Best Blend of 2024: The Elimination Game Part
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Is it true that Longchamps are made from balsa wood under the leather?
Hmmm ... maybe that’s why it came with a propeller and rubber band ...
If 1792 gets knocked out there will no longer be a blend I care about in the running, so I'll just use every vote from there on out to vehemently spite all the G.L. Pease and C&D fans who downvoted 1792. Mess with the bull and ya get the horns.
The temp rules have ended and the results have been tallied. On the up vote side, it wasn't even close. 1792 flake cleaned up, bringing in 6 pluses where the next closest competitor landed at 3. For the most part, the fellas on this forum weren't focused on group think on that front... that or they didn't read my post. Tisk, tisk.
But on the negative side, we rode into the finals with a three way tie: Pegasus, 1792, and Horizons all had 6 down votes. But then... along came a @VDL_Piper. His vote carried 1792 to a total of 7 down votes, which makes it the biggest loser. Therefore, 1792 is granted +3 hit points... right before it loses 4. Net -1.
With only 2 hit points remaining, Pegasus would've perished if that final vote had gone a little differently. I've gotta say, this makes two years in a row that the controversy of this blend has breathed life into this game. I haven't seen a horse endure such punishment since Major, in Orwell's Animal Farm.
(You may not get that joke, but I can assure you, your high school English teachers would've loved it.)
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+ Escudo
- Dunbar
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Nominees
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AC Peterson
Escudo - 15
Cornell & Diehl
Eight State Burley - 11
Exclusive - 17
Pegasus - 2
Steamworks - 16
Sun Bear - 19
Winchester - 14
Country Squire
Cowboy Coffee - 12
Shepherds Pie - 4
Daughters & Ryan
Ryback - 11
Dunhill/Peterson
Early Morning Pipe - 10
Erik Stokkebye 4th Gen
1931 Flake - 10
Esoterica
Dunbar - 2
Pembroke - 12
Gawith Hoggarth
Aniseed Twist - 9
Bosun Plug - 20
Dark Flake Aromatic - 8
GL Pease
Bankside - 14
Geometrie - 9
Horizons - 13
Telegraph Hill - 22
Quiet Nights - 21
HU Tobacco
Aus dem Krater no. 2 - 11
Director's Cut - 17
Makhuwa - 15
Mac Baren
HH Burley Flake - 19
HH Latakia Flake - 15
Old Dark Fired - 8
Royal Twist - 12
Missouri Meerschaum
Luminaire - 12
Ravenwood
Gates of Argonath - 6
Samuel Gawith
1792 Flake - 13
Cabbie's Roll Cut - 10
Savinelli
Doblone D'Oro - 11
Sutliff
Cringle Flake - 25
Match Victorian - 12
Phantom Privateer - 9
The Old Boss - 10
Watch City
558 - 18
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
But on the negative side, we rode into the finals with a three way tie: Pegasus, 1792, and Horizons all had 6 down votes. But then... along came a @VDL_Piper. His vote carried 1792 to a total of 7 down votes, which makes it the biggest loser. Therefore, 1792 is granted +3 hit points... right before it loses 4. Net -1.
With only 2 hit points remaining, Pegasus would've perished if that final vote had gone a little differently. I've gotta say, this makes two years in a row that the controversy of this blend has breathed life into this game. I haven't seen a horse endure such punishment since Major, in Orwell's Animal Farm.
(You may not get that joke, but I can assure you, your high school English teachers would've loved it.)
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+ Escudo
- Dunbar
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Nominees
----------------
AC Peterson
Escudo - 15
Cornell & Diehl
Eight State Burley - 11
Exclusive - 17
Pegasus - 2
Steamworks - 16
Sun Bear - 19
Winchester - 14
Country Squire
Cowboy Coffee - 12
Shepherds Pie - 4
Daughters & Ryan
Ryback - 11
Dunhill/Peterson
Early Morning Pipe - 10
Erik Stokkebye 4th Gen
1931 Flake - 10
Esoterica
Dunbar - 2
Pembroke - 12
Gawith Hoggarth
Aniseed Twist - 9
Bosun Plug - 20
Dark Flake Aromatic - 8
GL Pease
Bankside - 14
Geometrie - 9
Horizons - 13
Telegraph Hill - 22
Quiet Nights - 21
HU Tobacco
Aus dem Krater no. 2 - 11
Director's Cut - 17
Makhuwa - 15
Mac Baren
HH Burley Flake - 19
HH Latakia Flake - 15
Old Dark Fired - 8
Royal Twist - 12
Missouri Meerschaum
Luminaire - 12
Ravenwood
Gates of Argonath - 6
Samuel Gawith
1792 Flake - 13
Cabbie's Roll Cut - 10
Savinelli
Doblone D'Oro - 11
Sutliff
Cringle Flake - 25
Match Victorian - 12
Phantom Privateer - 9
The Old Boss - 10
Watch City
558 - 18
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
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Ennerdale died two blends ago. But I've just posted an update, so if you see this quickly I can edit your vote into the most recent totals.
You got this. Just look at the above post and focus solely on the blends above the word Deceased
Don't. Cast a vote on favour of 1792 and against pegasus it's so easy
