The PBR Team Series experienced its highest-scoring event of the season at PBR Maverick Days in New York.

Seven teams rode at least eight bulls in Belmont, and two teams rode at least 10. Most amazing, though, is that two teams completed perfect games, scoring all five of their rides for the first time this season.

Also, for the first time this season, no team finished undefeated. That allowed the Thunder to clinch the No. 1 seed; however, the remainder of the seeds are still up for the taking.

Eight times a rider was 90+ at PBR Maverick Days, and here’s everything else you missed as the season enters its twilight:

Austin Gamblers:

The Austin Gamblers put together the highest-scoring event of the season in New York. They rode 11-of-15 for 970.9 points, both league-highs this season.

Of the seven Gamblers who recorded an out, six scored, and four covered 100% of their bulls.

Dalton Kasel and Sage Kimzey each scored twice, and both now have 12 rides this season. Kimzey is now inside the Top 20, in 17th, while Kasel is 21st.

Kimzey scored a season-high 91.90 on Freedom Fighter for his 4th 90-point score of the season.

Leme was 3-for-3 and has all but locked up his 3rd League MVP award. He’s ridden 27-of-31 this season, and 11 of his last 12. Leme’s established a two-ride lead over 2nd-place Paulo Eduardo Rossetto with just one event left.

Callum Miller got his second ride of the season, and Jesse Petri got his first. Andrew Alvidrez scored his first and second rides of the season, peaking with an 88.55 on Heavy Load in Game 2.

Their only loss came against the top-seeded Missouri Thunder in Game 2. The Gamblers scored four, but the Thunder scored all five for the first perfect game this season. It was Kimzey, in the closer position, who was the only rider to buck off his bull.

The Gamblers didn’t let that loss deter them, though, as they scored four once again in Game 3, this time scoring a season-high 356.10 points.

The Gamblers are still in 2nd place but are tied with the Cowboys at 19-13. With one event left, the Gamblers’ only goal will be to keep their 2nd-place seed.

Texas Rattlers:

After a disastrous showing in Carolina, the Rattlers bounced back in New York in a major way. They scored a season-high 10-of-15 worth 882 points. It’s just the second time this season Texas scored at least seven rides at an event.

They fought hard in all three games, winning the first two and only losing Game 3 by .45 points. Their Game 2 win was special, though, as the Rattlers became the second team this season to go 5-for-5. They demolished the Stampede, who scored three of their own, with a 2026 league-high 443.95 points.

Four of the five Rattler scores were worth at least 88.45 points. Brady Fielder led the way with a season-high 91.85-point score atop Wicked Solo.

He finished the weekend covering 2-of-3 but dropped from 3rd to 4th in the MVP race. Daniel Keeping also covered 2-of-3 and remains in 6th place.

João Ricardo Vieira and Josh Frost each covered 2-of-2, while Qynn Andersen got his first ride of the season. It was also Frost’s first scores of the season.

The help from their depth finally arrived for the Rattlers, and they were half a point away from a perfect weekend. The Rattlers may have finally found a formula they can trust just in time for the Championship.

The Rattlers earned their fourth perfect game in franchise history and finished the weekend back in 5th place with a 16-16 overall record.

Missouri Thunder:

The Missouri Thunder locked up the No. 1 seed and, for the first time in franchise history, are the regular season Champions.

The Thunder went 2-1 in New York, making their season record 23-9, four games ahead of 2nd.

The Thunder became the first team this season to complete a perfect game, doing so against the Gamblers in the highest-scoring game this year. The Thunder scored 437.65 to the Gamblers’ 352.25 in a Game 2 dogfight.

With their historic Game 2 win, the Thunder clinched the best record in the league for the first time in franchise history. That allowed them to empty their bench in Game 3, besides Paulo Eduardo Rossetto, who’s still chasing Jose Vitor Leme in the MVP race. Rossetto covered his first two, but bucked off his third in 7.33 seconds. That put Rossetto two bulls behind Leme at 25-for-32 on the season, and practically eliminates his MVP chances. Rossetto needs to score at least 2-of-3 next weekend, and hope Leme misses at least two bulls. However, Leme has yet to finish an event this season without covering at least two bulls.

While Rossetto’s MVP hopes may be squandered, the team is healthier than ever.

Julio Cesar Marques and Ramon Fiorini, who are on opposite ends of the standings, each scored twice in New York.

