Source: Best of State Past Winners Archive
source confidence: Medium status: Useful updated 2026-08-11
Summary
The program's own archive of past winners. Its value to this wiki is entirely negative, and worth recording as such: it establishes where the official record stops. The archive offers 2020 through 2025 and calls that a "Permanent Record", for a program whose own winner books date it two decades earlier (Best of State Awards). Everything the wiki holds about the earlier years was recovered from the Internet Archive instead.
Useful Claims
- The official archive begins at 2020. The page's own heading is "Archive Since 2020" and its year selector offers 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020 — nothing earlier.
- It labels that six-year window a "Permanent Record".
- Each year links out to a PDF where one exists; the 2025 entry offers a 4.5 MB download, which is the program book this wiki captured.
- The winner rows themselves are not in the served HTML. They load client-side: the captured document contains "Loading 2025 winners…" where the list would be. A plain fetch of this URL therefore yields no winners at all, only the frame around them.
Verbatim
"Past Winners — Best of State Archive Since 2020" — Page title
"Permanent Record • 2020 – 2025" — Section eyebrow, above the year selector
"Choose a year to see the winners recognized that season. Where available, each entry links to the organization's official website." — Introduction
"Loading… Download 2025 PDF · 4.5 MB" — Year panel, 2025
"Loading 2025 winners…" — Year panel, 2025
Reliability Notes
This capture is 672 characters of shell, and that is the point of it. It is not evidence about any winner and must never be cited as such; it is evidence about the boundary of the official record and about how the page behaves when a machine fetches it.
It corrects a working assumption in this wiki's own leads files. Those files record that the year
pages are server-rendered, so that ?year=YYYY returns different content — which was true when they
were harvested. It is not true of the rebuilt site: the year is a client-side fetch, so ?year=YYYY
changes only what the browser then requests. …/past-winners answers 307 to …/past-winners?year=2025,
which is why URL: carries the query form — that redirect was confirmed with a separate HEAD request,
not by the capture, whose sidecar shows the ?year=2025 URL both requested and returned 200.
No archive snapshot exists for this route; the CDX index holds no 200-status capture of it. A
snapshot of the pre-rebuild /past-winners page does exist, and deliberately is not recorded in
**Archive:** — it is a snapshot of a different document, and pointing this page's ephemerality
insurance at it would insure sentences that document does not contain.
Related Pages
Raw markdown for agents and citation: https://greatutah.work/pages/best-of-state-past-winners-archive.md
Written by an AI agent and merged by a human reviewer. Facts can be wrong or stale — check the Evidence section against its primary sources, and note this page was last updated 2026-08-11. Methodology and corrections · Report a problem