Best Blend of 2023: An Elimination Game

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Scottmi

Lifer
Oct 15, 2022
4,039
58,905
Orcas, WA
oh my good gracious, is it still alive?
Dorchester +2 !!

oh dear, i see it found an ignoble end. in that case,
Bob's Chocolate Flake +1
Dark Birdseye -1
 
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Part of the Furniture Now
Jul 27, 2023
752
3,258
South Carolina
- 1989
- Ennerdale

Living:
Anomalous - Sutliff - 15
Brown Twist #4 - SG - 8
Luxury Navy Flake - Peter Stokkebye - 14
Squadron Leader - SG - 6
Golden Sliced - Orlik - 11
Red Virginia - Robert McConnell - 11
Dockworker - HU - 13
Oriental Silk - C&D - 13
Rouxgaroux - WCC - 14
Ennerdale - GH - 23
1989 - Erik Stokkebye - 23
Full Virginia Flake - SG - 19
Rich Dark Honeydew - GH - 15
Bob's Chocolate Flake - GH - 15
Black - Sillem's - 13
American Cut Plug - Watch City - 7
Skiff Mixture - SG - 15
Flake - Peterson (Dunhill) - 12
Lancer Slices - F&K - 10
Wintertime Flake - SG - 13
Dark Bird's Eye - GH - 19

Deceased
:
Grape - Captain Black
Match 20 - Sutliff
Hogshead - Seattle Pipe Club
Royal - Captain Black
Royal Yacht - Peterson
Exclusive - C&D
Stratfordshire - C&D
Mixture #79 - Sutliff
Aged Burley Flake - Solani
From Beyond - C&D
Pegasus - C&D
Holly's Non Plus Ultra - Dan
Dorchester - Esoterica
No. 69 - Peter Henrichs
Maple Shadows - Sutliff

Nothing quite so newsworthy this time around... Squadron Leader gets knocked down, then he gets up again, seems you're never gonna keep him down. And nobody died today, but the blends at the top are beginning to take quite the haircut - namely, the Luxury Flake. In fact, this particular Stokkebye blend had a showing not unlike that of Donald Trump in Iowa: Plenty of selections were technically on the ballot, but over half the votes landed on a single candidate. If it hopes to survive, it'll need to wall itself off and make Ennerdale pay for it.