The great FOH cigar tournament! Knock out Round! - CLOSED

[benfica_77]

Hello everyone! Thanks for participating in the great FOH cigar tournament. I realized, as I was trying to setup the knock out phase for it to correctly work you need a very specific amount of cigars for a bracket system in this case it’s either 16 or 32.  Since there aren’t 32 brands currently in production in Cuba. We need to cut down the entrants of the knock-out tournament to 16. 

Using this well respected website below as a reference point. I decided that all global and value brands will make up the final 16. There are 10 cigars in total that fall in this category. This means the remaining 17 cigars are fighting for the 6 final spots in the knock out round. https://www.cubancigarwebsite.com/brands 

Vote for who you want to make it into the next round. You can vote for more than one cigar. Note that only the 6 with the highest votes will make it into the next round. Voting begins now and will end at noon eastern time (Toronto time) October 25th. 

After the final 16 have been decided it will be a very simple knockout tournament.16 cigars..than the following week 8 than the final 4 and the championship round. One round per week.  So after this round in exactly a month we will crown the champion! 

If there is a tie this round, the tie-breaker will be the number of votes that cigar got in the previous round when choosing the cigar to represent the marca. 

Confirmed into the round of 16 are the following: 

• Cohiba - Lancero
• H. Upmann  - Sir Winston
• Partagas - Lusitanias  
• Montecristo - No.2  
• Romeo y Julieta - Churchills
• Hoyo de Monterrey - Double Coronas 
• Bolivar - Belicosos Finos 
• Punch - Punch 
• Ramon Allones - Specially Selected
• Trinidad - Fundadores

 

[Fuzz AI]

Vote for more than one? Nope, just one. PLPC.

[OldEasy]

Seems like so far at least my tastes align closely with the forums (or perhaps, more accurately, my experimentation has been informed by the forums preferences, and I have not been led astray). I picked 5, and 4 of them are currently in the top 6. Only QDO of my picks isn’t. Still, I wish I could assign a top pick which got 2 votes or something similar. Would have been MdO4 for me. I was almost tempted to vote only for one or two to make sure I wasn’t voting for cigars that might push out my real favorites but ended up deciding to endorse a few more.

[benfica_77]

pretty safe to say PLPC has made it to the next round @Fuzz don't have to worry about that one not making it! 

[Hammer Smokin']

lgc

plpc

diplo2

all favourites of mine

[El Presidente]

Nice work 

[benfica_77]

PLPC...LGC No. 4......Dip 2.....JL #2.....San Cristobal El Principe pretty solidified to make the cut....battle between El Rey Choix Supreme, QDo Coronas Claros for the final 6th spot.