---The Official *2021* Topps Home Run Challenge Thread---
 

[SIZE="3"]We're Back for the 2021 Season. [/SIZE]
This is the 4th year Topps is running this promotion. For information on prior years contests, see the link(s) below.



2018 Home Run Challenge Thread
[URL="https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1199779"]https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1199779[/URL]

2019 Home Run Challenge Thread
[URL="https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1271551"]https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1271551[/URL]

2020 Home Run Challenge Thread
[URL="https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1348754"]https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1348754[/URL]



[B][COLOR="Red"]Rules of Note:[/COLOR][/B]
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[B]**2021 Topps Home Run Challenge Rules will be posted in the link below**[/B]
[URL="https://www.topps.com/media/pdf/Topps_HR_ChallengesRules2021Final.pdf"]https://www.topps.com/media/pdf/Topps_HR_ChallengesRules2021Final.pdf[/URL].

* The prize for picking the correct date of a HR is a month specific parallel card.
* There are 6 possible parallels, 1 for each month ( April, May, June, July, August, September)
* Once a date is picked, Topps will not allow you to change this
* If the player does not play that day for any reason (cancelled game or because they sit out) the play is considered a loss.
* You only win one parallel card no matter how many home runs that player hits that day.




[B]HERE ARE EXAMPLES OF WINNER CARDS FROM PRIOR YEARS[/B]

[url=https://postimg.cc/kDHMWc5S][img]https://i.postimg.cc/J4ryVYVp/HRC-2018-2021-F.jpg[/img][/url]

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[COLOR="red"][B]The 2021 HR Challenge Checklist[/B][/COLOR]

[SIZE="3"]HRC-1 Mike Trout
HRC-2 Ronald Acuña Jr.
HRC-3 Freddie Freeman
HRC-4 J.D. Martinez
HRC-5 Rafael Devers
HRC-6 Javier Baez
HRC-7 Kyle Schwarber
HRC-8 Eloy Jimenez
HRC-9 Francisco Lindor
HRC-10 Nolan Arenado
HRC-11 Yordan Alvarez
HRC-12 Alex Bregman
HRC-13 Jorge Soler
HRC-14 Mookie Betts
HRC-15 Cody Bellinger
HRC-16 Christian Yelich
HRC-17 Josh Donaldson
HRC-18 Pete Alonso
HRC-19 Aaron Judge
HRC-20 Gleyber Torres
HRC-21 Bryce Harper
HRC-22 Giancarlo Stanton
HRC-23 Fernando Tatis Jr.
HRC-24 Paul Goldschmidt
HRC-25 Joey Gallo
HRC-26 Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
HRC-27 Juan Soto
HRC-28 Eugenio Suarez
HRC-29 Kris Bryant
HRC-30 Matt Chapman[/SIZE]

[url=https://postimg.cc/LJY8Sqs3][img]https://i.postimg.cc/qvQh8yVS/HRCFFFINAL.png[/img][/url]

We got some visuals today from the Topps Social Media Posts.
[url=https://postimages.org/][img]https://i.postimg.cc/kXwWrtXL/HR1.jpg[/img][/url]

The checklist is below with some changes from last year.

HRC-1 Mike Trout
HRC-2 Ronald Acuña Jr.
HRC-3 Freddie Freeman
HRC-4 J.D. Martinez
[B]HRC-5 Rafael Devers[/B]
HRC-6 Javier Baez
[B]HRC-7 Kyle Schwarber[/B]
[B]HRC-8 Eloy Jimenez[/B]
HRC-9 Francisco Lindor
HRC-10 Nolan Arenado
HRC-11 Yordan Alvarez
HRC-12 Alex Bregman
[B]HRC-13 Jorge Soler[/B]
HRC-14 Mookie Betts
HRC-15 Cody Bellinger
HRC-16 Christian Yelich
[B]HRC-17 Josh Donaldson[/B]
HRC-18 Pete Alonso
HRC-19 Aaron Judge
HRC-20 Gleyber Torres
HRC-21 Bryce Harper
HRC-22 Giancarlo Stanton
HRC-23 Fernando Tatis Jr.
HRC-24 Paul Goldschmidt
HRC-25 Joey Gallo
HRC-26 Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
HRC-27 Juan Soto
[B]HRC-28 Eugenio Suarez[/B]
HRC-29 Kris Bryant
[B]HRC-30 Matt Chapman[/B]

