What’s a Razz? Sports Cards Razzing/Raffling Culture Explained
Trading sports cards is a cultural phenomenon and ‘razzing’ cards has started to become increasingly popular, a sub-culture of sorts.
A ‘razz’ is effectively a sports card raffle or a lottery in its simplest term.
The organizer of a razz will list an item offered up for participants to win, in this case a sports card.
Although there are minor variations to a razz, typically the organizer will list the price and divide it by the number of spots available in the raffle i.e. 9 spots @ $10 each.
Similarly a ‘razz break’ is a break of a box of sports cards with a predetermined number of razz sports sold which are entered into a lottery list.
A common number of spots for a razz break is 100 and the list is imported to a randomiser tool such as Random.Org
For a typical razz a pair of dice is rolled to predetermine how many times the participant list randomized.
Each randomise will rank all spots i.e 1-100 in the event of a razz break and it will be randomized for however many times the dice rolled.
If a 10 is rolled for example, the list will be randomized 10 times with the 10th result being the winner.
A razz usually defines 1st place as the winner and in the case of a razz break, the top 30 people will receive a spot in the break with the bottom 70 receiving nothing.
Above is a typical razz where a neutral ‘video runner’ who is ‘tipped’ a few bucks will usually run the randomizing tool, filming it and inputting the names into the tool to determine a randomized winner.
It’s fun but like everything, not for everybody and only in moderation.
I don’t under any circumstance condone it especially for the fact it can be considered as gambling which may be punishable depending on your jurisdiction.
Be warned that there is also a heightened risk of being scamming so if you do choose to participate in a razz or razz break make sure it’s with a group you can trust.
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