Huddle has gotten REALLY quiet, like creepy quiet. Like creepy clown lurking in the bushes quiet.
Topps has been throwing out all kinds of bait to try to sap the will and in some cases has managed to siphon off some coins but for the most part the few folks still there are really really focused on the Super Bowl contests and ignoring even the shiniest glitteriest baubles. It’s amusing in some ways to see Topps Jer roll out some of his same playbook from SWCT circa winter 2015 with stuff like the rainbow of boost variants and even going back to the old chestnut of the Spectrums, or in this case Rainbow boosts. These featured a number of still active and a raft of inactives but are still being sought after by the homers because they are locked at 18 card count each. Original keeps trudging along but hopefully this will be the last drop. They stumbled badly with a change in the way they did awards in one of the set leaving a number of people out of the race barely before it started. The award was handed out 36 hours after the set dropped and LONG before they had sold through in packs. It was incredibly stupid that the one time Topps handed out an award quickly it seemed specifically designed to screw over the players. Hey, speaking of awards (another Pulitzer worthy segue) they STILL have not handed out the wave three or Overall awards for any of the Marathons in Huddle. Today is the end of the waiting and it should be exciting as award after award drops to see where the counts came in on the overalls. Oh well, at least Huddle hasn’t found a way to make every damn award with Yoda. Yet. The Mini Marathon from last week must have been at least a moderate success as it has continued into another week's worth. Many seemed to be caught off guard (even though it was in the first transmission on these) about Friday’s Rivalries marathon being in the mix as these are TWO cards that drop with 1:30 odds on the same day. I saw a number of comments alluding to people bailing out so it should be interesting to see where these awards come in numbers wise. The Steve Young/Troy Aikman awards sold out at 170 and 180 and based on completion rates in the past I would not be surprised to see the award count in the 50 count range or less. It was a real vanilla nut tap. They also dumped out another batch of Allen and Ginter, a set I just don’t care for but at least they had free daily cards to collect so that’s something to do. They also crapped out more Mood cards, another set I just do not like the look of. I was bored and threw at a couple bundles for the sigs then flip flopped them around for something to do. And last but not least the Super Bowl cards started to trickle out with a batch of Super Bowl base that are nice looking and easy at 1:5 odd and come with 12x boosts of only Super Bowl players. Sadly no award for a rather large set and 12x is kind of meh in a market saturated with higher boosts of the big players and with everyone knowing there will be MUCH higher as the boosts go to plaid this weekend! See you at the Super Bowl! I won’t actually be at the actual Super Bowl but I plan to sit really close to the TV when Lady Gaga is on and jump around like an idiot.
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