Tennessee Online Voting Contests

Chattanooga Times Free Press Athlete of the Week

Chattanooga / Southeast Tennessee · Chattanooga Times Free Press

The Chattanooga Times Free Press Athlete of the Week poll runs inside a general Polls section at timesfreepress.com/news/polls, where an HS preps category is confirmed active for the 2025-26 school year. No fixed weekly cap or close time is published here, unlike Tennessee's SI-run statewide polls.

Commercial Appeal Memphis Athlete of the Week

Memphis · The Commercial Appeal (Gannett / USA Today Network)

Weekly, year-round fan vote from the Commercial Appeal (Gannett/USA Today Network) recognizing one standout Memphis-area high school athlete each week, with no summer pause. Each week's ballot runs inside a fresh embedded poll rather than one fixed page — confirm the current cap and close time on that week's live article.

Johnson City Press Athlete of the Week

Johnson City, Kingsport and Bristol (Tri-Cities) · Johnson City Press

Johnson City Press runs a fan-vote Athlete of the Week poll inside its sports coverage of the Tri-Cities (Johnson City, Kingsport, and Bristol) and the broader northeast Tennessee region. No single dedicated franchise URL, vote cap, or close time is confirmed in the public record; check the live sports section for current details.

Knoxville News Sentinel Athlete of the Week

Knoxville · Knoxville News Sentinel / PrepXtra (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)

Free weekly fan poll at knoxnews.com, hosted by the Knoxville News Sentinel's PrepXtra high school sports brand (Gannett / USA TODAY Network), honouring the top East Tennessee prep athlete each season. One vote per hour per device, no account required.

Nashville Tennessean Ponce Law High School Boys Athlete of the Week

Nashville · The Tennessean (Gannett / USA Today Network)

The Tennessean's weekly fan vote covering Nashville-area boys athletes across all sports — football, basketball, and more. Unlike most prep fan polls, it caps voting at one per hour per supporter. The ballot closes Thursday at noon, giving Tuesday and Wednesday the most strategic weight.

Tennessean Athlete of the Week

Nashville · The Tennessean (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)

Free weekly fan poll at tennessean.com presented by Ponce Law, honouring the top Nashville-metro and Middle Tennessee high school prep athlete each sports season. One vote per hour per device, no account required. Run by The Tennessean (Gannett / USA TODAY Network).

Tennessee High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide Tennessee · High School on SI / SBLive Sports (Sports Illustrated)

Statewide weekly fan-vote recognition published at si.com by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports), covering every TSSAA member school across all three Tennessee prep sports seasons. Voting is unlimited, free, and open through Sunday 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time each week.

Tennessee High School Baseball Player of the Year

Statewide Tennessee · The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) / The Tennessean (Nashville) — both Gannett / USA TODAY Network — and High School on SI

Statewide fan-vote recognition for Tennessee's top prep baseball performer, published at si.com by High School on SI (SBLive Sports / Arena Group) in partnership with The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) and The Tennessean (Nashville), both Gannett USA TODAY Network dailies, during the TSSAA spring season.

Tennessee High School Boys Basketball Player of the Year

Statewide Tennessee · High School on SI / SBLive Sports (Sports Illustrated)

A season-end fan vote run by High School on SI (SBLive Sports) at si.com/high-school/tennessee, separate from TSSAA's own Mr. Basketball award. Readers pick the standout boys hoops performer once the winter TSSAA tournament wraps in March: free, unlimited human votes, no account needed, open statewide regardless of classification.

Tennessee High School Football Player of the Week

The SBLive / High School on SI statewide fan vote for the top Tennessee prep football performance of the week. SBLive staff hand-pick 8–10 nominees from all classifications; anyone can vote at si.com with no account required, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — putting Division I power programs and tiny Division II independents on the same list.

Tennessee High School Football Player of the Year

Statewide Tennessee · High School on SI / SBLive Sports (Sports Illustrated)

Annual statewide fan vote run by High School on SI / SBLive Sports at si.com, crowning one football standout after the TSSAA season ends. The weekly Player of the Week ballot that runs August through November feeds nominees into this single season-closing poll, free to vote with no account required.

Tennessee High School Girls Basketball Player of the Year

Statewide Tennessee · High School on SI / SBLive Sports (Sports Illustrated)

Free season-end fan vote from High School on SI (SBLive Sports) at si.com/high-school/tennessee, crowning Tennessee's top girls basketball performer once the TSSAA winter tournament closes in March. It runs parallel to TSSAA's own Miss Basketball honor, decided separately by a media and coaches panel. No account needed; voting is unlimited until the ballot closes.

Tennessee High School Player of the Year

Statewide Tennessee · High School on SI / SBLive Sports (Sports Illustrated)

Annual statewide end-of-season fan-vote award recognising Tennessee's top prep athletes across TSSAA sports, published at si.com by High School on SI / SBLive Sports. Readers across all three grand divisions vote to crown a Player of the Year in each sport at season's end — unlimited free votes, no account required.