The Thunder’s next three best, Felipe Furlan, Macaulie Leather, and Maverick Smith, each scored once in New York, and all during the team’s five-ride masterpiece.

The Thunder scored nine rides in total, and they’ve now scored at least nine rides three times this season. A perfect finish next weekend would give the Thunder the winningest regular season in Team Series history.

With the No. 1 seed locked up, the Thunder can focus on returning to their second-straight Teams Championship match.

ta-fontsize=”20″ data-lineheight=”24px”>New York Mavericks:

The home team Mavericks not only scored the most points they have all season in front of their fans, but also earned a franchise-record 13 regular-season wins.

The Mavericks scored 8-of-15 worth a season-high 706.4 points.

They scored 351.60 points in their Game 1 win over Arizona. Hudson Bolton was .17-seconds from riding his bull and making the Mavericks the first team to ride 5-for-5 this season.

Mauricio Gulla Moreira was the only Maverick to score in their Game 2 loss. He was a season-high 91.05 on Dead Red.

The Team rallied together in Game 3, though. Bolton and Leonardo Castro scored their firsts of the event, alongside Marco Rizzo, to beat the Rattlers by .45 points.

Rizzo finished 2-for-3, scoring in both wins. He’s now 17-for-28 and is 10th in the MVP race. His 60.71% ride percentage is seventh-best in the league.

Moreira also finished 2-for-3 and improved to 12-for-26.

Bob Mitchell and Afonso Quintino each made eight seconds, too.

New York is now 13-19 and in 8th place, but a game behind 6th. The Mavericks will spend next weekend fighting to get out of the bottom three and avoid the double-elimination games in the Championship.

Carolina Cowboys:

The Cowboys started their weekend with a tough loss against the Stampede, who were right above them in the Standings.

However, the Cowboys won their next two and finished the weekend above the Stampede in the standings.

Carolina needs at least 3rd place to earn a first-day bye at the Teams Championship, and with one event left, they have it for now.

The Cowboys scored eight rides for the third time this season, and it’s the third week in a row they scored at least seven. Their roster is humming, and at the perfect time. Their leaders Thiago Salgado, Guilherme Valleiras, and Clay Guiton each covered two bulls. All three were at least 89 points at their best, with Valleiras scoring a team-high 89.60 on Without Warning in Game 1. Lastly, Adriano Salgado and Ezekiel Mitchell each picked up scores of their own.

Luck remains on the Cowboys’ side, as both wins came against teams that scored 0 points, and they were the only 0-point finishes all weekend.

The Cowboys are now tied with the 2nd-place Gamblers at 19-13, but a game ahead of the Stampede. With just 62 rides this season, the Gamblers will lose the tiebreaker to Austin and Nashville, so to keep their chances of a bye alive, they’ll go for glory next weekend in Kansas City.

Florida Freedom:

The Freedom traded for Luciano De Castro last week, and he’s already paid dividends.

De Castro finished a perfect 3-for-3 in his debut and led the Freedom to their first positive weekend since Anaheim. He’s now 10-for-22 this season and is a score away from being the Freedom’s highest-ranked rider. His highest score came in Game 2, when he was 89.35 on The Heat.

Murilo Henrique de Oliveira and Vinicius Rodrigues Pereira scored a pair of career-highs in Game 2 besides De Castro. De Oliveira was a career-high 90.10 on R Watson, and Rodrigues Pereira was a career-high 89.25 on Sniper.

That gave them the win over the home-team Mavericks.

In Game 3, New York elected to keep a 46.75-point score from Manoelito de Souza Junior, which gave the Mavericks a 129.95 – 88.55 lead over the top-seeded Thunder. The decision paid off, as they kept the lead and won.

The addition of De Castro gave some fight to the Freedom, who desperately needed it. They’re in 9th place, but are tied 13-19 with the Mavericks. They’re a game behind 6th, and another positive event next weekend could get them out of the bottom three.

Kansas City Outlaws:

Despite the 1-2 record in New York, the Kansas City Outlaws scored a season-high 792.35 points. It’s the most points any team this season has scored in a 1-2 event finish this year.

Sandro Batista covered all three bulls for the second straight weekend, and this time he improved with each ride. Batista peaked in Game 3 with a season-high 90.45 points on Bex Red Eye. The Outlaws went on to score a season-high 353.40 points in Game 3, but lost by less than a point to the Wildcatters.

