Simon Lundh

20 competitors showed up to the third edition of Cigar Smoking World Championship in Azerbaijan, and the obvious favorite was the 2023 champion, Elnur Adilov from Baku Cigar Club.

Kosovo is the latest addition to the Cigar Smoking World Championship circuit, and unsurprisingly the country’s first ever qualifier took place at the newly opened Club Mareva in the capital, Pristhina.

Everyone was expecting a showdown between three times champion Wilson C and defending champion Yadie Dayana at Malaysia’s slow smoking qualifier, but these hopes were destroyed after just eleven minutes. 

Once again, Daniel Friedenthaler proved he’s Austria’s superior slow smoker.

21 cigar athletes, as organizer Evgeniy Zhidkov puts it, gathered at Havana Club in Tbilisi to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the lounge by smoking a cigar for as long as they could.

Felix Matei as the Romanian national slow smoking champion is starting to get as reliable as nighttime turning into day.

Once again, the 19 century mansion, KK fon Stricka villa in Riga, posed as battle stage when the Latvian qualifier for the Cigar Smoking World Championship took place in the beginning of June.

For the first time in the history of the Cigar Smoking World Championship a national champion has been stripped of his or her title.

It was a remarkable night for Anastasya Arsenova when the Cigar Smoking World Championship qualifier was held in Kazakhstan.

This year, the dominating force of Slovakian slow smoking, Peter Novysedlák, not only defended his title; he also set a new Slovakian record.