Competitive Cigar Smoking??

[traveller]

Came across some articles about cigars smoking as a competition with the goal to smoke as slow as possible. Anyone heard of this before? What are peoples thoughts?

https://www.cigarjournal.com/world-final-cswc-2021-in-split-croatia/

https://www.cigarjournal.com/the-cigar-smoking-world-championship-kuala-lumpur-winners/

[NSXCIGAR]

I've seen that before. Pretty goofy if you ask me.

Although I have witnessed something even dumber--at the Partagas Festival dinner they have a fastest smoking competition. They sit about 10 people in chairs and give them a PSD4 and 10 minutes. Whoever smokes it down the most wins. I think it was a bottle of Havana Club reserva. 

Most of the competitors looked pretty green at the end and looked close to puking. Who could have predicted that. 

[La_Tigre]

1 hour ago, NSXCIGAR said:

I've seen that before. Pretty goofy if you ask me.

Although I have witnessed something even dumber--at the Partagas Festival dinner they have a fastest smoking competition. They sit about 10 people in chairs and give them a PSD4 and 10 minutes. Whoever smokes it down the most wins. I think it was a bottle of Havana Club reserva. 

Most of the competitors looked pretty green at the end and looked close to puking. Who could have predicted that. 

Or the Longest Ash competition…where the winner put an opened paper clip down the cigar to keep the ash on….proof that someone will cheat in ANY competition. 

[traveller]

2 hours ago, NSXCIGAR said:

I've seen that before. Pretty goofy if you ask me.

Although I have witnessed something even dumber--at the Partagas Festival dinner they have a fastest smoking competition. They sit about 10 people in chairs and give them a PSD4 and 10 minutes. Whoever smokes it down the most wins. I think it was a bottle of Havana Club reserva. 

Most of the competitors looked pretty green at the end and looked close to puking. Who could have predicted that. 

Haha that, both seem to defeat the whole point of cigars, being something to savour and enjoy one of the few things that doesn't have to be competitive!

But also the thought came to mind that this is a competition that could have only come about from smoking NCs

[nKostyan]

It is now popular in Russia. Not only longer, but also who has longer ashes.

[Fuzz]

19 hours ago, NSXCIGAR said:

I've seen that before. Pretty goofy if you ask me.

Although I have witnessed something even dumber--at the Partagas Festival dinner they have a fastest smoking competition. They sit about 10 people in chairs and give them a PSD4 and 10 minutes. Whoever smokes it down the most wins. I think it was a bottle of Havana Club reserva. 

Most of the competitors looked pretty green at the end and looked close to puking. Who could have predicted that. 

And they can't drop the ash. Some of the ladies were giving the eventually winner a run for his money...

From the last festival I attended:

The prize in the background.

 

 

[MrBirdman]

19 hours ago, La_Tigre said:

Or the Longest Ash competition

A few weeks ago I was chatting with @JohnS when ash length came up, and I mentioned I would never again participate in another FOH “Flash Your Ash” competition, because it created the smoking equivalent of balancing a bat on my chin for nearly an hour (and required a similar posture whilst smoking).

And frankly cigars are already phallus-like enough without adding in a “mine’s bigger!” element. 😜

The competitive duration contents might not be as bad, but the rules I’ve seen are ridiculous: no talking for the first five minutes, no blowing on the outside, no putting the cigar down (must always be in your hand), and if you burn the “competition ring” (the band) you get a 15 minute penalty.

You also incur penalties for ashing your cigar in the first half-hour: since ashing itself creates a higher risk of the cigar going out, why is it punished? That’s like giving a penalty for using a timeout one second before the 2-minute warning. Or is there some super-sophisticated ashing hack that keeps your cigar lit longer?

[MrBirdman]

32 minutes ago, Fuzz said:

And they can't drop the ash. Some of the ladies were giving the eventually winner a run for his money...

From the last festival I attended:

The prize in the background.

 

 

Are you allowed to lie on your back while smoking?

[Fuzz]

Nope, just sit in the chairs.

 

[MichaelJB]

I think I've got you beat then.

"The three-foot thick El Gigante made by Grand Habano — rolled with 1,600 pounds of high-quality Nicaraguan tobacco — is big enough to make 25,000 regular-sized cigars."

Sells for $185K US. Might take a few years to get through!

[traveller]

28 minutes ago, MichaelJB said:

I think I've got you beat then.

"The three-foot thick El Gigante made by Grand Habano — rolled with 1,600 pounds of high-quality Nicaraguan tobacco — is big enough to make 25,000 regular-sized cigars."

Sells for $185K US. Might take a few years to get through!

How long do you need to age that for all the oils to mingle?

[MichaelJB]

5 minutes ago, traveller said:

How long do you need to age that for all the oils to mingle?

More importantly how do you tell the wife you need to expand the mancave to fit in the new humidor!

[MrBirdman]

3 minutes ago, MichaelJB said:

More importantly how do you tell the wife you need to expand the mancave to fit in the new humidor!

Just as long as it’s secured so it can’t fall and crush you. Otherwise she’d have a cigar-version of the scene below 

[traveller]

It might be the ash that would crush you

[NSXCIGAR]

I wouldn't have a problem with longest ash competition if there wasn't so much variation between cigars. In fact I think long ash is almost all due to the leaf and the construction. 

[Cigar Surgeon]

12 hours ago, NSXCIGAR said:

I wouldn't have a problem with longest ash competition if there wasn't so much variation between cigars. In fact I think long ash is almost all due to the leaf and the construction. 

That's why they use NCs for the contest.

🤣

[traveller]

1 hour ago, Cigar Surgeon said:

That's why they use NCs for the contest.

🤣

Happy 1,000th post!

[Cigar Surgeon]

On the 72 hour marathon show for "Meet the Professor", I was invited to do a segment and one of my guests was Marko Bilic who was the originator of the CWSC. I don't believe the content is anywhere but Facebook, but for those of you who would be interested:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=539402420377881

Fast forward to the 2 hour 57 minute'ish mark.