Vote for the HSS North Jersey Team of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the HSS North Jersey Team of the Week ballot is

Vote for the HSS North Jersey Team of the Week is run by HSS North Jersey as a weekly ballot on high school teams, serving communities across northern New Jersey. The vote is carried by Crowdsignal on the poll.fm domain, and the live voting address is https://poll.fm/17096167.

Within the best-of vertical this program stands apart, because its subject is school sport rather than local business. Each weekly ballot asks supporters to pick a softball or baseball team from a short list of nominated schools. Voting is public: anyone who reaches the page can select an option and submit, with no account or login shown on the poll form. The communities tied to the program include Ramsey, Old Tappan, Pompton Lakes, Ridgewood, Westwood, Tenafly, Butler and Passaic, all in New Jersey.

Nominees on the most recent ballot included softball and baseball teams identified with Ramsey, Old Tappan, Pompton Lakes and Ridgewood, alongside programs the ballot lists by school name only. HSS North Jersey is the organizer named in the program title, and the ballot page carries no separate publisher masthead beyond the Crowdsignal host.

The dated record for this Team of the Week series

Three edition years stand confirmed for this program: 2023, 2025 and 2026. The season runs from November into June, and the most recent confirmed cycle opened in November 2025 and ran through June 2026. Within a season the program publishes a series of weekly ballots rather than a single long poll; the ballots dated across that cycle carry timestamps from November 2025 through June 2026, and ten ballots are tied to the two most recent seasons.

HSS North Jersey leaves each weekly ballot's opening and closing dates, and any per-supporter voting rule, off the page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Other gaps can be stated plainly. The ballot page publishes no category list beyond the team options themselves, so there is no separate roster of award fields to read. No rules text sits on the poll form either, which means eligibility, voting frequency and any nomination process are all absent from the page a supporter actually votes on. The organizer's own title for the program is the only published description of what it covers.

For planning purposes, the shape that is fixed is the season: a November start, a June finish, and a fresh ballot each week in between. Everything dated more narrowly than that lives on the live poll.

How a supporter votes on the weekly ballot

Voting takes a couple of minutes. A supporter opens the voting page at https://poll.fm/17096167, reads the list of nominated teams, selects the radio button beside a team and submits. The poll then displays the running share for each option, so the result is visible immediately after a vote is cast.

The ballot currently sitting at the voting address is marked Poll Closed, which means that week's window has ended. When it closed, the leading nominee held 63% of the vote, the runner-up 28%, a third team 6%, and three further nominees 1% each; two additional teams appeared on the ballot without a published share. The nominees mixed softball and baseball programs from northern New Jersey schools.

Because the series publishes a fresh ballot each week of the November to June season, a closed poll is not the end of the program, only of that week's vote. The same address serves every weekly ballot, so supporters who want to follow their team across the season return to the identical URL each week rather than hunting for a new link. The header of the live page, open or Poll Closed, is the only signal of whether the current window is still running.

Where this ballot sits among New Jersey public votes

The HSS North Jersey Team of the Week is unusual among New Jersey public votes in that its subject is school sport rather than local business. Most of its neighbours in the state are reader-choice programs run by publishers, and they run on different rhythms and different hosts.

The closest peers by vertical include the Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice, the Best of Bergen Community's Choice Awards and the Best of Jersey Shore Contest, all of which rank local businesses rather than teams. The Bergen & Morris Top Dentists ballot narrows the field to a single profession across two counties, while Best of New Jersey and the Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice cover statewide and county food-and-service fields respectively.

What sets the Team of the Week ballot apart from every one of them is its cadence and its audience. It runs weekly through a November to June season on Crowdsignal's poll.fm host, its nominees are high school softball and baseball teams, and its supporters are school communities mobilizing for a short window rather than shoppers comparing businesses. For a program buying attention in New Jersey, that makes it a different kind of target from the publisher-run best-of ballots around it, and award vote packages apply to it in the same way they apply to any public ballot.

Strengthening support in a short weekly window

This ballot's mechanic shapes how support has to be built. Each weekly poll runs for a matter of days inside a November to June season, so a push that starts late in the week has little room to work. The practical play is to treat the voting address as a standing link, share it the moment a new ballot appears, and ask team families, players and alumni to vote early rather than waiting for a closing-day surge.

On outside help, the organizer has published no position: HSS North Jersey attaches no rules text to the poll form, so no stated policy for or against organized voting pushes exists to point to. That absence cuts both ways, and any school community planning a large push should read the live poll for itself before acting.

Because the field of nominees is small each week, modest organized support moves the visible percentages quickly, and the running result is displayed on the page after every vote. Methods that work for short public windows, from group messaging to reminder timing, are collected at how to get more votes online, and they apply directly to this ballot's weekly rhythm.