Championship Ticket vs Cracked Ice

BeastMode27 · 09-03-2019, 08:50 PM

Trying to understand why the cracked ice is so much more expensive. Print run is close, sometimes 1 more champ ticket made and sometimes less. The championship ticket has a much longer history. Was it market manipulation, and then people ran with it? They look much better some years, but others they both look good. I can buy 3 to 4 championship tickets for one cracked ice of some players.

gottagitdemjs · 09-03-2019, 08:59 PM

Because cracked ice is all glittery and flashy....and I'm not joking.

JeremyNick · 09-03-2019, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by gottagitdemjs

Because cracked ice is all glittery and flashy....and I'm not joking.

I think the cracked ice look better. Eye appeal is huge in sports cards.

marinocollector · 09-03-2019, 09:56 PM

Depends on the player I believe. You have set collectors on the cracked ice. Only team and player collectors on the 1/1s

mortatort · 09-03-2019, 10:08 PM

Sometimes I get junk mail with a cracked ice sort of pattern on the envelope and it makes me smile. That said, cracked ice has been very popular in cards. It's like the /99 on steroids and even cooler than the 1/1's that don't have material too. The cracked ice tends to lend the sickness factor that a cool patch would give, but without the cool patch. More pleasing to the eye than a green , black or silver 1/1 anyday and all they have to do is use that designer junk mail pattern on the card.

jmeryllman · 09-03-2019, 11:01 PM

Cracked Ice is pretty.

rittdk01 · 09-04-2019, 03:36 AM

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Originally Posted by mortatort

Sometimes I get junk mail with a cracked ice sort of pattern on the envelope and it makes me smile. That said, cracked ice has been very popular in cards. It's like the /99 on steroids and even cooler than the 1/1's that don't have material too. The cracked ice tends to lend the sickness factor that a cool patch would give, but without the cool patch. More pleasing to the eye than a green , black or silver 1/1 anyday and all they have to do is use that designer junk mail pattern on the card.

Lmao I know what you’re talking about. Pretty sure it’s a credit card application.

MossDC4L · 09-04-2019, 03:58 AM

They do look nice, but I would rather have a plain old nice looking card with an on card auto.. Must be done correctly though and a nice sig, that is eye appealing to me.

twisty571 · 09-04-2019, 12:14 PM

Aren't Ice usually #/25ish and most Champ Tickets #/49?

abcrider04 · 09-04-2019, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by twisty571

Aren't Ice usually #/25ish and most Champ Tickets #/49?

I think some years varied as I've seen cracked ice at 23 before.

abcrider04 · 09-04-2019, 01:14 PM

And 24

IronMonkey415 · 09-04-2019, 01:15 PM

Ice just sparkles in your eyes. Anything that sparkles will put a smile on your face.

T4brilla · 09-04-2019, 01:27 PM

Cracked ice started at a print run of /20 in 2012 and the print run has increased by 1 every year. 2013 /21, 2014 /22, etc.

Now I believe in 2014 they also started doing a cracked ice for every variation as well at least for the on card auto rookies. So the /22 is actually three different /22 so 66 in total for each rookie bc their were 3 versions for all on card rookies.

The last couple years I think there have only been 2 variations of the base style with cracked ice but the have added other versions like clear ticket, 20th anniversary and so on.

twisty571 · 09-04-2019, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by abcrider04

I think some years varied as I've seen cracked ice at 23 before.

Earlsnake07 · 09-04-2019, 02:02 PM

1st year /20

2nd year /21

4th year /23

09-03-2019, 08:50 PM	#1
BeastMode27 Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 2,341	Championship Ticket vs Cracked Ice Trying to understand why the cracked ice is so much more expensive. Print run is close, sometimes 1 more champ ticket made and sometimes less. The championship ticket has a much longer history. Was it market manipulation, and then people ran with it? They look much better some years, but others they both look good. I can buy 3 to 4 championship tickets for one cracked ice of some players.

09-03-2019, 08:59 PM	#2
gottagitdemjs Member Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 5,949 tigerwoods3423	Because cracked ice is all glittery and flashy....and I'm not joking. __________________ Things I need to happen in order to die happy: KU wins a NCAA Championship....CHECK...TWICE! The Royals win a World Series.....CHECK The Chiefs win a Super Bowl.......FINALLY!!!...3X!!! BACK TO BACK!!!

09-03-2019, 09:56 PM	#4
marinocollector Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Locally Posts: 8,301	Depends on the player I believe. You have set collectors on the cracked ice. Only team and player collectors on the 1/1s __________________ There's 100 made! Lets hope that one of the .00000001% of the world population that actually own this card decides that today is the day they offer it for sale.

09-04-2019, 12:14 PM	#9
twisty571 Member Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 8,808	Aren't Ice usually #/25ish and most Champ Tickets #/49? Last edited by twisty571; 09-04-2019 at 12:18 PM.

09-04-2019, 01:14 PM	#11
abcrider04 Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Virginia Posts: 1,361 abcrider0586	And 24 __________________ https://www.flickr.com/photos/137450166@N02/albums Kirk Cousins Collector

09-03-2019, 10:08 PM	#5
mortatort Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Floriduh Posts: 6,357 mortatort	Sometimes I get junk mail with a cracked ice sort of pattern on the envelope and it makes me smile. That said, cracked ice has been very popular in cards. It's like the /99 on steroids and even cooler than the 1/1's that don't have material too. The cracked ice tends to lend the sickness factor that a cool patch would give, but without the cool patch. More pleasing to the eye than a green , black or silver 1/1 anyday and all they have to do is use that designer junk mail pattern on the card.

09-03-2019, 11:01 PM	#6
jmeryllman Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 297	Cracked Ice is pretty.

09-04-2019, 03:58 AM	#8
MossDC4L Member Join Date: Jul 2019 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 662 705SportsCards	They do look nice, but I would rather have a plain old nice looking card with an on card auto.. Must be done correctly though and a nice sig, that is eye appealing to me.

09-04-2019, 01:15 PM	#12
IronMonkey415 Banned Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 44,118 ironmonkeyfromsf	Ice just sparkles in your eyes. Anything that sparkles will put a smile on your face.

09-04-2019, 01:27 PM	#13
T4brilla Member Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Michigan Posts: 298 Tr14627 T4brilla	Cracked ice started at a print run of /20 in 2012 and the print run has increased by 1 every year. 2013 /21, 2014 /22, etc. Now I believe in 2014 they also started doing a cracked ice for every variation as well at least for the on card auto rookies. So the /22 is actually three different /22 so 66 in total for each rookie bc their were 3 versions for all on card rookies. The last couple years I think there have only been 2 variations of the base style with cracked ice but the have added other versions like clear ticket, 20th anniversary and so on. __________________ LTB 2007 Topps Finest Base Calvin Johnson plates Pavel Bure SuperCollector!!!!! Always interested in your SUPERFRACTORS!!!!

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Earlsnake07 Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: Wichita, KS Posts: 9,530 earlsnake07	1st year /20 2nd year /21 4th year /23 __________________ SCA - https://sportscardalbum.com/u/earlsnake07 Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/187941314@N02/albums/with/72157713887746408