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Did they actually say their Mystery Box would top the previous one? BTW, the shipping for my Secret Santa/Raffle gifts came out to around $150 for shipping alone so that's why International shipping (and even domestic Priority shipping) is pretty expensive given enough weight. (And I actually don't remember sending anyone a Mystery Box... My brain cells are long gone. I've been here too long. )

Gah...I wanted to update/redo the site to bring it up to speed and to highlight your new Artists Alley... (Plus pull in your updates from Facebook and Instagram since that seems to be where most of your "advertising" goes.) Too little time...

I've decided to do the VCC this weekend... (shameless plug... ) so I'll throw in an SCKAO MYSTERY BOX. Due to the weight, it has to be limited to the U.S. Sorry. (Foreign winners can still choose it, but your Mystery Box will be coming from Amazon. )

Your Community may have classes that she can attend at night or on weekends that are short-term and relatively inexpensive. They range from Art Classes like figure drawing, painting, sketching, etc. to introductory computer work. (A good grounding in Art and Design is important.) If she's interested in computer coloring, especially comic book coloring, something like this may be of interest... it's a DVD that an established Image colorist made that goes through the entire process using Photoshop.(Besides all the stuff you can find already on YouTube.) https://www.amazon.com/Comic-Book-Coloring-Steve-Firchow/dp/B0013TPNR2 Good Luck!

Some Historical Context: The VCC would be effectively dead if @DeadOne hadn’t taken it over so he’s to be commended for keeping the spirit and the actual event alive. (And all of you who still participate.) The original intent of the VCC when we first started it was to give everyone an even footing to go after the great books the board members had for sale. People had no idea when certain board members would put up a sales thread and their books would sell pretty much instantly. People in different time Zones would also be at a disadvantage. So we started it with a set time to start. A Set Place to have everyone’s “booth” together in one location. An Index to let people know where everyone was... And as much external advertisement as we could do realistically. Everything was fair... Booths were grabbed on a first come, first serve basis. (Although Flying Donut and I got first page placement if we wanted it... ) The VCC was an attempt to even the playing field and bring everyone together. It’s changed over the years but in its early days, it had SideShows, Exhibits, Charity Auctions, etc. Everything changes. Evolve or die.

FINAL RANKINGS 1 marmat 2 TheGeneral 3 Point Five SUPERIOR SIX 4 RockMyAmadeus 77 5 Black_Adam 75 6 speedcake 59 TERRIFIC TWELVE 7 HighStakesComics 57 8 old_dano 52 9 John R 44 10 Dan82 39 (50) 11 Raze 39 (44) 12 letsgrumble 31 TITANIC TWENTY-FOUR 13 kav 82 14 Kramerica 65 15 LordRahl 59 16 MustEatBrains 58 17 toro 55 18 Dcman 50 19 01TheDude 45 20 comicginger 44 (95) 21 Plantman 44 (67) 22 flashlites 42 23 spidermanbeyond 34 24 Montezuma 25 FURIOUS FORTY-EIGHT 25 SpideyFein 75 26 mccollect 68 27 canickus 65 (65) 28 Ron C. 65 (60) 29 oakman 60 (63) 30 BorderlineHoarder 60 (60) 31 MediumLover 60 (54) 32 khoo 58 33 tmoore54 55 (62) 34 Shadow 55 (50) 35 KobaltDog 52 36 JollyComics 51 37 fastballspecial 50 (70) 38 journeyintocomics 50 (55) 39 1Cool 50 (34) 40 THB 44 41 Warlord 42 42 shark 40 (78) 43 JWKyle 40 (68) 44 musicmeta 40 (57) 45 SonofWolf 40 (55) 46 godquest 37 47 Richard The Man 36 48 tbshay -15 NEBULOUS NINETY-SIX 49 DeadOne 57 50 oglelo 55 (1) 51 comicdonna 55 (Seed winner) 52 eeb03 55 53 mattn92 52 54 WEBHEAD 51 55 Ride The Tiger 50 56 Red84 50 (1) 57 Old Fashion PB and J 50 (Seed winner) 58 ADAMANTIUM 50 59 comics4all 48 60 Amazing Spidey 47 (1) 61 Wipple 47 (0) 62 W16227 45 (1) 63 Cocomonkey 45 (0) 64 KPR Comics 44 65 topcat54 43 66 OdinsSecrets 42 (Bullseye, Seed 5 Winner) 67 PeterPark 42 (Bullseye, Seed 8) 68 Sman 42 (Bullseye, Seed 14) 69 sandflea 42 (Seed 13) 70 Chillax 40 (0 Seed 9) 71 KryptoSpidey 40 (0 Seed 10) 72 KryptoMayor 39 (0 Seed 10) 73 Myparentsbasement 39 (0 Seed 12) 74 Bkd Reader 38 75 boatfund 37 (Seed 6) 76 comicquant 37 (Seed 9) 77 iXr184 37 (Seed 15) 78 TwoPiece 35 79 batcollector 34 (Seed 4) 80 aszumilo 34 (Seed 15) 81 adampasz 29 (Seed 9) 82 Murphman 29 (Seed 11) 83 Cozmo One 29 (Seed 13) 84 Cliff R. 16 85 MBFan -20 (Seed 6-33) 86 notbrook -20 (Seed 6-34) 87 thirdgreenham -20 (Seed 7) 88 427Impaler -20 (Seed 8) 89 AJCohen -20 (Seed 10) 90 bondtrader -20 (Seed 14) 91 sd2416 -20 (Seed 15)

