini and Macualie Leather stepped up in his place, both scoring key rides in their opportunities.

Leather was a career-best 91.05 on Black Eyes against the Rattlers in a game they’d win by just .70 points. He’s made  three qualified rides this season and has improved with each ride. Leather’s been 90, 91, and 91.05 this season already; before the season started, he hadn’t yet been 90+ even once.

Fiorini covered Bowser in a reride for 87.7 in Game 2 when the Thunder rode four to beat the No. 1 Nashville Stampede.

The Thunder needed more from their depth, and that’s exactly what they got this weekend.

Two weeks ago, they were 3-5 and in seventh place. Now, they’re 9-5 and one game away from passing the Nashville Stampede.

The Thunder will get the perfect opportunity to be crowned the new league leaders when they travel to defend their home turf, Thunder Ridge Nature Arena, next weekend.

New York Mavericks

The New York Mavericks finished the weekend as the second-best team in Austin, riding six for 531.9 points and tripling their season win total.

Despite starting their weekend with a depressing 88.00 – 88.70 loss against Carolina, the Mavericks had their first positive event of the season and ended their weekend 2-1, 3-11 overall.

They were led by Marco Rizzo, who had his first perfect 3-for-3 weekend of the season.

Mauricio Gulla Moreira, Leandro Zampollo, and Leonardo Castro each had a ride of their own.

Gulla Moreira and Rizzo are now ranked 12th and 13th in the MVP race, each covering 7-of-12 this season. They each scored 90+ for the first time this season, too. Rizzo was 90.2 on Freedom Fighter to clinch the victory against Oklahoma in Game 2, and Gulla Moreira was 90.75 on Black Eyes to give the Mavericks the early lead against the Outlaws in Game 3. They would ultimately win that one 267.40-89.20.

Rizzo’s growth in the closer position, along with more consistent help from the roster’s depth, gave New York their best weekend of the season. However, New York still has much work to do, as they remain in last place, two wins behind ninth place.

Florida Freedom

Despite being without John Crimber for the second straight weekend and coming off a winless weekend, the Freedom showed incredible resilience and won two games to get back to .500 at 7-7 overall.

They made just two rides in their first two games combined, losing the first 177.55-87.50 to the Gamblers, but winning the second, 89.80-87.50 over the Ridge Riders. Then they exploded for three scores against the No. 1 Stampede and bested the top team in the league 267.20-179.20 to close the weekend.

João Lucas Campos was 2-for-2 and won Day 3’s MVP award with his 90.9 on Cookie. He’s 5-for-9 on the season and is 21st in the MVP race.

Austin Richardson is the only Freedom rider ahead of Lucas Campos and in ninth. Richardson was 1-for-3 in Austin, a down weekend for his standards this season.

At 89.14 points per ride, the Freedom have the best average ride score in the league. However, that average is propped up on just 24 rides, the fourth-fewest in the league.

The Freedom are nowhere near out of the clear yet and must continue to fight an uphill battle until Crimber is healthy, but they showed they can do just that last weekend in Austin.

Carolina Cowboys

For the fourth straight weekend, the Cowboys finished 2-1. They’re now 9-5 and in third place and continue to get it done in somewhat miraculous fashion, they have rode the third-fewest bulls in the league at 23 for the year.

The Cowboys scored just once in their first two games. That lone ride won them Game 1 against the Mavericks, but they were decimated three rides to none in Game 2 against the Outlaws.

All of that changed, though, in Game 3, when the team rode four and piled up 346.85 points to the hometown Gamblers’ 175.65.

Thiago Salgado was 90.80 on Baylor’s Bandit to start the game. Guilherme Valleiras followed, and so did Keyshawn Whitehorse, who’d been struggling for the Cowboys but has now covered three of his last five. Clay Guiton had been struggling even more immensely than Whitehorse, he’d been bucked off his first nine bulls to start the season, but was 87.45 on Outlaw for his first score.

Carolina’s Top 3 of Thiago Salgado, Guilherme Vallerias, and Adriano Salgado have supported the team while Guiton and Whitehorse worked through their struggles and kept the team at a 9-5 record. Now that Guiton and Whitehorse have broken their barriers and have seen eight seconds, this Carolina squad has endless potential.

Austin Gamblers

The Gamblers had their second straight and third overall 1-2 weekend, and it unfortunately came at home this time.

Things started well with a 177.55-87.5 win against the Florida Freedom, where Sage Kimzey was 91.25 on Smooth Whiskey, winning Day 1’s MVP, and Jose Vitor Leme was 86.3 and to extend his qualified ride streak to seven.

Leme would one-up Kimzey in Game 2, where he won Day 2’s MVP with 91.45 on Up The Ante. Leme would be the only Gambler to score in Game 2, though, and they would lose by a ride to their Lone Star State rival, the Texas Rattlers.

Game 3 stung, too. Although Leme rode his ninth consecutive bull, the Gamblers were outgunned four rides to two against the Cowboys. Leme ended his weekend still atop the MVP standings, he is 12-of-14 for 1063.2 points this season.

Leme, however, is the only Gambler who’s ridden at least 50% of their bulls and is the only Gambler in the Top 23 of the MVP race currently.

Despite Leme’s heroics and despite having 31 rides as a team, the fourth-most in the league, the Gamblers are floundering with a 6-8 record, seemingly stuck in seventh place for the time being.

