2019 CGC Green Eggs Grading Contest - FINAL RANKINGS and AWARDS 1 1

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FINAL Commentary, AWARDS, and FINAL RANKINGS

What started many years ago as Nik's Grading Contest has now become The Green Eggs Grading Contest. The torch has been passed.

In 2013, perennial winner toro once again stepped up to claim the inaugural prize. When 2014 dawned, it was the Age of canickus, and he arose to seize the trophy, winning with a legendary 15 bullseyes out of a possible 20! 2015 saw toro storm back to reclaim his throne. TheGeneral laid waste to the competition leaving a path of devastation in 2016.  Starting a pattern of winning in ODD years, toro once again climbed the ranks and emerged victorious in 2017. When 2018 dawned, Azkaban dominated the competition to seize the throne. Thus are the legendary grading contest stories born and passed from year to year, generation to generation.

Now it is 2019. Now it is the FINAL YEAR.

And so the clarion call to battle issues forth anew. The beacons are lit. From nearby towns to cities from far off lands, they come. From the far reaches of the Wintry north to the warm shores of the Southern Isles... all come to stake their claim once more and to compete for the Ultimate Prize. 

118 Contestants. 20 Books. 10 Rounds. ONE Champion.

Whether they were old hands trying once again or babes in the woods learning round after round, each found that this was not an ordinary Grading Contest. Nay, it was something far more. Low grade Golden and Silver Age books abounded!  Super High Grade books were few and far between!  Few realized that what they had stumbled upon was THE hardest Grading Contest to date! 

Some could not take the pressure and immediately dropped out. Others quietly withdrew as the rounds grew tougher and the journey that much harder. We started with 118 challengers and we end with essentially 107 challengers to see the journey to its climactic conclusion.

The ROUNDS are now over. The Mathematically Eliminated Line has done its silent and deadly duty. Quiet floods the land once again. Weary eyes lift for the final judgment!

In the end, THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

Congratulations, KryptoMayor, the 2019 CGC Green Eggs Grading Contest Champion!

 

 

2019 GREEN EGGS GRADING CONTEST FINAL RANKING

 

GRADING CONTEST LORE

There are and have been other grading contests. Many are lost to antiquity. This particular contest is patterned after Nik's Grading Contest and its history is documented here.

2019 KryptoMayor - Green Eggs Grading Contest

2018 Azkaban  - Green Eggs Grading Contest

2017 toro - Green Eggs Grading Contest

2016 TheGeneral - Green Eggs Grading Contest

2015 toro - Green Eggs Grading Contest

2014 Canickus - Green Eggs Grading Contest

2013 toro - Renamed Inaugural Green Eggs Grading Contest

 

2012 On Hiatus - No contest

2011 On Hiatus - No contest

 

2010 He11blazer - The 2010 Nik Memorial Grading Contest

2009 toro - Nik's Grading Contest 2008/2009

2008 toro - Nik's Grading Contest 2007/2008

2007 Pirate

2006 Not sure if Nik had a contest. ComicSupply had a 2005/2006 contest.

2005 Red Hook

2004 Part 2: Team Competition - Inconceivable, Rjpb, FFB, Newt Samson

2004 Part 1: Newt Samson

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2019 Green Eggs Grading Contest Awards

SPECIAL DISTINCTION
 @Azkaban, @ElrodAllWrong, and @KryptoMayor
 who acquitted themselves with honor never falling below 10th Place! 

Honorable Mention
 @Ron C. and @toro who only fell out of the Top Ten ONCE.
 

WINNER OF LAST POSITIVE CONTESTANT IN A NEGATIVE ZONE
 NO ONE 

Not a SINGLE PERSON ESCAPED without a NEGATIVE this tournament. 
 

WINNER OF HARDEST WORKING PLAYER WITH THE LOWEST SCORE
 @JohnFranklin 

Honorable Mention: @an99
 

WINNER OF THE BULLSEYE AWARD
 @KryptoMayor (12) 

Honorable mention: @Azkaban (11), @ElrodAllWrong (11), @Ron C. (11), @toro (11)
 

WINNER OF THE MOST CONSISTENT PLAYER AWARD
 @KryptoMayor (16) and @Ron C. (16) 

Honorable Mention
 @ElrodAllWrong, @jevlnuts, @mr_highgrade, @Point Five, @RockMyAmadeus, @Sal and @skypinkblu at 15! 
 

