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N3RDLY wrote: Wait I thought this was a category for real artisans?

I mean, that's why I voted for everything but Jelly Key. Was this supposed to be a joke vote?

I would like to nominate The Board Podcast for providing us with free, high quality podcast episodes, videos and livestream around our keyboard community since their debut over a year ago. They have released both quality "Time Capsules" in the form of MechMarket Reports/regular episodes as well as ...

Definitely Kaihl this year for listening to our needs and innovating with the click bar, supplying many BOX switches and the Speed switches. They're finally doing something very different and it's paying off in my eyes

I nominate Will_26 for his picture of a Duck Viper with GMK Hyperfuse (and of course bonus points for ISO) http://i.imgur.com/vol0XvC.jpg

Massdrop needs to win this for their involvement in [I.C] collab switches, missing parts, shipping switches instead of entire board kits, shipping items in packaging so terrible that items fall out or are damaged and also shipping two left-handed ergodox boards to people. That's not even everything ...

This is a bit of a late reply but I'd just like to say that these awards have been a lot of fun! Thank you for organising this and thank you to the sponsors for participating!

Congratulations to Jelly Key! They're trying their best to be innovative and satisfy all customers through each of their group buys. Great packaging for a very impressive artisan. I'm sure that they'll be honoured to find out that they won!

Wow, I'm honoured to have won this category! :o

Thank you everyone that voted, this was a tight matchup. Congrats to all the nominees and finalists as well, this was no easy feat!

Congratulations, dude! You've put a lot of work into making incredibly high-quality and innovative products..the ...

Lots of great photographers in this category that I didn't know about. A lot of the nice pictures are of older keyboards that I wouldn't find anywhere else but on DT. It makes me want to use this site even more

Damn, I was hoping and expecting to see Beam Spring up there at #1. A lot of people haven't tried it or even heard of it, we need more Beam Spring out there! Top two places definitely deserve praise, great switches

Great results for this category! Love all the keysets here

I'm glad to see that Cooler Master hasn't made the final round as both best modern company + The Ping

emdude wrote: I am quite surprised none of the Alps nominees made the cut.

Me too! I really want Beam Spring to win but am disappointed that Alps isn't on the list

E3E's IBM 5576 Alps keyboards still have my vote! These are all great finds, though

My vote is still Cooler Master for their great community interactions... I hope that they bring back the Novatouch eventually! So many people liked that keyboard. I'm sure that they're doing their best

The Atreus is still my favourite input device here!

Beamspring !!

I vote for emdude's 3x IBM 3277 !

Voting for Key Kollective's Fruit Reboot! I wish I could own every one of their artisans, which isn't something I could say about many other artisan makers

To me this is a close one between Evan and JChan, though I'm voting for JChan for being so active in this community and bringing out so many interesting items! Awesome guy with a great store. Also he saved manofinterests haha

Voting for Granite! Instant classic with many many options, PBT dye syb and just a nice, clean look

ctzn_voyager definitely gets my vote! Only guy whose pictures I instantly download and make into my background, love them! Plus the guy is such a sweetheart, very very nice

I'd like to vote for the Fold-2000!

Cooler Master has my vote for how active and generous they have been in the Reddit community (specifically /r/mechanicalkeyboards). They have been listening to community feedback and have continuously filled a spot between gaming and enthusiast, now with standard bottom-row for a lot of their new ...

The Atreus gets my vote for its compact size, great looks and very good team behind the product!

I would like to nominate KeyKollectiv's Fruit Reboot collection, more specifically the watermelon artisan! They're great for their simplistic shape and very clean details. The colours are always nice, too

I would also like to nominate E3E's IBM 5576 Alps spring keyboards! It was great seeing so many alps keysets

My favourite switch is still Beam Spring! I fell in love with it at the Paris Meetup this year, the tactile feedback is great!

I would also like to vote for Devlin as the current full keyset (for the Planck) and the upcoming K and Q-Series keysets are all very thick and have a great shape!