Batista, however, has covered his last seven bulls, now 21-for-32 overall, and jumped to 3rd in the MVP race ahead of Brady Fielder.

Batista finished 3rd in the 2024 MVP race, one spot behind Fielder.

Eric Henrique Domingos, Hayden Welsh, and Maikon Calixton Rocha scored two each.

Domingos has covered nine of his last 11 and reached a 50% riding percentage in New York, at 12-of-24 on the year.

Welsh was a team-high 90.65 on Irish Car Bomb in their Game 3 loss. He’s now 9-for-17 and in 28th.

Calixton Rocha had his best event this year and has now scored all four of his season rides in the last three events.

The Outlaws are in 6th with a 14-18 record, and while they would have liked to get an extra game above 8th place, they’ll have the home crowd behind them next weekend to finish out their season.

Nashville Stampede:

It was a very tough weekend for the Nashville Stampede. They finished 1-2, despite scoring 8-of-15 for 703.10 points, something they hadn’t done since Freedom days, and dropped to 4th place.

The Stampede started their weekend protecting their 3rd-place spot over the Carolina Cowboys thanks to Riquelmi Silva’s league-leading fifth walk-off ride of the season. The Stampede lost a tough Game 2 to the Rattlers, who scored the most points in a game of any team all season.

And once again in Game 3, the Stampede would be outscored four rides to two against the Gamblers, who put up the most points they have all season.

It’s an unlucky break for the Stampede, who watched the Cowboys pass them in the standings despite facing two teams that couldn’t score at all.

Regardless, Nashville rode extremely well in New York, with six different riders scoring.

Allison De Souza was 88.05 on Without Warning for his first score of the season. He’s only the sixth Stampede rider to score at all this season, with their Top Five taking care of everything else.

Daniel Feitosa and Rogério Venâncio led the Stampede with two rides each. However, Alan De Souza was a team-high 90.05 on Living On A Prayer in Game 1.

Venâncio remains the highest-ranked Stampede rider in 8th. He’s covered 17-of-32 this season.

The Stampede have one week left to get themselves back into the Top 3 and earn a Day 1 bye at the Championship. At 18-14, they trail the Cowboys and Gamblers by a single game. Even if they don’t earn a bye, the Stampede remain a top contender at this year’s Teams Championship.

Oklahoma Wildcatters:

The Wildcatters matched their franchise-record of 11 wins with an emphatic four-ride finish in Game 3.

It’s the second straight weekend where the Wildcatters have scored four in a game, only this time they scored a season-high 354.25 points. It was just barely enough to defeat the Outlaws, and they won by less than a point.

Eduardo Matos and Winy dos Santos scored their second rides of the weekend in Game 3. Dos Santos was a team-high 89.65 on Show Biz, and Matos sits 9th in the MVP race. Renan Almeida Alves was 88.45 for his first score of the season, and Natanael Serra Aires was 88.55 for his second ride of the year. Aires scored the walk-off ride in Game 3.

Oklahoma was outmatched by the No. 1 Thunder in Game 1, and couldn’t score anything in Game 2 against the Cowboys. Their record now sits at 11-21, and they are two games removed from 9th. They’re a long shot at escaping the bottom three, as they would need to go undefeated next weekend plus hope the Freedom, Mavericks, and Ridge Riders experience some serious bad luck.

Regardless, the Wildcatters need just one more win in Kansas City to reach a new franchise record of 12 wins.

Arizona Ridge Riders:

After a magical 3-0 performance at home last weekend, the Ridge Riders fell back to the other end of the spectrum and finished winless in New York.

Eduardo Aparecido scored two of the team’s four rides; however, neither was worth even 85 points.

Vitor Losnake was 89.25 for his second ride of the season in Game 1. The team’s leading rider, Everton Natan da Silva, scored a career-high 90.45 on The Kraken in Game 2. He’s 5th in the MVP race.

Arizona failed to score in Game 3.

To add insult to injury, Alex Cerqueira, who Arizona just traded for, finished 0-for-3, whereas Luciano De Castro, who they traded away, was a perfect 3-for-3.

Arizona clings to 7th place in the standings, with a 14-18 record. They’re currently at major risk of dropping into the bottom three and into the double-elimination games at the World Championships. They’ll have one last event to prove they deserve a better seed than that.