Buzz Break: 2019-20 Topps Chrome UEFA Champions League (hobby box)

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The box: 2019-20 Topps Chrome UEFA Champions League (hobby box)
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Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of highlights here.

Packs per box: 18
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 72
Base set completion: 
27 of 100 (27 percent)
Duplicates: 22 (!)

Notables on base cards – Christian Pulisic, Luis Suarez, Joao Felix and others ... see everything from this box in the gallery.

Insert cards: 22 (all in gallery below)
Teammate Sensations (4) – Lionel Messi & Luis Suarez, Artem Dzyuba & Sardar Azmoun, Gareth Bale & Luka Modric, Virgil van Dijk & Trent Alexander-Arnold
Footballer Flash (1) – Mohamed Salah
Future Stars (3) – Jadon Sancho, Joao Felix, Alex Meret
Refractors (6) – Harry Kane, Raheem Sterling, Haris Seferovic, Rodrigo, Lukas Klostermann, Mauro Icardi
Speckle Refractors (2) – Leon Bailey, Cican Stankovic
Purple Refractors (1) – Marco Reus (/250)
Purple Carbon Fiber Refractors (1) – Jan Oblak
Blue Bubbles Refractors (2) – Lukas Hradecky, Kang-in Lee
Blue Refractors (1) – Christian Pulisic (/150)
Green Refractors (1) – Luis Suarez (/99)

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Chrome Autographs (1) – Perluigi Gollini

What's Buzz-worthy: I don't know a ton about soccer but I know this -- Chrome Champions League is among the hottest cardboard on the planet and all you have to do to know that is look at eBay prices for cards of Ansu Fati and others in this one -- click here to see asking and flip over to sold items to be wowed. Throw in autographs of Cristiano Ronaldo, Erling Haaland and then rare Refactors and that's the reason these boxes have already rocketed into the stratosphere with their global appeal also clearly a factor here. My box? Well, I'm not sure if it's the norm but if it is there's even more insanity possible inside these. My box did not include a Fati or Haaland base card at all (bummer) -- but I had 22 duplicates and just 27 toward the 100 in the base set. That would make me assume there are likely boxes with two copies of those key guys and others out there -- huge money potential if this is more the standard. However, if the collation is clean, then you should land the big one (Fati) in roughly every other box. My box had some highlights with some notables among my dupes but more power in the parallels and inserts. The suggested retail price here would have been easily covered but the craziness of the soccer market is volatile so it, too, could make some money despite coming up short in the Fati sweepstakes.

Product Grade: A 
Box Grade: B (obscene volume of duplicates in this box ... neither money-making rookie among them)
Fun Grade: B- (see above)

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