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I haven't noticed anything. That was when Cactus changed printers though.
I guess your not the only one, but you are the only one who concedes a game on purpose even though you have a block
I've had more problems with the 2011 set in terms of corners being fragile. The only thing I've noticed with TEC/PC/CoW is that sometimes the edges are trimmed a bit inconsistently.