Brockelman contest w/vintage HOF card prize for best guess - CLOSED

[brianp-beme]

It's time again to make some guesses about the upcoming Brockelman Auction that ends this Saturday, and be rewarded with PreWW2 cards for your efforts.

The auction: http://www.brockelmanauctions.com/catalog.aspx


This time your guesses will involve identifying, from the listing of the lots seen below (some mine and some from other consigners), the FIVE lots that end up with the HIGHEST final price, and the FIVE lots that end up with the LOWEST price (including ones that end up with no bids). You do not have to guess the actual bid amounts, just the lot numbers. All of these lots are in the PreWW2 section...hey that's our forum's focus.

The contestant that guesses the most correct from the combined highest and lowest categories (the guesses do not have to be in exact final amount order) will win their choice of either 1 HOF and one common card, or 3 common cards. The winner's card selection is shown below. In case of a tie, the person who guessed earlier is the winner.

You can guess a total of two times with no editing, and the cutoff time for guesses will be 11pm EST Friday April 10th, which is the day before the auction closes.

Here are the lot numbers you will be choosing from:

39
56
76
95
97
133
142
147
150
155
161
172
177
188
196
197
201
207
215
216
219
222
224
240
246
249
250
253
260
263
272
273


GOOD LUCK!

Brian

[brianp-beme]

An example guess would look like this (numbers shown below are all lot numbers that do not exist in this auction):

Lot #

Highest

787
795
814
889
917

Lowest

759
777
801
855
888

[Marslife]

Highest:

150
216
250
263
272


Lowest:

133
172
188
222
240

[nebboy]

Thanks for the contest

Highest
150
216
250
263
272


Lowest
39
172
207
260
273

[brianp-beme]

Both Cliff and John have perfectly formatted their first guess, and they followed directions by choosing their lot number guesses from within the 30+ list provided in my original post. Hooray and thanks!

Keep the guesses coming. Because of the situation we are all in I figured folks might have some more time to do a little auction exploring. I changed the ending time for contest entries to 11pm EST on Friday April 10th...why not.

Brian

[milkit1]

Highest
150
161
246
250
263


lowest
39
155
188
253
172

[nat]

Highest
161
216
250
263
272


Lowest
39
172
188
196
260

[alaskapaul3]

Highest
95
161
216
219
246

Lowest
133
155
172
207
222

Thanks!
Paul

[brianp-beme]

Don't forget...this contest ends this Friday at 11pm EST, and you are allowed to guess twice...good luck!

Brian

[brianp-beme]

Come on folks, spend a little time and earn your vintage cards reward!

Brian

[nebboy]

2nd guess

Thanks for the contest

Highest
150
161
246
263
272


Lowest
39
133
172
188
222

[RUKen]

Highest
150
161
216
250
263

Lowest
39
172
188
222
260

[brianp-beme]

Keep your guesses (and 2nd guesses) coming...you have until 11pm EST tonight to scour the auction and submit the winner!

http://www.brockelmanauctions.com/catalog.aspx

Brian

[vthobby]

Highest
150
161
216
250
263


lowest
39
172
188
222
260

[vthobby]

Highest
161
216
250
263
272

lowest
39
133
188
222
260

[brianp-beme]

Less than 4 hours left in the contest, still plenty of time to scour and apply all your vintage knowledge to your guesses...if you participate you will, percentage wise, have a fairly good chance to be the winner, so good luck!

Brian

[Troy Kirk]

Highest:
95
147
150
161
272

Lowest:
155
172
196
207
240

[nat]

Second guess

Highest
161
219
250
263
272

lowest
39
177
215
260
273

This is hard. Those were some well-chosen lots.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by nat

This is hard. Those were some well-chosen lots.

You are probably correct...perhaps too hard and time consuming, as seen in the relatively low participation compared to Leon's contest (brutal honesty...I participated in that one without even looking at the two lots). If I were to run this contest again, I would probably only have about half of the amount of lots to choose from, and only ask for the top 4 and bottom 4.

By the way, no more entries will be considered. Now it is your job to enjoy the auction tomorrow. I will let everyone know the winner sometime Sunday, or Monday at the latest.

Thanks to those who participated...good luck!

Brian

[brianp-beme]

2 Winners!

The guesses ranged from 3 to 7 total correct out of 10 possible.

Nebboy was the 1st guess that had 7 correct...he will get either 1 HOF card and 1 common of his choice, or 3 commons of his choice from those pictured in the original post.

Milkit1 also got 7 correct, but his guess came after Nebboy. He will get his choice of 1 common (after Nebboy has made his choices).

Thanks again, and hope you all enjoyed the contest and the auction. PM's on the way.

Brian

[milkit1]

Awesome! Thanks for running this contest. Best Easter ever!

[nebboy]

Thank you for running such a great contest. I found the format very enjoyable. With this stay at home time I've been spending a lot of time with my collection and here on Net54. Thanks again and my best to you Brian.

[milkit1]

Received my winning card today. This is me doing my best Ed Konetchy resting B face impression.
Thanks a lot Brian!
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[nebboy]

Winning arrived - Thank you again