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Showing posts with label GroupBreak3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GroupBreak3. Show all posts

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Group Break Part 3: 2010-11 Panini Luxury Suite

Last up in the break is 2010-11 Luxury Suite. This is one of my favorite products to break, as it is priced pretty low, and offers EIGHT hits, plus four or five serial numbered rookie cards. This product will most likely be a staple of any future breaks, at least for as long as I can get them.








And here are the scans:


Travis Hamonic Rookie Auto 262/499 (NYI)
T.J. Galardi Private Signings Auto (COL)


Patrick Kane Jersey/Prime Jersey 26/150 (CHI)
Semyon Varlamov & Mike Green Dual Prime Jersey 12/50 (WSH)


Alex Ovechkin Jersey 404/599 (WSH)
John Tavares Jersey 237/599 (NYI)
Martin St. Louis & Ryan Malone Dual Jersey 388/599 (TB)
Joe Thornton Jersey 345/599 (SJ)


Matt Calvert Rookie 1/899 (CBJ)
Derek Smith Rookie 369/899 (OTT)
Brodie Dupont Rookie 861/899 (NYR)
Aaron Volpatti Rookie 834/899 (VAN)
Matt Taormina Rookie 571/899 (NJ)

Well, that's it for this break. I hope you enjoyed it. As promised, anyone who did not get a hit will receive one from my collection, so you won't be walking away disappointed.

To all participants: Be sure to e-mail me your addresses at matt-pederson@hotmail.com. I'm sure I probably already have all of them somewhere, from past breaks or trades, but just in case, send them to me and I'll get these cards mailed out this week.

Thanks, everybody!

Friday, November 30, 2012

Group Break Part 2: 2011-12 ITG Enforcers

Next on the agenda is 2011-12 In the Game Enforcers. This is a one-pack-per-box product focusing on the toughest competitors in hockey's history. Each pack contains five base cards, five autographed cards, and two memorabilia cards.

So, let's get to it:









Here's a breakdown of the cards, and more importantly, which teams they will be heading to:


Brad May Instigator Prime Jersey (VAN)
Dave Schultz & Terry O'Reilly Combatants Dual Jersey (PHI)


Terry O'Reilly Auto (BOS)
John Wensink Auto (QUE/COL) (I may have said Toronto in the video, but he never played for the Leafs. The closest I could identify the jersey to was the Quebec Nordiques)
Craig Berube Auto (WAS)
Bob McGill Auto (TOR)
Trevor Gillies Auto (NYI)


Tony Twist & Bob Probert Bloody Battles (STL)
Bob Probert & Tie Domi Bloody Battles (NYR)
Laus/Worrell/Thompson/Belak Tough Franchise (FLA)

Link Gaetz & Gino Odjick Tale of the Tape (VAN)
John Kordic & Basil McRae (MIN/DAL)

There you have it for Enforcers. It was a cool product to open and we got some pretty unique cards. Just one more to go!

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Group Break Part 1: 2011-12 Panini Rookie Anthology

Well, the cards are finally here! Let's get things started.

First up is 2011-12 Rookie Anthology. It's a 10-pack box with 5 cards per pack. Each pack will contain either a hit or an extended rookie card from Pinnacle, Crown Royale, or Contenders. Four of the hits will be in the packs themselves, and the fifth one will be in the form of a one-card bonus pack.

Without further ado, here's the video:





Here are the scans of some of the major cards

The Hits:


Gustav Nyquist Certified Auto/Jersey 64/299 (DET)
Erik Gudbranson Rookie Treasures Auto/Dual Jersey /499 (FLA)


Carl Hagelin & Adam Henrique Rookie Rivalry (Randomed to NYR)
Louis Leblanc & Ben Scrivens Rookie Rivalry (Randomed to MTL)


Jason Spezza Luxury Suite Stick/Jersey (OTT)

And here are the rookies:


Erik Gustafsson Pinnacle (PHI)
Dylan Olsen Pinnacle (CHI)
Cody Eakin (WSH)
Anders Nilsson (NYI)
Andy Miele Contenders 960/999 (PHO)
Tomas Kundratek Crown Royale (WSH)

One important note on the two Rookie Rivalry cards that were randomed off. I had planned on doing the randomization directly on video at the very end of this box, but my battery ran out. So, I ended up doing the randomization at the end of the Enforcers box break. I wanted to do it on the same video as one of the boxes, since both cards contained players from teams that I had. This way, you all would know that everything is on the up and up.