Tennessee High School Soccer Player of the Year

Statewide Tennessee · High School on SI / SBLive Sports (Sports Illustrated)

Annual statewide fan vote from High School on SI (SBLive Sports) at si.com/high-school/tennessee, recognizing one standout Tennessee prep soccer player after that season's TSSAA schedule wraps. Free to vote, no account needed; the nominee field, any cap, and the close date are set fresh each year on the live poll page.

Tennessee High School Softball Player of the Year

Statewide Tennessee · High School on SI / SBLive Sports (Sports Illustrated)

Annual statewide fan vote run by High School on SI / SBLive Sports at si.com, crowning one softball standout after the TSSAA spring season ends. Unlike football, softball has no dedicated weekly ballot in Tennessee — nominees are pulled from the general Athlete of the Week poll before this season-closing field opens, free to vote with no account required.

Titans Fireball Fridays Game of the Week

Four Middle Tennessee games nominated each week. Fans vote for the matchup they want the Titans crew to attend Friday night, and the winning school takes home a $1,000 grant.

WJHL Tri-Cities Play of the Week

WJHL's weekly fan vote for the single best high-school-football play across the Tri-Cities TN/VA market, run separately from any athlete-of-the-week ballot. Voting opens once each week's games wrap and closes Monday at noon, capped at one vote per hour per user, with the winner revealed on WJHL's 4 p.m. broadcast across an eleven-week regular season.

Best of Pigeon Forge

Tennessee's Best of Pigeon Forge runs on the organizer's own site at pigeonforge.com/best-of, with eleven dated editions logged, 2016 through 2026. The 2026 calendar moves through a printed sequence: nominations May 1 through 15, voting June 1 through July 31, and winners announced in August. A per-supporter voting rule and any exact winners date beyond "August" aren't published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Best of Tennessee

The Tennessee Magazine's statewide Best of Tennessee readers' program, entered online or by mail at tnmagazine.org/bot26/, with every entry counted toward an annual prize drawing. No category list, vote cap, or close date is published in the record used for this guide.

BroadwayWorld Memphis Awards

BroadwayWorld's annual Memphis theater fan-vote awards, run at broadwayworld.com/memphis as a ballot distinct from BroadwayWorld's Nashville edition and from any statewide Tennessee program. The nomination window, category list, and vote cap aren't published for this specific edition, so the live Memphis page is the source to check each cycle.

BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards

BroadwayWorld's annual Nashville theater fan-vote awards, with nominations closing October 31 and public voting running through December 31 at broadwayworld.com/nashville. The category list and any per-voter limit aren't published in what's publicly available, so the live BroadwayWorld Nashville page is the source to check each cycle.

Chattanooga Times Free Press Best of the Best

Chattanooga Times Free Press's annual Best of the Best readers-choice awards, voted at the dedicated bestofchatt.com domain, with a Facebook post from the paper confirming that voting is currently under way, though no public category list or close date is attached yet.

Cityview Best of the Best (Knoxville)

Cityview Magazine's annual Knoxville readers' poll spanning 365 categories, from a single public vote each summer.

CommunityVotes Chattanooga

CommunityVotes' Chattanooga business ballot at chattanooga.communityvotes.com, confirmed active across the 2025 and 2026 cycles and separate from the Times Free Press's own Best of the Best program. No category list, vote cap, or close date is published in this record; confirm those directly on the live site.

CommunityVotes Franklin

Franklin, Tennessee sits just south of Nashville, and its readers' choice business ballot runs through the CommunityVotes network at franklintn.communityvotes.com. August 18 through December 13 marks the confirmed 2026 nomination window. Past that stretch, no category list or vote cap has surfaced yet, so the live site is the one place to check both.

CommunityVotes Knoxville

Knoxville, Tennessee's CommunityVotes ballot runs at knoxville.communityvotes.com under a local CommunityVotes partner. Three confirmed editions, 2024, 2025 and 2026, sit behind it, and the 2026 nomination window opened February 17 and closed June 7, with results already posted by July. Categories and any vote cap go unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes Murfreesboro

Murfreesboro · CommunityVotes Murfreesboro

Murfreesboro, Tennessee hosts a CommunityVotes ballot at murfreesboro.communityvotes.com, organized locally under the national CommunityVotes network. The page frames itself as an annual vote where Murfreesboro residents pick their own favorite local businesses. Three editions are on the confirmed page, 2024, 2025 and 2026, and by July 2026 the site had already posted results and thanked participants for taking part. Exact day-level open and close dates, which categories the ballot judges, and any per-voter rule stay unpublished; confirm all three on the live ballot each cycle.

Daily Post-Athenian Halloween Coloring Contest

Athens · The Daily Post-Athenian

Unlike a business "best of" ballot, the Daily Post-Athenian's Halloween Coloring Contest is a kids' photo-voting entry for Athens, Tennessee, run on Second Street at dailypostathenian.secondstreetapp.com. Six confirmed editions run 2020 through 2025, the most recent closing November 3, 2025. No 2026 date has posted yet; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Knox Stars Community Choice

Knox News Sentinel's Knoxville readers' awards, run on Gannett's shared yourchoiceawards.com platform, with a 2026 nominations phase confirmed live at yourchoiceawards.com/knoxville/.

