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Star Trek CCG Tenth Anniversary Contest #1:
The First Contest

April 7, 2004 – RESULTS

We promised you contests, with a chance to win Tenth Anniversary foils, Necessary Evil foils, Tenth Anniversary commemorative posters, and more. And here's the first of ten, count'em, ten Tenth Anniversary contests, each of which will have ten winners. It's... (drum roll) ... The First Contest!

I can hear what you're thinking now: "Well, isn't that an imaginative title for the first contest!" Ah, but this isn't just the first contest – it's the "First" contest: all about various "firsts" in Star Trek CCG over the years. If you know enough about the "firsts," you could win! And even if you don't, you still have a chance for a consolation prize. Just select an answer for each of the questions below, fill in your contact information, and send your entry.

The Answers

1.

 

Which was the first card to be revealed online for the Voyager expansion?

 

B.

Seven of Nine (R)
Unlike many sets where we revealed the UR first, for Voyager we gave you the card we knew everyone wanted to see – the de-Borged Seven of Nine.

2.

  

Which expansion included a card named First?

 

B.

The Borg

3.

 

The original First Edition booster pack size was 15 cards (1 R, 3 U, 11 C). Later the pack size was dropped to 9, and the last few expansions had 11-card packs, as does Second Edition. Which expansion was the first to have 9-card booster packs?

 

C.

First Contact
AU and QC both still had 15-card packs like Premiere.

4.

 

Which was the first to have 11-card booster packs?

 

D.

The Trouble With Tribbles

5.

 

First Edition Premiere booster packs came in a 36-pack display box. Which was the first expansion to have 30-card booster display boxes?

 

B.

First Contact

6.

 

Which was the first product to be released that included "expansion icons" on the cards?

 

D.

First Contact
There was some uncertainty over the timing of First Contact and The Fajo Collection, both of which had expansion icons. While Fajo was originally scheduled to ship before First Contact, the final release dates were December 17, 1997 for First Contact, and December 31, 1997 for The Fajo Collection. (My original posted answer, First Anthology, was incorrect. I was so sure of the answer I didn't actually look at the cards. Live and learn...)

7.

 

Which product included the first Star Trek CCG diffraction foil(s)?

 

 

Blaze of Glory

8.

 

Which product included the first card(s) released with a Voyager property logo?

 

 

First Anthology
Released in June 1997, the Anthology contained three preview cards with the Voyager property logo – Dr. Telek R'Mor, Thomas Paris, and Ensign Tuvok.

9.

 

Each of the 121 cards of each rarity level in First Edition Premiere (C, U, and R) had exactly the same rarity, because there were 121 cards on each press sheet. Which was the first set to have "split rarity" – where some cards of a given rarity level were more or less rare than others?

 

 

Either Alternate Universe OR Q-Continuum
The answer I was actually looking for was Alternate Universe, which – AFAIK – had a split rarity in the commons, with 39 C3's and one C4, the Alternate Universe Door. (Note that neither the R or U cards had split rarity; there were 40 R3's on the rare sheet, plus one UR; and 40 U3's on the uncommon sheet plus one rare card, which has exactly the same frequency as the 40 other R's.)

However, it has been brought to my attention that a document of "set statistics" available on decipher.com in 1996 (and still extant in various archives) states flatly that the common sheet had only 120 slots. While everyone I have spoken to here at Decipher considers that wildly improbable (and I am hunting for a press sheet to confirm it), many people used this information to answer the question, and thus picked Q-Continuum, which had an R4 and a C4, which were marked on the collector's card list as being 4/3 more common than the other R's and C's. So I accepted either answer.

(Incidentally, many of you apparently thought of split rarity only in connection with R cards. The question, however, clearly indicated that it was about all rarity levels.)

10.

 

In which Second Edition set did the first Pah-wraith card(s) appear?

 

B.

Energize
This was one of three new keywords in the set. The others were Prophet and Dabo Girl.

The Winners

Of the 574 valid entries received, 43 got all ten questions correct. (For #9, 16 answered A and 27 answered B.) Our first three places were randomly selected from those 43; the other seven were randomly selected from all valid entries. Congratulations to:

1st

Helge Blohmer

Dortmund, Germany

2nd

Joshua Carey

Candor, NY

3rd

James Norton

Cardiff, United Kingdom

4th

Bobbie Schafer

Anaheim, CA

5th

Jon Crandall

Eagle River, AK

6th

Jeremy Huth

Little Suamico, WI

7th

John Woollard

Boone, IA

8th

Al Schaefer

Mt. Prospect, IL

9th

Alex O'Shea

Oakville, ON, Canada

10th

Joseph Bazemore

Altamonte Springs, FL

In addition to the above-listed winners, a duplicate set of 1st-3rd prizes will be sent to the three winners originally posted (selected according to my mistaken answer to question 6), who are listed below; I don't want to disappoint announced winners as a result of my mistake. Previously announced 4th-10th place winners remain, though a new 10th place has been added (former 5th place Josh Carey was randomly selected for the new 2nd place). My apologies for the mix-up!

1st

J.C. Sealy

Slidell, LA

2nd

Jan Senko

Revuca, Slovak Republic

3rd

Michal Rorisek

Bratislava, Slovakia

Your prizes will be shipped in approximately 8-10 weeks. If you have any questions, please direct them to webmaster@decipher.com and specify by title exactly which contest you are enquiring about. Foils may be shipped separately from posters. (Please note: If you do not already have an account for Decipher's online stores, you may get an email about an account being created for you. This means your shipping information has been entered to allow us to ship all or part of your prize directly to you from our warehouse.)

 

 
 

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