Fayetteville Observer Fans Choice: 910Preps Team of the Year poll: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Fans Choice: 910Preps Team of the Year poll and who runs it?

The Fayetteville Observer is the daily newspaper of Fayetteville, North Carolina, and 910Preps is the high-school sports brand it publishes under. Inside that brand the paper runs a Fans Choice series of reader polls, and the Team of the Year ballot is the squad-level branch of the family: where a companion poll crowns an individual, such as the 910Preps Fans' Choice Boys Soccer Player of the Year, this form asks readers to honor a whole team.

The vote itself runs on Crowdsignal, the polling platform behind the poll.fm domain, and the Team of the Year form lives at https://poll.fm/17128853. The page identifies itself as poll 17128853 and presents the nominated squads as a selectable list, open to whoever reaches the address. The form describes no membership gate, so participation amounts to arriving and choosing.

The essentials, laid out:

When did the Team of the Year poll run, and what is still unknown about its schedule?

A single edition of this program is documented, the 2026 run, and its voting activity sat inside June 2026. Past that month-level frame the form prints no opening day and no closing deadline, and no separate nomination round is dated anywhere on it.

This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

That caveat matters for planning. School-centered campaigns usually want weeks of runway, and this ballot supplies no published calendar to plan against; the live page is the only dependable indicator that voting remains open. The newspaper has likewise announced nothing about a follow-up edition, so a squad hoping to compete again cannot count on a future slot.

How does a supporter vote in the Fans Choice Team of the Year poll?

Mechanically the ballot is about as simple as voting gets. Reach the form at https://poll.fm/17128853 in any browser. It lays out the nominated squads as selectable choices; mark the button beside the program you back and send the vote with the submit control. Casting a vote costs nothing, and the page requests nothing beyond the selection.

The squads displayed at the head of the form reach across girls' and boys' rosters in several sports:

Fine print is thin here. Neither the form nor its host page sets out a per-person vote cap or eligibility terms; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Repeat voting is equally unstated: nothing on the page says whether a second submission sticks, so anyone planning return visits should test the behavior on the live form.

How does this poll compare with other North Carolina fan votes?

The state's public-vote lineup gives this ballot plenty of company, though little of it competes for the same audience. Best of North Carolina runs a statewide best-of form aimed at businesses and local services. Charlotte Magazine Best of the Best Awards serves the Charlotte market, and the Daily Reflector Best Of Pitt County builds the same model around its own readership. Closer to home, the Fayetteville Community's Choice Awards shares this poll's city but points its questions at merchants and community staples rather than school teams. The 2025 Diamond Awards rounds out the state page set.

The nearest relative is the 910Preps soccer player poll noted at the top of this guide, which shares the publisher, the Fans Choice branding and the Crowdsignal platform while honoring an individual instead of a squad. What separates the Team of the Year form from the whole business-facing group is its constituency: a restaurant or a salon courts customers, while a volleyball or basketball nominee courts students, parents, coaches and alumni, a base that organizes itself around the school calendar rather than around shopping habits. That difference also explains why campaigning looks different here, leaning on rosters and booster groups instead of coupons and storefront signage.

How can a campaign build support in the 910Preps Team of the Year vote?

Because the entire vote happens on a single page with a single click, support-building reduces to turnout, and the constituency arrives pre-organized: rosters, classmate groups, parent chains and alumni circles that a merchant nominee rarely matches. Practical moves that fit this ballot: post the https://poll.fm/17128853 address straight into team group chats so nobody hunts for it, ask captains and coaches to mention the poll at practice, and time reminders to nights families already gather for games. A smaller circle like Terry Sanford boys' golf needs a tighter reminder rhythm than a big basketball roster would, since fewer backers mean each lapse costs more.

On outside help, the newspaper has placed no statement about organized voting pushes or purchased support on the form itself. Anyone weighing paid reinforcement can compare routes in the broader votes guide, read the service overview at award-vote support, and check the legal side on the page linked from the questions below.