2015 Keyset of the Year (Winner announced!)

[swimmingbird]

GMK Hyperfuse for most overrated set of the year

shots fired

[hwood34]

GMK Hyperfuse for most overrated set of the year

**** is trash b

lets make hyperdolchgranite

just **** me up fam

[pichu23]

Is there a picture of the " Gateron's Cyrillic Teal" ?
It sounds amazing but there's no link above to view it. (◕‿◕✿) heh

Added a photo into the OP

Thanks buddy! Seems like the one Shadovved is offering in his GB atm 

[swimmingbird]

Is there a picture of the " Gateron's Cyrillic Teal" ?
It sounds amazing but there's no link above to view it. (◕‿◕✿) heh

Added a photo into the OP

Thanks buddy! Seems like the one Shadovved is offering in his GB atm 

Yeah I stole the photo from there

But those are the ones if memory serves
I've honestly lost track of the relationship between gateron and enjoypbt

[hwood34]

Is there a picture of the " Gateron's Cyrillic Teal" ?
It sounds amazing but there's no link above to view it. (◕‿◕✿) heh

Added a photo into the OP

Thanks buddy! Seems like the one Shadovved is offering in his GB atm 

Yeah I stole the photo from there

But those are the ones if memory serves
I've honestly lost track of the relationship between gateron and enjoypbt

Different names for the same thing. Really would recommend these caps, the feel is incredible

[mrlooolz]

Gateron Blanks

[cryptokey]

Man this was tough. 

[livingspeedbump]

1976?

That shipped in late 2014 I believe.

[mashby]

I've honestly lost track of the relationship between gateron and enjoypbt

From what I've read elsewhere, they are one in the same. Gateron is more well known in Asia as EnjoyPBT.

[seville57]

Jukebox SA, lovin the music and the cars (not chevy) from the 50's.

[BrewCaps]

Pulse

 

[jerue]

GMK Hyperfuse for most overrated set of the year

**** is trash b

lets make hyperdolchgranite

firing up the IC this afternoon.

[livingspeedbump]

I really liked Quartz, but never really was launched properly from what I can tell.

Quartz was around in 2014 i believe

[FrostyToast]

Hyperfuse for most inaccurate mock up of 2015.

[livingspeedbump]

GMK Hyperfuse for most overrated set of the year

Tend to agree. LOVE the original colors and legends on the SP sets but it didn't translate well imo. It is a fantastic design, but just not a great GMK set. 

Was a tough call between Carbon and some of those Gateron sets.

[xondat]

GMK Hyperfuse for most overrated set of the year

2nd that, it's just a rerun of colors that looked nicer in different profiles.

[baldgye]

Only 3 other real people on this forum, typical.

[Waateva]

Only 3 other real people on this forum, typical.

Personally, I'm a cybernetic organism, living tissue over a metal endoskeleton

[swimmingbird]

Anyone keen to mock up a little badge to use in the sig for the winner of people who just wanna show it off?

I would but my photoshop skills are ****e

[swimmingbird]

results haven't budged in the last day - coming up on that closing time!

Get your votes in peeps

edit:spelling

[swimmingbird]

About 50 mins left - I'll stay up to post the results

[Waateva]

About 50 mins left - I'll stay up to post the results

Bleh Hyperfuse

[swimmingbird]

Congratulations to Bunnylake, codyeatworld and the whole Ctrl Alt team for winning the 2015 Keyset of the Year award!



Even though the votes are public I'll post some analysis here in a second

[BunnyLake]

Very nice sir thanks I hadn't seen that

Although just read through it and seems most of the thread is people slagging my work off lol

[Diokhan]

Congratz

[FLFisherman]

Very nice sir thanks I hadn't seen that

Although just read through it and seems most of the thread is people slagging my work off lol

Everyone likes different things. 

[BunnyLake]

Haha it's all good, each to there own, just a shame the thread wasn't kept positive

[jdcarpe]

Congrats on the win, BunnyLake et al.!

[baldgye]

Haha it's all good, each to there own, just a shame the thread wasn't kept positive

How could it be positive when Miami Twice was JILTED?!