There you have it. We're off to a good start so far. The next box, 2011-12 ITG Enforcers will be posted tomorrow, so stay tuned.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Group Break Update - One More Day

Hey everybody, just a quick update on the break. I checked the UPS tracking on the boxes, and it looks like they still won't be delivered until Thursday. I was hoping for an early delivery, with the Thanksgiving holiday, but it looks like that won't be the case. Anyway, secondary teams are still available to be traded, but I'm cutting off the trade deadline at midnight tonight. I'll keep you posted if they somehow manage to find their way here a day early. Thanks!




Saturday, November 24, 2012

Group Break Update - Randomized Secondary Teams

Okay everybody, I have now officially closed the entries to my group break. Thanks to three more teams being claimed in the last few days, I am only needing to cover four slots myself, which is nice. Anyway, here's the final list of which teams have been claimed and who has claimed them:

1. Pittsburgh Penguins - Matt Pederson
2. Los Angeles Kings - Arno
3. Boston Bruins - buckstorecards
4. Philadelphia Flyers - Brad's Blog
5. Edmonton Oilers - Roy-Z
6. Minnesota Wild - Roy-Z
7. Chicago Blackhawks - Nick B.
8. New Jersey Devils - Dave H
9. Toronto Maple Leafs - CoffeeJunkee
10. St. Louis Blues - CoffeeJunkee
11. Tampa Bay Lightning - Justin G.
12. New York Rangers - Matt Pederson
13. Detroit Red Wings - Matt Pederson
14. Colorado Avalanche - Matt Pederson
15. Washington Capitals - Matt Pederson

The 15 remaining teams will be placed in the randomizer, randomized 3X, and then assigned to those 15 slots in that order.

Randomized once:
 
Twice:

Three Times:

And here is the final list of assigned teams:

1. Matt Pederson - Pittsburgh Penguins & San Jose Sharks
2. Arno - Los Angeles Kings & Carolina Hurricanes
3. buckstorecards - Boston Bruins & Winnipeg Jets
4. Brad's Blog - Philadelphia Flyers & Montreal Canadiens
5. Roy-Z - Edmonton Oilers & Vancouver Canucks
6. Roy-Z - Minnesota Wild & Nashville Predators
7. Nick B. - Chicago Blackhawks & Anaheim Ducks
8. Dave H - New Jersey Devils & New York Islanders
9. CoffeeJunkee - Toronto Maple Leafs & Ottawa Senators
10. CoffeeJunkee - St. Louis Blues & Florida Panthers
11. Justin G. - Tampa Bay Lightning & Phoenix Coyotes
12. Matt Pederson - New York Rangers & Dallas Stars
13. Matt Pederson - Detroit Red Wings & Columbus Blue Jackets
14. Matt Pederson - Colorado Avalanche & Calgary Flames
15. Matt Pederson - Montreal Canadiens & Buffalo Sabres

Those are the final lists. However, if you don't like your secondary team, and have another one you have your eye on, you are more than welcome to trade your team for another, if the other person agrees to it. Just be sure that all team trading is done on this post.

The boxes shipped out on Wednesday and are expected to get here on the 29th. (I guess UPS is taking a few days off for the Thanksgiving holiday as well as Saturday/Sunday, as their "Four Business Days" comes out to eight actual days.) Once they get here, I am going to close off trading, so be sure to swap your teams, just in case they arrive early.

Thanks for participating, everybody!

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Upcoming Group Break: Last Call on Teams. Plenty of Slots Available

Hey everyone. I just wanted to send out a quick reminder that sign ups for my group break are now live. I will be opening up a box each of 2010-11 Luxury Suite, 2011-12 Rookie Anthology, and 2011-12 ITG Enforcers. Each slot is just $16 and includes two teams (1 your choice, 1 random). Please take a look at the following link and give some consideration to joining up. There are plenty of good card to be had.

TWENTY hits will be opened from the boxes, and I will throw in a hit from my own collection to anybody who does not get one from these boxes. This way, everybody has 100% certainty that they will be coming away with something.

I placed the order for the boxes today and it has already shipped, so sign-ups will soon be closed. I will give 1 more day to see if there are any takers. Since I will have to foot the bill for any unclaimed teams, I will claim the remaining slots for my own, but all slots will still get a second randomed team. I will randomize the secondary teams tomorrow, which should give a few days for you to trade off your alternate teams, if you decide to do so.

Anyway, go check it out, and anyone who is already involved, if you could promote it on your blog, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!




Monday, November 19, 2012

Group Break Reminder

Hey everyone. I just wanted to send out a quick reminder that sign ups for my group break are now live. I will be opening up a box each of 2010-11 Luxury Suite, 2011-12 Rookie Anthology, and 2011-12 ITG Enforcers. Each slot is just $16 and includes two teams (1 your choice, 1 random). Please take a look at the following link and give some consideration to joining up. There are plenty of good card to be had.

