94.3 The Point Monmouth County School Spirit Competition: How Voting Works & How to Win

94.3 The Point's Monmouth County School Spirit Competition, and what five editions show

WJLK-FM, on air as 94.3 The Point, runs the Monmouth County School Spirit Competition directly on its own site, 943thepoint.com, rather than handing the ballot to an outside voting platform. Five editions are confirmed: 2018, 2019, 2024, 2025, and 2026, a run with a gap in the middle that nothing published explains.

The format itself is a bracket, not a single up-or-down vote. An archived Round 2 page for this competition describes narrowing a field of 12 schools down to 6 through head-to-head voting. That same page recorded voting closing at 11:59 p.m. on a Sunday, October 14, though no year is attached to that particular archived page, and the current 2026 round's own dates aren't published here.

No published roster of categories and no daily-vote rule exist on that page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle, since neither has surfaced across any of the five editions confirmed so far.

A radio station's own bracket, not a newspaper ballot like Monmouth County's other polls

Most Monmouth County business ballots run through a newspaper or a food-focused publisher's own reader network. This one doesn't: WJLK-FM built its school-spirit bracket for its own listeners and hosts it directly on 943thepoint.com, apart from any of the publisher-run programs below.

Jersey Bites' own Monmouth County ballot covers restaurants nominated by diners, an entirely different audience and format from a radio station's school bracket, even though both carry the same county name in their title. A school recognized here gains nothing on Jersey Bites' results page, and a restaurant favored there has no bearing on which school advances in this bracket.

Why the county name alone isn't enough to find the right page

Typing "Monmouth County vote" into a search bar risks landing on Jersey Bites' restaurant ballot instead of this one, since both share the county in their name. 943thepoint.com, typed directly, is the only page that actually runs WJLK-FM's own bracket.

Monmouth County, New Jersey, and where this bracket is organized

WJLK-FM's 94.3 The Point is licensed to Asbury Park, New Jersey, and runs its school-spirit bracket for schools across all of Monmouth County rather than for Asbury Park alone. A countywide bracket like this one draws entries from across the whole county rather than any single town, consistent with "Monmouth County" standing in for the county rather than a city in its own title.

WJLK-FM's own page doesn't publish which specific schools have entered in a given year, so this page names none either; that roster, like the category list, is something only 943thepoint.com itself confirms once a round is live.

Building support for a school bracket, not an assumed October deadline

Five confirmed editions, with a gap between 2019 and 2024, give this competition a longer public history than many countywide brackets get, but that history doesn't fix a date for the 2026 round on its own. One archived page for this program recorded a Sunday, October 14 close for its voting phase, though that page carries no year of its own, so treating it as a template rather than a promise is the safer read.

What actually moves a bracket like this is students, parents, and neighbors clicking through to 943thepoint.com and sharing the link, round after round, rather than one push near a single assumed deadline. WJLK-FM runs this competition for its own listeners, and a school community that treats each round as its own event, instead of assuming last cycle's date still applies, is better positioned once nominations or voting for 2026 actually open.

Reaching a given round is not the same thing as reaching the final bracket; only WJLK-FM's own tally settles that. Is buying votes legal explains where organized promotion crosses into risk before a school community commits real effort to a later round. Buying votes online covers how outside support typically works for a bracket-style ballot, and award-vote campaign planning applies similar pacing ideas to a competition that runs in rounds like this one.