Best Blend of 2024: The Elimination Game Part
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Another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dottle. This time it's Three Sails, by Daughters & Ryan. Never heard of it? Me neither! It faded into obscurity without much of a fight, probably because it lived in obscurity all the same.
A straight golden Virginia shag cut, the great @JimInks once called this blend "uncomplicated," and that's exactly what this game is in losing such a non-contender. The game is heating up now, though, as users are beginning to fire small volleys at the GLP blends ruling the board.
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+ Escudo
- Dunbar
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Nominees
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AC Peterson
Escudo - 13
Cornell & Diehl
Eight State Burley - 11
Exclusive - 17
Pegasus - 6
Steamworks - 14
Sun Bear - 18
Winchester - 14
Country Squire
Cowboy Coffee - 11
Shepherds Pie - 5
Daughters & Ryan
Ryback - 11
Dunhill/Peterson
Early Morning Pipe - 10
Erik Stokkebye 4th Gen
1931 Flake - 10
Esoterica
Dunbar - 3
Pembroke - 11
Gawith Hoggarth
Aniseed Twist - 9
Bosun Plug - 19
Dark Flake Aromatic - 8
GL Pease
Bankside - 14
Geometrie - 9
Horizons - 18
Telegraph Hill - 22
Quiet Nights - 22
HU Tobacco
Aus dem Krater no. 2 - 11
Director's Cut - 16
Makhuwa - 15
Mac Baren
HH Burley Flake - 18
HH Latakia Flake - 14
Old Dark Fired - 8
Royal Twist - 12
Missouri Meerschaum
Luminaire - 12
Ravenwood
Gates of Argonath - 7
Samuel Gawith
1792 Flake - 14
Cabbie's Roll Cut - 10
Savinelli
Doblone D'Oro - 11
Sutliff
Cringle Flake - 23
Match Victorian - 12
Phantom Privateer - 9
The Old Boss - 9
Watch City
558 - 17
Deceased, in order of disappearance:
1-Q - Lane
BCA - Lane
Bosun Cut Plug - GH
Golden Sliced - Orlik
Trail Head - Cascadia
Capstan Blue - Capstan
Rule Britannia - Drucquer & Sons
Bipolar Express - Watch City
Ennerdale Flake - GH
Three Sails - D&R
A straight golden Virginia shag cut, the great @JimInks once called this blend "uncomplicated," and that's exactly what this game is in losing such a non-contender. The game is heating up now, though, as users are beginning to fire small volleys at the GLP blends ruling the board.
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+ Escudo
- Dunbar
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Nominees
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AC Peterson
Escudo - 13
Cornell & Diehl
Eight State Burley - 11
Exclusive - 17
Pegasus - 6
Steamworks - 14
Sun Bear - 18
Winchester - 14
Country Squire
Cowboy Coffee - 11
Shepherds Pie - 5
Daughters & Ryan
Ryback - 11
Dunhill/Peterson
Early Morning Pipe - 10
Erik Stokkebye 4th Gen
1931 Flake - 10
Esoterica
Dunbar - 3
Pembroke - 11
Gawith Hoggarth
Aniseed Twist - 9
Bosun Plug - 19
Dark Flake Aromatic - 8
GL Pease
Bankside - 14
Geometrie - 9
Horizons - 18
Telegraph Hill - 22
Quiet Nights - 22
HU Tobacco
Aus dem Krater no. 2 - 11
Director's Cut - 16
Makhuwa - 15
Mac Baren
HH Burley Flake - 18
HH Latakia Flake - 14
Old Dark Fired - 8
Royal Twist - 12
Missouri Meerschaum
Luminaire - 12
Ravenwood
Gates of Argonath - 7
Samuel Gawith
1792 Flake - 14
Cabbie's Roll Cut - 10
Savinelli
Doblone D'Oro - 11
Sutliff
Cringle Flake - 23
Match Victorian - 12
Phantom Privateer - 9
The Old Boss - 9
Watch City
558 - 17
Deceased, in order of disappearance:
1-Q - Lane
BCA - Lane
Bosun Cut Plug - GH
Golden Sliced - Orlik
Trail Head - Cascadia
Capstan Blue - Capstan
Rule Britannia - Drucquer & Sons
Bipolar Express - Watch City
Ennerdale Flake - GH
Three Sails - D&R
Temporary Rule Addendum
In commemorating the loss of our 10th blend, I think it's time to introduce a change up that'll encourage pooling strategies. It's a challenge of sorts, and it's two-fold. The rule is as follows:
Over the next 24 hours (from the date stamp of this post) the blend which receives the most up-votes will gain 3 extra hit points. The blend that racks up the most down-votes will lose 4 extra hit points.
Looking to save a middling blend, or boost a current favorite? Looking to kill a blend that just won't seem to die, or knock a hot shot contender down a peg? This is your chance.
Thing is... everybody gets only one vote. If your plan is to work, it'll have to incorporate an element of group-think. Or will you choose to ignore the extra points and just vote how you were gonna vote anyway? The choice is yours.
Post your strategies openly, DM each other, talk shit. It's all fair game.
In commemorating the loss of our 10th blend, I think it's time to introduce a change up that'll encourage pooling strategies. It's a challenge of sorts, and it's two-fold. The rule is as follows:
Over the next 24 hours (from the date stamp of this post) the blend which receives the most up-votes will gain 3 extra hit points. The blend that racks up the most down-votes will lose 4 extra hit points.
Looking to save a middling blend, or boost a current favorite? Looking to kill a blend that just won't seem to die, or knock a hot shot contender down a peg? This is your chance.
Thing is... everybody gets only one vote. If your plan is to work, it'll have to incorporate an element of group-think. Or will you choose to ignore the extra points and just vote how you were gonna vote anyway? The choice is yours.
Post your strategies openly, DM each other, talk shit. It's all fair game.
Consider it done!
Meh. Too much human contact for an antisocial misanthrope like myself. Gonna have to give this one a hard pass.
NOW you're speakin' my language!
Gentlemen, we all know the expression about beating a dead horse. However, if we are to partake of this activity, the horse must, in fact, be dead.
GET. PEGASUS. NOW. Or, tomorrow rather...I already voted today.
See I think technically the pease blends we need to attack. I'll help you take out pegasus no problem. It's almost dead thoughGET. PEGASUS. NOW. Or, tomorrow rather...I already voted today.
Statistically, there’s a good chance you’re right. After all, Pegasus only has 6 hit points, so what’s the point in piling on when it’s got so few remaining? Especially when you could focus on taking a lofty blend down to a more reasonable level.
At the same rate, there’s a good chance @Servant King is right. After all, this time last year, Pegasus was among the most contested blends on the board, and eliminating it took days on end because the more you attacked it, the more people wanted to save it.
Hard to say.
I came into this world screaming and covered with someone else’s blood…
I plan on leaving the same way.
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