For B100s Halloween Pumpkin Champion: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the B100 Halloween Pumpkin Champion contest is

For B100s Halloween Pumpkin Champion is a seasonal public-vote contest from KBEA-FM, a radio station licensed in Iowa. The ballot sits on b100quadcities.com, the site the station operates itself, rather than on any outside contest service, at the address b100quadcities.com/vote-for-b100s-halloween-pumpkin-champion/. The contest appears there under the title Vote for B100's Halloween Pumpkin Champion, next to other listener promotions such as teacher recognition features and giveaway drawings.

The format is a photo vote. According to the ballot page, the station received pumpkin photo submissions from listeners and then opened the floor so that visitors could pick the Halloween Pumpkin Champion themselves. Each posted entry carries a participant name and a Vote Now control, which makes this a straight popularity pick rather than a judged competition.

In the site's own structure the contest sits in the best-of vertical: a single title decided entirely by audience votes. It is a small, seasonal, single-topic ballot, which separates it from the multi-category readers' choice contests that Iowa publishers run. The table below gathers what is known about the program.

The dated history of this pumpkin ballot

Confirmed editions fall in 2018 and 2019, then 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and finally 2026. That list marks the pumpkin vote as a recurring seasonal feature of the station's site, with a gap across 2020 and 2021 where no edition appears. 2026 is the newest edition on the list, and the pattern across those years is consistent enough to treat the contest as an annual feature of the station's fall lineup.

One hard date anchors the timing: the 2018 edition's ballot closed on October 30, which fits a Halloween-timed contest. No opening date, nomination period or close date for any later cycle is printed on the ballot page, and the station has not published this year's voting window; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Other facts are also absent from the page. The ballot shows named entries with Vote Now buttons, but the station publishes no list of contest categories, no prize description, and no rule text covering eligibility or how often one visitor may vote. Because the contest runs on the site the station operates itself, there is no third-party platform page carrying round dates either. Every one of those gaps is a reason to read the live ballot rather than assume the 2018 pattern still holds.

How a supporter votes on the pumpkin ballot today

Voting could hardly be simpler. You open the pumpkin ballot on b100quadcities.com, scroll the posted photo entries, and press the Vote Now control next to the entry you want to win. Each entry on the page carries a participant name next to its button, so the pick is unambiguous. No ranking, no write-in box and no ballot categories appear on the page; it is one champion, one pick per action.

Nothing on the page requires an account, a login or an email submission before voting, and the page prints no limit on how often a visitor may press the button. Silence on the page does not amount to a published rule allowing unlimited repeat voting, though. The station controls its own ballot infrastructure and may apply limits at the page level that it simply does not explain in text. A supporter planning to return daily should watch what the ballot itself permits on each visit.

Timing is the other practical question. The only documented close date is October 30 from the 2018 edition, and the station has not printed the current cycle's deadline. Since the contest is themed to Halloween, the sensible habit is to vote early in the fall window and treat the ballot page as the single source for the live close date.

How this ballot sits beside its Iowa neighbours

Most of Iowa's big public votes are readers' choice programs, and this pumpkin contest breaks that mold. The state's largest ballots include Cedar Rapids CommunityVotes, Best of Cedar Rapids (The Gazette), Best of Des Moines (CITYVIEW), Best of Des Moines (Business Record), Best of the Corridor and the AHBA Parade of Homes. Each of those is a multi-category program run by a newspaper, a business journal or a home builders association.

This contest differs on every axis. It is run by a radio station rather than a print publisher, it crowns a single champion from listener photo submissions rather than ranking businesses across categories, and it runs on a domain the station owns rather than a shared contest platform. For a supporter, that means the competition pool is the station's own listener community, not a city's entire business directory.

It also means the rules landscape is thinner. The large Iowa readers' choice programs publish category rosters and voting windows on dedicated sites; this ballot publishes neither, so the station's page is the only authority on how any given edition runs.

Strengthening support for a pumpkin entry

Because this ballot is a single Vote Now pick on listener photo submissions, support is a reach problem: the entry with the most people willing to click wins. The station has published no rule text on outside help, automation or vote purchasing for this contest, so the only stated constraint is whatever the ballot page itself enforces on each visit. That makes honest mobilization the reliable play: share the entry link with friends, family and coworkers, tell them exactly which named entry to pick, and ask for their clicks before the deadline arrives.

On a short seasonal ballot the calendar matters even more than on a drawn-out readers' choice vote, because the only documented close date, October 30 in 2018, points to a brief Halloween-season window. A push that starts late risks running past the deadline. Should paid support be on your mind, read our award votes page for how these ballots work generally, and note that no vote service, ours included, is able to promise a first-place finish in a contest whose rules the organizer has not printed.