[B]*New Player on Checklist[/B]

We are receiving 7 changes on this years checklist. Added players are Devers, Schwarber, Jimenez, Soler, Donaldson, Suarez and Chapman. All are new to the contest besides Schwarber who returns from the 2018 checklist.
[LIST][*]WHO GOT BOOTED[/LIST]Anthony Rizzo, George Springer, Manny Machado, Josh Bell, Max Kepler, Max Muncy, Rhys Hoskins.
3x partipants Rizzo, Springer, Machado have been cut :eek:

I saw the checklist Topps put out today and was going to post a thread, but you beat me. Thanks ok because yours is much better than mine would have been! :p

I don't go hard on this or anything but collecting Twins winners is always fun. Donaldson could be a tough chase this year if his calf is a problem again. I like throwing in whatever codes I happen to get from retail releases too. I've had a better win rate than I probably should have!

I hope we get back closer to the 2018 winner designs. That one needed a little more color variation since both March/April and August, as well as May and July look way too similar. The colors in 2019 were great but the design sucked. Last year's was fine but not my favorite

With a huge RC checklist for series 1 I would have thought at least one would have made it.

Other notes:

Eugenio Suarez - his production dropped greatly in 2020 so why is this his first year?

Why would the two highest 2020 HR hitters, Luke Voit and Jose Abreu, be left off this checklist? I know they can't just look at 2020, but Abreu has a .520 career slugging and Voit a .527, so that wasn't an anomaly. Yet they keep getting overlooked for this set.

Where was the checklist posted?

Instagram- [url]https://www.instagram.com/p/CKWgEe7lTyA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link[/url]

[QUOTE=xTri;16901650]Where was the checklist posted?[/QUOTE]

This is always a fun bonus for buying flagship. I'm looking forward to having multiple months this year. I have horrible luck actually getting winners, but it adds an additional layer of interest to the games. Looking forward to the season even more now.

[QUOTE=Hollywood42;16901516]I saw the checklist Topps put out today and was going to post a thread, but you beat me. Thanks ok because yours is much better than mine would have been! :p[/QUOTE]

And it’s only Official if Juanny posts it!

I was secretly hoping my guy Torres would be left off so I wouldn’t have to pump money into this again. I keep telling myself to stop, but I know what’s going to happen...

---The Official *2021* Topps Home Run Challenge Thread---
 

Been fun being in the thread the last few years but don’t think I’ll playing this year. Honestly the scratching and entering every single night became a chore! Also Topps has messed up my winners each year. Maybe I’ll go after a single PC guy and hope Topps has figured out the hiccups by now.


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[QUOTE=bn2cardz;16901644]With a huge RC checklist for series 1 I would have thought at least one would have made it. [/QUOTE]

I wanted to see some RCs also. The Yordan Alvarez from 2020 was a giant tease and left me wanting more. Surprised no 2nd year players are on the checklist either (Randy Arozerana, Kyle Lewis, Luis Robert...)

The checklist does do a better job a representing more teams. They got 22 teams this year (21 after Lindor signed with the Mets) compared to 17 team last year and 16 team in 2019...Notice the checklist starts out sorted by teams, but then that falls off towards the end. Kinda seems like Suarez, Bryant and Chapman were late adds.

Sitting it out this year. But keen to see if fourth time is the charm for Topps.

Rules and HRC page have been posted. I dont see many differences from prior years other than the quantity of HRC Insert code cards.


2020 stated insert print run: Series 1-478,000 + Series 2-285,500= [B]763,500[/B]
2021 stated insert print run: Series 1- 764,800 + Series 2- 456,800=[B] 1,221,600[/B]

Nothing we already didnt know. Lots more product coming this year.