You people, yyyoooooooooooouuu people...



though fair play to bunny and co for having the best sets

[FLFisherman]

Haha it's all good, each to there own, just a shame the thread wasn't kept positive

How could it be positive when Miami Twice was JILTED?!

You people, yyyoooooooooooouuu people...



though fair play to bunny and co for having the best sets

Yeah, I didn't even vote for the set I nominated. It's a hard choice.

[swimmingbird]

Some analysis for you peeps :

Cherry and SA were the most popular profiles run this year with 7 group buys run in each profile. DSA was less popular with 3 group buys and DCS was barely used with only Miami Twice being run in the profile.

SA sets had higher average votes (avg = 17) than Cherry profile in which the average number of votes was 13.29. DSA had the lowest average votes at 3.67 whereas DCS had average votes of 5 (Miami Twice only).

Quartz was the least popular DSA set with no votes. Granite, entering its third round (and now fourth as this is being typed) managed to pull in 10 votes - lower than the average number of votes of either SA or Cherry profile reflecting the severely diminished popularity of the once flourishing profile

Jukebox was the highest voted SA set and overall runner up in the 2015 results with 28 votes. Jukebox was the first SA set to be run through Massdrop - an occurrence that almost became monthly toward the end of 2015 (with Dangerzone and Troubled Minds) and is set to see a Round 2 in coming months - be sure to follow livingspeedbump at Keychatter to stay updated.

Carbon SA, another Massdrop run SA set, was a close second in the SA category with 26 votes. 1976 SA, a PMK run set, came a slightly distant third with 17 votes. 8bit's Round 5 and Matt3o's Retro SA performed similarly with a decent number of votes between them.

Now on to the eternal favourite of many (myself included).... Cherry profile 

Hyperfuse GMK, dominated the votes amongst Cherry profile keysets with more than double the votes of any other Cherry profile set (35 votes). Some in this thread have voiced disappointment at the colour differences between the GMK version and the Signature Plastics-made originals but fanfare on the whole has been glowing.

Somewhat surprisingly, the Feng run GMK Cyan GB was the second most popular Cherry set at 17 votes (fourth position overall). It seems that UN6037 might just be done with after this year

GMK Triumph Adler came third with 12 votes - an ambitious set that was notable in that it was the first GMK set to utilise custom colours, was greeted with disappointment stemming from a variety of issues that seemed to plague the sets such as insecure shipping trays, scratched keycaps, colour swirling issues and backlight bleed.
Intelli78 has stated his intention to run the set again to address some colour issues in the alpha bases.

JTK Debut, an exciting project that started with many teasers from Ctrl Alt received 8 votes, coming 8th out of 18 contenders. Apart from slight legend issues, reception has been warm - especially toward the prices.

Gateron's Cyrillic Teal, while coming only at the very end of the year sporadically through Tao Bao and its many proxies has been very well received. While only having 8 votes, for the number of people that own this set that is an incredibly high ratio. I predict shadovvved's current GB might top the list of 2016 keyset of the year polls

GMK Olivetti and Red Alert, despite being true and tested favourites were the bottom performers in the Cherry category - most likely owing to the high cost that prevented many from joining.

109 members participated in the 2015 Keyset of the Year awards and cast 228 votes for an average of 2.09 votes per member.

Finally, I'd like to extend a thank you out to everyone who voted and more importantly to the GB runners who have dedicated countless hours to making these fantastic sets happen.

Geekhack is a fantastic place and I love the creative and collaborative environment it provides. Let's all try our best to support the GB runners of 2016!

-swimmingbird

[swimmingbird]

**** that took a while to write

[OTD]

Why no Pulse?

[FLFisherman]

Why no Pulse?

Wasn't that done near the end of 2014?

[swimmingbird]

Why no Pulse?

Wasn't that done near the end of 2014?

From what I found most of them arrived before Christmas 2014

[OTD]

Maybe this 2016 because it is going to be on massdrop again.

[FLFisherman]

Maybe this 2016 because it is going to be on massdrop again.

Yeah, it would be on the 2016 keyset of the year list, but the year has just started, sooooo....

[HoffmanMyster]

Very thorough write-up, swimmingbird!      Not only an analysis of the votes, but also the sets.  Good stuff.

