Today, a New Slow Smoking Champion will be Born | Cigar Journal

The Cigar Smoking World Championship qualification circuit is over. Only the Grand Finale in the Croatian coastal city of Split is left. Today, September 3, a new slow smoking champion will be born, but who will it be? This year competitions were held in no less than 30 countries, some with pre-qualifiers. The US alone had 17 regional showdowns before the national final in Indianapolis. On top of that, several events called Time Chases have taken place as a spot on the top 20 of the season also means a place in the final. Some races were really, really close. In India Pranav Aggarwal was just one and eight minutes ahead of second and third place, in Belgium the difference was only 47 seconds when Anthony Baert beat Gilles Tanghe and in Croatia it was even closer when was Guy Pardillos was crowned champion. In the end only 29 seconds separated him from Ivan Zizic. Other contests weren’t dramatic at all. In Germany former world champion Hauke Walter formally crushed all competition when he managed to smoke for 3 hours 19 minutes and 2 seconds, almost one and a half hour longer than second place, Mattias Probst, who incidentally missed…
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