Chair: Claudia Bailey, foxleighcb@aol.com
Entry Deadline: Friday, May 1st, 2026 if the MVM Entry Form is submitted by email/mail to the Chair; if it is submitted in person to the Chair the entry deadline is at least one hour before the dog’s first MVM event to ensure that results are recorded correctly.
The Most Versatile Belgian Malinois Award (MVBMA) and Reserve Most Versatile Belgian Malinois Award (RMVBMA) are given to Belgian Malinois at the National Specialty that excel and qualify in at least three different venues. There is no fee for entering the Most Versatile Malinois award and membership in the ABMC is not required. However, the dog being entered must be a Belgian Malinois. The Most Versatile Malinois and Reserve Most Versatile Malinois will receive trophies matching those of the National Specialty’s Best of Breed and Best of Opposite Sex. The award will be presented at the Banquet on Saturday, May 16, 2025. The winner of the award need not be present to win. If the winner is not present, awards will be mailed at the winner’s expense.
Dogs must earn points from within at least three of the five Roman-numeral venues below to be eligible for the Most Versatile Malinois Award. The five venues are:
I. Conformation (Saturday, May 16th) / Sweepstakes (Friday, May 15th)
II. Herding (MVM points are from either Saturday May 8th C Course OR Sunday, May 10th Course A Trial 2)
III. Obedience / Rally (Wednesday May 13th)
IV. Tracking (Thursday, May 14th) or Scent Work (Thursday, May 14th)
V. Agility/Preferred Agility (Tuesday, May 12th)
Exhibitors may enter as many venues and classes within a venue as they wish but only the highest number of points from one activity within that venue is counted. Points are not cumulative within a venue. For example, in the III. Obedience/Rally venue, qualifying in Open in Obedience earns 4 points and qualifying in Master in Rally earns 5 points. The highest number of points earned in a single run from this venue would be 5 points. MVM points are not added together within any one venue, only between the different venues. Points from each venue are added together for the total of MVM points. Consult the MVM Point Schedule for more details, including the tie-breaking criteria.
