Best Blend of 2023: An Elimination Game

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FLDRD

Lifer
Oct 13, 2021
2,237
9,055
Arkansas
1989 -2

Living:
Anomalous - Sutliff - 15
Brown Twist #4 - SG - 10
Luxury Navy Flake - Peter Stokkebye - 19
Squadron Leader - SG - 10
Golden Sliced - Orlik - 12
Red Virginia - Robert McConnell - 11
Dockworker - HU - 12
Oriental Silk - C&D - 11
Pegasus - C&D - 6
Rouxgaroux - WCC - 12
Ennerdale - GH - 18
1989 - Erik Stokkebye - 20
Full Virginia Flake - SG - 21
Maple Shadows - Sutliff - 19
Holly's Non Plus Ultra - Dan - 7
Rich Dark Honeydew - GH - 15
Bob's Chocolate Flake - GH - 13
Black - Sillem's - 17
Dorchester - Esoterica - 14
American Cut Plug - Watch City - 9
Skiff Mixture - SG - 13
No. 69 - Peter Henrichs - 10
Flake - Peterson (Dunhill) - 13
Lancer Slices - F&K - 10
Wintertime Flake - SG - 13
Dark Bird's Eye - GH - 20

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

Whoever the idiot is running this game, he's allowed voters to cast double-positives and now we're seeing several blends crossing the 20-hit point threshold. Even still, From Beyond has been sent to meet its maker, and by that, I'm not necessarily referring to Jeremy Reeves. This is the third C&D blend to fall in battle and only two of their creations remain. Once so high and lofty, Pegasus now finds himself alarmingly at risk. If this game is an all-out drunken barroom brawl, Oriental Silk is cowering on wobbly knees beneath a table, trying not to piss himself, and praying nobody notices his presence. In short, Cornell & Diehl blends are performing about as well as a pack of winded fat fellas in an uphill foot race.
Oriental Silk +2

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