A Recreation of the Final Match...

Congrats! And another Congrats to everyone who entered this tough contest. It's not easy when it's one-and-done.

@marmat, @TheGeneral

Good Luck to the Final Two! » Link to 8.5 x 11" PDF » Link to SOLD OUT 8.5x11" PDF » Link to 2019 Winner 8.5x11" PDF

Now available only on Pay per View... Don't forget the first 100 entrants into the CGC Center get a custom Point Five Bobblehead consolation figure.

@marmat, @TheGeneral, @Point Five

FINAL RESULTS FOR THE ROUND OF 6 SEED FOR CGC POST WINNER 8 marmat 11-8 [75] TIE 3 RockMyAmadeus 18-5 [75] TIE 2 speedcake 20-4 [57] TIE 1 TheGeneral 20-2 [57] TIE 5 Point Five 14-6 [90] Winner 2 Black_Adam 16-3 [75] @marmat 82(OT) WINNER @RockMyAmadeus 77 @speedcake 59 @TheGeneral 64(OT) WINNER @Point Five 90 WINNER (Advances to Final Round) @Black_Adam 75

So what were the final scores? Sheesh.... I have to figure it out? Congratulations to everyone moving on to the Final Three.

2019 CGC March Madness ROUND of 3

While maybe not visually from a personal viewpoint... Arguably, the second is better than the first just for clarity. (Many kids may not have known what "Dr." meant.) (Images from MyComicShop.)

@RockMyAmadeus, @marmat, @speedcake, @TheGeneral, @Point Five, @Black_Adam

Congrats to all the higher seeds who are moving on... Except for the lone upset in Game 5.

2019 CGC March Madness ROUND of 6

Seedings take precedence over geographic location.... So in the REAL NCAA March Madness Tournament, schools like Oregon and UC Irvine are in the EAST Bracket. Washington is in the MIDWEST Bracket. Buffalo is in the WEST Bracket. And so on... And then there's the fact that I don't know where most of you live... Game 1: 4 Seed vs 3 Seed Game 2: 8 Seed vs 14 Seed Game 3: 4 Seed vs 2 Seed Game 4: 1 Seed vs 3 Seed Game 5: 5 Seed vs 3 Seed Game 6: 8 Seed vs 2 Seed This is actually pretty close to what the real Tournament would be like although there should be more 1 Seeds still alive. *Ahem*

I just noticed that @BlowUpTheMoon keeps using EST (Eastern Standard Time) instead of EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). Deadline is Monday, March 25th at 10:00p (EST) There IS a difference... but I'm going by PDT. Or Converting from ET (Eastern Time 10pm which is Pacific Time 7pm) My Countdown timer is based on EDT.