Registry Awards???

Mantlefan

Congrats to all the winners. Nice to see one of Davallilo's sets make the HOF.

As always the awards generate a lot of controversy. Frankly, I was amazed to see "West Coast's Mars Attacks set" as The Non-Sports Award Winner.

This same set was the 2002 award winner when Bill Mastro owned it and it has only improved from 8.15 to 8.24 in 3 years. In contrast, Carl Riegger's 1962 Civil War News Set now sits at 9.01...an increase of .65 in the past 2 years! PSA claims to base the Awards on "the following criteria: set popularity, difficulty, grade average, completion percentage, domination, degree of competition within the set category...". On all these counts, Mr. Riegger's set is dominant. Carl...demand a recount!

WinPitcher

Frank i agree.


one other thing, this set (west coast) can't even be seen. also the best collection of the yr. went to mosh who also hides all the sets.


Steve

be nice to see what psa thinks is the best!

thefootballcardstore

I can think of one other catagory where you can same almost the same thing Frank.

thegemmintman

They awarded Charles Merkel's 1968 Topps 3-D set the Best Topps Specialty set in both 2002 and 2004, and the GPA never moved an inch. It was 9.90 for both years and still is.

calleocho

Congratulations to all the winners!

the 65 topps really deserved it...my Favorite 60's set.

Mantlefan

one other thing, this set (west coast) can't even be seen. also the best collection of the yr. went to mosh who also hides all the sets.


Steve

be nice to see what psa thinks is the best!

Yes Steve, I went to look at the Baseball and Football winning sets and 4 of the 7 sets are hidden.

Kinda like..." The Best Picture Oscar goes to *****....which no one has ever seen, but we saw it and it's great"

sixdart

Did PSA jump the gun on some of the HOF selections? I use the '52 Topps BB set as an example (even though it's a Big 3 set) w/ 5 entries ...

1 Charles Merkel .......... 8.80 100.00% 8.80
2 Don Louchios ............ 8.43 100.00% 8.43
3 Marshall Fogel ........... 8.26 100.00% 8.26
3 John Branca ............... 8.26 100.00% 8.26
5 Donald E. Spence ....... 8.19 100.00% 8.19

Interesting side note: The 2006 set completion percentage has increased to 85%.

Tipem

I wonder what Vargha will do with his certificate? heh©

Classiccarl