{"id":610721,"date":"2025-12-04T02:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/610721\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T02:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:29:15","slug":"who-is-gravels-mvp-in-2025-vote-on-the-2025-all-gravel-awards-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/610721\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Gravel’s MVP in 2025? Vote on the 2025 All Gravel Awards now."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thomas Euler is a gravel fanatic. Besides writing about gravel on Escape Collective, he has his own \u201cgravel-coded\u201d The Gravel Stack<\/a> Substack. He also hosts the Gracing podcast<\/a>, where he (p)reviews gravel races, often with the top pros who competed.<\/p>\n

The All Gravel Awards honor the riders, teams, and events that shaped the 2025 gravel season. Our expert panel has handed in their nominations and votes for the nine awards, from Most Valuable Rider to Best Race Coverage. Now it is up to you, the gravel heads, to cast your votes.<\/p>\n

Most sports have their awards. After all, picking the MVP, Rookie of the Year, or Coach of the Year is fun. Hence, we figured we\u2019d give gravel its own awards as well. The All Gravel Awards go into their second edition and are up for grabs now. Your vote helps to decide who will end up winning them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Below, you will be able to cast your vote on all of our nine awards. But first, let me give you a quick overview of how the awards work. In case you followed my four-part ballot frenzy<\/a> over on The Gravel Stack and are already familiar with it (or couldn\u2019t care less about such minutiae), just jump to the next section.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All Gravel Awards 101The Idea\u00a0<\/p>\n

We launched the awards in 2024, initially simply called “Gravel Post-Season Awards,” to honor the riders, events, and teams that shaped the gravel season and to have some fun in the process. It began as a podcast \u2013 with Gravel Hall of Famer Amanda Nauman Sheek, German gravel national champ Paul Voss, and myself \u2013 followed by a fan vote on Instagram.<\/p>\n

This year, we wanted to bring more gravel expertise and a more diverse set of informed opinions to the table. Thus, we assembled 12 knowledgeable people from the gravel world and asked them to make nominations and vote on the awards. We call this the Expert Panel. I\u2019ll explain how it works in a second.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The goal is simple: we want to make sure the All Gravel Awards go to the right people and organizations. While the awards are supposed to be joyful and celebratory, we also want them to be as \u201cright\u201d as possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We also defined that the awards are series-agnostic and consider the entire global gravel racing scene. Gravel has developed into a global affair and, thus, any awards that aspire to be meaningful need to reflect that. While it makes the process harder, it also makes it more fun.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lastly, the awards direly needed a proper name. Their new one \u2013 which may or may not have been inspired by my NBA fandom \u2013 reflects their scope: the All Gravel Awards. (My spellchecker urges me to introduce a hyphen and make it the All–<\/strong>Gravel Awards; let me know in the comments whether I should give in.)<\/p>\n

The Expert Panel<\/p>\n

The Expert Panel comprises 11 individuals whom we carefully assembled to ensure a good mix of<\/p>\n