2025 Play of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the 2025 Play of the Week is and who runs it

The 2025 Play of the Week is a weekly video vote run by KQTV, the television station broadcasting on channel 2 in St. Joseph, Missouri. Viewers know the station by its KQ2 branding, and the program carries that name on air and on its ballot pages. The promotion belongs to the station's audience-engagement lineup rather than to any outside award body, and the station itself decides when each weekly slate opens and closes.

The ballot is hosted on the Second Street platform at kq2.secondstreetapp.com, the same hub the station uses for the rest of its interactive promotions. The 2025 edition is listed under the promotion type UGCVoting video, which means the entries supporters choose between are submitted play clips rather than a plain text list. The ballot URL for the confirmed 2025 edition is kq2.secondstreetapp.com/2025-Play-of-the-Week.

Two things about this program distinguish it from the best-of ballots KQTV's market neighbours run. First, the vertical is athletic plays, not businesses or venues, so the nominees change every single week of the season. Second, the program is weekly by design: the station's listings break each season into dozens of separate promotions, one per week, instead of a single ballot that stays open for months.

The dated record for KQTV's Play of the Week

Six seasons of the Play of the Week are confirmed for KQTV: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, plus 2025. Each of those years has surviving ballot pages at kq2.secondstreetapp.com, with web addresses that carry the year and the week number in the path, such as the 2020 week one and week five ballots and the 2021 week one through week three ballots. The URL pattern alone shows how the program is built: not one long annual vote, but a chain of weekly promotions assembled into a season.

The confirmed 2025 window ran October 28 through October 31, 2025, and the promotion closed at the end of that span. That four-day span is the most recent dated fact the program carries. Season listings stretch from late August to the end of October across the confirmed years, which puts the heaviest stretch of the schedule in the fall.

The 2026 season is the next expected run. Beyond the recurrence itself, the station has not printed the full season schedule, the nomination process, or the exact weekly open and close dates for the upcoming cycle, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Those details appear on the ballot only when KQTV posts a new week, so the working habit for anyone following the program is to check kq2.secondstreetapp.com during the season rather than to expect a published calendar in advance.

How a supporter votes on the KQ2 Play of the Week ballot

The mechanic is deliberately simple, which is what you would expect from a television station asking its whole viewing area to participate in a weekly cycle. During an open week, the ballot at kq2.secondstreetapp.com displays the nominated plays as video entries. A supporter watches the clips, selects a favourite, and submits the vote directly on the page. Second Street registers the choice immediately and confirms it on screen.

Nothing in the promotion's listing describes a login wall, an email verification step, or a registration form ahead of the vote. The listing types the promotion as user-generated video voting, a format Second Street built for exactly this kind of clip-based weekly contest. That said, the station has never printed the frequency rule it chose, so whether one supporter may return and vote again within a week is a detail only the live ballot shows.

Because each week is its own promotion, voting in the Play of the Week is a repeated act across a season rather than a single decision. A supporter who backs a play in the 2025 October 28 ballot is voting in one weekly cycle, and the next week presents a fresh slate with its own page. The station posts weekly winners through its KQ2 news pages during the season, which is how the program keeps its audience returning week after week.

How the Play of the Week sits beside its Missouri neighbours

Missouri carries several large reader-vote programs, and the Play of the Week occupies a distinct corner of that map. KQTV broadcasts from St. Joseph in northwest Missouri, while the state's best-of ballots concentrate elsewhere: Feast Magazine FEAST 50 and the A-List St. Louis Magazine ballot serve the St. Louis market, the Best of KC ballot serves its own metro under that title, and the Columbia Missourian Reader's Choice Awards plus Columbia MO CommunityVotes serve mid-Missouri.

Those programs are annual best-of votes where businesses and venues compete over a season-long window. The Play of the Week instead asks viewers to judge athletic plays on a weekly rhythm, which makes its nominees individuals and its stakes reset every seven days. KQTV also runs Best of Southwest Missouri among its sibling programs in the state, alongside sweepstakes such as the Out of the Ballpark promotion and the Holiday Cash Giveaway on the same Second Street hub.

What makes this ballot different within KQTV's own lineup is the format. The station's sweepstakes run as simple entry forms, and its gallery promotions collect photos, but the Play of the Week is the only one built as a recurring head-to-head video vote. For a supporter, that means the practical work of backing a nominee happens inside a very short weekly window, not across months, and the audience that can be reached is the station's own viewing area around St. Joseph.

Strengthening support in a weekly KQTV vote

Weekly ballots reward preparation more than annual ones, because the window is measured in days. In the Play of the Week the useful work happens before the slate even opens: the nominee's own school community, teammates and local followers around St. Joseph are the audience KQTV's ballot is designed to reach, and a shareable link to that week's page at kq2.secondstreetapp.com does more than any last-hour scramble. Since each week is a separate promotion, support has to be rebuilt every cycle rather than banked.

What KQTV says about outside help matters here. The station has not printed rule text for this promotion covering purchased or automated votes, which means it retains discretion over anything it judges irregular, and that discretion is the real risk in a ballot run by a broadcaster that posts winners publicly each week. Anyone weighing paid support can read how such services are structured on buy award votes, but no published rule from the station endorses any method beyond ordinary viewer participation.

The practical summary: the ballot is a plain public video vote, the window is short, and the audience is local. Tactics that respect those three facts are the ones a weekly nominee can repeat all season.