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Read more →MPC runs a weekly Pennsylvania fan vote for high school girls basketball on Crowdsignal, with ballots living under the poll.fm domain. Confirmed cycles for this program are 2023, 2024 and 2026, and the representative window ran Jan. 12-18 before closing. Rules such as repeat-vote limits sit off the published page, so readers should check the current ballot before leaning on assumptions from past weeks.
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Under the title MPC Girls Basketball Player of the Week, MPC organizes a fan-vote award for high school girls basketball in Pennsylvania. MPC is the listed organizer; the published listing does not expand the abbreviation into a full organizational name, so readers who need the exact publisher identity should treat MPC as the printed name. The format is a player-of-the-week ballot: instead of a single seasonal contest, supporters vote in short windows during the basketball schedule, each window producing its own winner.
The balloting itself runs on Crowdsignal, the platform behind the poll.fm address. The representative ballot lives at poll.fm/16531561 and is currently marked Poll Closed, which is the normal state of the page between windows. The mechanic is public-vote: no nomination form is offered to visitors on the ballot itself, and the supporter's job is limited to picking an answer and submitting.
The table below condenses the essentials for quick reference.
| Field | Detail | Detail | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program | MPC Girls Basketball Player of the Week | Organizer | MPC |
| Platform | Crowdsignal (poll.fm) | Ballot URL | poll.fm/16531561 |
| State | Pennsylvania | Vertical | Sport, high school girls basketball |
| Mechanic | Public fan vote | Status | Annual, weekly windows inside each cycle |
As the ballot covers high school athletes, this page keeps individual nominees out of its text. The nominee list, with each player's school label, is visible on the live poll whenever a window is open, and that is where readers should look for the current field of candidates.
Ballots for this program are confirmed in 2023, 2024 and 2026. Those three years are the whole of the published history here; no other edition year is asserted, and the absence of 2025 from the list means that cycle was not confirmed rather than that it did not happen. That spread is the basis for treating the cycle as annual.
Within an edition, the shape is a series of weekly ballots. The representative window on file ran Jan. 12-18, which places the series in the heart of the Pennsylvania high school basketball season. That specific poll closed, and the ballot address now shows the Poll Closed marker; when the next window opens, the same address carries the new poll. The date of the next window has not been announced on the ballot page in advance.
Several facts sit off the published page. MPC does not print how nominees are selected for each weekly list. No eligibility wording appears beside the answers, and no statement covers how often a visitor may submit during a window. Platform round dates beyond the windows themselves are likewise absent. The organizer has published no written rulebook for this poll, so window dates, nominee rosters and any voting limits should be taken from the live poll rather than assumed.
Readers comparing girls and boys coverage in the same region can look at the PennLive Mid-Penn Boys Basketball Player of the Week, which runs a parallel fan vote on the boys' side.
Voting takes a minute and follows the standard Crowdsignal flow. A supporter opens poll.fm/16531561 during an open window, scans the nominee list, where each answer pairs a player name with a school label, taps the selection next to the chosen answer, and presses the Vote button. Crowdsignal registers the choice on the spot and typically returns a results view with the current split across all answers.
Between windows the picture changes. The page shows the most recent poll with a Poll Closed marker, and the answer list may still be visible underneath it for reference. A supporter who arrives then cannot vote; the correct move is to come back when the next window opens. Because the series is weekly inside the basketball season, the wait is usually measured in days rather than months, and the answer list refreshes with the new window.
Two practical notes follow from the ballot as published. Nothing on the page states a per-visitor cap, so the prompts on the live poll are the authority in force. And no login is requested by the ballot itself, which means the barrier to participation is deliberately low and support comes down to reaching people during the window. The step sequence below mirrors this exact flow for anyone voting in the current time.
Pennsylvania carries a busy field of high school fan-vote awards, and this program occupies a specific lane within it: girls basketball, organized by MPC, hosted on Crowdsignal. Neighbouring programs in the same state cover other sports, other publishers and sometimes other platforms, which is why supporters should always check which ballot they are on before rallying votes.
The closest thematic neighbour is the boys' basketball weekly vote run by PennLive, noted above. Football draws the largest field: Pennsylvania High School Football Player of the Week covers the statewide gridiron scene, and Mr. PA Football runs as its own statewide program. Pennsylvania High School Softball Player of the Year moves to a spring sport and a player-of-the-year scope, and Morning Call Athlete of the Week and WICU Athlete of the Year come from news outlets rather than a conference body.
What distinguishes the MPC ballot is the combination of a weekly cadence, a girls basketball focus and the Crowdsignal host. The short windows make momentum unusually important: a push that starts on the opening day of a window has the whole week to work, while a push that starts near the close does not.
This ballot rewards early, local, honest rallying. The window is only about a week long, so the useful moves are simple: share poll.fm/16531561 as soon as the new poll appears, send it to the team's own families and student sections, and post a reminder while the window still has days to run. Because each week brings a fresh nominee list, last week's link stops working as a vote target and should be replaced with the current one.
MPC publishes no guidance about outside voting help, so there is no organizer statement to quote either for or against it. What is knowable is the format: a school-adjacent popularity vote where visible, genuine community support is the whole point of the exercise. For readers weighing paid options, buy award votes explains how such services work in general, and the disclaimer on that page applies here: no vote service of any kind, this site's included, can promise first place in a poll whose rules the organizer keeps off the page.
Go to the ballot at poll.fm/16531561. Between windows the page shows the most recent poll marked closed, so if it reads Poll Closed, the next window has not opened yet. Return during the next announced window to see the live list of nominee answers for that week of the girls basketball season.
The live ballot lists each nominee by name with a school label beside it. Nominee names are not reproduced here because the ballot covers high school athletes. Read the current list carefully each week, since the roster of nominees changes from window to window across the season.
Tap or click the choice next to the nominee you support. The ballot allows a selection at the time you vote and the page does not display a printed cap on repeat participation, so treat the current ballot's own prompts as the rule in force that week.
Press the Vote button under the answer list. Crowdsignal registers the choice immediately and usually returns a results view showing how each answer stands at that moment. Results percentages shift as the window progresses, so the figure you see right after voting is not final.
Because this is a weekly format inside an annual cycle, a new ballot replaces the closed one for the next stretch of the schedule. The date of the next window is not announced on this page, so check the ballot address directly when the school week turns over.
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