Comparing the 2009 Design Contest, 2010 Design Contest and 2015 Art Academy contest cards graded by PSA since January 1st 2020:
- 5x 2009 Design Contest cards have been graded (9.8% increase);
- 62x 2010 Design Contest cards have been graded (15.31% increase)*;
- 130x 2015 Art Academy contest cards have been graded (44.07% increase).
Looking at the total number of copies graded by PSA vs card distribution, where the distribution is believed to be 100 for both the 2009 Design Contest and 2015 Art Academy contest and 200** for the 2010 Design Contest:
- 4.31% of the 2009 Design Contest cards have been graded (13 cards; 56/1,300);
- 23.35% of the 2010 Design Contest cards have been graded (10 cards; 467/2,000)*;
- 19.32% of the 2015 Art Academy contest cards have been graded (22 cards; 425/2,200).
Finally if we then consider the lows and highs per card in the set:
- 2009 Design Contest: 3 low, 5 high (4 median);
- 2010 Design Contest: 41 low, 63 high (45 median)*;
- 2015 Art Academy contest: 0 low, 62 high (14 median).
* Note that the 2010 Design Contest figures excludes the Chosen Entry cards which also belong to the set. These were awarded individually to the 660 top participants and weren’t exclusively awarded to the winners of the contest.
** The official distribution for the 2010 Design Contest was 100, but recently it came to light that one of the winners received 200 cards of featuring their design (see Winners of the 2010 Design Contest received 200 cards).
It’s also worth noting that since January 1st 2020 I’ve graded 2 2009 Design Contest cards with CGC and another was graded with BGS. However without access to a pop report (CGC) or a working one (BGS) it’s unknown to me if any other 2009 Design Contest cards have been graded, or how many 2010 Design Contest and 2015 Art Academy cards may have been graded through those companies in the same timeframe.