Best Super Bowl Snacks First Poll: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Best Super Bowl Snacks poll is and who runs it

Best Super Bowl Snacks First Poll is a seasonal fan ballot run by 92.9 The Ticket, a Maine sports radio station whose programming includes The Drive and coverage of the National Football League, the Patriots, the Red Sox, the Celtics and the Bruins. 92.9 The Ticket publishes the ballot at its own web address, 929theticket.com/best-super-bowl-snacks-first-round-poll/, with no third-party contest platform in between.

The premise is food, not sport. The station compiled 16 of the best gameday eats and asks listeners to vote through the rounds until the field narrows to a single champion crowned the Best Super Bowl Snack. The page frames the ballot as inspiration for what to add to a grocery list before the game, which places it in the best-of vertical even though the publisher is a radio signal and the subject is party food.

The first round is the edition this page covers. Later rounds run on the same site as the voting week progresses, with the station narrowing the field as the week moves on.

Facts at a glance

Since 929theticket.com carries the poll directly, every rule a voter needs sits with 92.9 The Ticket itself. There is no separate contest platform with its own help pages, so the station's article and poll page are the only published source for how the bracket works. That makes this poll unusual among the Maine best-of ballots, most of which come from newspapers and magazines rather than from a sports radio signal.

The dated record for the snack bracket

The voting window for the snack bracket falls in February, timed to the Super Bowl. The first-round page carries a publication date of February 7, 2022, and the cycle's start and end both fall inside February. Exact dates for when the first round opens and when the final round closes are a different matter: 92.9 The Ticket prints none of them; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The 2025 and 2026 editions are the confirmed ones, and that pair of confirmed years is what puts the program in the annual column. The February 7, 2022 publication date on the first-round page marks the earliest dated evidence of the bracket. A further edition is expected in 2027, again anchored to Super Bowl week.

The station publishes no rules text alongside the poll. Nothing on the ballot page states a printed limit on voting frequency, an eligibility requirement or a schedule for the later rounds, and no separate promotion listing exists for this market anywhere else. The bracket's structure, 16 eats narrowing week by week to one champion, is the only published description of how the competition unfolds.

Anyone who needs those details before planning a voting push should read the ballot page directly, because the station is the sole publisher of them. A single question, which snack wins, is the whole ballot, and the answer is decided entirely by the votes listeners cast during the February window.

How a supporter votes in the 92.9 The Ticket snack poll

Voting is a plain public click. A supporter opens the first-round poll at 929theticket.com/best-super-bowl-snacks-first-round-poll/, reads the 16 gameday eats the station compiled, and selects a favorite in each matchup. As the week moves on, the station states, votes narrow the field until one snack is crowned the Best Super Bowl Snack.

The ballot page prints no instructions about accounts, logins or daily returns, and 92.9 The Ticket sets out no rule about repeat voting. In practice the safest reading of the mechanic is the one the page itself gives: pick your favorites, submit, and come back as the rounds advance. Because the poll sits at the station's own web address, no third-party platform imposes its own vote cap or verification step; whatever limits exist are whatever 92.9 The Ticket applies on its own domain.

Supporters who want to follow the whole bracket should bookmark the poll page rather than search for it, since each round lives at the same address as the week moves on. The page also doubles as an article, so a voter arriving for the bracket gets the station's own framing of the matchups at the same time. That combination of editorial content and a live ballot is typical of how radio stations run listener polls, and it means the voting experience is the same for every supporter: one page, one question, one week.

Where the snack poll sits among Maine's best-of ballots

The snack poll is the smallest and most seasonal of the Maine ballots covered here. Six sibling programs run in the same state, each under its own publisher. Best of the 207 and Best of Maine are general interest best-of ballots. The Kennebec Journal Readers' Choice and Mainebiz Readers' Choice are newspaper and business-journal reader surveys. The Maine Parade of Homes People's Choice is a homebuilder ballot, and the Maine Restaurant Week Diners' Choice is a dining ballot.

What separates the 92.9 The Ticket snack poll from all six is scope and rhythm. It covers a single question, which snack wins the Super Bowl table, rather than a directory of local businesses across dozens of categories. It runs for about a week each February instead of a multi-month nomination and voting season. And its publisher is a radio signal rather than a print outlet, so the ballot lives inside the station's own sports coverage.

A vote cast for a snack carries no weight in any of the six programs above, and vice versa. Each ballot answers to its own publisher, on its own domain, with its own rules. A supporter who wants a broader Maine best-of season should look at the newspaper surveys, while a supporter who only cares about gameday food needs nothing more than the station's February page.

Rallying support for one snack in this bracket

Strengthening support in this ballot means working with a week-long bracket rather than a single deadline. Because the field of 16 narrows round by round, a snack needs votes in every round, not one burst at the start. A restaurant, a snack brand or a fan group backing one entry can rally the same supporters each time a new round opens, which fits the format the station describes on its own page.

On the subject of outside help, 92.9 The Ticket has put no statement about voting software or purchased support into print for this poll, so nothing is either permitted or banned on the page itself. General guidance on how supporters organize a push without tripping a host's defenses is on our getting-more-votes guide, and the legal position on paid support is covered on our legality page. For ballots of this award type, our award-votes page explains how support is structured. Whatever route a backer takes, the bracket's own rhythm, one round at a time through Super Bowl week, is the shape a winning effort has to follow here.