Winners of Deskthority Awards 2018!
This year's DTA were a little downsized but we had a lot fun anyway and we've got great nominations and greater winners!
The following are the nominations and winners for each category. Congrats to everyone, the winners (whenever possible) will be contacted to arrange the Wingnut delivery. If you don't hear from me or webwit please send me a PM.
Best Project or Innovation
Nominations:
- Afferscheim's homemade keypad
- The DMA's Common Sense Controller
- Hyper 7 build by jae-3soteric
- Bucis' gaming keypad
- UHKB
- sealclubber's 3d printed mammoth (sb147)
Winner: The DMA's Common Sense Controller
The DMA's Common Sense Controller. While already being nominated last year I think it deserves another nomination. The inclusion of bluetooth (bluetooth model F and beamspring) and the topre controller makes it worth it for this year. Also DMA's dedication to the project is exceptional.
Best Vintage Keyboard or Relic
Nominations:
- Aer Fixus' IBM 3279 Beamspring Restoration
- ghostjuggernaut's gorgeous restored Kishsaver
- snucci's MCM/70 machine
- bass for his awesome IBM 5100 find
- ball00n's and Mindgame's SAV haul
- gainsborough's TI keyboards
Winner: Aer Fixus' IBM 3279 Beamspring Restoration
Aer Fixus' IBM 3279 Beamspring Restoration. He took the beamspring that had been subject to horrors few other keyboards have suffered and restored it back to health.
Best Keycap or Keycaps Set
Nominations:
- XDA Canvas
- GMK Serika
- SA Oblivion
- GMK Olivia
- GMK Laser
- Cherry original doubleshots
Winner: Cherry original doubleshots (wingnut goes to nobody)
the most sincere and least pretentious keycaps ever.
The Deskthority Award
Nominations:
- TGR
- Wilba
- QMK
- elecplus
- Findecanor
- iMav
- orihalcon
- NovelKeys
- clickclack
- Eiiti Wada
Winner: elecplus (gold wingnut)
elecplus for saving so many keyboards and giving fair prices for them.
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The Prizes for the voters
Worry not, real soon we will randomly pick the winners of the sponsors' prizes among all the voters. Stay tuned!
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Unsolicited afterwords
As you may have noticed this year's awards were a little downsized. I did what I could to keep things smooth and easy. 2018 could have been a DTA-less year and I couldn't let that happen. Despite the reduced pace, organizing the DTA is a very time consuming task. From designing the graphics to finding something to write, from configuring the forum to moderating the submissions, from contacting the sponsors to shipping the prizes. It's almost a full time 2-3 weeks unpaid job. It is clear to me that we need to automate some of the mechanics if we want to keep this thing going.
I will start a thread soon about DT future, I hope you'll be willing to participate.
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