musicmeta Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 6 points for this round. No bullseyes. I'll take it. CJ Design 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F For Fake Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 1 Bullseye (Racket), and two within a grade (Iron Man and Comet), but the two I deliberated the longest, HOS and AiF, I was just a bit too hard on. Pretty close overall, but in this game, with these eagle eyes, "pretty close" will land me near the bottom of the standings! Racket Squad in Action #1 6.0 Iron Man #4 9.0 Comet #1 7.0 HoS #90 8.0 Adventure into Fear #10 7.5 ADAMANTIUM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F For Fake Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 On 1/29/2024 at 8:51 PM, Panda2 said: I got the 6.0 on the first book but was a full 1.0 grade harsher on the others(I spent a lot of time comparing to my own graded books) and either things have become more lenient or I am losing my mind. -iron man - soft corners, abraded edges, creasing and wear across the top? 9.2? I had it at 8.5 -comet I was at 5.5 but waffled with a 6. The extra stain and the piece out got me lower -HOS I saw spine stress lines and some wear that I wouldn’t have thought to see in 9. I was at 8.0 -fear 10- I thought the abraded corners brought this down but clearly I just have to adjust my grading I was a full point under on all the newer books I had this at 7.5 this was a sad round of 8 points Same exact thinking/grades on the HoS and Fear for me. My initial reaction was that they were nicer (and closer to what ended up being the actual grades) but those little bits of wear allowed me to talk myself out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikenyc Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Do they still do the spreadsheet with the standings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator CGC Mike Posted January 30 Author Administrator Share Posted January 30 On 1/30/2024 at 9:07 AM, mikenyc said: Do they still do the spreadsheet with the standings? Yes. We do one for each round in a separate thread. I am waiting to get the results/spread from CGC. I should have it to post between 12:00 and 2:00 today. I will post a link here, when it is available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paqart Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 On 1/29/2024 at 8:07 PM, JollyComics said: Five points with one bullseye. Same here. Glad I didn't screw up on the first round, though I suspect a few people did better. These were my grades: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Fashion PB and J Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 4 points with 1 bullseye. ADAMANTIUM and paqart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trmoore54 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 On 1/29/2024 at 5:10 PM, universal soldier said: How can a piece missing on that Comet warrant a 6.5? I thought I was being generous with a 5.5 7 points with 1 bull. Forgot the reveal was last night. Agreed...I had the COMET at 5.5 as well. Also graded the first one a full grade lower at 5.0. Same score...7 points with bullseye on last book. Not great...but not horrible... universal soldier 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Cool Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Decent 1st round for me. Only 1 bullseye but I was really close on the rest. Racket Squad - had it as a 5.0/5.5 - went 5.5 Iron Man - had it as a 9.0/9.2 and went with a 9.0 Comet - had it as a 6.5/7.0 and went 7.0 House of Secrets - looked really nice so had it as a 9.2/9.4 and went 9.4 (doh). Must have missed something Fear - had it only as a 8.5 so went with that 5 points and still in the running Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danger Haggis Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 I'm not even going to add up my points from the first round. I don't have enough fingers and toes for that. I graded much too harshly apparently. Really makes me want to resubmit a 3.5 ASM #129 I have that I don't think has as many problems as some of the ones we just looked at. My goal is to get better every round. I left myself plenty of opportunity to do that in round 2. ADAMANTIUM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse-Lee Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Off by one on every book! Racket Squad in Action #1 - 6.5 Iron Man #4 - 9.0 Comet #1 - 7.0 HoS #90 - 9.2 Adventure into Fear #10 - 8.0 ADAMANTIUM and Point Five 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator CGC Mike Posted January 30 Author Administrator Share Posted January 30 Here are the results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicginger1789 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Scored 4. Was off by one on all except my bullseye on the Comet Point Five and ADAMANTIUM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince G Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 On 1/29/2024 at 8:51 PM, Panda2 said: I got the 6.0 on the first book but was a full 1.0 grade harsher on the others(I spent a lot of time comparing to my own graded books) and either things have become more lenient or I am losing my mind. -iron man - soft corners, abraded edges, creasing and wear across the top? 9.2? I had it at 8.5 -comet I was at 5.5 but waffled with a 6. The extra stain and the piece out got me lower -HOS I saw spine stress lines and some wear that I wouldn’t have thought to see in 9. I was at 8.0 -fear 10- I thought the abraded corners brought this down but clearly I just have to adjust my grading I was a full point under on all the newer books I had this at 7.5 this was a sad round of 8 points Agreed. Based on the cert numbers these books were all recently graded. I'm thinking the same; that grading has gotten more lenient. And that's what's confusing here. The standard shouldn't change. I have a few late 60s Marvels with similar (but lesser) corner and wear defects than the Iron Man 4 that are all 8.5 grades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skypinkblu Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 I still find the glare confusing. I had 3 bullseyes, and was off by one on the first book, but the Iron Man...I KNEW the white was glare, but I was seeing issues with the lower staple because of the white and since spine lines were mentioned and I couldn't see them, I lowered the grade a lot for both those issues. There are less glare lines lately, so there is an improvement, but I'm lost when I see the white lines, I mess up every time. Many other people seem to be OK with it...I guess. I'm not unhappy with the 5 points...I'm thrilled to be in the top half with so many great graders playing, but I wish they would do less very dark books, or fix the glare issue. Vince G, ADAMANTIUM and Sandflea 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronzemarvel Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 The agony of defeat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PreHero Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Ouch! Guess I’m not getting that summer job as a CGC grader!! Point Five 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandflea Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Only 1 bulls: the rest... Point Five and ADAMANTIUM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
