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"I check my phone, confirm next steps. Running around from store to store, I don't even know where I'm going. It's like Supermarket Sweep style. I'm swerving down the West Side Highway, I'm yelling at people that are driving really slow."

"Yo what's popping everybody. It's ya boy Hec (@hecisdead) reporting live from Washington Heights, Uptown and I'm about to tell you the story on how I got my hands on the 'Travis Scott' Nike SB lows."

"Concepts drops a link on Twitter asking people to sign up for an in-store raffle. I got my whole family signing up for these sneakers I need an 8.5. Saturday gets here and I don't bother checking my email."

"Get the kids ready, we head out, go to the museum of Natural History, go grab some ice cream. Around 5:30 I get back home. I see an email from Concepts, it says 'Congratulations, you've won'."

"I jump in my car, I'm swerving down the West Side Highway. I'm yelling at people that are driving really slow. I get to Concepts, the doors are closed. I knock on the glass, security does not open the door, he talks to me through this little crack."

"I give him the prayer hands, I say, "Please brother, I just drove from the Bronx all the way to Concepts", show him the GPS, "I'm like look how far I came", he calls the story clerk."

"They let me in….let's get it. Finally got my hands man, we finally took a W!"

"What's up ya'll, my name is Charles O'Quinn (@koldkali) from the Bay Area, living in Atlanta and here's my story about how I copped the Off-White Jordan 1 'UNC'."

"It's May 2018 and I fly to Oakland for the Warriors championship parade. I'm signing up for raffle, after raffle, after raffle and one of those just happened to be at Footaction, but in Chicago."

"I'm packing my bags getting ready to fly back to Atlanta. I check my phone, "Confirm next steps". How am I going to get to Chicago and then back home to Atlanta? So I start for flights."

"And just my luck, I find the one flight going from San Francisco with a layover in Chicago. I'm on the plane and I get a text that says "Your flight from Chicago to Atlanta, has been delayed until 8pm"."

"So now I get off the plane, my homeboy picks me up and take me to the store. There's a lot of people outside waiting for unclaimed pairs, one of those that may have been mine but I was so happy to get my pair."

"I even had time for pizza, and that's how I copped my grails."

"What's up ya'll, my name's Gabby Rosenthal (@gabbyrosenthal) and I am from Hoboken, NJ and I'm going to tell you all about how I got my Air Jordan 'Royal' 1s."

"Normally when I'm in NY I know the places to go or I know people, I can get my hands on pairs if I really want; but I was in Atlanta when these came out. So out of my element, I was with my girl who knows nothing about kicks, she took me to this sneaker store in the morning and line was around the corner."

"So we go to the mall, running around from store to store. I don't even know where I'm going, it's like Supermarket Sweep style. Eventually we end up at the Nike store and it was like the heavens opened up. There was one pair left of these little babies…"

"…sitting there and I swear they had my name on it. 6.5 I had to get them. Brought them back with me, I wore them for the first time I auditioned for the Knicks and they've been my lucky pair ever since. That's my grail tale."

Grail Tales

Episode 8