2011/12 Panini Contenders Quality Control!

[spg]

Looks fantastic - can't wait for my boxes to come in. Kind of a breath of fresh air in waiting for SP Authentic to come out, I'm not a big fan of SPGU or SPX...

[Frendo]

Also, damage on the edges/corners are more visible on cards with darker backgrounds. I'm guess that's why many use white borders.

True...but still...too many card are white nowdays.
Some more colors never hurts.

[durangatang]

Looking good so far. At least it's a nice touch to add the numbering on the FRONT of the card.

+100000
I hate the numbering on the back, it is annoyinggg.

They look absolutely PHENOMENAL. I would love to see these become a challenger (dare I say, Contender) to SP Authentic.

If it had all hard signed autos, even for the 3+ autos it could challenge SPA for sure now that SPA is using stickers for the multi autos.


I like the looks of it!

[karl von]

Love the revamped look of this set. The ticket format always made the front of the card too cluttered with little room for the autograph. The on-card autos on a nice white large area is very appealing. I've only bought Contenders for football and when they brought back the on-card autos on them, the foil surface caused really bad ink blotching.

Wasn't convinced with last year's product, but this is definitely looking up to par with SPA. Hopefully they can accomplish the same with with Dominion (vs. The Cup). I was tempted to try a few boxes of Elite and SPx, but with the look of this set, I'm holding out for SPA and this.