Twenty-four players have been named 2026 Grid League All-Stars, 12 from each conference, in a vote of players, coaches and owners from all ten teams along with league staff.
Each team could cast up to five ballots, and league staff could cast up to five more. Each ballot allowed up to three picks from every team in the league. Ties in the vote were broken by the number of races a player entered this season, and then by season Impact Score.
Sydney Pawlak of the New York Wolves received 34 votes, the most of any player, and Gavin D’Amato of the Atlanta Wild was second in the East with 32. Both are rookies, and they are two of the six first-year players named to the All-Star teams. In the West, Christopher Cioffi of the Tampa Bay Brigade and Tori Hite of the Las Vegas Venom tied for the most votes with 31 each.
Four All-Stars finished in the top 10 in season Impact Score. Hite led all 186 players who raced in 2026 with an Impact Score of 649 and also led the league with 412 reps, and Jhonny Caraballo (4th), Cioffi (6th) and Mason Belk (8th) joined her in the top 10. Impact Score adds up every rep a player completes, with each rep multiplied by its element value, a 1 to 4 rating of how important that movement is to the race outcome. The full leaderboards are on the 2026 stats page.
The South Beach Palms placed four players on the East team, the most of any club, with Caraballo, Clark Lawson, Samantha Secord and Kory Hendon all selected.
Each card below lists the player’s vote total and regular season stats from the four 2026 matches. League ranks compare the player with all 186 players who raced this season, and position ranks compare the player with everyone who played the same position. Entry to win % is the share of a player’s races that their team won, ranked among the 79 players who entered at least 15 races. Players are listed in vote order, with ties shown in tiebreaker order.
Daniel Baugh wrote this about Evan Newman on his ballot:
“Evan has proven each year he is reliable and necessary for the Breakers being able to turn around a team at the bottom of the league to a legitimate title contender.”
Sixteen of the 24 All-Stars play this weekend at the Grid League Championships in Lakeland, where the Fort Lauderdale Lions, Palm Beach Breakers, New York Wolves, Las Vegas Venom, Southwest Florida Sharks and Houston Bandits play for the 2026 title on Saturday, October 3, and Sunday, October 4.
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