 Hello friends, welcome to today's video. If anyone new to the channel, my name is Lee, also known as Osiris. Today we've got something a little bit different. We have had a package back from AceGrading. As you can probably tell in the thumbnail, I sent some cards away to Ace to get graded, just to try them out. They're a new company, obviously. Not new new, but pretty new. And they do some pretty nice custom slabs. And I've heard good things about them. Got lots of friends that have graded with them before. So today we're going to crack this open, check out the grades. That's not a big grading order, just a little one. It's just a bunch of cards I've had sitting around. I've wanted to grade for a while, some cards from celebrations, and then one card from Brilliant Stars that I've wanted to get graded. So I thought as they do amazing custom labels and things like that, it's probably a nice way to just try them out and get some nice labels printed for the collection. So I'm going to crack this open, but it's like a not very suitable knife. Definitely a kitchen knife. Should have probably prepared a little bit more. Okay, so let's have a look at the box. If we can do this on camera, this would be nice to see how it is presented. Very nice, very nice. Nice tissue here. Ooh, and a little box inside a big box. I like the tissue. I always like the nice printed tissue. It's quite nice. So Randolph is behind this, and I'm pretty sure some of the guys from graded gem used them before. So I would highly recommend them. And Randolph obviously has amazing Pokemon collection anyway. And I'm going to just try and open this up and do this so we don't see the grades of the cards. So I think there should be seven cards here in total. All together. Excuse me if I'm doing this as well, because I'm just like, I'm normally, don't do card openings and stuff like this. So I have to kind of set everything up every time I do anything like this. But rather than me opening this, just as it comes, like tonight it arrived, rather than me sitting opening it doing it by myself, I thought I'll share it with everyone and kind of give my opinion on ace grading as well. Comes all nicely wrapped, protected, everything like that. So as you can see here, the, oh, it's first appearances. Slabs feel really nice. I'm not going to lie, the slabs feel super nice. So we'll just get straight into it then. I think there are, so there are three, there's two of, with celebrations, I've got two Charizards, two Vinusos, two Blastoise, all with the kind of ace grade and the signature label that they offer. And then we've got a Charizard Alt-Art from Brilliant Stars as well. So that is what we've got. Hoping for 10s in all of them as you would normally do, but not expecting to get 10s across the board. We'll see what we get. So here is the first one, put them to the side and we'll see. Like I say, the slabs feel super nice compared to a lot of the other grading companies. I've tried just the aesthetic feel of them. They feel solid, feel nice, look nice as well. So first one, here we go is, oh, there we go, there we go. Here we go, amazing. Charizard, the Alt-Art V, special art and it is a Gemmin 10. That is incredible, there we go. That is amazing. So what a beautiful card. And like I say, it does really feel amazing. It looks amazing. I'm like way more impressed with these slabs than I thought I would be. Like I say, I've graded with a bunch of other companies before PSA, CGC and a lot of the other UK grading companies as well and these feel the best slabs I think that I've felt way nicer than PSA, way nicer than CGC. They just feel good and they feel good quality and I'm not blown smoke up Ace Grading's backside but I'm giving you my genuine opinion on these but that is a great one for us to start with. Cannot ask for anything more, moving on to our next one. So these next six will all be from Celebration so let's see what we can get. First one is Mint Nine Blastoise. Now these are gonna be a bit more difficult to get in the tens I feel but nine is still not bad. As long as I get like three nines, I would be happy with that. Again, looks nice. And the custom logos are amazing, are incredible. I think that's one of the big draws about the company as well, offering these custom logos. So there is the Blastoise. Next up, this might be a Charizard, might be a Venusaur, might be another Blastoise. We'll see what we've got. Is a Gemmint 10 for the Blastoise. Let's go, let's go. Awesome, so we do get the Gemmint 10 in the Blastoise. This one is the Gemmint 10. Like I was saying, I was expecting hopefully to get tens in them. I think the ones that I picked out to send that were ready to go off to grade were decent quality. So very happy with this one. So that is amazing, very happy with that indeed. So that's another 10 there and the 10 pile, we've got a nine pile here. Move on to our next one. So we've had a two Blastoise, we've got two Venusaur's and then two Charizard's. So hoping that we're saving the Charizard's to last. I could actually take a sneak peek. Let's see, these are Venusaur's next. So the Charizard's will be last, which is pretty fitting. So next one is Venusaur from Celebrations as well. And it is Gemmint 10. Yes, here we go. Come on Ace, coming out, banging these tens. If we get a Gemmint 10 in the Charizard, then we've got a full collection of Gemmint 10s, which is amazing. And that's realistically what I wanted for my collection. So very, very happy with that indeed. And again, you can see that like custom logo label here. The artwork's amazing. So whoever they've got doing it, they're doing a great job. And like I say, the slabs feel amazing. So gotta breathe, gotta breathe, gotta