Vote: Who should be SBLive's Oregon High School Team of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the SBLive Oregon Team of the Week vote is

This program is a weekly fan poll that names a high school Team of the Week for Oregon. The publisher behind it is SBLive, whose ballot branding reads SBLive's Oregon, and the vote itself is hosted on Crowdsignal, the platform reached through the poll.fm domain. Unlike the readers choice awards that cover individual Oregon cities and regions, this ballot spans the whole state and covers school sports teams rather than local businesses.

The series sits in the best-of vertical, but its subject is athletic performance rather than a category of commerce. Each week SBLive nominates a slate of school teams whose results stood out, and supporters decide the winner by public vote. The slate changes every week, and sports represented on a single ballot have included wrestling, boys basketball, girls basketball and skiing.

Because the poll is hosted on a standing platform, the mechanics stay constant from week to week even as the nominees rotate. A supporter opens the current ballot, picks one team and submits. No account is required on the Crowdsignal form, and the results tally is shown on the poll page.

Facts at a glance

Anyone following Oregon high school sports can take part, and the ballot is free to use. For context on how the wider Oregon market is structured, the sibling programs listed further down this site answer to different publishers and different geographies.

Dated facts for this series

The confirmed edition years for this series are 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. That four-year run is what qualifies the program as annual on this site, and it is drawn from the ballots themselves rather than from a publisher statement about frequency. The next expected edition is 2026.

Within each edition the cadence is weekly. The ballot series runs across the school year, and the months in which ballots appear span September through May. Summer months sit outside the cycle, which fits a program keyed to school sports seasons.

The most recently dated ballot carries the date 1/27/2025, and that poll is closed. Its title remains visible on the platform, along with the full slate of nominated teams from that week, so the historical account of each week's nominees stays readable even after voting ends.

What the organizer does not publish is just as relevant. SBLive has not printed the exact open and close times for any weekly ballot, a per-supporter vote limit, or an eligibility list for nominees on the poll page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The organizer has also published an invitation to suggest teams for future weeks by email, in any sport, which is the closest thing to a nomination process the series documents.

Because the voting link points at the latest ballot rather than at the series as a whole, the dated trail moves forward every week. A reader who lands on a closed poll should treat it as last week's edition and look to the current coverage for the live question.

How a supporter votes on the current ballot

The act of voting is deliberately simple. The ballot on Crowdsignal presents a single question with a list of nominated school teams as radio options. A supporter selects one team and presses the vote control, and the poll takes the choice immediately. There is no login, no email entry and no cap on how many people from a single household may take part, at least as far as the visible form shows.

Timing is where supporters most often slip up. Each poll belongs to one week and closes when that week ends, which is why the 1/27/2025 ballot now shows as closed. A vote submitted against an expired poll does nothing for the team, so the useful habit is to open the current ballot early in its week. The voting link on this page always targets the newest poll in the series.

After submitting, the poll page shows the running results, so a supporter can see where the chosen team stands. Results remain viewable after closure, which makes past weeks a useful check on how competitive a given slate was.

Supporters who want a team considered for an upcoming week can write to the organizer. SBLive's own ballot page invites suggestions for future weeks by email, regardless of sport, and states that its staff select the nominees. That makes the nomination path editorial rather than a public entry form, which differs from the open-nomination structure used by several city readers choice awards in the same state. Anyone promoting a team should also review award vote buying background before choosing any promotional tactic.

How this ballot sits beside other Oregon programs

Oregon's public-vote landscape on this site is dominated by readers choice awards tied to cities and regions, and this series is the odd one out in three ways. It is statewide rather than local, it is weekly rather than annual in cadence, and it covers high school sports teams rather than businesses or services.

The Bend Magazine Readers' Choice Awards and the Best of Eugene program both bind their ballots to a single city's businesses, with category lists and annual cycles. The Best of the Mid-Valley Community's Choice Awards and the Coast Weekend Readers' Choice Awards follow the same regional pattern, and the Eugene Community's Choice Awards add a second ballot in the Eugene market. None of those programs stages a fresh question every week the way this one does.

The practical difference for a supporter comes down to rhythm. A readers choice award gives weeks or months to rally support, while a Team of the Week ballot compresses the whole campaign into a few days before the poll closes. Sharing the ballot link early in the week matters far more here than in a seasonal award.

The host platform also differs. These readers choice awards run on their publishers' own contest software, while SBLive's poll sits on Crowdsignal. That keeps the voting form fast and simple but means the ballot page carries no rules section, no terms text and no nominee essays, just the question and the options.