Championship Ticket vs Cracked Ice

[BeastMode27]

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]

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

[JeremyNick]

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]

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

[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.

[jmeryllman]

Cracked Ice is pretty.

[rittdk01]

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]

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]

Aren't Ice usually #/25ish and most Champ Tickets #/49?
https://i.imgur.com/6AXSqma.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/ERbBscs.jpg?1

[abcrider04]

Aren't Ice usually #/25ish and most Champ Tickets #/49?
https://i.imgur.com/6AXSqma.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/ERbBscs.jpg?1

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

[abcrider04]

And 24

[IronMonkey415]

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

[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.

[twisty571]

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

:flex:
https://i.imgur.com/Xfqze1s.jpg?1https://i.imgur.com/cLl3HsY.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/1EJdGmD.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/0UeQosU.jpg

[Earlsnake07]

1st year /20

https://sportscardalbum.com/c/478abkdv.jpg (https://sportscardalbum.com/card/478abkdv)

2nd year /21

https://sportscardalbum.com/c/53086092.jpg (https://sportscardalbum.com/card/53086092)

4th year /23

https://sportscardalbum.com/c/or2jhjo9.JPG (https://sportscardalbum.com/card/or2jhjo9)