Sport Card Collectors Celebrates 2 Years

Yup, time flies by so fast. Today marks two years of blogging on Sport Card Collectors.  This blog started out as a small experiment and has grown so much over the past two years.  Especially in the past year. Last year, this blog had 68,169 overall views. 695 Twitter Followers and 118 Facebook likes. This year on the other hand, I have 205,240 overall views, 147 Facebook LIKES, and 2,206 Followers on Twitter. Huge strides from last year almost tripling our outreach in the last year.

First off, without a doubt, I would like to say thank you to Panini America, Tracy Hackler and Jason Howarth. I can not tell you guys thanks enough. Without your support ,this blog may not have made it where it is or may not even still be here. I look forward to working more with you in the next year and beyond. I hope I have shown you my full support for everything you do as you have to me. You are truly the best in the business for sports cards and for a great group of guys to discuss the hobby with.

I also need to say thanks to BCW Supplies and Jammin JDcards for staying on board with me as well and for their big support and on this blog through contest contributions, spreading the word and just being great to work with. I also look forward to working with you guys this year and beyond as well.

Secondly, I need to thank you the readers for coming here. Whether it be on a daily basis or you stumble upon the blog once in awhile, your support counts. Without you reading what I put up on here, why blog? Thank you for the support for the past two years and I look forward to hearing from you on here, on the Facebook page, Twitter or through email at sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com. If you ever have suggestions or questions, always feel free to contact me.

And last or not least, in the last two years, especially the last year and last couple of months, I have made a few changes to the blog. I guess you can probably say  more than a few. I have done these to help improve it and make it a place you want to come and visit. I try to have you interact with fun things like CAPTION THIS! and Hobby Topic, run contests for you guys to score some sweet cards and supplies, and provide you with box breakdowns, reviews, and cover other topics involving the hobby as well. Also giving you information on what to buy, how to store your collection and much more. I try to keep it well rounded in all sports as well. If there is anything else you would like to see, just let me know. I am always open to adding more.

Once again, I will say it. Thanks for your support and Happy 2 Year Blogoversary to Sport Card Collectors. There will be many more to come!

As always, Happy Collecting!

Winners Of Our 2 Year Blogversary Contest

Well, first off, I want to thank Jammin JDcards for their generosity in helping me celebrate such a big accomplishment, which by the way the blogs official birthday is tomorrow.

The entries were not quite as high as with past contests only accumulating less than 20, but the competition was fierce. Most of you chose the Heat to win the game. Some of you chose Carmelo as the high scorer which the high scorer was LeBron. A good portion of you chose around the total points of 200 and because this time I didn't specify to stay under the total score there was a lot to rummage through.

In the end, I found the three winners. Tricia picked LeBron, Heat and was only 1 point off so she is our winner. Our second and third place winners chose LeBron, Heat and were off by 4 points. They were randomed for 2nd and 3rd place spots.

Congrats goes out to:

1st place - 1 free spot in Museum/Triple Threads Football break: Tricia goshorn

2nd place 1 free spot in 2013/14 Gold Standard Basketball break: Joe Behlman

3rd place 1 free spot in 2013 Limited Football Break: fitchjr1

Winners, if you have many options to contact us or Jammin JDcards. If you have Twitter, please contact @JamminJDcards, contact us @sportcardcollec, or through our email if you don't have Twitter at sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com. Please claim your prizes today as the breaks are today!

Congrats again to the winners and thanks to all who entered. Make sure you tell Jammin JDcards thanks for the contest and give them a follow on Facebook or Twitter. You can also follow Sport Card Collectors on Twitter, Facebook and through email on this blog. You can also become a member of this blog. That way it might be easier for you to keep an eye out for future contests here on Sport Card Collectors!

BIG NOTE AND APOLOGY... Due to an adding error (checked the score at midnight and thought it said 108-92)  the total points for the game should have been 190 and not 200. Hence the following two people should have won Mrblu1976 should have been in first place and Miami Vice in 2nd along with Joe Behlman at third. But due to my error and the fact some winners have already contacted, I  have to keep the top part the way it is. However, I don't like to make mistakes and will always correct them the best way I can. So to make up for this, I would like to have Miami Vice and Mrblu1976 send me their addresses and I will mail them a random basketball autographed card. I hope this makes up for my mistake. I know we all make them, but I truly don't like to and will admit when I am wrong.

***CONTEST*** Celebrate 2 Years At Sport Card Collectors

Our two year blogversary isn't until March 1st, but our friends at Jammin JDcards wanted to help us celebrate it a little early. If you are not following Jammin JDcards yet, please do. You can find them on Twitter and on Facebook.

To celebrate our two year blogversary, they are giving away spots in their upcoming breaks and if you have been paying any attention to this blog, you know how well those have been going. There will be THREE winners as well!

Here's what's up for grabs for the prizes:

• 1st place - 1 free spot in Museum/Triple Threads Football break. 
• 2nd place 1 free spot in 2013/14 Gold Standard Basketball break. 
• 3rd place 1 free spot in 2013 Limited Football Break

And even f you don't win, remember you can always buy into a break and try to land that mojo HERE.

Now onto how to enter.....there will be a few steps on how to enter this contest. Here are the rules and how to enter.

1. CONTEST OPEN TO U.S. RESIDENTS ONLY....SORRY!
2. Your entries are due by February 27th by 8:00 pm e.t.
3. Go to the RIGHT SIDE of the blog and vote for your favorite segments. Once you have done this, say YES in comments that you have voted.
4. Go to Jammin JDcards WEBSITE and go to one of their 4 shops, Amazon, Beckett Marketplace, eBay and Collector Revolution and pick out ONE CARD you would want to add to your PC.
5. Pick the winner of the NY Knicks/Miami Heat Game
6. Tell us the High Scorer of the game
7. As a first tiebreaker, give us the total points in the game
8. As a second tiebreaker, let us know if you have been in a Jammin JDcards break before. No, will give you two extra entries in the randomizer, Yes will give you one extra entry. We will be checking with Jammin JDcards on this too!
9. ALL ENTRIES WILL BE HIDDEN FOR THE FUN OF THE CONTEST

Your entries should look like this:

1. Yes
2. 2013-14 Pinnacle Team 2020 #23 Michael Carter-Williams 76ers Rookie 
3. Miami Heat
4. Carmelo Anthony
5. 222 points
6. Yes

The three that have followed all of the steps and picked the right team, high scorer and passes the tiebreakers wins the spots!

Good luck to everyone who enters and PLEASE THANK JAMMIN JDcards for their generosity for this contest. Without them, we wouldn't be celebrating it in such style!

Thank you as well for being such wonderful fans!