Municipal Ballpark In Bismarck As Best Of The Ballparks (cool987fm): How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Best of the Ballparks vote is and who runs it

Municipal Ballpark in Bismarck, North Dakota is the subject of a fan vote run by KACL, the radio station broadcasting as Cool 98.7 FM. The ballot page carries the title Vote Municipal Ballpark in Bismarck as Best Ballpark, and its framing is written in the voice of the Bismarck Larks, the summer collegiate baseball club that calls the ballpark home. The ask is simple: fans are needed to help choose Municipal Ballpark as the best summer collegiate ballpark.

The vote is a best-of style award in the business and local-recognition vertical, but it is narrower than a typical readers-choice ballot. Instead of ranking dozens of businesses across many categories, it asks a single question about a single venue, and the broadcaster hosts it on its own web property instead of handing it to an outside balloting service. That makes cool987fm.com both the host and the publisher, so the rules readers see are the station's alone.

The page sits inside the station's normal content: its categories point to Bismarck, North Dakota and the station's newsletter, and it appears next to items such as the Larks' game day safety guidelines. The table below gathers the basics a reader needs before voting.

The dated record: confirmed years, the voting window and what is not published

The strongest facts about this ballot are its dates. Confirmed runs sit in 2018, then again in 2019, then once more in 2020. After a skipped 2021 the ballot returned in 2022 and has run every cycle since, through 2023, 2024 and 2025 up to the most recent confirmed run in 2026. Nothing in the published material rules out a return in 2027.

Within a cycle, the voting window falls between June and August. The page evidence shows the station promoting the vote while it is already open, and one earlier page carried an emphatic deadline: the voting ends at noon on June 27th, 2017. That noon deadline is the only exact closing time the station's material prints, so it dates a single past cycle rather than a standing rule.

Two things the station has not published matter just as much to a supporter planning a push. First, no exact opening or closing dates for the current cycle appear ahead of time, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Second, no terms cover how many ballots one person may cast, whether returns on separate days are allowed, or who is eligible, and no platform round dates exist for this market either. A supporter who needs any of those details has to read the ballot page itself during the window.

How a supporter votes for Municipal Ballpark today

Voting here means a straight pick on a radio station's own site, which is simpler than the account-based flows some balloting platforms use. A supporter opens the page titled Vote Municipal Ballpark in Bismarck as Best Ballpark on cool987fm.com, reads the deadline printed at the top, and submits the pick for Municipal Ballpark. There is no separate platform to join and no nomination round described: the ballot is a straight pick for one named venue.

Because the host is the station itself, the surrounding content shapes the experience. The ballot sits among the station's newsletter sign-up, its local sports scoreboard and its on-air lineup pages, and the categories on the page point to Bismarck and North Dakota. A reader who lands there mid-window sees the ask framed in the Larks' own words, requesting help in choosing Municipal Ballpark as the best summer collegiate ballpark.

What the page does not define is frequency. Nothing printed states whether a supporter may return daily, vote once, or vote from more than one device, and the station publishes no terms covering that. The honest reading is that the live page governs: whatever it says about repeat voting while the June to August window is open is the rule in force. Supporters who want the sequence spelled out can follow the steps listed further down this page, which mirror the actions the ballot asks for in order.

How this ballot sits beside its North Dakota neighbours

Bismarck readers meet several fan-vote programs each season, and this one is easy to tell apart once the publisher is clear. KACL's ballot asks about one ballpark and nothing else, while the market's bigger readers-choice contests cover whole categories of local businesses. The Bismarck Tribune Best of the Best runs as a newspaper-led multi-category contest, and the CommunityVotes Bismarck ballot runs under a different organizer with its own platform and rules.

The sibling set extends beyond Bismarck too. North Dakota pages on this site cover CommunityVotes Fargo, CommunityVotes Grand Forks and CommunityVotes Minot, plus Best of the Best - Best of the Midwest, a regional program that reaches into the state. Each answers to its own publisher, so a rule printed on one ballot says nothing about another.

What makes the KACL ballot distinctive in that company is the pairing of a single venue with a station's own audience. The Larks give the vote a ready fanbase, and cool987fm.com gives it a home page that listeners already visit for the newsletter and the sports scoreboard. A ballpark vote carried on a fan-facing station site moves differently from a citywide readers choice, where restaurants, shops and clinics all compete in parallel categories. Supporters splitting effort across Bismarck's contests should treat each ballot's deadlines and terms as its own.

Strengthening support for the Larks' ballpark in this vote

Because this ballot lets anyone pick Municipal Ballpark directly on cool987fm.com, support is built the same way fan campaigns always work: ask the Larks' fanbase directly, share the ballot link across team social channels while the June to August window is open, and repeat the ask with the printed deadline attached. The station's own page already uses the Larks' voice to rally fans, so a campaign that echoes that framing fits the ballot naturally. The station has not published any statement about outside voting help, so the live ballot's terms are the only guide on that point, and reading them before any push is the sensible order. For tactics that do not depend on the terms, this site's guide to getting more votes online covers outreach, reminders and shareable asks that suit a single-subject fan vote like this one.