Texas Rattlers

The Rattlers got a 176.85-91.45 win over the rival Gamblers, but that highlight was bookended by two painful losses.

In Game 1 against the Missouri Thunder, the Rattlers rode three, only to lose by .70 points.

In Game 3, Daniel Keeping was the only Rattler to get on the board in a 178.75-88.5 loss to the ninth-place Wildcatters. Keeping rode in all three games and earned his first perfect weekend of the season. He crept back into the Top 10 in the MVP race and is joined there by Brady Fielder, who is sixth.

Fielder was 2-for-3 this weekend, 8-for-14 overall, and he and Keeping have been a solid battery for this Rattler squad.

João Ricardo Vieira was the only other Rattler to score in Austin. He’s ridden 4-of-10 this season and sits in 30th in the MVP Standings.

Five other Rattlers combine for just six of the team’s 25 rides, and none of them registered a qualified ride last weekend.

While Texas would have liked their weekend to play out a little differently, the team sits comfortably in the middle of the league. They’re in fifth with a 7-7 record.

Nashville Stampede

For the very first time this season, the Nashville Stampede finished an event with a losing record. They finished 1-2 in Austin, but remain first in the league at 10-4. Their two-game lead, however, has been cut down to one.

The Stampede were coming off a homestand in Nashville that saw them score just once in their final two games. That uncharacteristic low-scoring continued into Game 1 in Austin against the Wildcatters. However, Daniel Feitosa’s lone qualified ride was enough to get them an 88.75-0 win.

The Stampede made five rides in their next two games combined, but lost each by a score, 353.45-263.70 to the Thunder and 267.20-179.20 to the Freedom. It’s the first time this season the Stampede have lost consecutive games.

The team’s Top 4 remain in the Top 15 in the MVP Standings and all of them got on the board over the weekend. Alan de Souza and Riquelmi Silva each rode 2-of-3, though. Silva is No. 3 overall in the MVP Standings.

Rogério Venâncio scored just once in Austin, but is 8-of-14 on the year and seventh in the MVP race. For his part, Feitosa is 15th.

There is one concern for the Stampede at this point in the season, Gustavo Luiz da Silva is the only other member of their team with a qualified ride and depth may quickly become an issue as the grind of the season takes its toll.

Arizona Ridge Riders

The Ridge Riders experienced a similar fall from grace as the Stampede this weekend, although more severe.

Arizona entered the weekend in second place with a 7-4 record, threatening Nashville’s No. 1 spot, but exited the weekend in fourth with an 8-6 record.

They started their weekend with a commanding 265.65-89.55 victory over the Wildcatters that saw Elizmar Jeremias score 90 points on Woody for his third 90+ score of the season.

Arizona would fall flat, however, scoring just once in each of their next two games to finish the weekend, losing both.

Jeremias rode again in Game 2, this time 87.5, but was immediately outclassed by Florida’s João Lucas Campos’ 89.8, and no other rider would make the whistle the rest of the way.

In Game 3, the Missouri Thunder rode three while Everton Natan da Silva’s 86.6 was the lone ride for the Ridge Riders.

The Ridge Riders were without Luciano de Castro, who entered the weekend third on the team in qualified rides.

The Ridge Riders inserted 2x PBR Canada Champion Nick Tetz into the lineup for the first time this season, but he was bucked off twice.

Vitor Losnake was also used in place of de Castro, but failed to convert as well.

Kansas City Outlaws

Gambler Days was inevitably going to be an inflection point for the Outlaws. After riding high following a 2-1 Stampede Days finish, it looked like they had an opportunity in Austin to officially pull themselves out of the bottom of the standings with another positive weekend. However, the Outlaws finished 1-2 and are now back in eighth place at 6-8 overall.

They got off to a sour start to the weekend when they rode none and fell to the Stampede 88.75-0 on Friday night.

Game 2 was the clear bright spot of their stay in Texas’ Capital City. The Outlaws thumped the Cowboys 268.55-0 and got contributions from likely places.

No. 1 overall pick Hayden Welsh went 90 for the first time in the PBR and Sandro Batista and Cassio Dias chipped in qualified rides as well.

That ecstasy was short-lived, though, as the Outlaws would lose 89.2 – 267.4 to the 10th-place New York Mavericks in Game 3. Only Koltin Hevalow scored, but he was 89.2 for his fourth ride of the season.

Until Hevalow, Dias, Welsh, and the rest of the roster depth can take even more steps forward, as they’ve already faced and overcome adversity this season, and get closer to Batista’s level of production, the Outlaws will remain just the feistiest team below .500, and not much more.

Oklahoma Wildcatters

The Wildcatters are the only team not to have finished an event with a positive record. Instead, they’ve finished the last four events 1-2.

With the fewest rides in the league at 20 for just 1769.45 total points, Oklahoma is lucky they have a 5-9 record, two wins above the 10th-place Mavericks.

They’re also lucky to have Kaiden Loud back after he missed their previous four games. He was 89.55 on Joker in Game 1, but was the only Wildcatter to score, and they lost by two scores to the Ridge Riders.

Unfortunately, Loud didn’t ride again. Eduardo Matos, however, was 2-for-3 and is now the top-ranked Wildcatter in the MVP race at No. 18.

Matos would be the lone scorer for the Catters in Game 2, when they fell by a score to the Mavericks.

Matos rode again in Game 3 along with Trace Redd, which was enough to beat the Rattlers 178.75-88.50 and avoid a winless weekend.