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Yep, I was thinking along the same lines with that spine split, and thus graded the book 1.8. Eek.

I haven't experienced any kinks. The rules were pretty clear. What helped was changing my follow preferences to follow the threads Mike created for the contest and receive notification when new content was posted.

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Agreed. I took a look at it but made the assumption that it was just glare, and graded accordingly.

Yes, I've seen many a modern black cover with some minor color loss receiving that grade. The slightly blunted corner at the top of the spine looks minor from the front, but the defect is more pronounced when looking at the back.

Overstreet guidance says it's a 1.0 if 1/3 of the front cover is missing. My initial impression was to go 1.5 but I went lower since I wasn't entirely sure how much CGC would detract for it. I think 1.5 is spot on.

That was my first thought, actually.

Yep, I noticed the same thing... thus my 5.5 grade on that book nuking a pretty decent round.

For round two, I did just that... and faired much better.

I did the same thing. Hoping that my 'adjustments' for round 2 yield better results

I will make the appropriate adjustments

If CGC follows the overstreet grading standard, that TMNT is way overgraded. However, they seem to be more lenient on books with a single minor defect than strict overstreet guidelines. I followed the guide and graded that 8.0 so I hear ya.

I did the same. What tripped me up was the turtles book with the note on the corner crease. Working off the grading guides (heritage/overstreet), there's a line that specifically talks about a corner crease under the 8.0 grade ("An unnoticeable 1/4" crease is acceptable if color is not broken.") so I went with that. In looking at the scores on that book, seems a few others also followed the same standard. CGC seems to me more lenient with that specific type of defect.

Two days in an all of us probably owe you a drink for the overhead

I'll wait for the next batch. Looking forward to it!

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