WINNER OF THE MOST GRADES OFF AWARD
 @an99
 

WINNER OF MOST IMPROVED PLAYER AWARD (MIP)
 @mr_highgrade (95 to 9)

Honorable Mention
 @Jeffreykli (82 to 7),  @Shadow (95 to 11)

 

 

And a SPECIAL SHOUT OUT and Thanks to your Host and Moderator

for these Grading Contests these last seven years! 

@thirdgreenham 

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 2019 Green Eggs Grading Contest Category Winners

2019 Green Eggs Marvel's Greatest Award

Congratulations @shiverbones! 

2019 Green Eggs DC Super-Spectacular Award

Congratulations @Cushing Fan! 

2019 Green Eggs Golden Age Grader Award

Congratulations @ElrodAllWrong! 

 

2019 Green Eggs Silver Age Grader Award

Congratulations @obiedagod! 

2019 Green Eggs Bronze Age Grader Award

Congratulations @Get Marwood & I and @shiverbones! 

2019 Green Eggs Copper/Modern Grader Award

Congratulations @Ron C.! 

 

 

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[Crops068]

If that is a real trophy that Krypto gets that is fantastic!

Congrats to everyone.  It was really a fun ride.

[sckao]

 

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[shiverbones]

As a horror guy, what could be more fitting than #13

[Get Marwood & I]

 

 England beat Australia again! 

@AJD

Great contest guys - I snuck in at the last minute and I'm glad I did now

Great fun and thanks for all your hard work

@thirdgreenham @sckao

[sckao]

(and yes.. The Top Ten, Top Twenty, etc. tags on the side of the FINAL RANKINGS aren't exactly mathematically correct.... but at this point, it'll take too much time to fix.  )

 

[Sal]

thanks for running the contest, and all your hard work!  and for getting some of those dogs slabbed 

[spidermanbeyond]

Congratulations, @KryptoMayor and also @Ron_C.   Ron used to be down with the lower half of the pack.  What incredible improvement!  There is definitely a learning curve to this game.  All those years of tolling and heartache paid off.

Thanks to everyone for a great contest.

[Ron C.]

6 minutes ago, spidermanbeyond said:

Congratulations, @KryptoMayor and also @Ron_C.   Ron used to be down with the lower half of the pack.  What incredible improvement!  There is definitely a learning curve to this game.  All those years of tolling and heartache paid off.

Thanks to everyone for a great contest.

Thanks Perry. I just wanted to do a bit better than last year. This was certainly an anomaly. 

[KryptoMayor]

2 minutes ago, Ron C. said:

Thanks Perry. I just wanted to do a bit better than last year. This was certainly an anomaly. 

Thank you. I agree with the anomaly part too. Last year I was 35th place with 42 points. 

[spidermanbeyond]

Just now, KryptoMayor said:

Thank you. I agree with the anomaly part too. Last year I was 35th place with 42 points. 

There is definitely a lot of skill involved.  And, of course, there is a lot of luck as well.   Some people like Toro are consistently in the top 5.

[Antpark]

Congrats to all 

[obiedagod]

I actually won something!  

[Ron C.]

7 minutes ago, KryptoMayor said:

Thank you. I agree with the anomaly part too. Last year I was 35th place with 42 points. 

Congrats! Awesome job @KryptoMayor!!   

This was so much fun!

[thirdgreenham]

somebody please post a link to the Prize Thread and mention that that's where the prize picking will take place.  Please do this in this thread, the results thread and the Round 10 thread.  

[Cushing Fan]

2019 Green Eggs DC Super-Spectacular Award - Wow, thank you so much! I cannot express how much I enjoyed this contest!

 

[shiverbones]

1 hour ago, sckao said:

 2019 Green Eggs Grading Contest Category Winners

2019 Green Eggs Marvel's Greatest Award

Congratulations @shiverbones! 

2019 Green Eggs DC Super-Spectacular Award

Congratulations @Cushing Fan! 

2019 Green Eggs Golden Age Grader Award

Congratulations @ElrodAllWrong! 

 

2019 Green Eggs Silver Age Grader Award

Congratulations @obiedagod! 

2019 Green Eggs Copper/Modern Grader Award

Congratulations @Ron C.! 

 

 

Mercy! 

[Get Marwood & I]

THE PRIZE THREAD IS BELOW AND THAT'S WHERE THE PICKING WILL TAKE PLACE