Welcome to the Deskthority Awards 2012!

webwit · 23 Nov 2012, 21:16

Welcome to this year's Deskthority Awards!

During this event, the members of deskthority vote for the best in a number of input device related categories.

Like last year, there are three rounds of one week each.

First round (23 Nov - 29 Nov):
In this round you can suggest nominees for each category. All suggestions will make it to round 2.

Second round (30 Nov - 6 Dec):
Vote for the suggested nominees from round 1 so that the top 5 nominees in each category (or top 3 when there aren't a lot of choices) make it to the last stage.

Third round (7 Dec - 14 Dec):
Vote for the winners in each category out of the top nominees from round 2.

The winners will be announced on Friday 14 December 20:00hrs GMT by our special guest star, The Keyboard Oracle. The winner of the *Ping* Award will be announced by our guest star The Demongolator.

Voters in the final round can win various prizes provided by our sponsors. The winners will be selected randomly from the voters in the third round, and will also be announced on 14 December. To vote, you need a minimum of 10 posts on deskthority. See the voter prize announcements which will be posted shortly for the latest details.

The categories are:
Best regular keyboard 2012
Best space-saving/compact keyboard 2012
Best ergonomic input device 2012
Best other input device 2012
Best keyboard company or brand 2012
Best keycaps 2012
Best keyboard switch 2012
Best relic/discovery 2012
Best input device mod 2012
Best deskthority forum contributor 2012
Best deskthority wiki contributor 2012
The *Ping* Award 2012
The Deskthority Award 2012

When a category winner is a deskthority member, he or she will get a special Deskthority Award Clack Factory Wingnut trophkey! We commissioned the most famous of keycap artists clickclack to design and produce these trophy keycaps for the Awards. Category winners in this edition and future editions will be the only people ever getting one of these keycaps.

trax · 23 Nov 2012, 21:25

Cool!
Didn't we already have one though?

webwit · 23 Nov 2012, 21:30

In a twist of planetary movement of Earth orbiting its star in 365 days, we do it each year!

trax · 23 Nov 2012, 21:37

Wow I just checked I've been here for over a year D;
Oh well its all looks very professional now webwit!

guilleguillaume · 23 Nov 2012, 23:55

Here we go again

webwit · 24 Nov 2012, 00:05

I'll post the sponsor prize topics over the weekend, but spoiler here:

Spoiler:

webwit · 29 Nov 2012, 21:47

Only a little while before round 1 closes. If you have any nominations you like to have added, this is your last chance.

The following categories especially are in need of some more love:

Best keyboard company or brand 2012
Best deskthority wiki contributor 2012
Best regular keyboard in 2012
Best other input device 2012

Acanthophis · 30 Nov 2012, 00:26

Added some nominees for all but wiki contributor. Just hand over the prize to Daniel Beardsmore already

webwit · 30 Nov 2012, 00:28

Thanks! Just in time, round 1 closes in half an hour.

guilleguillaume · 30 Nov 2012, 02:04

Webwit for some reason when I vote it doesn't show any bar progress to the right of the choices. May I give the forum some time?

webwit · 30 Nov 2012, 02:06

The results are hidden until the end of the Awards.

guilleguillaume · 30 Nov 2012, 02:10

webwit wrote:The results are hidden until the end of the Awards.

Thanks!

I was going to vote untill the end of the world waiting for them to appear

Half-Saint · 02 Dec 2012, 20:45

Too bad I can't nominate myself, since nobody else will

I distinctively remember doing at least a few mods this year, if nothing else

bhtooefr · 04 Dec 2012, 02:01

Should've gotten Unicomp to sponsor the *Ping* award.

With a Value Plus as the prize.

webwit · 07 Dec 2012, 04:14

I asked them (they sponsored us last year), but no reply.

webwit · 09 Dec 2012, 21:37

Finally finished shortly describing all the nominees (over 60). Next year I should plan this better and get more manpower.

webwit · 14 Dec 2012, 18:35

Only mere hours left to cast your vote!

After complaints last year about the location of the live results ceremony, which was in Casino Zodiak in Astana, Kazakhstan, we have listened to your concerns and moved the live event this year to the Samye Monastery, Shannan Prefecture, Tibet, where the Keyboard Oracle is awaiting as your humble host among a growing and ecstatic crowd.

Spoiler:

fossala · 14 Dec 2012, 18:38

Are the results coming tonight?

webwit · 14 Dec 2012, 18:41

Very soon after 20:00 GMT.

dirge · 14 Dec 2012, 18:43

Well ill be checking from the pub. Free wifi and first fucjing here

RC-1140 · 14 Dec 2012, 18:49

dirge wrote:Well ill be checking from the pub. Free wifi and first fucjing here

I'm in the theatre at that time… Shakespeare's "As you like it"

in German

But I'll check from the pub as well (I guess it's a different one). Afterwards…

webwit · 14 Dec 2012, 18:53

Good choice. The Tibetan pubs are known to be both notorious and intoxicating, although not known for great wifi.

Spoiler:

webwit · 14 Dec 2012, 22:11

Congrats to the winners!

The full poll results have now been made public.

Acanthophis · 15 Dec 2012, 00:48

I'm too lazy to post in all threads, so here it goes:
Congrats to all winners!