The Deskthority Lifetime Award 2015

The Deskthority Lifetime Award 2015

Poll ended at 09 Dec 2015, 01:00

002 for his work on the wiki and for the Realforce Euro Tour Round 4, giving us the chance to try Topre for free
14
5%
Edgar Matias for his outstanding vision and perseverance in continually innovating mechanical keyboards from switch to form factor for those of us who are typers not gamers
13
5%
sixty for sharing his immense knowledge and finds and for the hope that he returns
16
6%
HaaTa for the many many pictures of vintage keyboards\switches, maybe we'd never even know existed if it weren't for him. The bay area meetups are nice too
24
9%
iMav, for organizing the English-language keyboard community for the first time, with Geekhack
15
6%
matt3o for everything he's been up to
28
10%
Hasu of course. Because he is a fucking superhero! Without Hasu we wouldn't have any custom keyboard
30
11%
Soarer too ;)
13
5%
Daniel Beardsmore for his momentous work on the wiki
23
9%
Ivan for his deep knowledge and for his group buys
2
1%
elecplus for all the nice keyboards
12
4%
photekq for his Cherry collection and passion
4
1%
7bit for his herculean groupbuys, running his parts store here on the forum directly and for his various keyboard projects beyond just keycaps
18
7%
Ripster for /r/MechanicalKeyboards, leading people to GH and DT, and running the highest traffic community
10
4%
Signature Plastics, till few years ago without them we would be still typing on OEM plastics, they helped forming the community
7
3%
The Keyboard Company, one of the few companies that invest in mechanical keyboards in Europe, Without them we would still ordering from Korea or US
3
1%
Vortex is one of the most important realities, they brought the miniature keyboards to the public and keep investing in interesting projects (like double-shot PBT).
3
1%
Cherry, without them we wouldn't probably even discussing all this now
5
2%
Topre, for their crazy and wonderful switch design. A potentiometer into a switch? Yeah, why not!
4
1%
Sandy55, for being the "original" vintage keyboard and switch freak in the noughties
15
6%
OTD, for being the original vintage keyboard/keycaps/custom keyboard forum
5
2%
Leeku for his contributions in custom PCB designs
5
2%
 
Total votes: 269

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webwit
Wild Duck

03 Dec 2015, 01:00

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Please vote for nominees for the first Deskthority Lifetime Award 2015.

With this category we celebrate the keyboard community and the fifth edition. Which person or organization stood out for you the past years?

You can use a maximum of 5 votes.

This is round 2. This round is used to trim down the suggested nominees from round 1 - the 5 entries with most votes will be promoted to official nominees and make it into the third and final round.

See the first round for reference and motivations.

By voting in the third round of this category, you can win a Quick Fire Rapid SI and a yet-to-be-released mouse from Cooler Master!

The second round ends on Wednesday 9 December, 00:00hrs UTC. You can change your vote until the end of the round. The full results will be published at the end of the Awards.

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Madhias
BS TORPE

03 Dec 2015, 08:00

I should have read about the max. vote number before thinking a long time about my vote here! That's the most difficult of all categories.

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guk
1896 Vintage Reds

03 Dec 2015, 08:11

True, was out of votes when I was only halfway through the list and had to reconsider. Wish it would be split for single persons and companies.

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webwit
Wild Duck

04 Dec 2015, 22:01

Currently ahead are, in alphabetical order:

Daniel Beardsmore
HaaTa
Hasu
matt3o
Sandy55

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