WFXR-TV Costume Contest Test: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the WFXR-TV Costume Contest Test and who runs it?

The Costume Contest Test is a seasonal public ballot that WFXR-TV, a Virginia television station whose masthead reads WFXR, WWCW and WFXRtv.com, ran on the Second Street contest platform. The promotion sat at the station's own Second Street address, wfxrtv.secondstreetapp.com/Costume-Contest-Test, and was registered with the platform as a nomination-and-voting ballot rather than a plain poll or a sweepstakes. A companion promotion titled Costume Contest TEST, filed under the platform's photo-based user-generated voting type, shared the same address root and the same dates, which points to a costume vote built around submitted photo entries.

The name carries the word Test, and nothing in the promotion's framing dresses it up as a marquee community award. It reads as what the title says: a costume vote the station assembled to run a public voting exercise. That matters to supporters because a test-shaped ballot usually stays lean, with fewer published rules and less supporting material than a flagship readers' poll carries.

One attribute deserves a plain clarification. The ballot page itself prints no state line; the Virginia attachment reaches this programme through WFXR-TV's registry listing rather than through wording on the promotion, so a supporter outside the station's coverage area should verify where the audience sits before treating the ballot as local to any particular city.

What the promotion does establish is organizational footing. WFXR-TV maintains an active Second Street account with a promotion slate well beyond this ballot, and the costume vote sat inside that slate for its entire run. The practical takeaway for a supporter is that authority flows from the station rather than from a chamber of commerce or a magazine publisher, so rule questions route to the station itself.

Which editions of the costume ballot are confirmed, and when did voting happen?

The confirmed history of this programme is short, and that is useful to know before investing effort in it. Exactly one edition year stands behind the Costume Contest Test: 2025. Inside that year the ballot accepted public votes from August 5, 2025 through September 2, 2025, and the promotion now carries a closed status on Second Street. Both endpoints come from the ballot's own dated setup, so they are the firmest dates a supporter can act on; anything past them is unannounced.

Because the programme holds a single confirmed cycle, the recurrence question has no printed answer yet. The station's promotion slate stays busy, which keeps a revival plausible, but plausibility is not a schedule.

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

The ballot's published material stops short in other ways too. It names no category roster for the costume vote, no division breakdown and no prize description; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

If a later cycle surfaces, expect fresh dates at the same Second Street address, since the promotion lives under the station's account rather than a standalone campaign site. Until a successor is announced, the late-summer 2025 span remains the only window ever attached to the programme.

How does a supporter cast a vote on the WFXR costume ballot?

The voting path runs straight through the ballot page. A supporter opens wfxrtv.secondstreetapp.com/Costume-Contest-Test, views the costume entries posted for the cycle, chooses the entry to back and submits the vote right there. No app download and no separate portal interrupt the trip from supporter to WFXR-TV's ballot page; the address is the destination. Because the promotion lives at a normal browser URL, the same link opens from a phone, and nothing in the setup points to a desktop-only flow.

Frequency, eligibility and the companion ballot

What the page leaves unsettled is cadence and eligibility. The ballot prints no per-person voting ceiling, no daily return rule and no statement about who may take part, so anyone planning repeated visits should follow whatever instructions the live page displays rather than assuming an open door. Limits can exist at the ballot level even when they are never summarized in advance.

The companion promotion sharpens the picture of the format. Costume Contest TEST, the parallel ballot at wfxrtv.secondstreetapp.com/Costume-Contest-TEST-2, was typed as a photo voting promotion and carried the identical August 5 to September 2 window, so the alternate address looks like the same exercise configured again under the photo-entry type. If the main address ever fails to load, the alternate is the natural fallback to try.

Where does this ballot sit among Virginia's public votes?

Virginia's public votes cluster around publication-run best-of ballots. The closest neighbours on this site are Best of Arlington, the BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards, the BroadwayWorld NOVA Awards, Best of Coastal Virginia Magazine, Best of Charlottesville and the Daily Progress Charlottesville Readers' Choice. Every neighbour is a recurring, category-heavy community ballot anchored to a city or region, and most belong to newspapers or magazines.

Set beside those programmes, the WFXR-TV Costume Contest Test breaks pattern on every axis. WFXR-TV is a broadcaster reaching Virginia households while the six neighbours publish under newspaper and magazine mastheads; the ballot's subject is costumes rather than local businesses or stage performers; and its proven footprint is one late-summer cycle in 2025 instead of a standing annual franchise. A supporter weighing Virginia ballots is really weighing broad, permanent institutions against a narrow, seasonal station promotion whose published layer stays thin.

That contrast is also the practical value of the neighbour list. None of the six is a broadcaster-run costume vote; all carry the best-of vertical that defines this category row, so a reader who arrived hunting for a standing Virginia ballot with an established track history can move straight to those programmes, while someone following this particular costume cycle knows theirs is the narrower, single-window item.

The station's wider promotion calendar shows where a revived costume vote would fit. WFXR-TV's Second Street account has carried the quarterly $5,000 sweepstakes series across 2026, the Remarkable Women 2026 promotion from November 5 to December 20, 2025, Home For The Holidays 2025 from November 3 to December 10, 2025, and an open photo gallery template. A returning costume ballot would plug into an active schedule instead of launching from nothing.

How can a costume entry gather more support?

Support here comes down to a single conversion: getting people to the Second Street page and turning the visit into a vote. While a window is live, that means sharing the direct ballot address rather than a station homepage, timing pushes inside the voting days, and giving every contact a clear instruction to back a named entry. Because the confirmed cycle shut on September 2, 2025, those habits matter for a future reopening at the same address rather than for live voting today.

The photo-entry shape of the companion ballot hints at what travels well in a share: costume entries are visual, so a message that pairs the entry image with the ballot link asks less of a contact before they act. WFXR-TV prints no guidance on outside vote help for this promotion, so a campaign that involves purchased support should be weighed against the ballot's displayed terms before any money moves. For organic tactics suited to ballots of this shape, the guide to earning more votes online covers sharing rhythms, reminder timing and message framing. Where paid delivery enters the plan, the award votes page is the reference point for how orders are structured.