DTLA Weekly Great Tree Competition: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the DTLA Weekly Great Tree Competition is and who runs it

The DTLA Weekly Great Tree Competition is a public web vote run by DTLA Weekly, the publisher behind the DTLA Weekly Presents community events brand. The ballot lives under the publisher's own domain at dtweeklypresents.com, under the GreatTree path, and the page is headed Great Tree. Supporters reach the vote from that address, which is the only ballot address known for it.

The program is tied to Downtown Los Angeles. The organizer's page describes its events as community events brought to you by Downtown Los Angeles, so the market this ballot serves is the Los Angeles area of California. The publisher's wider site also carries a DTLA Weekly address that points to the same 9th Annual competition.

Which editions are confirmed and when the voting window falls

The only confirmed edition on the live ballot is the 9th Annual Great Tree Competition, dated 4 Dec 2025. That single dated edition is the anchor for the timeline, and every other year in the program is an expected cycle rather than a confirmed one. The organizer's own wording calls the competition annual, which is why the next expected year is 2026.

The organizer's page does not print the voting window dates for 2026, and the window for the confirmed 2025 edition is absent from the ballot page. The timeline below lists only what the live ballot shows, so no open or close day is filled in from memory.

The window for any new cycle has to be read from the ballot at the time it opens, because the organizer's text does not give open or close days in advance. Check the GreatTree page directly rather than relying on a date from an earlier year.

How a supporter casts a vote on the ballot today

A supporter opens the GreatTree page on the organizer's site, reads the entries listed there, and submits a vote for the one they back. The vote is a public web action, which means it is cast on the page itself rather than through a separate app. Each step is simple, but the page does not describe a preview, a confirmation email or a second screen.

The table below sets out the three actions in the order a supporter meets them on the ballot. Where the page is silent, the table says so rather than filling the gap with a rule that might not apply to the live vote.

Because the mechanic is a public web vote, the only thing a supporter controls is which entry gets the vote and when it is submitted. Any limit on repeat votes is not printed, so repeat voting should wait until the page states its rule.

How this ballot sits beside other California programs in the directory

The Great Tree competition is one of several California best-of ballots in this directory, and the comparison is useful because the neighbouring programs share a format but differ in market and season. Readers who want a Los Angeles contrast can compare the ballot against the regional lists below, each of which links to its own page.

Unlike the 2024 GGBR Calendar Contest, which is dated to a single year in its route name, the Great Tree ballot runs under a Los Angeles publisher and carries a confirmed 2025 edition. The distinction matters for a reader who searches by year, because the two ballots do not share a calendar.

How supporters can help an entry gain attention in this vote

Attention for an entry in a public vote usually comes from people who already follow the publisher. The most practical step is to share the GreatTree link with friends, neighbours and local followers and ask each of them to read the entries before voting. The vote counts what the public submits on the page, so an honest push to real supporters is the only route that can be described here.

The organizer's page does not state what it allows for outside promotion, such as paid posts, group messages or volunteer drives, so anyone planning a campaign should read the ballot rules first. For a broader set of tactics that apply to public votes, see how to get more votes online, which covers general steps without assuming any rule specific to this competition.

Any paid option is a separate decision that sits outside the competition's own terms. Read the organizer's wording before spending money on votes, and keep the purchase decision apart from the entry itself, since the count is the organizer's to make.