Best Marching Band On The Western Slope Poll: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Western Slope marching band poll is and who runs it

This page covers a single program: the Best Marching Band On The Western Slope Poll, a public-vote ballot run by KEKB, a radio station serving Colorado's Western Slope. The poll appears on kekbfm.com, the station's web home, instead of any outside voting service, and the confirmed voting page is the Round 2 poll at the address listed in the facts below.

KEKB frames the exercise as a search. The page introducing this round states that the station has been on the hunt for the best marching band on the Western Slope and that Round One voting has already taken place. The ballot sits inside the station's broader best-of coverage, alongside other listener polls the station runs under the same format, including a fried chicken poll for Grand Junction and country jam ballots. Those titles appear on the same page as this poll; the published material does not present them as the full ballot roster for the marching band question, so what the ballot module actually shows is the deciding word on what a supporter can choose among.

Classified as a best-of program with a public-vote mechanic, the audience is the station's Western Slope listenership in Colorado. No city is tied to the program itself beyond the region its name carries; the poll is a station-wide feature rather than a ballot anchored to a particular town.

Dates and edition history for the KEKB marching band poll

The poll is annual on the strength of confirmed edition years running from 2022 up to 2026. The next cycle would fall in 2027 if the station keeps the pattern, though 2026 is the latest confirmed year. The voting window sits in October. The page that introduced the current round carries a publication date of October 4, 2017, credited to Keyes Keyes, and the confirmed window for the round runs from the start of the month to the end of it.

What the station has not printed on its confirmed page is which specific day the round opens or closes; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Round structure is part of what the page does confirm. Round One voting took place before this Round 2 ballot, so the program advances through elimination stages rather than settling the question in a single pass. How many rounds the full series runs, and when each later stage opens, is not stated on the page. The same is true of nomination timing: nothing on the confirmed page describes a nomination stage separate from the voting rounds. For a band hoping to appear, the practical route is the station's own contact channels during the run-up to an October cycle, because the published page begins at the voting stage with the field already set.

How a supporter votes in the Round 2 poll

Voting takes place on kekbfm.com itself. A supporter loads the Round 2 poll page, finds the poll embedded in the article, chooses the marching band they want to back, and submits the form. The page presents the ballot as a module inside a normal station article, complete with the site's standard navigation and promotional banners, so the vote itself is a matter of scrolling to the poll and clicking through.

The page leaves the rule layer unstated. The station has published no text on whether a single supporter's choices count once or recur, whether a return visit on a later day counts again, or whether any login or email verification sits in front of the submit button. Those mechanics are visible only on the live ballot itself, and the published article offers nothing to substitute for testing it.

Because the ballot is hosted on kekbfm.com itself rather than an outside voting service, there is no separate platform account to create; the interaction is entirely inside the station's article page. A supporter who wants to build a daily voting habit should therefore work from the form directly: submit a vote, note whether the page allows an immediate second attempt, and plan repeat visits around what the ballot itself permits rather than from assumptions carried over from other station polls.

How this poll sits beside Colorado's other best-of ballots

Within Colorado, this poll belongs to a wider best-of ecosystem that this site covers across separate pages. 5280's Top of the Town, the Best of Denver from Westword, Best of NOCO, Best of the Springs, Best of the Boat in Steamboat and Best of Summit County are each the work of a different publisher keeping its own calendar. None of them is the same program as the KEKB marching band poll, and a vote in any of them carries no weight here.

What separates this ballot from those neighbors is scale and subject. It is a radio-station listener poll about marching bands on the Western Slope, not a metro readers survey, and its home is the station's own article pages rather than a dedicated contest platform. For a band director or booster club in the region, that means the competitive set is Western Slope bands rather than Front Range institutions, and the audience is the station's country-music listenership.

Readers comparing options across the state can follow the links to each sibling page. Each covers a different publisher, a different market and a different ballot, so rules learned on a Denver or Springs survey do not transfer to this poll, and the KEKB page's own silence on rules cannot be filled from a sibling's fine print.

Strengthening a band's support in this poll

The mechanic rewards repeat visits during the October window, so the practical work is mobilizing the band community: parents, alumni and students reminding each other to vote while the round is open. The station's page carries no printed policy on organized vote drives or outside help, which makes the conservative course the sensible course: keep pushes personal, and treat anything automated as a risk to the entry rather than an advantage.

For a fuller treatment of legitimate promotion, see our guide to getting more votes online. Questions about whether paid support is lawful for a ballot like this are covered on our legality page. Anyone weighing a purchase can review the general market on our award votes page, though nothing on the KEKB page suggests the station endorses paid voting, and the organizer's rules govern the outcome.