YourSportsEdge.com Fan Faves: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the YourSportsEdge.com Fan Faves and who runs it?

YourSportsEdge.com Fan Faves is a public best-of ballot honoring local sports stars, published by WKDZ / YourSportsEdge.com. The organizer operates in western Kentucky, where its WKDZ signal is licensed to Cadiz and its WHVO signal to Hopkinsville. Voting takes place on Second Street, the ballot platform behind the organizer's contest account, at the address wkdzwhvo.secondstreetapp.com/2026-YourSportsEdgeCom-Fan-Faves/.

The ballot's own invitation reads "Vote Now for your favorite local sports stars in the YSE Fan Faves!", and that line sets the tone for the whole programme: readers pick the performers they followed through the season, not a panel of judges.

The organizer's June explainer describes the nominees as athletes and cheerleaders from high schools including Caldwell County High School, Christian County High, Dawson Springs High, Fort Campbell High, Hopkins County Central High, Lyon County High, Heritage Christian Academy, Hopkinsville High and Madisonville-North Hopkins High. No national poll puts Caldwell County and Heritage Christian Academy on the same slate; this roster comes entirely from the coverage area the two stations serve, and the complete category lineup for the 2026 round sits on the live ballot itself.

When has the Fan Faves run, and what are the 2026 dates?

The 2026 voting round opened on June 22 and closes on July 10, a slot the organizer sets in the early-summer stretch between the school seasons and the fall schedule. Both endpoint dates come from the live ballot itself, which titles the round "2026 YourSportsEdge.Com Fan Faves" and prints the voting range on its face.

The programme is a returning one. Editions ran in 2018, 2019 and then every year from 2021 through 2026, so the ballot has outlasted most of the one-off polls that appear around it each season.

Two things the organizer keeps off the ballot: any nomination or entry round that may precede voting, and the method by which finishes are tallied and announced. Neither is printed alongside the voting range; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

For anyone campaigning for a nominee, those two dates are the entire runway. Support gathered before June 22 has nowhere to land, and support gathered after July 10 has nowhere to land either, so the planning window is the round itself.

How does a supporter actually cast votes on the 2026 ballot?

Casting a vote on the 2026 YourSportsEdge.Com Fan Faves ballot mirrors the votingSteps above: load the Second Street address, choose a category, select the local sports star earning the nod and send it. The organizer's printed rule reads "Voters may vote once per category."

That single line shapes the whole experience. There is no hourly reset and no daily return to a category; once a supporter has voted in it, that category is settled, and the sensible move is down the ballot toward the next category where a teammate, classmate or squad deserves recognition.

Nothing about the process ties a supporter to a particular device. The Fan Faves lives at an ordinary Second Street address rather than inside an app, so a parent catching up between games on a phone sees the same categories and buttons a desktop visitor sees, with no download standing in the way.

The organizer also published a how-to explainer on YourSportsEdge.com during the 2026 round, walking readers through the ballot step by step and restating the once-per-category limit so nobody burns an ask by accident. Reading it before voting removes any guesswork about the interface, especially for supporters who have never clicked through a Second Street ballot before.

Where does the Fan Faves fit among Kentucky's public ballots?

Kentucky already has a crowded field of reader-voted best-of programmes, and this site carries pages for six of the neighbours: Best of Bowling Green, Best in Kentucky, Best of Lexington KY, Best Places to Work in Kentucky, BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards and Chevy Chaser Best of Lex.

The Fan Faves stands apart in two ways. First, the subject matter: where those titles point at businesses, employers and city favorites, this ballot points at high-school athletes and cheerleaders, which puts students and their families at the middle of the campaign effort. Second, the publisher: it is the only one in this set run by a sports outlet whose radio signals are licensed to Cadiz and Hopkinsville, and the only one whose nominees come from a named roster of area high schools.

The organizer's Second Street account has carried other promotions too, including a Best of Western Kentucky ballot in 2024, so the Fan Faves sits inside a broader contest calendar on the same account rather than standing alone.

The practical difference for anyone campaigning shows up in the pool of voters. A city-wide business ballot draws general readers; the Fan Faves draws people with a reason to care about one specific athlete, so personal outreach aimed at teammates, parents and alumni travels further here than a broadcast blast ever would.

What is the smartest way to build support for a Fan Faves nominee?

Since the ballot prints a once-per-category rule, volume in this programme comes from reach, not repetition. Asking the same handful of people twice wastes the second ask; the same effort spent forwarding the ballot link to a different classroom group, team parent chat or congregation circle produces votes the first push never reached.

Timing matters as well. The window runs from late June into July, so a campaign organized as soon as the ballot opens keeps the full runway, while one that waits for the final days compresses every ask into a weekend. Because each category settles after a supporter's single vote, a wide, early circle of askers is worth more than intensity late in the round. A campaign that lines up its class-group chats during the opening week and returns to them once at mid-round covers the whole runway without pestering anyone.

For tactics that generalize beyond this ballot, see how to get more votes online.