---The Official *2020* Topps Home Run Challenge Thread---

[Juanny Chico]

Originally Posted by xbignick

Is it too late to enter? Found a Yelich card, but won't let me select today's date.

I wasn't planning to use it since Topps' website never seems to work properly.

Yes it’s too late. I heard code entry was disabled even before 9am this morning. Same kind of stuff we’ve been dealing with all year.

Anyways, let’s see if Aaron Judge can get on the scoreboard on the last day. He’s the only player ( other than Alvarez ) who doesn’t have a September HR.

[spuds1961]

Originally Posted by Juanny Chico

Yes it’s too late. I heard code entry was disabled even before 9am this morning. Same kind of stuff we’ve been dealing with all year.

Anyways, let’s see if Aaron Judge can get on the scoreboard on the last day. He’s the only player ( other than Alvarez ) who doesn’t have a September HR.

I hope Aaron comes through, I almost forgot my challenge cards I have 35 entries for today, some doubles and triples and if Arenado homers I will get 4 of his cards.

[sbjcards14]

Arenado on the IL

[spuds1961]

Originally Posted by sbjcards14

Arenado on the IL

Shows how much I follow that team huh.

[Juanny Chico]

Home Run Challenge final count below.
No September winning cards for Aaron Judge or Yordan Alvarez.
Arenado, Stanton finish with 1 HR.
Bryant, Soto, Torres, Kepler, Bellinger and Bregman had 2 HRs.

Im hoping to see a few low numbered winners but itll be hard to tell.
This year I played 825 codes, winning 17% / 140 winners. Got all the winners except for the August Alvarez, which im not holding my breath in thinking we'll see one to confirm the count.

HOT TAKE - Other than Yordan Alvarez in August, im predicting the following Lowest serial #ed card for each month.
July/August= Kris Bryant ( 2 HRs, but hit several weeks after the start of season, weekday HRs)
September= Nolan Arenado (1 HR on a Tues @SD)




HERES TO GETTING SHIPPING NOTIFICATIONS SOON

[dale]

Thanks Johnny for keeping this list maintained all season. I went 83 for 549, for a .151 average.

[hzw5wi]

Originally Posted by Juanny Chico

Home Run Challenge final count below.
No September winning cards for Aaron Judge or Yordan Alvarez.
Arenado, Stanton finish with 1 HR.
Bryant, Soto, Torres, Kepler, Bellinger and Bregman had 2 HRs.

Im hoping to see a few low numbered winners but itll be hard to tell.
This year I played 825 codes, winning 17% / 140 winners. Got all the winners except for the August Alvarez, which im not holding my breath in thinking we'll see one to confirm the count.

HOT TAKE - Other than Yordan Alvarez in August, im predicting the following Lowest serial #ed card for each month.
July/August= Kris Bryant ( 2 HRs, but hit several weeks after the start of season, weekday HRs)
September= Nolan Arenado (1 HR on a Tues @SD)

HERES TO GETTING SHIPPING NOTIFICATIONS SOON

As I remember Kepler homered twice in Sept, isn’t it?

[Bl3rf]

304 total winners.

Was a fun year watching games.

[salthill]

My .207 hitting average dropped to .125 this year.

But I got a full set of Cubs (thank you Kris Bryant for that last second return to form!), with a few spares. May try to trade my way to a second set.

(Still annoyed Topps didn't make it three months. Two lonely cards per player definitely won't look as good as a trio. Unless they go with gold and silver as the two colors maybe?)

[salthill]

Originally Posted by dale

Thanks Johnny for keeping this list maintained all season.

Once again - and for another season - I second that. Cheers Juanny

[Bl3rf]

List is off a bit. Trout hit 17 HRs.

[Juanny Chico]

Originally Posted by Bl3rf

List is off a bit. Trout hit 17 HRs.

The graph may contain an error or two (MAYBE) but Trout at 15 HRs is not one of them. As its stated at the top of the graph, I only record 1 HR/day, same as it is in the Official Rules. Trout had Home Runs on 15 days, but had 2 games in which he hit multiple home runs. He finished with 17 HRs, but had 15 winnings days.

Quote:
Originally Posted by dale
Thanks Johnny for keeping this list maintained all season.

