Best Blend of 2024: The Elimination Game Part
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- Royal Twist
Nominees
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AC Peterson
Escudo - 6
Capstan
Capstan Blue - 4
Cornell & Diehl
Eight State Burley - 10
Exclusive - 12
Pegasus - 10
Steamworks - 16
Sun Bear - 13
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 - 13
Erik Stokkebye 4th Gen
1931 Flake - 10
Esoterica
Dunbar - 9
Pembroke - 10
Gawith Hoggarth
Aniseed Twist - 10
Bosun Plug - 16
Dark Flake Aromatic - 9
Ennerdale Flake - 7
GL Pease
Bankside - 11
Geometrie - 9
Horizons - 16
Telegraph Hill - 15
Quiet Nights - 19
HU Tobacco
Aus dem Krater no. 2 - 10
Director's Cut - 12
Makhuwa - 12
Mac Baren
HH Burley Flake - 15
HH Latakia Flake - 11
Old Dark Fired - 10
Royal Twist - 12
Missouri Meerschaum
Luminaire - 11
Ravenwood
Gates of Argonath -11
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 - 13
Bipolar Express - 4
Deceased, in order of disappearance:
1-Q - Lane
BCA - Lane
Bosun Cut Plug - GH
Golden Sliced - Orlik
Trail Head - Cascadia
We lost Trail Head today. It made me feel the way you do when someone tells you about a classmate you don't remember from high school passing away. "That's too bad," you might say. "I never really knew the guy, but still..."
Then the other person's like, what do you mean you didn't know Gary? You sat right behind him in home room and you two did that project together in science class.
"I'm pretty sure you're wrong there," you fire back. "I'm pretty sure I'd remember that."
But then he recounts the details and dammit, surely enough, you begin to remember. Problem is... you never really liked Gary very much and that probably accounts for why you forgot him. But say that aloud and you're a dick.
- Royal Twist
Nominees
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AC Peterson
Escudo - 6
Capstan
Capstan Blue - 4
Cornell & Diehl
Eight State Burley - 10
Exclusive - 12
Pegasus - 10
Steamworks - 16
Sun Bear - 13
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 - 13
Erik Stokkebye 4th Gen
1931 Flake - 10
Esoterica
Dunbar - 9
Pembroke - 10
Gawith Hoggarth
Aniseed Twist - 10
Bosun Plug - 16
Dark Flake Aromatic - 9
Ennerdale Flake - 7
GL Pease
Bankside - 11
Geometrie - 9
Horizons - 16
Telegraph Hill - 15
Quiet Nights - 19
HU Tobacco
Aus dem Krater no. 2 - 10
Director's Cut - 12
Makhuwa - 12
Mac Baren
HH Burley Flake - 15
HH Latakia Flake - 11
Old Dark Fired - 10
Royal Twist - 12
Missouri Meerschaum
Luminaire - 11
Ravenwood
Gates of Argonath -11
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 - 13
Bipolar Express - 4
Deceased, in order of disappearance:
1-Q - Lane
BCA - Lane
Bosun Cut Plug - GH
Golden Sliced - Orlik
Trail Head - Cascadia
We lost Trail Head today. It made me feel the way you do when someone tells you about a classmate you don't remember from high school passing away. "That's too bad," you might say. "I never really knew the guy, but still..."
Then the other person's like, what do you mean you didn't know Gary? You sat right behind him in home room and you two did that project together in science class.
"I'm pretty sure you're wrong there," you fire back. "I'm pretty sure I'd remember that."
But then he recounts the details and dammit, surely enough, you begin to remember. Problem is... you never really liked Gary very much and that probably accounts for why you forgot him. But say that aloud and you're a dick.
Temporary Rule Change:
We're approaching New Years Day and in this game, we've got several blends within striking distance of 20 points. It's time we change it up and see what happens.
On your next vote and your next vote only, each user may choose to forego his or her regular vote (+1 and -1) in exchange for one of the following. You may boost a single blend by 2 hit points. Or, you can attack a single blend for 3 hit points.
+2
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OR
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-3
Note: To keep things simple, if you're attacking a blend with 2 or fewer hit points, then no, you do not get to deploy the additional point onto another blend. This way, if votes are nearly simultaneous, there's no splitting hairs as to whether a blend died or not. Also, once New Years passes, if you didn't use the temp vote, it still goes away.
We're approaching New Years Day and in this game, we've got several blends within striking distance of 20 points. It's time we change it up and see what happens.
On your next vote and your next vote only, each user may choose to forego his or her regular vote (+1 and -1) in exchange for one of the following. You may boost a single blend by 2 hit points. Or, you can attack a single blend for 3 hit points.
+2
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OR
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-3
Note: To keep things simple, if you're attacking a blend with 2 or fewer hit points, then no, you do not get to deploy the additional point onto another blend. This way, if votes are nearly simultaneous, there's no splitting hairs as to whether a blend died or not. Also, once New Years passes, if you didn't use the temp vote, it still goes away.
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Oh please. This thread is a sausagefest and you know it!
- 3 Servant KingOh please. This thread is a sausagefest and you know it!
The conspiracy theorist in me thinks you did this temporary rule amendment just to triple minus me...
Has Rule Britannia's number moved at all since the elimination began?! Unacceptable! I'm gonna go bloody its nose.
-3 Rule Britannia
Welcome to the fight, ruler of the waves, prepare to be scuttled.
-3 Rule Britannia
Welcome to the fight, ruler of the waves, prepare to be scuttled.
Why would this be a surprise? I proposed Cringle Flake for my recommendation so why would I not continue to support it? If it goes down in flames I'll see if there's another blend that I can support or walk away.
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