Kings & Queens of Corbet's People's Choice Award: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Kings & Queens of Corbet's People's Choice Award, and who runs it?

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort stages Kings & Queens of Corbet's as its showcase of elite skiing and snowboarding at Corbet's Couloir, the steep entry line above its base area in Teton Village, Wyoming. The resort's own event copy describes the competition as celebrating the absolute best in both sports at an awe-inspiring venue. Judged crowns are settled on the mountain during the February event; alongside them, the People's Choice Award hands part of the weekend's honour to the crowd, inviting anyone following the event to back the athletes who dropped into the couloir. All of it, lineup through balloting, sits on the resort's domain at https://www.jacksonhole.com/kings-queens-corbets, carrying the same masthead as the rest of jacksonhole.com, with no third-party polling service sitting in between.

The ballot organizes its picks around the ski and snowboard divisions printed on the event page: Men's Ski, Women's Ski, Men's Snowboard and Women's Snowboard. That shape marks this as a sport award rather than a community businesses poll, and it steers who takes part: supporters arrive attached to a named athlete instead of a local shop or restaurant. The market is the Jackson Hole valley, and the resort's standing in big-mountain freeskiing pulls an audience well past Wyoming's borders.

Which editions have run, and when does the vote window fall?

The resort treats the event as a recurring fixture; its own promotional copy calls Kings & Queens of Corbet's something Jackson Hole hosts each year at North America's most famous couloir. Confirmed editions cover 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026.

The 2026 cycle ran inside a February window, with the competition day fixed at Feb. 13, 2026. Earlier cycles carried the same midwinter shape: the resort's 2022 viewing guide told supporters to cast their vote before 5:00 p.m. MST on Friday Feb. 18, a cutoff that sat in the same mid-February stretch as the event itself rather than trailing weeks behind it.

What the resort has not printed anywhere alongside its coverage is the current cycle's day-level opening and closing times, any per-supporter limit, and eligibility terms for the People's Choice side; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Everything else a planner needs, from that year's athlete roster to the watch-party schedule, lands on the same event page once the resort posts its coverage.

How does a supporter actually cast a People's Choice vote?

Casting a People's Choice pick takes no special access. While the February window is live, a supporter visits the Kings & Queens of Corbet's page on jacksonhole.com, scrolls to the People's Choice block, chooses a favourite in each division shown, and submits. Nothing sits between the reader and the tally: landing on the address and logging a pick happen on the same domain in one sitting.

Two features of the page shape the experience. The athlete lineup is rebuilt for every edition, so the names on offer are always the current year's invited field rather than a standing roster. And the fan vote shares the page with the competitive side of the weekend: once competition ends, a Final Results board posts the judged outcomes beside the People's Choice material, turning one address into both a ballot and a results destination inside a single February visit.

The award's name tells supporters what they are deciding. Unlike the judged crowns settled on the mountain, the People's Choice distinction follows whoever wins the public's backing during the window, which is why athlete personality and event-week momentum count here as much as competition scores do. That framing also explains the award's reach: a pick costs nothing and travels by word of mouth through ski communities far beyond Teton Village.

How does this vote differ from other Wyoming fan ballots?

Wyoming's public-vote scene leans heavily on best-of ballots: Best of Jackson Hole, Best of Wyoming, Cap City's Best in Cheyenne, the Casper Star-Tribune Best of Wyoming, CommunityVotes Cheyenne and County 17's Best in Gillette all ask residents to crown favourite local businesses and services. The Corbet's People's Choice stands apart from that group: an athlete honour tied to one resort and one February weekend, listing people rather than plumbers and pizza spots, and drawing its following from the freeskiing and snowboarding world rather than civic pride alone.

The athletes themselves give the ballot its texture. The 2026 Final Results board names Tristen Lilly as 2026 King of Corbets, and the athlete profiles posted with the event carry their own histories: Piper Kunst's bio cites a 2022 Queen of Corbet's title and a 2025 third place in ski, and notes that the 2026 event marked her fourth appearance at Kings & Queens of Corbet's. Storylines like these are what a People's Choice vote rides on, and a business ballot has nothing comparable to them.

What helps a nominee gather support during the Corbet's People's Choice window?

The window is short and centred on event weekend, with the 2026 competition fixed at Feb. 13, so any push has to be assembled before the ballot even opens. Athlete-driven outreach does most of the work: the people on the ballot reach their own followers directly, and the resort's event coverage funnels readers straight toward the vote. Because picks are cast on the resort's own pages rather than through a social platform, shares and posts work hardest when they point straight at the jacksonhole.com address while the window is open. The resort publishes no promotional toolkit for nominees, so anyone planning support falls back on general tactics; the guide to earning more votes online covers the fundamentals, and readers weighing purchased support for award-style ballots can start from the award vote overview.