For Paddleheads Ticket Design: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the PaddleHeads ticket design vote is and who runs it

For Paddleheads Ticket Design is a single-topic fan ballot run by KYSS-FM, a country radio station broadcasting in Montana. The subject is narrow and concrete: the Missoula PaddleHeads, the state's professional baseball club, are weighing new artwork for their game tickets, and the station has handed the choice to the audience. The ballot page asks one question, which one do you like best, and presents the candidate designs for supporters to judge.

Unlike the wide best-of surveys that dominate Montana's reader-voting calendar, this program has no business categories, no nomination round and no long list of local shops to sort through. It is one design decision, put to the fans of one team, published at kyssfm.com instead of an outside voting service. That makes the ballot unusually easy to understand: a supporter arrives, looks at the designs, and backs a favorite.

The vote sits in the best-of vertical in the sense that it hands an editorial decision to public preference, but its scope is a single team's merchandise rather than a market-wide ranking. Every fixed detail about the program is gathered in the table underneath.

The dated record: which editions ran and when the window falls

This ballot has a longer history than most single-topic fan votes. KYSS-FM has put the ticket-design question to its listeners in five consecutive springs, with confirmed editions in 2022, then 2023, 2024, 2025 and most recently 2026. That run makes the program a settled part of the station's spring lineup, not a one-off promotion, and it points to a 2027 cycle if the pattern continues.

Every edition is anchored to May. The station's own framing ties the vote to the countdown to the PaddleHeads' baseball season, urging fans to get their pick in as the days tick down toward the first games. The month is the reliable marker; the precise day the form opens, and the day it shuts, go unannounced until the ballot appears. KYSS-FM prints no precise open or close day for the ticket-design vote; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Two other gaps sit alongside the dates. Nothing from the station sets a limit on how many picks one person may cast, and no eligibility wording has been printed for the ballot. Neither omission is unusual for a radio promotion of this size, but it does mean a supporter planning repeat visits or a coordinated push has no written rule to lean on and has to read what the live form itself permits.

How a supporter votes on the ticket design today

The act of voting here could hardly be more direct. A supporter opens the vote page on kyssfm.com, finds the candidate ticket designs laid out for comparison, and picks the one they like best. There is no nomination stage to navigate, no bracket, and no category menu; the entire ballot is one preference choice about one piece of club artwork.

Because kyssfm.com hosts the form itself, the ballot is whatever KYSS-FM has built for the promotion. The station has printed nothing about whether a sign-in is required, whether cookies or email verification gate the form, or whether one person can come back and pick again. Those behaviors will be visible on the live page when a supporter attempts them, and the page itself is the sole written authority on them.

Compared with a year-round survey, the calendar here is far less forgiving. The window is tied to May and to the start of the PaddleHeads' season, so the ballot is live for a short stretch while the designs are still being weighed. A supporter who wants their pick to count should reach the page during that stretch rather than assuming the form stays open into the season. Once the club has its answer, the vote has done its job, and the page settles back until the next spring.

How this ballot sits beside its Montana neighbours

Montana has a busy public-voting calendar, and this program stands apart from everything else on it. The state's major reader ballots are broad market surveys: Best of Whitefish covers that resort town's businesses, Best of Billings is the Billings Gazette's citywide ranking, Gallatin's Greatest comes from the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Bozeman's Choice is the magazine's own edition, and Community Votes Billings and Community Votes Bozeman run the nominate-then-vote format in their respective cities.

Each of those asks supporters to sort through dozens of categories and hundreds of local businesses, and each is run by a publication whose voting calendar spans months. The PaddleHeads ballot does the opposite. It is one question about one design, hosted by a radio station instead of a newspaper or a voting-network partner, and live for a short May window tied to the baseball schedule.

Support therefore works differently here than in a citywide survey, where a business campaigns across a category for weeks; on this ballot, a design either wins the audience's eye in the window or it does not. The audience is also different: PaddleHeads fans and KYSS-FM listeners rather than a general local readership. A supporter moving between these Montana ballots should expect different rules, different timing and a different kind of commitment from each, because every one of them answers to its own publisher.

Strengthening support for a favorite design

Because this ballot is a single preference pick with a short May window, effective support looks different from a months-long business campaign. The straightforward moves are the ones that fit the format: share the ballot link with fellow PaddleHeads fans while the vote is live, make the case for a favorite design in fan groups where the club's audience already gathers, and return to the page during the window if the form permits repeat visits. KYSS-FM has printed no rule on outside help for this vote, so the page itself is the sole written authority on what is allowed.

Supporters weighing paid help should start from what the ballot actually is: a public preference vote that costs nothing to enter, hosted at kyssfm.com, with no printed cap and no printed eligibility wording. Our award votes overview explains how support for ballots of this shape is generally approached, and the standing disclaimer applies: no service, this one included, can promise a win.