Once again - and for another season - I second that. Cheers Juanny

No problem at all. I know a number of you keep track as well. Advertising which players have the potential to have lower home runs isnt the smartest strategy in the hunt for lower numbered cards, but its something to give back to this thread community. Im hoping that with the increasing Topps flagship sales and soon to be confirmed increased Home Run Challenge popularity, they will continue this next year. Why change whats working, or sometimes not working in Home Run Challenge terms.

[Bl3rf]

Makes sense. Didnt see the little part on the top left.

[paperzach]

Status on my Winners has been updated on the Topps website.

[Juanny Chico]

Originally Posted by paperzach

Status on my Winners has been updated on the Topps website.

Yes, it looks like if you hit a winner, it has been changed to show "Winner(C)". They still show "in process" for the non winners. Im not sure what the (c) means. Can anyone confirm this on their winners?

Also to note- ACUNA and GUERRERO codes have not flipped to winner yet. My list of 141 winners was very accurate after cross-checking but no Acuna and Guerrero winners have changed . This initially happened last year with Acuna as well, but was promptly corrected. If someone else would confirm this as well, that would be appreciated.

[salthill]

Originally Posted by Juanny Chico

Yes, it looks like if you hit a winner, it has been changed to show "Winner(C)". They still show "in process" for the non winners. Im not sure what the (c) means. Can anyone confirm this on their winners?

Yep, have the “Winner (c)” too.
I think it stands for Chrome.

[dale]

Originally Posted by Juanny Chico

Yes, it looks like if you hit a winner, it has been changed to show "Winner(C)". They still show "in process" for the non winners. Im not sure what the (c) means. Can anyone confirm this on their winners?

Also to note- ACUNA and GUERRERO codes have not flipped to winner yet. My list of 141 winners was very accurate after cross-checking but no Acuna and Guerrero winners have changed . This initially happened last year with Acuna as well, but was promptly corrected. If someone else would confirm this as well, that would be appreciated.

My Acuna and Guerrero winners still show as in process too. And the winners all have the "C." Confirmed?

[hmegdal]

My daughter won a bunch of these, then they disappeared from her Topps.com listing. I have emailed them and gotten no response. Any suggestions?

[daktmacfan]

I pulled six from S1 & S2 hobby boxes. Forgot about them until the last week of the season.

Arenado was on the DL so I didn't use it and I went 2 for 5 of the codes that I played. Won a Kris Bryant & Josh Bell. Would have been 3 for 5, but I tried entering Rizzo's at 9:01 the one morning the final week.

I still wish they would at least wait let you make an entry until something 15 min prior to a game starting so you would know the lineups.

My 2 winners are finally showing up this morning under my account.

[Juanny Chico]

Originally Posted by hmegdal

My daughter won a bunch of these, then they disappeared from her Topps.com listing. I have emailed them and gotten no response. Any suggestions?

When did she enter the codes? When the season was delayed until July, Topps removed all the codes which were already entered and made them active again. Simply put, if you enter codes before the season started in March, those codes are no longer plugged in for the original dates you entered.

[salthill]

Originally Posted by daktmacfan

Would have been 3 for 5, but I tried entering Rizzo's at 9:01 the one morning the final week.

Don’t feel too bad. For most (if not all) of the season, the 9am limit wasn’t working. It was really 3am or thereabouts.

[paperzach]

None of my winners have "(C)" next to them. They just say "Winner" and the non-winners say "In Process" (see below). I didn't have very many, though. Seven codes with four winners (and one non-winning entry that came from the Freddie Freeman Series 1 code issue).

[hmegdal]

Thanks. She entered them during the season proper, August/September. Will check and see if she's in the system again. They all went from pending to gone.

Originally Posted by Juanny Chico

When did she enter the codes? When the season was delayed until July, Topps removed all the codes which were already entered and made them active again. Simply put, if you enter codes before the season started in March, those codes are no longer plugged in for the original dates you entered.

[hmegdal]

Checked again. They disappeared. And I emailed customer service Monday, no response!

Originally Posted by hmegdal

Thanks. She entered them during the season proper, August/September. Will check and see if she's in the system again. They all went from pending to gone.

[hmegdal]

And like magic, they just showed up again in her account! What a strange thing.