Best Of Form: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Best Of Form is and who runs it

The Best Of Form is the nomination page for the Forks Chamber of Commerce's Best Of Awards, a community awards program in Washington State. The page's own masthead titles it the "Best Of" Nominations Form under the Forks Chamber of Commerce name, and the same domain, forkswa.com, doubles as the web home of the Forks Visitor Information Center, whose navigation covers lodging, dining, directions, museums and galleries, a logging and mill tour, webcams and a visitor packet request. The registry entry for the domain lists the Forks Visitor Information Center as the operating organization, so the awards program and the tourism operation share one publisher.

The 2026 cycle is billed on the page as the 25th Annual "Best Of" Awards, and the honors printed in the page's own text are "Business, Citizen, and Volunteer of the Year". That makes this a recognition program in the best-of vertical rather than a photo contest or a bracket, and it puts the chamber, not a media company, in the organizer's chair. The form is published on the chamber's own forkswa.com domain, not on a third-party voting platform, which means every instruction a supporter reads comes from the chamber itself.

The dated history of the Best Of Awards

The nominations page is confirmed for three years: 2024, 2025 and 2026, all posted at the same forkswa.com address. That history qualifies the program as annual, and 2027 is the expected year for the next cycle on that pattern. The 2026 page adds a longer history through its own headline, which calls the program the 25th Annual "Best Of" Awards, meaning the run began well before the years listed above.

One dated fact is printed on the live page: the nomination deadline falls on April 1st at Noon. The page's sign-off carries the executive's name, Lissy Andros, above that deadline line, which ties the cutoff to the chamber's staff rather than to an automated platform clock. No opening date for the nomination window is printed alongside it.

Several facts sit outside the page entirely. The chamber does not publish the full list of ballot categories beyond the three named honors, no per-person limit on nominations, and no eligibility text for who may file or be named; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Platform round dates beyond the nomination phase are likewise absent, since no promotion schedule exists for this market anywhere.

How a supporter files a nomination today

The literal mechanic is a web form. A supporter opens forkswa.com/best-of-nominations-form/, reads the header naming the 25th Annual "Best Of" Awards, and fills in the nomination fields for the Business, Citizen, or Volunteer of the Year honor they want to file. Because the form is the chamber's own, there is no third-party vote button, no leaderboard and no tally to watch; the submission goes to the chamber, and the chamber handles whatever comes next.

The form's host site is a working tourism site, so the nominations page sits among ordinary visitor content rather than inside a contest portal. A supporter who lands on the site's home page can reach the form through the site's own structure, and the header carries the chamber's published contact channels: the phone number (360) 374-2531 and the email address [email protected]. Those two details are the only contact routes the page prints, and they are the practical path for any question the form does not answer.

Timing is the one hard constraint a supporter controls. The chamber prints the cutoff as April 1st at Noon, so a nomination filed in late March lands inside the window and one filed the day after the cutoff does not. Supporters who want a business, a citizen or a volunteer named in a given year should treat the form as an annual appointment rather than a page that stays open, since the confirmed editions arrive one per year at the same address.

How this ballot sits beside Washington's other best-of programs

Washington State carries a crowded field of best-of ballots, and this page's siblings show the range. Best of Western Washington runs under the King5 television brand, Best of Snohomish County runs under the Everett Herald, and Best of Clark County runs under The Columbian. Each of those ties a media publisher's audience to a large category roster.

Two more siblings cover different corners of the state: Best of 425 serves the Bellevue and Eastside market, and Best of the Best Northwest Readers' Choice runs under Seattle Medium. Cascade's Best rounds out the set. None of these six shares the chamber-run structure of the Best Of Form, which is the only one of the group published by a chamber of commerce on its own domain.

That difference changes what a supporter should expect. A media-run ballot usually publishes category lists, voting rounds and results on a contest platform, while the chamber's form keeps the program inside its own site and prints only the honors and the deadline. For a business or resident deciding where to spend outreach effort, the chamber's program is a community recognition exercise with a single annual form, not a weeks-long public vote against a large field.

Strengthening a nomination in this program

Support in the Best Of Form means nominations filed, not votes tallied on a leaderboard, so the practical work is getting people to the chamber's page before the April 1st Noon cutoff. A business being nominated can ask customers in person, by email or through its own channels to file the form, and a Citizen or Volunteer nominee's supporters can do the same through the organizations the person serves. The chamber publishes no policy text on the nomination page about outside help or organized campaigns, so the organizer's own terms are the only authority on what is acceptable, and the form itself is where any such rule would appear. For readers weighing paid support in public-vote programs generally, buy award votes explains how vote purchasing is positioned in award-style ballots, with the caveat that this program's nomination round has no public tally to add to.