Victoria Advocate Gameface Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Victoria Advocate Gameface Contest and who runs it?

The Victoria Advocate, the organizer based in Victoria, Texas, ran the Gameface Contest as an online public vote. Voting runs through Second Street under the vicad.secondstreetapp.com address, where the platform lists the contest under the Victoria Advocate organization and assigns it a photo voting promotion type. That listing, titled Gameface Contest, is the public face of the vote and the only place its dates appear.

Among this site's vertical labels it sits only loosely beside the best-of ballots. It is not a readers' poll that sorts local businesses into categories; the platform label points at a vote on pictures. The listing does not say who may enter, what the pictures show or how a winner is chosen, so those questions stay open until the organizer publishes more.

Texas is the state attached to the contest, and Victoria is the city its organizer works from. The platform address uses the short handle vicad for the organizer, which is how the vote is found even though the page title spells out the contest name. Nothing in the listing mentions a sponsor, a prize or a sister ballot, so none is described here.

What dates did the 2025 Gameface Contest run?

The listing gives the 2025 cycle a start of October 3 and an end of October 31, so the vote filled most of a calendar month. The platform marks it closed, which means the entries are no longer open for a new choice and the page now documents a finished cycle.

This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

No other year is attached to the Gameface Contest, so a reader cannot describe a pattern. What the dates do show is a window that began early in October and ended on the final day of the month. Whether the organizer times future cycles the same way is unknown, and the table below keeps the known and the unknown apart.

How does voting work on the Second Street Gameface page?

A voter opens the Gameface Contest listing, looks at what the ballot presents and registers a choice with the control on the page. That is the whole confirmed mechanic, and it comes from the promotion type rather than from any rules text, because the Victoria Advocate has not written one in public.

The details a careful voter would want are therefore missing. The organizer has printed no cap on how often someone may vote, and it has printed no sign-in rule either. Without those, the only dependable advice is to read the live ballot on the day, follow each line on it and avoid relying on how other Second Street contests behave.

Because the 2025 window is over, the practical value of this section is preparation. A reader hoping for a later cycle should keep the Second Street address handy, watch for a new window to be listed and read the fresh page before assuming anything carried over from October 2025.

How does the Gameface ballot compare with other Texas public votes?

Texas holds large readers' polls on this site, and the Gameface Contest is unlike them. Best of Houston, Best of San Antonio and Best of El Paso are city-wide best-of ballots, and Best of Austin Readers Poll follows the same readers' model.

Those ballots sort businesses into categories. The Victoria Advocate vote is a smaller, organizer-hosted photo promotion in Victoria, with a single closed window in October 2025. A supporter comparing options should note that a category-based readers' poll and a photo promotion call for different kinds of effort. The remaining Texas neighbours are Best of Dallas Readers' Choice and Best of Fort Worth.

What helps an entry when the ballot opens again?

With no rules text, the Victoria Advocate's own listing is the only reference for what counts toward a result. Sensible preparation is local: friends, relatives and neighbors in Victoria who will see a request and act on it during an open window. Outreach methods that apply to public ballots broadly sit in the guide to getting more votes online.

Paid vote packages exist for contests of this kind, and the general votes page lays out how they work. Nothing there is a statement about the Gameface Contest, and the organizer alone decides what outside help it accepts.

If a later cycle opens, the strongest early step is simple: confirm the dates, share the Second Street address with people in Victoria and ask them to vote while the window is open. Any plan that depends on an unpublished rule, such as a daily return or a special entry route, should wait until the organizer prints that rule.