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The Breakdown: What's In A 2014 TCSP MMA Finest Fighters Hobby Box+GIVEAWAY

There is a card company that you may or may not have heard of putting out some pretty cool products. If you haven't heard of TCSP you should go check them out. Yes, there product may not be licensed by leagues, but they have some pretty nice looking cards out on the market and not to mention some pretty unique ones as well such as an autograph of Eminem. You can't find that in any other card product.

Today, I was lucky enough to get my hands onto one of their products and will be able to share it with you! I busted a hobby box of 2014 TCSP MMA Finest Fighters. Each box comes with 7 cards and two hits packed in penny sleeves then into a team bag. Most boxes carry an msrp under $50 and all of the cards in the box are numbered. Base cards are numbered to 35 and everything else is lower. So there is great value to find.

Here is how I did in this box:

7/35

35/35

20/35

21/35

Gold!! 5/10

7/35

2/10

One thing that really caught my attention about these cards is what they are printed on. It was not cheap card stock. These cards are printed on what TCSP calls "super stock". They claim "you can drop the card and it won't damage and that it can also withhold 50 pounds of pressure because it's top of the line." They also say these "cards will stay mint for a long time". I tend to agree. These are well made and extremely thick. The card surface has a rough but plastic smooth feel. Its pretty cool.

As for my thoughts on this product. I like it. The design is clean with the frame around the fighter and a metal cage watermarked behind them. The swatch is incredibly big on the memorabilia card and the cut auto is pretty cool too. There are some big name fighters to find in here with opportunities to find their autographs and there are really low numbered parallels as well. Value should be found here with the low numbering, two hits and the possibility at landing big names. 

Also, less a product is made, it drives up value on the cards because it makes them rarer and with only a limited number of cards made per each fighter and a good price it makes a great product for everyone in the hobby.

Now onto the giveaway, I am giving away these 2 cards including the gold parallel #d to 10!!!!

To enter to win these two cards, here is what you need to do:

1. Give me your thoughts on this product. What do you like? What don't you like? Would you change anything?
2. Must be a U.S. Resident to enter. Sorry, shipping reasons
3. Enter this contest by August 29th,2014 by 8 pm e.t.
4. Random Winner will be announced Saturday August 30th, 2014.

Good luck and thank TCSP for you chance at these two cards!

The Breakdown: What's In A 2014 TCSP 5 STAR DIAMOND CUTS Hobby Box+GIVEAWAY

There is a card company that you may or may not have heard of putting out some pretty cool products. If you haven't heard of TCSP you should go check them out. Yes, there product may not be licensed by leagues, but they have some pretty nice looking cards out on the market and not to mention some pretty unique ones as well such as an autograph of Eminem. You can't find that in any other card product.

Today, I was lucky enough to get my hands onto one of their products and will be able to share it with you! I busted a hobby box of 2014 5 Star Diamond Cuts Hobby Box. Each box comes with 7 cards and two hits. Most boxes carry an msrp under $50 and all of the cards in the box are numbered. Base cards are to 35 and everything else is lower. So there is great value to find.

Here is how I did:

2/10

10/10

7/10

2/10

1/5

2/5

One thing that really caught my attention about these cards is what they are printed on. It was not cheap card stock. These cards are printed on what TCSP calls "super stock". They claim "you can drop the card and it won't damage and that it can also withhold 50 pounds of pressure because it's top of the line." They also say these "cards will stay mint for a long time". I tend to agree. These are well made and extremely thick. The card surface has a rough but plastic smooth feel. Its pretty cool.

As for my thoughts on the product, I think despite being unlicensed by the league, they have a nice design despite missing the logos. I would have liked to seen the writing on Veteran and Prospect a bit smaller but other than that they do pretty good for what they got. The card-stock is completely outstanding and the cost is really well for the amount of low numbered cards you get in return especially since all of the cards were numbered to 10 in this box for base. Not to mention two hits that were numbered to 5. You can find big name autos to such as Yasiel Puig and Derek Jeter.

Also, less a product is made, it drives up value on the cards because it makes them rarer and with only a limited number of cards made per each player and a good price it makes a great product for everyone in the hobby. It would have been interesting to see how this product would have been if it was licensed by MLB.

Now onto the giveaway, I am giving away these 2 cards including the cut signature auto #d to 5!!!!

To enter to win these two cards, here is what you need to do:

1. Give me your thoughts on this product. What do you like? What don't you like? Would you change anything?
2. Must be a U.S. Resident to enter. Sorry, shipping reasons
3. Enter this contest by August 29th,2014 by 8 pm e.t.
4. Random Winner will be announced Saturday August 30th, 2014.

Good luck and thank TCSP for you chance at these two cards!

BREAKING NEWS: IT'S BAAAAAAAAACCCCKKKKK!!!

If you have been around Sport Card Collectors in the past year, you might have participated in something called the Monthly Contests. On my birthday today, I am happy to announce IT HAS RETURNED! The contest that this blog is well known for will run til at least October and will make it's anticipated surprise return on April 1st.

For those of you who may not be familiar with what the monthly contest is, every day I post up a game or a stat from multiple sports you must pick the winner of. If you get the game or stat right, you win a point. You get it wrong, you get zero points. There will be standings you can keep track of your score on and the the top three at the end of 20 days win prizes. The only rules here is that you must be a U. S. Resident and you must be into fun challenges.

