2022 CGC Grading Contest Season 1 Fall Edition (#4) Round 1 8 8

[Cushing Fan]

Two bulls eyes and close on the other books except Red Dragon which I gave a 4.0 - didn't think it would grade higher with that large tear on the cover.

[Hibou]

On 10/31/2022 at 8:35 PM, universal soldier said:

I bombed the Red Dragon. I can't see how that cover tear can be a 5.5 

Same.  I had that as a 3.5 ...

[grebal]

Coulda shoulda woulda - I went w/the circled guesses - 2 of the 3 guessed wrong - got lucky on the Dragon.  The 'blank' is Supes of course. WBN pretty lame VG, imo.

 

[boron]

2 bulls , 2 one pointers  -  looking good until

Sentai which I had at six -  I thought that was a nasty crease on the left side.  I looked at pics of other Sentais and did not see that on any, so assumed that was a serious defect.

so.....pffffft 

[grendelbo]

On 10/31/2022 at 9:14 PM, boron said:

I looked at pics of other Sentais

I looked at a couple on eBay and that book must be graded on a curve. (I nailed it though.)

[Cerebus3000]

On 10/31/2022 at 7:14 PM, CGC Mike said:

Several people under graded the Sentai book.  Should I note camera glare in the future?  I have asked this before, and the consensus was no. 

I for one would have loved that information! I stared at that picture for so long and came down on the side of colour rub. I had a total of two points on the first four books, but I may already be statistically eliminated now based on my major wiff on that last book. 

[Cat]

11 points. That's not brilliant, if I'm honest, and certainly not what I was aiming for. 

@skypinkblu next round I turbo-grade! 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 11/1/2022 at 12:06 AM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Same here, ten points I think, seven of them on two books. Cap killed me, as I missed the defects on my phone. Not sure I'd have been any closer on the first book though, had I viewed it on my desktop at home. 5.5 with a big ugly cover tear? I don't know. Anyway, back home now, so let's see what I can salvage from the remaining rounds. 

[zzutak]

Unfortunately, I'm the one on the canvas. 

[sledgehammer]

On 10/31/2022 at 7:30 PM, grendelbo said:

I think 5 points.

2 bullseyes and another off by a grade. I knew I was being too harsh with the Red Dragon and too lenient with the Captain America. But I ignored my instincts. 

sounds familiar.

5 points.

4.5 on red dragon

9.4 on captain america.

[frozentundraguy]

Havent added up my points, but I'm sure it's left me a long way to climb back into this contest.

[ChrispyC66]

No Bulls. Superboy, whoever owned that got a gift. I had it at 3.0. 

10 points…What did Bluto say about it being over…

 

[comicginger1789]

My full grades were

Red Dragon #7  CGC 5.0 (felt some of the edge wear warranted lower)

Superboy #68 CGC 3.0 (yay)

Captain America #117 CGC 9.4 (completely missed the bottom right corner AND the small stain on back)

Werewolf by Night #32 CGC 4.5 (gave it the WWBN #32 bump unnecessarily)

Sentai #2 CGC 7.0 (my Kryptonite...and it is funny because I said well I think its a 9.0-9.2 but there is a vertical crease top left of the book along the spine and I felt due to the length, it would drop it this much. No crease at all just glare....ugh)

 

9 points?

 

Edited November 1, 2022 by comicginger1789

[Cat]

Will everybody PLEASE get OFF my level. 

 

Thank you kindly. 

 

 

[Axelrod]

Man, considering how much I rushed it, still three bullseyes! 

But then had the Cap at 9.4.  That grade still seems harsh, light stain or not.  

And the Sentai at 8.0.  And, I mean, I looked close.  That did not look like camera glare to me.  

Still, I guess I take the 5 pts this round and go on about my business.  

[CGC Mike]

The results for this round have been posted.

 

[CGC Mike]

@skypinkblu @Crose87420 @Ron C. @boron @Cerebus3000  I have composed round 3 and noted anything I thought was camera glare.  I don't think it's an issue for round 2.  Anyways, it's too late for any noting in that round.  I will try to be aware of this and make what I think are appropriate notes for camera glare going forward.  

[comicginger1789]

On 11/1/2022 at 8:38 AM, Axelrod said:

Man, considering how much I rushed it, still three bullseyes! 

But then had the Cap at 9.4.  That grade still seems harsh, light stain or not.  

And the Sentai at 8.0.  And, I mean, I looked close.  That did not look like camera glare to me.  

Still, I guess I take the 5 pts this round and go on about my business.  

Ok so I am not the only crazy one...maybe crazy that I docked the Sentai a whole 2 grades

[comicginger1789]

On 11/1/2022 at 1:54 PM, CGC Mike said:

@skypinkblu @Crose87420 @Ron C. @boron @Cerebus3000  I have composed round 3 and noted anything I thought was camera glare.  I don't think it's an issue for round 2.  Anyways, it's too late for any noting in that round.  I will try to be aware of this and make what I think are appropriate notes for camera glare going forward.  

I'll second a note for glare especially if it looks like that and a multitude of people seem to think and see that. I guess you would not know until after though. Perhaps a regrade on a book? At any rate, if it affected a lot of people negatively the same then so be it. Just means we have to step it up on the upcoming rounds!

[kav]

On 11/1/2022 at 10:54 AM, CGC Mike said:

I have composed round 3 and noted anything I thought was camera glare.  I don't think it's an issue for round 2.  Anyways, it's too late for any noting in that round.  I will try to be aware of this and make what I think are appropriate notes for camera glare going forward.  

 

i'm actually opposed to letting us know if it is glare or scrape.  there are several things you cannot tell sometimes from a pic- tear vs scrape for example and starting to disclose things gets into giving more info than you should for the contest.