Best Blend of 2024: The Elimination Game Part

[spearheadbill]

I don’t math reel gud. Was ogs and bosun already eliminated?

 

[jbfrady]

+1 Cringle Flake
-1 Makhuwa- This one hurts. When I first tried Makhuwa in 2015, I thought that I’d died and gone to heaven.
Since then K&K just raped that blend, flat out destroyed it based on what I bought 5 years later. Maybe it’s better again under K, dunno, but all of those 2020 tins got test smoked and all went in the dumpster.

If ever you find yourself disenchanted with Kopp blends, let me be that dumpster

 

[sablebrush52]

If ever you find yourself disenchanted with Kopp blends, let me be that dumpster

It was really vile, like sour, no chocolate, nasty. I'm surprised the earth didn't belch it back at me. But, hey, I'll let you know if I find anything else too disgusting to smoke.

 

[geoffs]

+ Escudo
- OGS

 

[Servant King]

I say any downvotes cast to an already deceased blend should count as upvotes. Except for OGS, which should of course incur two upvotes, logically speaking. Just a suggestion.

 

[Pipke]

I suspect that the participants in this game have it out for STG with Sutliff and Mac Baren excluded. STG earns blend of the year on Pipes Magazine forum! Anything is possible, but nah... not happening.

 

[Sigmund]

-1 hh burley flake
+1 hu Makhuwa

 

[VDL_Piper]

+1 Telegraph Hill
-1 1972 flake

 

[Manawydan]

+1 Sun Bear
-1 1792 Flake

 

[Grangerous]

+ 1 Pegasus
- 1 Escudo

 

[rsshreck32]

+1 Pegasus
-1 Ennerdale

 

[Sobrbiker]

I suspect that the participants in this game have it out for STG with Sutliff and Mac Baren excluded.

?
Sutliff and MacB have mine blends in play, and over a half dozen other STG blends…

 

[jbfrady]

+Capstan
-Trail Head

Nominees
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AC Peterson
Escudo - 6
Capstan
Capstan Blue - 5
Cascadia
Trail Head - 4
Cornell & Diehl
Eight State Burley - 10
Exclusive - 13
Pegasus - 13
Steamworks - 16
Sun Bear - 12
Winchester - 11
Country Squire
Cowboy Coffee - 9
Shepherds Pie - 9
Daughters & Ryan
3 Sails - 8
Ryback - 11
Drucquer & Sons
Rule Britannia - 10
Dunhill/Peterson
Early Morning Pipe - 12
Erik Stokkebye 4th Gen
1931 Flake - 10
Esoterica
Dunbar - 9
Pembroke - 10
Gawith Hoggarth
Aniseed Twist - 10
Bosun Plug - 14
Dark Flake Aromatic - 10
Ennerdale Flake - 7
GL Pease
Bankside - 11
Geometrie - 9
Horizons - 14
Telegraph Hill - 14
Quiet Nights - 17
HU Tobacco
Aus dem Krater no. 2 - 10
Director's Cut - 12
Makhuwa - 11
Mac Baren
HH Burley Flake - 14
HH Latakia Flake - B12
Old Dark Fired - 10
Royal Twist - 12
Missouri Meerschaum
Luminaire - 11
Ravenwood
Gates of Argonath - 9
Samuel Gawith
1792 Flake - 18
Cabbie's Roll Cut - 10
Savinelli
Doblone D'Oro - 9
Sutliff
Cringle Flake - 17
Match Victorian - 12
Phantom Privateer - 10
The Old Boss - 9
Watch City
558 - 12
Bipolar Express - 6

Deceased
1-Q - Lane
BCA - Lane
Bosun Cut Plug - GH
Golden Sliced - Orlik

@Servant King and @geoffs get to recast votes because Bosun Cut Plug and Orlik, respectively, were already dead before these attempted murders were committed.

1792, a recent favorite not so long ago, has seen the most action of any blend over the past 24 hours and still it comes out slightly worse off for it. If we're to keep with the boxing analogies... At the beginning of the game, this blend was Cassius Clay, achieving impossible heights with imminent and gracious speed. Within the span of a few days, 1792 Flake is now feeling the extent of middle-aged Muhammad Ali. It's taking too many jabs and haymakers to the face and they're starting to wear him down.

Meanwhile, here comes Smokin' Joe in the form of GLP Quiet Nights. It's risen quickly, it's been quieter about it, and now all of a sudden here he is: a threat, and a remarkable one at that. Quiet Nights is also my favorite blend to load up on a rainy day but that's neither here nor there.

What is here or there, however, is George Foreman in the form of Cringle Flake. Fueled by consistent votes from @sablebrush52 with intermittent assists from others, this mo-fo hasn't taken a single loss and he's bound to be a threat all on his own. Who's gonna win this rumble in the jungle?

In truth... probably none of these three. But load up a bowl and keep voting and let's find out.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

@Servant King

 

[jbfrady]

@Servant King

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That needs to be somebody's profile picture.

 

[Servant King]

My quest to bury a Lakeland has succeeded. That was the goal all along--OGS was merely collateral damage.

That said:

That needs to be somebody's profile picture.

Depends what you mean by "needs."

In that case, I'll proceed logically. Bosun Plug -1

@TheIronMonkey that needs to say "underwear guarantee by" at the bottom.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

@TheIronMonkey that needs to say "underwear guarantee by" at the bottom.

Fixed

 

[jbfrady]

My quest to bury a Lakeland has succeeded. That was the goal all along--OGS was merely collateral damage.

That said:

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Depends what you mean by "needs."

In that case, I'll proceed logically. Bosun Plug -1

@TheIronMonkey that needs to say "underwear guarantee by" at the bottom.

Thanks for replying quickly! I was able to update the count accordingly without having to post a separate update.

 

[cshubhra]

The only year I got Cringle Flake was 2020 and with 4 years of age, it has become amazing . I have a tin open right now. Having said that, it needs to be downvoted Don’t hate the player, hate the game

Cringle Flake -1
Capstan Blue +1

 

[jbfrady]

Dammit… I was wrong on one of these but I’ve missed the window…

Ravenwood’s Gates of Argonath is at 10 and not 9