The Team Series stopped in Arizona for PBR Ridge Rider Days, where only three teams finished with a winning record. All three went 3-0, including the home team, Arizona Ridge Riders. The league-leading Missouri Thunder and surging Kansas City Outlaws also finished 3-0.

However, the other seven teams finished no better than 1-2. With just two events left before the Teams Championship begins November 6th, everything besides the No. 1 seed is up in the air. Furthermore, Jose Vitor Leme and Paulo Edaurdo Rossetto are still a ride apart in the MVP race.

Here’s what you missed from PBR Ridge Rider Days this past weekend.

Kansas City Outlaws:

The Kansas City Outlaws had the best finish of any team in Glendale. Six Outlaws scored, culminating in the team’s first undefeated weekend of the season.

Sandro Batista had his second perfect 3-for-3 showing this season, and he’s now 4th in the MVP race, tied with Brady Fielder at 18 rides apiece. Batista averaged 87.05 points per ride in Glendale and has now covered nine of his last 12 bulls.

The Outlaws were without Koltin Hevalow and Cassio Dias, but the team’s roster depth more than made up for their absence. Maikon Calixton Rocha, Bruno Carvalho, Eric Henrique Domingos, Heitor Santos Ferreira, and Hayden Welsh each found eight seconds once, bringing the team’s event total to eight rides.

It’s the third time this season they scored at least 8-of-15. It’s also the Outlaws’ third consecutive positive event finish. They’ve won seven of their last nine games.

The Outlaws cruised past the Freedom in Game 1, but were tested in Games 2 and 3. Santos Ferreira scored a career-high 89.35 on Mike’s Motive in a Game 2 reride opportunity, which just barely put the Outlaws out of reach of the Stampede. In Game 3, the Outlaws got off to an early deficit to the Rattlers, which Carvalho and Welsh cleaned up to stay undefeated in Arizona.

The Outlaws remain in 7th place for another week, but with a 13-16 record. They’re now two games above 8th, and just a single game behind 5th.

Missouri Thunder:

The Missouri Thunder have solidified themselves as the very best team in Teams this season. The Thunder are now 21-8, and they extended their lead over 2nd place to four games. They earned their fourth 3-0 event finish of the season. However, two of the three teams they faced in Arizona didn’t score. They scored four in Game 1 without any response from the Mavericks, and nearly tied the scoreless Rattlers in Game 2 if it weren’t for Julio Cesar Marques’ lone 88.90 on Reserve Not Met.

It was Game 3 where the Thunder really had to earn the win. A pair of 89.50+ scores from Paulo Eduardo Rossetto and Felipe Furlan was just barely enough to fend off the Carolina Cowboys, 179.20 – 175.60.

Rossetto ended his weekend 2-for-3, still yet to catch Jose Vitor Leme in the MVP race. He’s now 23-for-29 on the year and dropped below an 80% ride percentage for the first time since early August.

Macaulie Leather and Angelo Rossetto, Paulo’s brother, also found eight seconds for the Thunder. Angelo was 83.90 on Buckwheat in Game 1 for his first career Premier Series out and score. Leather improved to 10-21 on the season.

The Thunder have attained the largest lead any 1st-place team has had this season, and unless tragedy hits in the next two weeks, they will enter the Teams Championship as the No. 1 seed.

Arizona Ridge Riders:

Against all odds, the Arizona Ridge Riders became the first host team this season to go undefeated at home. They produced an inspirational finish in front of the home crowd with three well-earned wins that stopped their bleeding, spanning all the way back to Nashville.

It’s the team’s second 3-0 finish this season and the first time since Stampede Days that they scored at least six rides. Everton Natan da Silva, Cody Jesus, and Elizmar Jeremias scored two rides each.

Jesus was 88.7 and 87.55 in the closing position for his first and second scores of the season. Jeremias was 2-for-3, including a 90.50 in Game 2 on American Made, and snapped a 12-bull buckoff streak.

Da Silva, however, remains one of the five best riders in the league this season. He’s now ridden 17-of-25 and 12 for his last 15.

Their opponents scored a combined 176.80 points in Glendale. However, the Ridge Riders still managed to defeat both the top-ranked Gamblers and Stampede, catching them on down nights.

Arizona jumped to 5th place with a 14-15 record, and completely turned their season around heading into the final two events.

Carolina Cowboys:

The Carolina Cowboys and seven other teams finished with a negative record in Glendale. The Cowboys finished 1-2, but started the event red-hot with a three-ride win over the Rattlers that saw Guilherme Valleiras, Clay Guiton, and Jess Lockwood all extend their ride streaks. Guiton was a season-high 90.10 on Mystified in that match. However, Guiton and Lockwood’s streaks ended in Game 2.

Valleiras extended his streak to five in Game 2. Ezekiel Mitchell scored alongside him and was 87.5 for his first ride of the year. It wasn’t nearly enough, though, against the Mavericks, who scored 260.05.

Game 3, however, was a tough loss. Lockwood got his second score of the event to start the match. Guiton was 89.15 for his second score of the event in a reride opportunity that opened the door for a Thiago Salgado walkoff. But Salgado was bucked off, and the Cowboys’ comeback was short by 3.6 points.

The Cowboys are in 4th, now 17-12, but the Gamblers and Stampede are as well. 2nd-4th place remains deadlocked for another week, and with the Thunder nearly out of reach, the Cowboys will be fighting for a Top 3 seed bye at the Teams Championship.

