Unbanded Cigar Contest: Natural Wrappers (habano, Sumatra, Corojo)
EgoBoundary
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This is the 8th iteration of the blind/unbanded cigar contest. The rules are below but basically you are sending me 4 of the same cigars with** same Natural Colored wrapper(see below) ** and I will send you back 4 cigars unbanded. The wrappers should specifically be natural colored Habano, Sumatra, or Corojo. These wrappers should lighter colored, so no maduro/oscuro/negro modifiers please. Other modifiers like claro, colorado are okay. We will exclude San Andres Natural, Connecticut , candela wrappers from this competition. Most other modifiers should be fine. The cigar can be any size or shape. You rank the cigars/score the cigars. Highest scores get a forum fiver, and pride of the forum. Lowest scores get what's coming to them (just more cigars). Sign up for the contest starts today, ending in about two weeks or May 7th.
Submit 4 of the same cigars. Though wrapper is restricted , size can be pretty much anything ( but keep it smaller than 8 inches for shipping purposes) . Please keep the price of the cigars to UNDER 12 dollars each. Mail the submission to me, include either a return label or 9 dollars for me to return/ship you your unbanded cigars. I will not limit the number of people submitting as this hasn’t been a big issue in the past.
I will mail you 4 randomized cigars that will be labeled or marked by ribbon for you to judge. You must be on the good traders list. Do not submit flavored cigars ( no beef with those cigars, but it will influence other submissions)
We are using rank and scoring to judge the cigars.
Rank the cigars 1 through 4 (1 is the best) .
Score of is 10/10 points using the suggestions below
Scoring system:
10 points total
5 points for flavor
3 points for construction
2 points for any complexity/transition in flavors
You can use decimal system as well so you can have 4.5/5 for flavors, etc.
Here is an example of score:
Peter sent me a cigar: flavor was great and got a 4/5, construction was perfect (no burn issues, great smoke production) got a 3/3, and there were some complexity not super impressive and got a 1/2, total score of 8/10.
There are 7 other iterations of this contest for your review in older discussions... the major difference is that this particular contest is the wrapper restrictions. Any cigar that fails to meet wrapper or price restrictions will be penalized one point for each transgression ( you know who you are)
Looking forward to the competition again.
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Though some Sumatra can be quite dark, that is okay for this contest as long as it doesn’t use the words maduro/oscuro to describe it .
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I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
Let's eat, GrandMa. / Let's eat GrandMa. -- Punctuation saves lives
It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.
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@EgoBoundary are you going to let @Rdp77 send his mopeds in for us to ride?
If you mean “ can @Rdp77 submit for other forum members “ the answer is yes.
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My favorite cigar list here
I'd like to try this out, please. Do I send them in banded or unbanded?
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
Either is fine, most people send them with bands, some of them send them unbanded… just make sure to write down what you sent so that I can reveal them at the end of the contest.
I'm in
Absolutely in.
@CommanderDuke1_
@Yakster
@IndustMech
@Rdp77
@rsherman24
@VegasFrank
@ShawnOL
@Vision
Off to a good start
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"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
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@CommanderDuke1_
@Yakster
@IndustMech
@Rdp77
@rsherman24
@VegasFrank
@ShawnOL
@Vision
@peter4jc via @EgoBoundary
@Hobbes86
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I’m in.
@CommanderDuke1_
@Yakster
@IndustMech
@Rdp77
@rsherman24
@VegasFrank
@ShawnOL
@Vision
@peter4jc via @EgoBoundary
@Hobbes86
@Sampson
@GenerosityLeadership
Some new blood, this should be interesting
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On the way
My favorite cigar list here
I have received @peter4jc , @ShawnOL , and @CommanderDuke1_ … thanks guys I will post more about these soon
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"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Hey guys, just a couple of days left to sign up
Also @VegasFrank ’s submission has arrived!
@CommanderDuke1_
@Yakster
@IndustMech
@Rdp77
@rsherman24
@VegasFrank
@ShawnOL
@Vision
@peter4jc
@Hobbes86
@Sampson
@GenerosityLeadership
Since Peter has submitted his own cigars . I am throwing additional forum a submission to the contest.
The choices are :
@silvermouse
@Patrickbrick
@Stubble
Which do you guys think?
#anybodybutrobby
I say all three. You take one…I’ll take one and let’s see if we can someone to pick up the third one.
I'm in also have to defend the title rusty won for me
What’s going on in here? I don’t think I like it.
MOW badge received.
I will take silvermouse, thanks!