Did PSA shade the CGC play test scandal?

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PSA updated their website on 1/25. pfm wrote his thesis on 1/26.

Incredible timing.

PSA Updates Their Website (2025)

[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] Side note, Leonhart has graded with BGS for years. I wonder how much they had to pay him to say that about PSA.

Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024

Update: I put together a report here Report of Observations Regarding the Pokemon Playtests/Prototype Cards About the tracking dots Most home and office printers add metadata to printed sheets in the form of very tiny yellow dots (sometimes called a machine identification code) that can’t be seen with the naked eye. The layout of the dots are different between printer brands and some don’t leave any at all. Information like serial number and sometime the print time is encoded in these dots. T…