Oklahoma Wildcatters:

The Oklahoma Wildcatters fought through back-to-back gut-wrenching losses to start their weekend, but finished with their best game of the season led by new Head Coach Shawn Ramirez.

Eduardo Matos and Brock Poulin combined for 173.65 in Game 1, but lost on a Riquelmi Silva Stampede walkoff by just 3.8 points. Poulin was 85.25 on Little Tony for his first ride of the season.

Kaiden Loud took the early lead for the Wildcatters, covering Texas Slim for 88.80 points. That lead held until Arizona scored their last two rides in clutch, cascading fashion.

In Game 3, the Wildcatters scored 4-of-5 for a season-high 352.80 points against Florida. Alex Marcilio and Winy dos Santos got their first scores of the event, while Matos and Poulin got their second. Poulin was a career-high 91.9 on The Paint, while Matos got back into the Top 10, now 9th, with 15 rides on the year.

The Wildcatters scored seven rides for the first time this season and are no longer the lowest-scoring team overall. They overtook the Freedom’s 41 rides with 42. They’re still in 10th place at 10-19, but the organization’s head coaching change has already produced dividends.

Nashville Stampede:

The Nashville Stampede went 1-2 in Arizona and now have the worst record in the league over the last two events at 1-5.

Rogério Venâncio, Gustavo Luiz da Silva, and Alan de Souza each scored once over the weekend, but Nashville’s fate was left in Riquelmi Silva’s hands each game.

Silva saved the day in Game 1 against the Wildcatters. He was 88.85 on Money Hustle for his league-leading fourth walkoff-win ride.

In Game 2, Nashville needed Silva to be at least 92.9 points to tie against the Outlaws. Silva scored, but was 4.95 points short of that almost insurmountable goal.

Once again, in Game 3, Nashville needed a score from Silva to take the lead over Arizona, but this time, he was bucked off.

Silva has scored three of his last four and is now 13th in the MVP race. Venâncio and de Souza currently sit in 7th and 12th, respectively.

To their luck, they’re still tied 17-12 with Gamblers and Cowboys and sit 3rd in the standings. The Stampede still have plenty of room and opportunity to finish the season as a Top 3 seed.

New York Mavericks:

The New York Mavericks had their worst weekend since Nashville, scoring just four rides and winning just one game.

After going scoreless in Game 1, the Mavericks bounced back with a three-ride Game 2 win over the Cowboys.

Afonso Quintino, Marco Rizzo, and Leonardo Castro were all less than 87-points in Game 2, but got the job done. Only Rizzo carried that momentum into Game 3, however, and he was the Mavericks’ lone scorer in their 177.85 – 88.65 loss to the Gamblers.

Rizzo’s now the only Maverick in the Top 20. He sits in 10th place and has covered 15-of-25 this season.

The Mavericks are 11-18 in 8th place and a game above last place. They’re now two games behind 7th, and will spend the rest of their season fighting to get out of the bottom three. They did, notably, tie their franchise record of 11 wins and will have the chance to break that record in the coming events.

Austin Gamblers:

The Austin Gamblers’ momentum halted after an uncharacteristically low-scoring showing in Arizona. They scored a season-low three rides, two of them belonging to Jose Vitor Leme.

After their first scoreless match of the season in Game 1, Leme was outscored by the Freedom’s Alex Cerqueira in Game 2 for two brutal losses in a row. Leme and Sage Kimzey pulled themselves together in Game 3, scoring 88.30 and 89.55, respectively, and defeated the Mavericks.

Leme, despite the buckoff in Game 1, maintained his ride lead over Paulo Eduardo Rossetto in the MVP race. Leme has ridden 24-of-28 this season and leads Rossetto by 91.60 points.

The Gamblers still have two weeks to regain momentum before the Teams Championship. They’re still in 2nd place with a 17-12 record and have finished 1st or 2nd place in the regular season three times before.

Florida Freedom:

The Florida Freedom suffered their third straight negative event finish. Florida went 1-2 in Arizona, making them 2-7 in their last three events. They’ve scored fewer than four rides each of the last three events, scoring only three this past weekend.

Murilo Henrique de Oliveira rode 2-of-3 but scored in both of the Freedom’s losses. He’s now three for his last five.

Alex Cerqueira was 86.35 on Stab Wound, which ended up being just enough to defeat the top-seeded Gamblers.

There’s still no confirmation that 2x League MVP John Crimber will return for the Freedom in the regular season. He’ll be back for the Championship, but until then, the Freedom are stuck in 9th, at 11-18.

Texas Rattlers:

The Texas Rattlers went 0-3 for the first time since Freedom Days and scored just four rides. Brady Fielder went 1-for-3, but remains 3rd in the MVP race. Daniel Keeping, however, was 2-for-3, and improved to 6th in the MVP race. Jean Carlos Teodoro was 87.65 in Game 1 for his fourth score of the season. Despite the team’s struggles, the Rattlers are the only team with two riders in the Top 10 of the MVP race.

However, the Rattlers were a ride short in every single game. They’ve needed that extra score, which just hasn’t been there for this team this season. Until they find some consistency outside of Fielder and Keeping, who’ve combined for 33 of the team’s 51 rides, their Championship hopes look bleak.

The Rattlers fell to 14-15 and are now in 6th place.