[SpAmRaY]

Very thorough write-up, swimmingbird!      Not only an analysis of the votes, but also the sets.  Good stuff.

This

I hadn't seen this thread until now.

[mobbo]

Thanks for this! And congratulations to Hypefuse.

Who knew. Yesterday I was typing on plastic - today I'm typing on an award winning set.  )

[swimmingbird]

Very thorough write-up, swimmingbird!      Not only an analysis of the votes, but also the sets.  Good stuff.

This

I hadn't seen this thread until now.

Thanks guys 

Next year I think it might be good to go with a google form to create some suspense 
(with GH membership verification of course hehe)

[ideus]

The interest in DSA may be worn off at GH, but not at other places, based on the recent drop of the Granite set that reached over a thousand full sets it may be the best selling set of recent years.

[swimmingbird]

The interest in DSA may be worn off at GH, but not at other places, based on the recent drop of the Granite set that reached over a thousand full sets it may be the best selling set of recent years.

http://www.massdrop.community/mechkeys/granite/index.html

1100 base sets sold

Remember that TA did over a thousand as well

[OTD]

Maybe this 2016 because it is going to be on massdrop again.

Yeah, it would be on the 2016 keyset of the year list, but the year has just started, sooooo....

I'm happy it is being ran again because I thought it was a one time thing.

[xondat]

Nice write up

I own GMK TA and JTK Debut, decent sets but they have their problems (scratches/swirling & legends).

[livingspeedbump]

I'll settle for second. That is surprising enough as it is 

Regardless of the GMK issues, the design is still one of my favorites of all time. Prefer the SP colors still, but doesn't change the fact that it is a phenomenal looking set on GMK as well. I'd probably want GMK colors and not SP colors had the GMK run first, you just get used to something after a while, ya know?

Also, very cool write up! Learned a good bit about more than a few sets.

[HoffmanMyster]

Regardless of the GMK issues, the design is still one of my favorites of all time. Prefer the SP colors still, but doesn't change the fact that it is a phenomenal looking set on GMK as well. I'd probably want GMK colors and not SP colors had the GMK run first, you just get used to something after a while, ya know?

Semantics, but I wouldn't call them "issues".  We knew the colors wouldn't be an exact match and we got exactly what we expected.   

[livingspeedbump]

Regardless of the GMK issues, the design is still one of my favorites of all time. Prefer the SP colors still, but doesn't change the fact that it is a phenomenal looking set on GMK as well. I'd probably want GMK colors and not SP colors had the GMK run first, you just get used to something after a while, ya know?

Semantics, but I wouldn't call them "issues".  We knew the colors wouldn't be an exact match and we got exactly what we expected.   

Yeah thats a better word for it. Like i said, the design and colors are one of my favorites ever. You just get used to something one way for so long that changes can be a little off putting at first, not because it is bad, just because its not what you were expecting. Still a very worthy winner though, I'd have been very surprised if that didn't win.

[Waateva]

Regardless of the GMK issues, the design is still one of my favorites of all time. Prefer the SP colors still, but doesn't change the fact that it is a phenomenal looking set on GMK as well. I'd probably want GMK colors and not SP colors had the GMK run first, you just get used to something after a while, ya know?

Semantics, but I wouldn't call them "issues".  We knew the colors wouldn't be an exact match and we got exactly what we expected.   

Was it Hyperfuse or another GMK set that had the issues with the packaging and sets arriving damaged?

Either way, congrats to Hyperfuse and the Ctrl Alt team on their win 

[HoffmanMyster]

Regardless of the GMK issues, the design is still one of my favorites of all time. Prefer the SP colors still, but doesn't change the fact that it is a phenomenal looking set on GMK as well. I'd probably want GMK colors and not SP colors had the GMK run first, you just get used to something after a while, ya know?

Semantics, but I wouldn't call them "issues".  We knew the colors wouldn't be an exact match and we got exactly what we expected.   

Was it Hyperfuse or another GMK set that had the issues with the packaging and sets arriving damaged?

Either way, congrats to Hyperfuse and the Ctrl Alt team on their win 

That was TA.