Qualifications for Most Versatile Belgian Malinois Award: Dogs must participate and earn points in at least three of the following five venues: Agility, Conformation (National Specialty and Sweepstakes classes), Obedience/Rally (Regular & Optional Titling classes only), Herding or Tracking.
A dog may be entered in more than three venues. The single highest point value earned in each venue will be used in tabulating the points earned for that venue. The dog with the highest combined total score for all venues will be awarded Most Versatile Belgian Malinois. Reserve Most Versatile Malinois will be awarded to the second place finisher. Membership in the ABMC is not required. However, the dog being entered must be a Belgian Malinois.
For further information, please contact Janet Doerer (jdoerer@gmail.com, cell 908-303-5544.) Make sure to fill out the Most Valuable Malinois form for each dog (forms will also be available at the host hotel by Monday evening May 8). The MVBMA Chair will track the results based on the Show / Trial Secretary information and points for each dog entered will be posted daily. The Award will be presented after the Herding Trial on Saturday, May 13 (morning trial). The winner of the award need not be present to win.
Eligible Events:
Agility on Tuesday May 9
Tracking on Wednesday May 10
Obedience or Rally on Thursday May 11
Conformation (National Speciality & Sweepstakes) on Friday May 12
Herding Trials 1 & 2 on Saturday, May 13
Point Schedule
Venue 1: Agility
Agility FAST (Regular Classes)
2 points: Qualifying score in Novice
3 points: Qualifying score in Open or winning Novice Class (A or B)
4 points: Qualifying score in Excellent (A or B) or winning Open Class
5 points: Winning Excellent Class (A or B)
Agility FAST (Preferred Classes)
1 point: Qualifying score in Novice
2 points: Qualifying score in Open or winning Novice Class (A or B)
3 points: Qualifying score in Excellent (A or B) or winning Open Class
4 points: Winning Excellent Class (A or B)
Agility T2B (Time 2 Beat) (Regular Classes)
2 points: Qualifying score
4 points: Setting the best time to beat by a Malinois in a height division
Agility T2BP (Time 2 Beat) (Preferred Classes)
1 point: Qualifying score
3 points: Setting the best time to beat by a Malinois in a height division
Agility Triple Q Combinations
7 points: Triple Q in any combination of Standard, JWW, and FAST classes at any combination of levels (Novice, Open or Excellent)
8 points: Triple Q in any combination of Standard, JWW, and FAST in Excellent A or B classes
Agility Triple Q Combinations (Preferred Classes)
6 points: Triple Q in any combination of Standard, JWW, and FAST classes at any combination of levels (Novice, Open or Excellent)
7 points: Triple Q in any combination of Standard, JWW, and FAST in Excellent A or B classes
Agility High In Trial and High Combined
7 points: High In Trial
8 points: High Combined
Venue 2: Conformation/Sweepstakes
Conformation
1 point: Place 1-4 in a class
2 points: Reserve Winners Dog or Bitch
3 points: Winners Dog/Winners Bitch
4 points: Best of Winners
5 points: Award of Merit
6 points: Selected Dog/Selected Bitch
7 points: Best Opposite Sex to Best of Breed
8 points: Best of Breed
Sweepstakes (Puppy, Veteran, Working)
1 point: Place 1-4 in a class
2 points: Best of Opposite Sex to Best in Sweepstakes
3 points: Best in Sweepstakes
Venue 3: Obedience/Rally
Obedience
1 points: Qualifying score in Novice or Beginner Novice
2 points: Qualifying score in Graduate Novice
3 points: Qualifying score in Open, Graduate Open, or Winning Novice class (A or B)
4 points: Qualifying score in Utility, Versatility, or winning Open class (A or B)
5 points: Winning Utility class (A or B)
6 points: Qualifying in Open B and Utility A or B
7 points: High in Trial
8 points: High Combined
Rally
1 points: Qualifying score in Novice
2 points: Qualifying score in Advanced or First Place in Novice
3 points: Qualifying score in Excellent or First Place in Advanced
4 points: Qualifying in both Advanced and Excellent or First Place in Excellent
Venue 4: Herding
Herding
1 point: Qualifying in HT/PT
2 points: Qualifying Started (sheep, ducks, or cattle)
3 points: Qualifying in Intermediate (sheep, ducks, or cattle) or Winning Started class (sheep, ducks, or cattle)
4 points: Qualifying in Advanced (sheep, ducks, or cattle) or Winning Intermediate class (sheep, ducks, or cattle)
5 points: Winning Advanced class (sheep, ducks, or cattle)
6 points: Reserve High in Trial
7 points: High in Trial
8 points: High Combined
Venue 5: Tracking
Tracking
4 points: Passing TD Tracking Test
5 points: Passing TDX Tracking Test
6 points: Passing VST Tracking Test
Tie-Breaking Criteria:
In the event of a tie, the winner will be the dog participating and earning points in the most number of venues. For example, in a tie, a dog that had earned points in all five venues would win over a dog that had earned points in only three venues. If a tie still exists, all point values earned in each venue would be combined and totaled for each dog with the highest total score being the winning dog. For example, a dog that had earned a High in Trial in Obedience by winning the Novice B class would count 7 points for High in Trial, plus 3 points for winning Novice B, plus 2 points for qualifying in Novice B. In the event the dogs were still tied after this tally, ABMC would recognize that an absolute tie occurred and dual awards would be given.