[pyweed]

[NOTE: THESE CONTESTS ARE BOTH CLOSED]

As many of you know, I regularly post Bowman Chrome and Draft breaks on this board. Tomorrow I am scheduled to receive 10 cases of the 09BC product from Blowout cards, and hope to start busting late Thursday evening. If I'm not around to sign for it, we may be looking at Friday afternoon.

I will be listing out all numbered cards and autos and will attempt to grade the break on a box by box basis. I invite you to stop by this thread, help me with the grading, and contribute to the discussion. I sleeve, clean, and sort as I go, so the breaks usually last 5-7 days, which gives a lot of different members an opportunity to stop by and comment while the break is still ongoing. The collective expertise of the Beckett community in these threads invariably makes me more knowledgeable about the product. Plus, it's fun to show off a little bit.

To heighten interest in the break, I will organize a couple of contests. All contest information (including results) will be in this thread, and entries need to be posted here as well. This keeps the Message Board tidy.

CONTEST #1 [NOW CLOSED]: To kick things off, I will be offering FIVE autos from among my duplicates (not Hanson or Viciedo, but you will have some choices) to the winner of the first contest. To participate, you need to guess which player's autograph (there are 24 in the 09BC set) will appear in my first case as the lowest-numbered parallel. For example, if the first case produces 8 base autos, two refractor autos, an Xfractor auto, and an orange auto, who is the orange auto? If there is a tie for lowest numbered parallel (e.g., two Xfractor autos), the winner will be the one I pull LAST in the case. To break ties, you must also guess the number of pitches thrown by Rick Porcello in Friday's DET-MIN game. Closest to the pin wins, further tiebreak goes to the first poster. All entries must be posted before I post results from my first box. I settle all disputes.

A valid entry, therefore, will look something like this:
"Lowest parallel: Robbie Grossman
Porcello: 97 pitches"

[NOTE: THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED -- DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ENTER]

Make sense? Then let the games begin. Wish me luck!

Nathan



P.S. As far as I know, these are the autos in the set:

BCP91 Rinku Singh
BCP92 Dinesh Kumar Patel
BCP93 Matt Miller

BCP94 Pat Venditte
BCP95 Zach Putnam
BCP96 Robbie Grossman
BCP97 Tommy Hanson

BCP98 Matt Mitchell
BCP99 Graham Hicks
BCP100 Christopher Marrero
BCP101 Freddie Freeman
BCP102 Chris Johnson
BCP103 Edgar Olmos
BCP104 Argenis Diaz
BCP105 Brett Anderson
BCP106 Juancarlos Sulbaran
BCP107 Cody Scarpetta

BCP108 Carlos Santana
BCP109 Brad Emaus
BCP110 Dayan Viciedo
BCP111 Tim Federowicz
BCP112 Allen Craig
BCP113 Kyle Weiland
BCP114 Connor Graham

[toddaray]

Thanks for a hobby related contest. Ill be dropping by to check it out.

[pacrimcollectibles]

I'll play:

Cody Scarpetta
Porcello: 82 pitches

[17griffey17]

lowest parallel: Matt Mitchell
Porcello pitch count: 93

[juda7]

BCP113 Kyle Weiland

Porcello: 85

[buffstuff88]

A diaz. 93 pitches

[pyweed]

Hanson, anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

[ronzomanzi]

Lowest: Hanson!

Pitch count: 101

[skc444]

BCP105-Brett Anderson
Pitches- 91

[billygunho]

lowest: brett anderson || pitches: 89