sub grades vs. final grade 0

[Tigerwithglasses]

Does CGC give the final grade based off the average sub grade or the median of the sub grade?

I've seen cards with 9 9 9 8.5 and they get a final grade of a 9, but I had a card get 10 9.5 9.5 8 grab an 8.5.

[Holku]

Generally (yes, very generally, since you likely won't ever see an official formula), from my observations, a cgc-graded card will not receive an overall grade more than 1 point higher than its lowest subgrade.  So if your card's 4 subgrades are 10/10/3/10, its getting a 4 at best.

[Nathan Robins]

I saw Paul give an answer to this question yesterday. He obviously wouldn't tell us everything but I think what he said was: the final grade is never higher than one point above the lowest sub graded (so if you get 7,10,10,10 it wont be above an 8) and if the two lowest sub grades are the same then that is its grade ( so 7,7,10,10 would grade a 7) 

He said there was more to it, and thats just how i interpreted what he said. I could always be wrong.