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Vote in the final round of this category to win a Varmilo VA68Mg and Filco Convertible 2 from The Keyboard Company!

Round 2 rules:
Please vote for nominees for the Deskthority Award 2017. What has been extra special this year? Who earns the Golden Wingnut?

You can cast a maximum of five votes.

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

Suggested nominees:

• Kailh Box Switches
• IBM Model M and Cherry G80 for starting it all
• Chyros / Chyrosran22 for his productions in 2017 in his youtube channel. He got me into the hobby, especially into vintage boards. Super informative and entertaining reviews.
• "KeepClackingAnd..." for organizing "MECHANICON" in Germany
• Daniel Beardsmore for continuing to work on the wiki and starting to post pedantically again. The wiki really is an invaluable resource often taken for granted.
• Kailh separately for actually innovating in the switch design space
• 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.
• oldisnew for his great efforts in converting various vintage keyboards, for example, the Harris Smart Terminal, xwhatsit Model F to USB
• ruiqimao for creating the Keyboard Firmware Builder and making the use of JH's QMK software a lot easier
• I'd like to nominate Wodan for his keyboard building videos, showing off and talking about good keyboard building practices.
• HaaTa / Input club for furthering the hobby. All that work on force-graphs is truly amazing. I did love the Halo-true switch. I also like that input club is bringing better keyboards to the masses with their sponsoring of e-sport.
• KBDFans, for bringing new good things for a cheap price!

The second round ends on Friday 1 December, 19:00 UTC. You can change your vote until the end of the round.

The full results will be published at the end of the awards.