TWENTY hits will be opened from the boxes, and I will throw in a hit from my own collection to anybody who does not get one from these boxes. This way, everybody has 100% certainty that they will be coming away with something.

Anyway, go check it out, and anyone who is already involved, if you could promote it on your blog, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!










Sunday, November 18, 2012

Hockey Group Break Sign-Ups

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Hey everybody. It's been a couple of months since I did my last group break, and I'm really wanting to do another. After taking some input from a few of you, I have decided on the products I wanted to include on this one.

Here are the three boxes I will be busting this time around:

2010-11 Luxury Suite
This is the product I did the last time around (here is the link) and I was very happy with the results. Each box contains a total of 12 cards, with EIGHT of them being hits, and the rest being serial-numbered rookie cards. Some of the big hits include autographed patch rookie cards of Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle, Tyler Seguin, Jeff Skinner, and P.K. Subban, among others.


2011-12 Rookie Anthology
This product contains a guaranteed five hits. Of those, one will be a Rookie Treasures card, which features an autograph and two pieces of memorabilia. The other hits will include one additional autograph and two memorabilia cards. The fifth hit actually comes from a bonus pack. This product ties in a lot of their more popular content from previous releases, so some of the hits are autographed Ice Breakers rookies (Pinnacle) and autographed Rookie Silhouettes (Crown Royale). The box contains 10 packs of 5 cards, so we'll be getting a few base cars from here as well.


2011-12 In the Game Enforcers
This is a one-pack product from In the Game that features SEVEN hits. The product focuses on the game's toughest players from throughout its history. Each box/pack contains five autographed cards, two memorabilia cards, and five base cards. Some of the memorabilia cards could be Instigator cards, Head-To-Head Combatants cards, or Tough Franchise quadruple memorabilia cards.


That makes it a grand total of TWENTY hits to come from these three boxes.

I hope some of that interests you.

Here are some of the stipulations:

-There will be 15 slots for this break. Each slot will cost $16, and will include the team you pick, as well as a second randomized team. Any additional slots will cost just $13.
-For the un-picked teams, I will disperse them this way. First, I will list the remaining teams alphabetically by city. Then, I will use random.org to randomize the names of the participants and use that order to assign the teams down the list. For example, after randomization, the person's name who comes up first would get Anaheim, second gets Boston, etc. as long as those teams were not picked originally.
-Now, all three of these products focus primarily on the hits, so there will be very few base cards to pad the envelopes. However, to make up for that, I will guarantee a hit for EVERY slot that is purchased. If a participant does not get an autographed or memorabilia card from any of these three boxes, I will throw one in from my own collection, so that everybody will be going away with something.
-Enforcers is an unlicensed product, so with each card, it will go to the team whose jersey is being worn by the player in the photograph on the front of the card. I believe in the case of the memorabilia cards, ITG does identify on the back of the card which team the jersey was taken from, so of course, it would go to that team. If for whatever reason, the picture on the front doesn't match the team identified by the jersey swatch on the back, it will go to the team that the swatch itself comes from.
-Any card with a player from a team that has since moved, will go to wherever that team moved to. For example, Quebec Nordiques will go to the Colorado Avalanche, Atlanta Flames will go to the Calgary Flames, K.C. Scouts will go to the New Jersey Devils, etc. In the case of the Winnipeg Jets, any cards of the original Jets will go to the Phoenix Coyotes, since that is where the franchise moved to, and any cards of the Atlanta Thrashers and the current Jets will go to the Winnipeg Jets slot.
-Any cards featuring players from multiple teams will be randomed off using random.org. Any hits will be done on video immediately after the box is opened, by listing the applicable teams and randomizing the list 3 times.
-I hope that all made sense.

Payment
Make your payment of $16 to matt-pederson@hotmail.com. I need payments immediately, as the sale prices of these boxes are limited to a certain quantity, so I need to order them quick.

Claim your team by responding to this post, and let me know if you have any questions.

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Teams Claimed
1. Pittsburgh Penguins - Matt Pederson (PAID)
2. Los Angeles Kings - Arno (PAID)
3. Boston Bruins - buckstorecards (PAID)
4. Philadelphia Flyers - Brad's Blog (PAID)
5. Edmonton Oilers - Roy-Z (PAID)
6. Minnesota Wild - Roy-Z (PAID)
7. Chicago Blackhawks - Nick B. (PAID)
8. New Jersey Devils - Dave H (PAID)
9. Toronto Maple Leafs - CoffeeJunkee (PAID)
10. St. Louis Blues - CoffeeJunkee (PAID)
11. Tampa Bay Lightning - Justin G. (PAID)
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