92.9 The Ticket Bangor Tennis Team of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the 92.9 The Ticket Tennis Team of the Year vote?

The Ticket Awards are the listener-facing honours that 92.9 The Ticket, the Bangor sports station branded around ESPN radio programming, hands out across a year of rounds. The Tennis Team of the Year line is one award inside that series, pointed squarely at competitive tennis in the station's home market rather than at restaurants, trades or services. For the 2026 cycle the station placed the tennis ballot on Crowdsignal, the survey platform whose poll.fm web addresses carry small public votes, and gave it a dedicated address at poll.fm/17114776.

The page follows the service's standard survey layout: a title, a list of answers, share tools and a footer pointing back to Crowdsignal's own poll builder. What separates this programme from a newspaper's community ballot is the runner. A commercial radio station built the Ticket Awards around its own audience, and Round Four of the 2026 series carried the tennis category as part of a spring push. The ballot speaks to followers of specific school squads, printing each nominee with the class championship it earned, which puts the vote closer to a sports fan poll than to a town-business ranking.

Read row by row, the table hands a newcomer everything needed to locate the ballot: the station that owns it, the address where it sat, the platform that served it and the market it belongs to.

When did the Ticket Awards tennis vote run, and what did the station leave unpublished?

The clearest dated statement about this programme comes from the station itself: "We've moved into the spring season with Round Four of voting for the 2026 Ticket Awards." That sentence anchors the tennis ballot to the spring half of the year and to the fourth round of the series, a window that runs from March into May. The ballot page closes the loop on the other end: its title reads Tennis Team of the Year (Poll Closed), so the 2026 vote has finished and the page now shows the completed lineup of nominees.

Beyond that, the published trail is thin, and honesty about the gaps beats guesswork. The station printed no opening day and no closing hour for the tennis category. It posted no roster of the other Ticket Awards categories alongside the tennis ballot. Neither a cap on repeat voting nor any eligibility wording appears anywhere on the tennis page. Its round announcements name rounds but supply no dated calendar for individual ballots. Because none of that sits beside the nominee list, anyone planning around a future round 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.

How does a supporter vote in the Ticket Awards tennis ballot?

A Crowdsignal ballot of this shape asks very little of the person voting. The tennis page lays its choices out as a plain list of nominee lines, each naming a squad and the class championship it claimed. A supporter who reached poll.fm/17114776 while the round was live would read the lines, mark the team to honour and submit, and the choice would land without any fee changing hands.

Distribution was written into the page itself. Beneath the answers, the ballot urged visitors: "Share this poll, because the more votes the better." Buttons for sharing and tweeting sat ready, so the station leaned on its audience to carry the vote outward rather than on repeat visits from the same person. Nothing on the page asked a voter to register, and no payment step appeared anywhere in the flow.

The nominee lines also show what kind of tennis this vote honoured: regional class champions from the North brackets, mixing a girls side with two boys sides in one ballot. That mixture turned the award into a straight choice between champion squads rather than a comparison across whole seasons.

Where does this ballot sit among Maine's other fan votes?

Readers weighing fan ballots in Maine have several neighbour programmes listed alongside this one. Best of the 207 runs as a broad general-interest showcase, Down East's Best of Maine collects consumer favourites across many fields, and Kennebec Journal Readers' Choice serves a daily paper's regional audience. Lighter topical ballots occupy the same neighbourhood: a Best Bluegrass Album Grammy Awards Predictions Poll, a Best Pizza Places In Ellsworth And MDI Poll and a Best Super Bowl Food Meatballs Or Pizza Poll.

Set against those, the Ticket Awards tennis ballot is deliberately narrow. It crowns a single kind of winner, a team, in a single sport, and it leans on class championship titles already earned on the courts instead of asking readers to rank shops or restaurants. The choice it posed was direct: Hermon's boys, Orono's girls or MCI's boys. That makes it a sports fan poll wearing an award's clothes, nearer in spirit to a season-ending player ballot than to a commerce guide, even though the station files it under the wider Ticket Awards umbrella.

For anyone mapping who votes on what across Maine, this entry fills the radio-audience lane: a station rewarding the squads its listeners follow, rather than a publication polling its subscribers. The contrast also explains the differing rhythm, since a topic-driven novelty ballot can appear at any point in the calendar while this award rode the station's own round structure.

How can support be widened for a Ticket Awards tennis nominee?

Any effort to broaden backing for a nominee here starts with the tools the ballot itself supplied. The page carried Share and Tweet buttons and printed an appeal to pass the poll along, so a campaign around Hermon, Orono or MCI would begin by pushing that link through team families, classmates and local tennis circles. The station attached no published guidance on outside assistance, paid promotion or third-party help, so the boundaries for this ballot are simply unstated.

General methods for extending reach in public votes, from timing appeals to rallying community pages, are covered step by step at this site's tactics guide, and the wider service picture for award-shaped ballots sits at the award votes page. Because the 2026 ballot has closed, all of this reads prospectively: the station has not said whether another tennis round will come, so preparation now amounts to groundwork for a ballot that may or may not appear.