Knoxville HBA Parade of Homes

HBA of Greater Knoxville's annual Parade of Homes People's Choice award, decided on-site by attendees who register and tour the featured builder homes rather than by an open web ballot. Current-cycle dates and categories are published each year at hbaknoxville.com.

Main Street Awards

Main Street Awards is a public-vote program run by Main Street Media of Tennessee across Middle Tennessee. Unlike single-city ballots, this program spans multiple counties with community newspapers. Voting runs annually, with confirmed editions in 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026.

Mall at Green Hills Nashville Creator Awards

Nashville · The Tennessean

Nashville already has a theater ballot under the BroadwayWorld banner, but the Mall at Green Hills Nashville Creator Awards is a separate program entirely: The Tennessean runs it on Second Street at tennessean.gannettcontests.com, judging content-creator photo entries rather than stage performances. Dated history here now runs two rounds deep, one that closed in 2025 and a second that carried the program into 2026. The 2026 voting round ran April 6 through May 11, 2026, and has since closed. A published category list and a per-voter limit: confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Memphis Flyer Best of Memphis

Memphis Flyer's annual readers-choice awards, an alt-weekly nominate-then-vote ballot spanning Arts & Entertainment, Food & Drinks, Goods, Services, Wellness, and Nightlife, with winners announced each September.

Memphis Magazine Restaurant Poll

Memphis Magazine's annual restaurant readers poll at memphismagazine.com, organized into restaurant-specific subcategories instead of one citywide best-restaurant vote, run separately from Memphis Flyer's larger Best of Memphis awards.

Memphis's Most Community Choice

Memphis Most Community's Choice Awards is The Commercial Appeal's readers' ballot, run on Second Street at commercialappeal.gannettcontests.com, unlike Chattanooga's CommunityVotes network system. The count stands at four confirmed editions, spanning 2023 to 2026, and the most recent voting stage ran August 17 through September 1, now closed. Neither a published roster of categories nor a stated limit on repeat voting has turned up anywhere; each stays open until the live ballot says otherwise next cycle.

Middle Tennessee High School Sports Awards School Spirit Vote

The Tennessean, based in Nashville, runs the Middle Tennessee High School Sports Awards School Spirit vote on the Second Street platform at tennessean.gannettcontests.com. Two confirmed editions have run, 2024 and 2025; the 2025 edition's public ballot was open March 11 through April 23, 2025, with an earlier 2024 edition dated from February 5, 2024. Which schools appear on the ballot, and whether a per-voter limit applies, stays unpublished outside those dates; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Nashville Community Choice Awards

The Tennessean, Gannett's Nashville paper, runs Nashville Community Choice Awards on the YourChoiceAwards platform at yourchoiceawards.com/nashville/, a separate program from Nashville Scene's long-running Best of Nashville Readers' Poll. The public nominates and votes for Nashville-area businesses there, with the 2025 ballot confirmed active and further cycle details left to the live page.

Nashville HBA Parade of Homes

Nashville · Home Builders Association of Middle Tennessee (HBAMT)

HBAMT's Nashville-area Parade of Homes people's-choice vote lets visitors pick a favorite among the Home Builders Association of Middle Tennessee's showcased builder homes, cast on-site during the tour or through HBAMT's companion app across multiple builder categories, with specific dates and category names confirmed only on hbamt.org each cycle.

Nashville Scene Best of Nashville

Nashville Scene's annual Readers' Poll, an alt-weekly nominate-then-vote ballot spanning Arts & Culture, Music, Food & Drink, Retail & Services, Kids & Pets, and Media & Politics, with hundreds of thousands of reader votes cast across 200-plus categories each cycle.

The Ruthies Community's Choice Awards (Daily News Journal)

Unlike CommunityVotes Chattanooga's network-run ballot, The Ruthies Community's Choice Awards is organized by the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal on the Second Street platform at dnj.gannettcontests.com, with its own separate address for nominating, voting and reading winners each year. Four editions are confirmed so far, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the 2026 voting ballot opened July 17 and closed August 1, a window that has already run its course for this cycle. No published roster of categories and no daily-vote rule exist on that page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The Sizzle Awards (Williamson County)

Annual FranklinIs readers-choice business awards for Williamson County, Tennessee, with a February nomination round, a public online ballot, and a charity-benefit gala celebrating local favorites in Franklin, Brentwood, and beyond.

Tennessean Top Pet Photo Contest

Nashville · The Tennessean

Nashville, Tennessee's The Tennessean runs the Top Pet Photo Contest on the Second Street voting platform at tennessean.gannettcontests.com. Two confirmed editions have run, 2024 and 2025; the 2025 edition had owners submit a pet photo, then let the public vote, open January 7 through April 1, 2025, with an earlier edition dated from February 24, 2024. Whether entries are grouped by species and what caps a single supporter's votes stays off the page outside those dates; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.