breathe. Here we go. Right, next one is gonna be the other Venusaur. Be nice if we've got a 10, but because we've got the nine and the Blastoise, you don't really wish for nines very much, but I like to have everything kind of like the sets of things matching. So hopefully we can get a nine. I won't complain if we get a 10, but it is a nine. There we go. They must have known. So we're matching that Blastoise now. Got another nine. So if we can get a set of 10s and a set of nines, that'll be amazing. Just hoping now that we don't get two nines in the Charizards here, which are the two remaining cards left. So we'll go with one first. If it's a genuine 10, then I'm very happy. And this has been an absolutely amazing, amazing submission. So just looking at the back of the card here, it's pretty flawless. I think the only thing that would let it down maybe would be maybe the centering on the front. Possibly would let it down, but I genuinely think like these are all pulled by myself. So I think they do have a chance at a 10. Right, moment of truth. Charizard, Gemmint 10. Come on, let's see it. Gemmint 10. There we go. Come on. There we go. We've actually got the full set of the Blastoise, the Venusaur and the Charizard, Gemmint 10s. I am such a happy boy right now. Like unbelievably happy boy. Gemmint 10s across the board. Yeah, I don't know what to say. That's amazing. That is more than what I expected. Amazing. And they look fantastic. They look amazing, don't they? So they stack really nice as well. So they go on the 10 pile. We've got one more left for this submission. Like I say, not a very long video today, but very exciting moment. And I'm pleased to just share it with you guys. So if we get the nine here, that would be amazing. And then I'll have a full set of 10s, a full set of nines, but I probably would say, let's see. Centering's worse on this one for sure. It's thicker on the top, thicker on the side. The corners are pretty good condition. Like I say, I pulled this myself. There's no blemishes that I can see, but you know, I'm not a grader. So I can't, you know, what I say I see is not always what the graders will see. So I guess, let's see what it is. I'd expect this one, if anything, to be maybe a nine, maybe a 10 though. So let's go for it. Charizard, final one. Come on, give me the 10. Oh, there's a nine. It is a nine. It's fit, no, it's perfect. I get that set of nines, get that set of 10s. And I cannot be sad with that. I don't know what to let this one down. Probably the centering, like I say, it's way thicker on the top there. I don't know if there's any blemishes on it. There could be blemishes. I can't see anything though. But the cases are super nice. They look great. And yeah, I need to stop scratching, like putting finger marks all over them. But yeah, really nice. The only thing I would say is that you can kind of see the back, through the back of the card you can kind of get an idea. Which, you know what? I don't mind if you're doing these sort of videos. It's quite good to be able to kind of tell. I didn't notice until, like, I think the Venusol where you could kind of see the art of this card through the back. But I don't really mind it too much because then it allows you to kind of guess what the card is. So you can do this without having to turn it over like this and then reveal it, you know what I mean? So they are the submission. So I'm absolutely ecstatic with them. I mean, can't really ask for very more than a set of 10s and a set of nines. And then the special art as well, the Charizard special art which was one of my favorite cards, one of my favorite modern cards this one. I really do love it. So I think all in all, I'll definitely be grading with Ace again. And the submissions, like I say, the cases feel absolutely incredible. They feel solid, so solid. I'm so surprised with how good they feel. I honestly am. And yeah, that is my take on them. So hopefully if you're from the UK and you're wondering about trying them out, I would say give them a try, give them a try. We're just sending some cards. Like I say, these are just cards that I had sitting around waiting to be graded. And I kind of don't really want to send stuff to PSA at the minute and I haven't done for a long time. So I think I might have found my next best thing, which honestly, I would say they feel better than PSA slabs, they honestly do. Then the nicest slabs I felt, I think. The next best ones I would say would be like, if you're looking for graded slabs that feel solid are the only graded slabs. But again, they feel, they don't feel as nice aesthetically. They don't feel as nice. These definitely feel way better. So yeah, there we go. Thanks for tuning in everyone. I hope you've enjoyed today's video. It has been a short one. It's a bit different from stuff that we normally put out on the channel. But like I say, rather than me sitting in my room by myself, opening my knees and going crazy and figuring out and seeing and seeing what these are, maybe it's useful for you to see my thoughts on the grading company and is grading in general and having a look at some of the new bits to my collection I'm adding more modern stuff at the minute. So thanks for tuning in. Let me know down below what your thoughts are on the grading. Have you tried ASA, what are your thoughts on them? But thanks for taking the time to come by to the channel. If you're in the Pokemon, if you're new here, check out our other stuff. We do a lot of different things on the channel, Nuzlocke's News and Guides and VG content as well. So do hit the subscribe button if you're interested and it would be much appreciated. So until next time friends, take care of yourselves. Bye bye.