Best Blend of 2023: An Elimination Game

[jbfrady]

What do we win if our nomination wins?

Universal acclaim and adulation, without doubt.

 

[vosBghos]

+1 Dunhill/Peterson Flake

 

[pipenschmoeker123]

F & K Lancer Slices

 

[Ash Cooper]

Samuel Gawith Wintertime Flake

 

[jbfrady]

I removed home grown - not because I'm a hater, but because it's the only one with no brand, so it muddles up the look of the list. If you haven't contributed a nominee yet, you may still do so within the next few hours. I've given each 10 hit points to the ones we've scrounged up so far and once per day, you can vote to transfer a hit point from one blend to another. You don't have to post an updated list with each vote, but if there've been half a dozen votes or so since the last list update, feel free to take up that mantle it if you've got the time. This will get much simpler as blends are eliminated.

To cast a vote, you must transfer a hit point from one blend to another, so your vote must include both a plus and a minus. For example, if you're looking to boost up Luxury Navy Flake by Peter Stokkebye and you detest Captain Black Grape to the core of your being, then as it stands with ten hit points each, you'd vote as follows:

Luxury Navy Flake - Peter Stokkebye +1 = 11
Grape - Captain Black -1 = 9

When a blend's hit points reach zero, it is eliminated and cannot be revived. Eventually, there will only be one. Anywho, that's all there is to it. The game starts at midnight, EST. Here's what we've got so far...

Nominees:
Anomalous - Sutliff - 10
Grape - Captain Black - 10
Brown Twist #4 - SG - 10
Aged Burley Flake - Solani - 10
Luxury Navy Flake - Peter Stokkebye - 10
Squadron Leader - SG - 10
Royal - Captain Black - 10
Golden Sliced - Orlik - 10
Red Virginia - Robert McConnell - 10
Dockworker - HU - 10
Oriental Silk - C&D - 10
Match 20 - Sutliff - 10
Pegasus - C&D - 10
Mixture #79 - Sutliff - 10
Rouxgaroux - WCC - 10
Ennerdale - GH - 10
1989 - Erik Stokkebye - 10
Stratfordshire - C&D - 10
Full Virginia Flake - SG - 10
Maple Shadows - Sutliff - 10
Holly's Non Plus Ultra - Dan - 10
Rich Dark Honeydew - GH - 10
From Beyond - C&D - 10
Bob's Chocolate Flake - GH - 10
Hogshead - SPC - 10
Black - Sillem's - 10
Dorchester - Esoterica - 10
American Cut Plug - Watch City - 10
Exclusive - C&D - 10
Skiff Mixture - SG - 10
No. 69 - Peter Henrichs - 10
Flake - Peterson (Dunhill) - 10
Lancer Slices - F&K - 10
Wintertime Flake - SG - 10

 

[BCF]

 

[BCF]

 

[cshubhra]

How many can I add ? In order the ones I want to add

1. GH - Dark Birds Eye
2. Smokers Haven Our Best Blend
3. GH - Dark Flake
4. Dunhill / Peterson - Nightcap
5. Daughters & Ryan - Three Sails

 

[jbfrady]

How many can I add ? In order the ones I want to add

1. GH - Dark Birds Eye
2. Smokers Haven Our Best Blend
3. GH - Dark Flake
4. Dunhill / Peterson - Nightcap
5. Daughters & Ryan - Three Sails

You can add one, least this game last until 2025

 

[Servant King]

if you're looking to boost up Luxury Navy Flake by Peter Stokkebye and you detest Captain Black Grape to the core of your being

You know me well. Too well. Eerily well, in fact. I'm a little scared now...what else do you know?

 

[cshubhra]

This game can be easily gamed by forming alliances

 

[niblicck]

This year it's Peterson's Royal Yacht for me. Wish I'd tried it long ago.

 

[Servant King]

This game can be easily gamed by forming alliances

Yes, but then you run the risk of a last-minute betrayal. At least assuming the human mind is still capable of being organized enough to pull off such a stunt.

Ah, the chaos that would ensue!

 

[cshubhra]

Yes, but then you run the risk of a last-minute betrayal. At least assuming the human mind is still capable of being organized enough to pull off such a stunt.

Ah, the chaos that would ensue!

I am available to be purchased

 

[mingc]

Mix 79 Sutliff +1
Hogshead SPC -1

 

[pipenschmoeker123]

Hogshead - SPC - +1
Dockworker - HU - -1

 

[jbfrady]

The game is on! I added Dark Birds Eye for @cshubhra

My vote:
Anomalous +1
Oriental Silk -1

So far...

Nominees:
Anomalous - Sutliff - 11
Grape - Captain Black - 10
Brown Twist #4 - SG - 10
Aged Burley Flake - Solani - 10
Luxury Navy Flake - Peter Stokkebye - 10
Squadron Leader - SG - 10
Royal - Captain Black - 10
Golden Sliced - Orlik - 10
Red Virginia - Robert McConnell - 10
Dockworker - HU - 9
Oriental Silk - C&D - 9
Match 20 - Sutliff - 10
Pegasus - C&D - 10
Mixture #79 - Sutliff - 11
Rouxgaroux - WCC - 10
Ennerdale - GH - 10
1989 - Erik Stokkebye - 10
Stratfordshire - C&D - 10
Full Virginia Flake - SG - 10
Maple Shadows - Sutliff - 10
Holly's Non Plus Ultra - Dan - 10
Rich Dark Honeydew - GH - 10
From Beyond - C&D - 10
Bob's Chocolate Flake - GH - 10
Hogshead - SPC - 10
Black - Sillem's - 10
Dorchester - Esoterica - 10
American Cut Plug - Watch City - 10
Exclusive - C&D - 10
Skiff Mixture - SG - 10
No. 69 - Peter Henrichs - 10
Flake - Peterson (Dunhill) - 10
Lancer Slices - F&K - 10
Wintertime Flake - SG - 10
Royal Yacht - Peterson - 10
Dark Bird's Eye - GH

 

[WerewolfOfLondon]

Dockworker +1

Skiff mix - 1

 

[Ryan]

1989 + 1
Match 20 - 1

 

[J.Henry845]

Mixture #79 +1
Maple Shadows -1