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Read more →The first confirmed edition of this Georgia middle school girls track fan vote ran in May 2026 on Crowdsignal and now stands closed.
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The Georgia Middle School Girls T&F Performer of the Week State Meet is a fan ballot open to the public, built around a single question: which middle school girl delivered the best track and field performance at the Georgia state meet. The programme carries the Georgia Middle School Girls T&F name, and the vote lives on Crowdsignal, the survey service behind poll.fm, at the address poll.fm/16943514.
Scope separates this ballot from the better-known Georgia rankings. Where city magazines ask readers to pick favourite businesses, this poll honours an athletic performance, and it reaches statewide rather than anchoring to a metro. The poll question names Georgia outright, and the nominated performances came from club and school programmes scattered around the state. Programme affiliations visible on the ballot included AMP Elite, Lane 4 and Track Phi Elite, alongside entries tied to school communities.
The format has fixed traits. The subject is narrow: girls, middle school age group, track and field, state meet performances only. The franchise is broad: any visitor to the page could take part once the ballot loaded. And the lifecycle is short: a single question, a finite slate of nominees, and a close that freezes the count. That close has already happened, so the address now serves as the permanent standings display. The table pulls the identity facts together.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Programme | Georgia Middle School Girls T&F Performer of the Week State Meet |
| Organizer | Georgia Middle School Girls T&F |
| Platform | Crowdsignal (poll.fm) |
| Ballot address | https://poll.fm/16943514 |
| Market | Statewide Georgia |
| Subject | Top middle school girls track and field performance, state meet |
| Status | Poll closed after the May 2026 count |
A single edition of this ballot is documented, and it belongs to 2026. The polling activity fell inside May of that year, with the vote opening and closing within the month. When the page was last presented, its title carried the marker Poll Closed, and the standings beneath the question showed the leading entry at 39% of the count, with the rest of the slate trailing below.
Around that core, several facts stay unpublished. The poll page gives no opening day and no closing hour, and it describes no nomination round that produced the slate. The ballot poses a single question rather than a set of divisions, yet the organizer has never issued a category roster for the performer-of-the-week format as a whole. Nothing on the page states a per-person vote limit, a once-a-day interval or eligibility terms for nominees. Readers who need those particulars for a coming edition should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Put together, the documented picture reads as follows: a May 2026 window, a closed count, a visible final standings table, and a set of scheduling and rule questions Georgia Middle School Girls T&F has not answered in print. The timeline table lays out what is pinned down and what is not.
| Stage | Timing | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Edition confirmed | 2026 | The only year with a confirmed ballot |
| Polling month | May 2026 | Open and close both fell inside the month |
| Exact open and close days | Not printed | No dated window appears on the poll page |
| Nomination round | Not described | The page shows only the finished vote |
Casting a ballot takes a single selection. The page at poll.fm/16943514 lists the nominated state meet performances, each line pairing a performance with the club or school programme behind it. A supporter reads the slate, marks the performance they rate highest, and submits. There is no fee mentioned on the ballot, no form to fill out and no campaign to join; the choice itself is the whole act of participation.
Because the 2026 state meet count is finished, that sequence describes what voters did while the poll was open. Loading the same address today brings up the frozen results instead of a live form. Any future edition in the performer-of-the-week series would run the same way on whatever address the organizer publishes with it.
The page is equally quiet on repetition. It states no rule about returning to vote again, no device distinction and no waiting period between selections, so a person planning repeated visits finds nothing printed to guide them. Participation also involves no sign-in step on the face of the page; the selection sits directly on the poll itself. Mobile visitors lose nothing, since the poll renders as a standard web form that a phone browser presents just as a desktop window does.
Georgia sustains a busy public-vote scene, and several programmes share the space with this one. Athens Community's Choice Awards rounds up favourites across an entire city. Best of Augusta comes from Augusta Magazine, Best of Atlanta serves the state's largest metro, Best of Cobb belongs to Cobb Life Magazine, Best of Forsyth runs in the Forsyth County News, and Best of Middle Georgia covers a multi-county region.
Every ballot in that group is a commerce-and-services ranking: restaurants, shops and providers sorted into reader-facing categories. This performer poll breaks the pattern on several fronts. Its subject is a single athletic performance rather than a business. Its geography spans all of Georgia instead of one city or county footprint. And its calendar tracks scholastic sport, landing in May when the middle school state meet concludes, instead of the reader-survey rhythm those publications keep.
For a voter, the practical consequence is a different kind of stake. Choosing among restaurants is a matter of taste; choosing among state meet performances asks a judgement about times, heights and distances achieved by young athletes across a single weekend. The electorate differs too, since a club community rallying around a nominee can outweigh a publication's general readership in a poll of this size. That dynamic is what makes youth-sport ballots unpredictable relative to their best-of cousins.
Nothing on the ballot caps outreach, so the reachable lever is distribution through channels that already surround a meet. A coach's recap message, a team parent thread and a club's own social feed all move a ballot link quickly, and each works best early, while the May window still has room to run. Interest in middle school results peaks naturally around state meet weekend, so shares that land inside that spike collect supporters who are already paying attention.
Note the boundaries, though. The organizer has printed no guidance on outside voting help for this series, so no published rule either permits or restrains paid or automated support; the safest reading is that ordinary sharing is uncontroversial and anything else is untested. And the 2026 ballot is closed, meaning every tactic here aims at a future edition rather than the finished count of May 2026. The wider methods are gathered on the online votes guide.
Load poll.fm/16943514 in any browser; the Georgia state meet ballot appears with its question and nominee slate.
Read each line, which pairs a middle school girls track performance with the club or school programme behind it.
While a ballot in the series is live, mark the performance you rate highest and submit that selection.
After the count closes, the same address keeps the final standings on view, as the May 2026 page does now.
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