For Your Favorite Halloween Decoration With The B Devils: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the B Devils decoration vote is and who runs it

For Your Favorite Halloween Decoration With The B Devils is a public-vote contest run by WHWK, a New York radio station broadcasting under the 981thehawk.com banner. The ballot sits on WHWK's own domain instead of any outside balloting service, at https://981thehawk.com/vote-for-your-favorite-halloween-decoration-with-the-b-devils/.

The program's name points at the B-Devils, the hockey club the station follows. Page text on the ballot ties the vote to that club's world: it looks forward to the team taking the ice at the Visions Federal Credit Union Veterans Memorial Arena and plugs Chuck-a-Puck alongside the decorating vote. The subject, though, is decorating, not hockey. The B-Devils collected the best 25 Halloween decorating entries and handed the final call to the public.

WHWK files the page under site sections including Contests, Holidays, Entertainment and Local News, with the Hawk Morning Show among them, which places the vote inside the station's everyday lifestyle coverage rather than in a formal awards program.

In vertical terms this belongs to the best-of family: a single topic, a public vote, a local audience. Unlike the city readers'-choice ballots linked at the foot of this page, it carries a single subject and a short seasonal window instead of a long roster of categories.

The dated record: editions, the October window and what is unpublished

The program has a long confirmed run. Editions are confirmed for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026, which makes it an annual October fixture with a single gap: no 2023 entry appears in that list. Six editions across seven calendar years is a stronger recurrence history than most local single-topic votes can show.

The live window falls in October. The ballot page states plainly that voting ends on Friday, October 30th, which puts the close right at the end of the Halloween season it celebrates. The page frames the vote as a way to get ready for the Tuesday that follows, the holiday itself.

Several details sit outside the printed page. The station has not published an exact opening date, an entry deadline for decorators, or any ceiling on repeat voting by one person; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Whether a 2027 edition follows the 2026 run is also not yet printed anywhere on the site.

For planning purposes the shape is clear enough: a shortlist set before the public arrives, a public vote through late October, and a close stated as Friday, October 30th. Everything around that shape, from opening day to entry rules, lives only on the live page when the window is running.

How a supporter votes on the B Devils ballot today

Voting here takes little effort. A supporter reaches the WHWK ballot at 981thehawk.com, reviews the 25 shortlisted Halloween decorating entries, and votes for a favorite. There is no nomination stage left to work through, because the B-Devils already took the best 25 entries before the public vote began.

The page's own framing is casual: it calls the vote a way to get ready for next Tuesday, treating the ballot as part of the run-up to Halloween rather than as a formal competition with brackets or rounds.

Nothing on the page describes an account requirement, a login step or a per-visitor limit, and the station publishes no instructions beyond the vote itself. A supporter who wants certainty about any of those details has to open the live form during the window and see what it asks for that cycle.

Timing matters more than technique here. The stated close is Friday, October 30th, so support that arrives after that date has no effect on the result. A backer who cares about a decorated entry should reach the page early in the October window rather than waiting for the final days, when any site traffic around the deadline is heaviest.

How this ballot sits beside its New York neighbours

The state's best-of family on this site is made of city and metro readers'-choice ballots: Best of Brooklyn, Best of Hudson Valley, The City's Best, Best of New York City, Best of Queens, Best of the Bronx and Best of Westchester.

Those programs share a shape: a publisher, a wide roster of categories spanning dining, services and retail, and a voting season that runs for months. This WHWK program is the odd ballot out. It has a single subject, Halloween decorating, a shortlist of 25 set by the B-Devils, and a window that closes on Friday, October 30th.

The organizer differs too. The siblings answer to city magazines and local publications; this vote answers to a radio station, and it borrows the identity of the hockey club the station covers, right down to the arena and Chuck-a-Puck mentions on the page.

For a decorator or a supporter, that difference is practical. A readers'-choice ballot rewards a business with breadth across many categories; this ballot rewards a single strong decorated display with a concentrated push inside a few weeks of October.

Rallying support inside this ballot's rules

Support in this program is a race to the page before the stated close. The mechanic rewards exactly the action the ballot asks for: getting people who care about a decorated entry to 981thehawk.com and having them vote for that favorite among the 25 shortlisted displays before Friday, October 30th.

WHWK publishes no policy on outside help, no eligibility text and no per-supporter rule on its decoration ballot, so no printed line exists that a backer could cross. The safe reading is to work the channels a decorated entry already has: the business's own customers, the neighborhood around the display, and the hockey fans who follow the B-Devils and see the station's coverage.

Because the window is short, early momentum matters more here than on a months-long readers'-choice ballot. Tactics that fit that shape, from asking in person to timing posts while the window is open, are gathered on our votes guide, and the award-ballot specifics are on our award votes page.