There will be a few changes to the contest this time around, mainly in the prize department but others will be made as well. Main prizes for this contest will be provided by Jammin JDcards and BCW Supplies. I may throw some in as well depending on the amount of participants, Panini reviews we do and what prizes are offered for the month. Make sure you are following both Jammin JDcards and BCW Supplies and tell them thank you for the prizes and their support. I will post the prizes along with the standings at the end of this month followed by your first entry into the contest on April 1st. In this contest, remember you are never out and nothing is ever randomed. You control if you win or not by picking games/stats right. This is what makes this contest so much fun.

I hope you all are as excited as I am about its return! Let me know your thoughts in comments about this breaking news.

Results From The Latest Jammin JDcards Break!

In the latest round of Jammin JDcards breaks, they broke 2012-2013 Panini Elite Series basketball, 2013 Topps Triple Threads football and 2012 Panini Playbook football.

Here is a recap of the hits if you happened to miss out!

Panini Elite Series Basketball 2012-2013 brought these:

2013 Topps Triple Threads Football provided these:

 

Jerry Rice /320

Veron Davis /320

Darren Sproles /170

Percy Harvin /99

Julius Peppers 23/36

Christine Michael 74/75

Joseph Randle 18/70

Matt Barkley 99/99

And Panini Playbook 2012 provided these including a pretty sweet patch booklet:

 

If you like what you see here and haven't yet given Jammin JDcards breaks a try, please do. Good prices, great shipping time, top notch customer service and big hits waiting to happen. You can find out what breaks are next right HERE. Good luck if you give them a try and let me know what you hit!

Who's the KING of Box Breaks?

Everyday there seems to be at least two new box breakers trying to make their way into doing box breaks. The question I am sure everyone asks is, how do you decide to trust them or break with them? But this article isn't about that. This is about the ones you break with already and the ones you already trust. Maybe they are the new ones that just showed up or long time ones. But what we want to know is, Who is the KING of Box Breaks? Whose the favorite breaker out there out of the thousands who are out there. We the see the names all of the time and we know you all have your favorites. Lets hear them!

Now, there are no prizes being awarded here. The only contest this is, is for your breaker to have the bragging rights over other breakers as being the favorite or what we call the KING of breaks.

Below leave a comment of who your favorite breaker is, you can only vote for one. If you want you can say why they are your favorite. Whether they are trusted, have some serious mojo, or just fun people to talk to. We will leave this voting open for two weeks and update it daily to see who is in the lead for the KING of Box Breaks. After the two week vote is over (on the 15th or 16th), we will announce who the KING of breaks is.


STANDINGS:

Team Box Break                             8

MojoBreak,                                     5

Cardsmith                                       3 

Kiddercards                                     3

Sports Card Break                         3


KABsportscards                              1 

Bargain Box Breaks.                     1

Boomo's Breaks                             1

Box Breakers: Rookies and Stars Football Hobby Box 2012

For the third time I busted a box of Rookies and Stars football and for the third time I am very happy with my results. If you haven't given this product a try, I strongly recommend you too. Its a very nicely designed product and the rookie jersey autos are very clean basic design that stands out.

Base Cards

Rookie Cards (there were ton including Eagles standout Bryce Brown!!)

Inserts

Longevity Inserts

Team Flag inserts

Jersey Card

Rookie Auto

Finally! My first David Wilson Auto! Only supposed to be one of these per box..lucked out!

In terms of cost and return on this box...I rate this break a :

5/5

Box Breakers: 2 Rack Packs of Topps Baseball 2012 Series 1

Opened these two up. Usually Topps packs their baseball cards with tons of inserts. But surprisingly this pack didn't have that many. Nor did it have many rookies in it either. But here is what I got!

Base Cards-TONS

Few Rookies

Inserts

Inserts...I do dig the minis and the gold parallel

More inserts

I rate this break...



2.5/5

Box Breakers: 4 retail packs of Topps Football 2012

This was a bore break..but another Christmas present. I don' t know where the picture of the rookies went but there were a few rookies but no namers.

Inserts

More inserts...I do like the mini's

Base cards

And the highlight of the break was this that you get off from the Game Time Giveaway cards:

 

I just got my Drew Brees one the other day and will request delivery on this one as well.

Without the Rice pull the break would have been very low rated. But I rate this a :

3/5

BOX BREAKERS: TOPPS FOOTBALL BOX HANGER 2012

Found this hiding in a box of presents from my mother in law. She seems to have a nack for Topps and regular Topps Football. Like I said, I don't argue with her. She's been pretty lucky before and once again did well with this break.

This comes with one pack inside. 72 cards. 16 of which are rookies so it really works to your advantage.

The packaging

Base Cards

Rookies...Trent Richardson, Michael Floyd and Kendall Wright to name a few

You find one of these per pack

Inserts

The nice surprise. Sp Variation Version of Alex Smith

Overall I would rate this break based on cost versus what I got a :

5/5

Box Breakers: 1 retail pack of Topps Football 2012

For Christmas I found this in my stocking...doesn't have much to show but going to share it anyways! Cause thats what Box Breakers is all about! Feel free to do the same. No matter how big or small, its best to do the breaking and let others know!

Base Cards

Inserts

Rookies

I rate this break...

1/5