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OFFICIAL RULES
[URL="https://www.topps.com/media/pdf/Topps_HR_ChallengesRules2021Final.pdf"]https://www.topps.com/media/pdf/Topps_HR_ChallengesRules2021Final.pdf[/URL]

"For the Grand Prize, potential winner will be notified via email at the email address provided at time of registration. [B]Again, if potential Grand Prize winner is a resident of Canada, award of the Grand Prize will occur only after he/she correctly answers a time-based mathematical skill-testing question without assistance of any kind.[/B]"

Man, Topps really hates Canadians.

---The Official *2021* Topps Home Run Challenge Thread---
 

[QUOTE=UCCF;16957177]
Man, Topps really hates Canadians.[/QUOTE]
Canada hates Canadians. And the question is something like “what is 6 plus 4?”
(Would hate to subvert the regulations, but maybe keeping one of these bad boys ready...)
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If Matt Davidson hits a BP homer on the backfields on Feb 26th, who do I get to sue?

[QUOTE=seanbros55;16958628]If Matt Davidson hits a BP homer on the backfields on Feb 26th, who do I get to sue?[/QUOTE]


Ah, the best of times!

Interesting to see some results of large lots coming from breaks.

Were seeing players like Soler, Schwarber, Suarez and Yordan Alvarez getting hit multiple times (10-20x duplicates) and other players like Yelich and Betts not getting pulled at all.

Fun to see a trend of which players are more common than some others. In 2019 we had some hard evidence with this but the last few years its only been speculation.

These are the ones I hit in 17 blasters, 4 hangers, and 1 jumbo box

HRC-2 Ronald Acuña Jr. x2
HRC-6 Javier Baez
HRC-7 Kyle Schwarber
HRC-11 Yordan Alvarez
HRC-12 Alex Bregman
HRC-17 Josh Donaldson x 3
HRC-19 Aaron Judge
HRC-20 Gleyber Torres
HRC-21 Bryce Harper
HRC-22 Giancarlo Stanton
HRC-23 Fernando Tatis Jr.
HRC-26 Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
HRC-27 Juan Soto x2
HRC-29 Kris Bryant x2
HRC-30 Matt Chapman

I pulled 2 out of the 3 blasters I opened... Gleyber Torres & Rafael Devers... don't expect I'll be playing this year (still disgruntled from the crapshow that was 2019 HRC)!

Bringing this to the top!

Can we enter codes on the site now as a storage and pick which games we want to use them on or can we only enter on the day of? I've always just picked the day but I have a stack of codes ready!

[QUOTE=ClevelandIC;17132111]Bringing this to the top!

Can we enter codes on the site now as a storage and pick which games we want to use them on or can we only enter on the day of? I've always just picked the day but I have a stack of codes ready![/QUOTE]

edit: sorry, read your post wrong

---The Official *2021* Topps Home Run Challenge Thread---
 

[QUOTE=ClevelandIC;17132111]Bringing this to the top!
Can we enter codes on the site now as a storage and pick which games we want to use them on or can we only enter on the day of? I've always just picked the day but I have a stack of codes ready![/QUOTE]
Nope. Gotta pick your date when you enter the code. It can be any date in the future, but you have to select it at time of code entry.
(And unless they’ve changed it, you can’t enter a code on the day of a game. There’s a 3am cutoff, that in reality was anywhere from midnight to 3am.)
Also they don’t check a schedule, so you can pick days without games scheduled.
Finally, it’s not a great idea to pick in the future due to player injuries etc.

Fellers, its the week before opening day. Code registration is open!

Seeing a few comments around stating some of the Donaldson codes are appearing as Devers. I've entered about 3 sets of codes and haven't experienced it. I have had a Torres turn into Tatis. Seems to be scattered so be sure to check your codes!

[QUOTE=Juanny Chico;17171607]Seeing a few comments around stating some of the Donaldson codes are appearing as Devers. I've entered about 3 sets of codes and haven't experienced it. I have had a Torres turn into Tatis. Seems to be scattered so be sure to check your codes![/QUOTE]

My torres card was a Tatis code too.