2015 CGC Green Eggs Grading Contest- Round 1 Results

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2015 CGC Green Eggs Grading Contest Round 1 Results

 

 

BK 1: Avengers #57 - Actual Grade: 8.0

 

BK 2: World's Finest #88 - Actual Grade: 6.5

 

Link to Books and Scans

 

Round 1 Grade Breakdowns

 

 

2015 Grading Contest: Round 1 Results - Leader Board

 

 

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2015 Grading Contest - Individual Achievements for Round 1

 

[LordRahl]

2 Bullseyes?

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Round 1 COMMENTARY

 

Once again, into the breach.

 

Congrats to Andahaion, LordRahl, mccollect, old_dano, and SNiPER for starting off strong with DOUBLE BULLSEYES!

 

1950's war comics, Action252Kid, Diaolos, jcjames, Mr.TawkyTawny, NinjaSealed, Richard The Man, rjpb, Thanos88, and thehumantorch.... Consider this a WAKE UP CALL!

 

This is not your ordinary Grading Contest!

 

Familiarize yourselves with the stats. These are only the beginning!

 

Round TWO starts now!

 

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2015 Grading Contest - Place by Round

 

 

 

[Senormac]

wow....just wow. that second book.

[thunsicker]

Round TWO starts now!

 

Now?

[thirdgreenham]

Round TWO starts now!

 

Now?

 

Now!

[Mio]

6.5 my azz!

[Azkaban]

[Scturo]

should've state with 8.0....

[DavidTheDavid]

All that staining and the AV 57 got an 8.0?! And I'm surprised at the second one, too. Vertical spine creasing usually hits the grade hard.

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2015 Grading Contest Update:

 

Skynwalker's Grade was not recorded correctly. He actually scored 2 points for Round 1. The charts have been updated accordingly.

 

We regret the error.

 

 

[joe_collector]

wow....just wow. that second book.

 

Talk about a gift grade - if I sold all my books that looked like that as 6.5's I'd got to Hell for sure.

[thirdgreenham]

 

As always, there's only so much you can do when grading from a scan. This particular book was extremely tight, not floppy or loose. Obviously a scan won't show that and that tightness will be considered when giving any book a grade.

[Comicdey]

I was outfoxed by that book and need to submit more mid grades....

[Point Five]

I gave the World's Finest an eye appeal bump to 6.5 as the inks appeared to be really electric. If the colors had looked dead I would have gone with 5.5 to 6.0.

 

Bombed completely on the Avengers; it looked a midgrade to me. I was pretty sure the mess on both sides crossed the magical line from foxing to staining, but oops, guess not.

 

 

[comicwiz]

I got hoodwinked by the wear on the spine and went with 5.5 on the WF.

[Hibou]

And here we go again...

 

I went with a 7.5 and 5.0 on those two.

[jcjames]

I gave the World's Finest an eye appeal bump to 6.5 as the inks appeared to be really electric. If the colors had looked dead I would have gone with 5.5 to 6.0.

 

Bombed completely on the Avengers; it looked a midgrade to me. I was pretty sure the mess on both sides crossed the magical line from foxing to staining, but oops, guess not.

 

The half-erased writing on the WF and the front & back foxing on the AV threw me off - I really undergraded them.

 

I even compared the AV57 to my own AV57 7.0 side-by-side and thought "There is no way this is even close to a 7.0".