July Quarry Group Break - The Randomizer Strikes Back

Monday, 25 July 2011

Hey guys, unfortunately the end has come for another fairly successful Quarry Group Break.  We aren't done yet though.  There is still the unfinished business surrounding the excess SkyBox Dugout Axcess cards.  After everyone got their single cards which consisted of an entire base set and an entire Doubleheaders set, we were left with the following.

One base set approximately 85% complete
One base set approximately 50% complete
One base set with about 6 cards & one extra Double Header

Sorry for the approximations, but I packed them before I counted them.

We also got

1 full set of Double Headers
1 full set of Double Headers
1 partial set of Double Headers a little over 50% complete

I have already ran two randomizations, one for base and one for the Double Headers.  Each and every team was eligible for both.  I randomized three times and got the following.

First up the base sets

Congratulations to the top three.  The Indians get the largest set, the Athletics get the middle set, and the Orioles get the small set.  That worked out great since all three teams were sort of middling at best in the break.

Now for the Double Headers

The Cubs and Marlins will get the full sets and the Phillies will get the partial.  Congratulations to all winners.  And to the winners of the partial sets, I hope I have given you a new addition to your want lists.


I have had fun with this break.  Sure we didn't get an Eisenhower relic like last month, but we got some cool cards this time. 

The top 5 cards of the break (IMHO)

#1 2000 Pacific Crown Collection In the Cage Tony Gwynn

 #2 2003 Fleer Focus Materialistic Oversize Roger Clemens

 #3 2000 Pacific Crown Collection Premiere Date Alex Rodriguez #'d 25/27

#4 2007 SP Rookie Edition Felix Pie 1995 Autograph

#5 2006 Flair Showcase Derek Jeter Legacy Blue parallel #'d 047/150

Not a bad haul indeed and that's not including several other jerseys and autos.  I hope you guys had fun and come back next month for another inexpensive break.

I will not be giving hints in the mail for you guys as to boxes next month, because frankly I don't know yet.  I have some ideas though and I already have one box in hand.  So I will tell you now. 

One box for next month is:

2000 Bowman Chrome

featuring rookie cards of Roy Oswalt, Carlos Zambrano, Barry Zito, Francisco Rodriguez, Ben Sheets, Brandon Phillips, and many more

Hope to see you next month and my non-winning Gint-a-Cuffs box will start tomorrow right here.

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Quarry Group Break - Bonus Bonanza Part 3: The Randomizer

Tuesday, 10 May 2011

I hope this works properly this time.  This is the third time I have tried posting this post.  I had never used screen shots on my blog before and for some reason they don't want to take.  Anyway, here are some final thoughts about the break and some randomizations at the end.

I am going to hang onto the unclaimed teams from the main break to throw into my next break should they be purchased, but if you have seen any base cards that you want just let me know before I get everything packed and they are yours. 

For the bonus unclaimed teams I am going to randomize the hit, parallels, and inserts for the teams that did worst in the specific categories in the MAIN break.  I am not including bonus winnings in this, because they are bonus.  In the insert category, there were 4 claimed teams with 0...they are the only ones eligible for the two Xponentials and the Documentary All Star.

The jersey will be randomed among all hitless teams.  I will include the Rockies, but if they happen to win I will give the jersey to who I think had the overall worst break.

For the Ichiro

It's only fitting that Ryan H. gets it since he sent the packs in.  I will put the other three teams back in to draw for the second card.

For the Granderson

Well that worked out well since Darren also collects the Tigers. 

For the Cristian Guzman Documentary All Star (that I forgot about earlier).

Congrats to Ryan G. for that one (hopefully you need it for the Super Collection).  Those All Stars are sharp looking cards.  For the Twins you aren't going home empty handed.  I have a dupe Rockies insert also featuring a Twin for them.  Now everyone will have gotten at least one insert per team.

For the Documentary Gold parallels the four teams with the fewest parallels (Cards, Cubs, Rockies, Rangers) I will automatically choose the leftover team.

The choices are Astros, Marlins, Tigers, Royals.  Ryan G. chooses first, then Matt, then Brian, and I will keep the leftover team.  Just comment below with your choice.  Matt and Brian if you want to list your 4 in order of preference you don't have to wait.

Finally for the Armando Galarraga jersey (randomed 3 times)

Nathan this card was destined to be yours, because the A's were #1 in all 3 randomizations.  The odds on that with 17 names must be outstanding.  Anyway, congratulations on your "nearly" perfect jersey.




BTW, I joined A Cardboard Problem's case break for Gypsy Queen with the Rox and received my cards a week or so ago.  I have 37 dupes of the 6 Rockie base cards and I will be posting about it shortly, but for now I will randomly include 3 different cards in seven packages and 2 different in the other 8.  Ihope you get some you need for your set if you are building it.

I hope you guys have had as much fun as I had with this break.  I do plan on doing another one in about six weeks or so at around the same price (maybe a dollar more) and I already have the boxes for busting picked out (think chrome).  They should be fun.  We now return you to regularly scheduled programming here at the Quarry.

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