Despite roughly 75% of my collection consisting of ceramic chips these days, I've always skewed towards TRK when it came to clay. Personally, other clay chips (Paulson, ASM/CPC, BCC, etc), while amazing and worthy of collecting/playing, just never rang my bell like TRK did.
That being said, my involvement over the last few years has been down a bit from the days when I was a mod here and CD, so I may not be up on the trends. However, it appears to me that TRKs don't get as much love from newer chippers the way they previously did. I've seen a bunch of those "favorite chip" threads and the TRKs aren't finalists as often as they were in the past. Could be selection bias, or it could be a legit change in majority preference.
If my hypothesis is true (and I'm certain there are multiple examples to the contrary), I was pondering potential reasons why this could be the case:
Thanks so much!
That being said, my involvement over the last few years has been down a bit from the days when I was a mod here and CD, so I may not be up on the trends. However, it appears to me that TRKs don't get as much love from newer chippers the way they previously did. I've seen a bunch of those "favorite chip" threads and the TRKs aren't finalists as often as they were in the past. Could be selection bias, or it could be a legit change in majority preference.
If my hypothesis is true (and I'm certain there are multiple examples to the contrary), I was pondering potential reasons why this could be the case:
- Too rare/hoarded by old heads
- Too expensive
- 500k+ of NAGB chips added since 2016 (even if only a certain % have been released by original owners)
- Emergence of Sunfly as an affordable, and quality, custom option
- CPC putting Scrown and Lcrown molds into production
- A bunch of quality TCR sales with mint secondary RHCs (though I presume this has been a consistent pattern over the past 10-15 years)
Thanks so much!