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

A weekly ballot wearing a yearly name

KQTV Play of the Week sounds like a single annual title, the way a typical readers-choice program names one winner a year. It isn't. KQTV, a Missouri television station, runs this vote on the Second Street platform at kq2.secondstreetapp.com as a recurring weekly ballot nested inside each season, and the archived pages back that up directly: thirty separate ballot pages sit behind six confirmed seasons, far more than one page per year would produce.

The most recently confirmed of those weekly windows, part of the 2025 season, ran October 28 through October 31, a four-day stretch. One archived page from an earlier season is labeled Week 17, which puts a floor under how long a single season's run of weekly cycles can stretch.

Anyone landing on a single "Play of the Week" address should assume it covers one week only, never the full season. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle for whichever week is actually open right now.

Six seasons, thirty pages, and a sport that's never named

2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025: KQTV has kept this weekly format running across all six of those seasons, based on the archived pages available for this guide. The exact count of weekly ballots per season isn't evenly documented, some archived pages carry a year in the address, others just a bare week number, but the total across all six seasons reaches thirty pages, including that one labeled Week 17.

What's absent throughout is any statement of which sport supplies the featured plays. A viewer new to the station has no published text to check that against, only the ballot pages themselves, which name a week number but not a league, level, or sport.

Why the season-to-season gaps in documentation matter

Some seasons show up with a year explicitly in the URL, 2020 and 2021 among them; others, likely 2022 or 2023, appear only as bare week-numbered pages with no year attached. That's a documentation gap, not proof the format changed between seasons. Someone trying to reconstruct a full season's schedule from the archived addresses alone should expect some ambiguity about which week belongs to which year.

Not a business readers-choice ballot, and not judged the same way either

Every other Missouri program tracked alongside this one, from Best of KC to Columbia MO CommunityVotes, runs on an annual cycle: nominate once, vote once, announce a winner once a year. KQTV's format breaks that pattern entirely by repeating the whole cycle, submission and vote, on a week-by-week basis throughout the season.

None of those six annual ballots share a results page, a judge, or an organizer with KQTV's weekly vote. Someone active in more than one is really running separate, unrelated campaigns that happen to sit on this site side by side.

Working inside a four-day window instead of a season-long one

A weekly cycle compresses the entire outreach problem into whatever window that week's ballot stays open, four days in the one confirmed example. That leaves little time for a slow-building campaign; whoever wants a specific play to win needs supporters ready to click as soon as that week's page goes live, not weeks later.

The underlying advice still holds regardless of the missing sport, category, and vote-cap details: contact people who actually saw the play, teammates, classmates, family, and ask them directly rather than posting once and hoping. Building real momentum for an online ballot walks through outreach built for exactly this kind of short window, and is buying votes legal is worth reading given how often a new cycle opens here compared with an annual program. Buying votes online explains what paid help typically involves for a recurring vote like this one.