Best Blend of 2024: The Elimination Game Part

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jbfrady

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Wow! The game began just a calendar day ago, but we've already had plenty of traction and that's great to see. Most blends have seen a little action, but Lane 1-Q got so much attention from the fellas that you'd think it was a moderately hot girl at a Comic Con convention.

As you may remember from last year, I'm noting if not a band wagon bitch, so I'll go ahead and toss my vote in as well...

-1 Lane 1-Q
+1 Escudo


Nominees
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AC Peterson
Escudo - 9
Capstan
Capstan Blue - 11
Cascadia

Trail Head - 8
Cornell & Diehl
Eight State Burley - 10
Exclusive - 11
Pegasus - 8
Steamworks - 12
Sun Bear - 8
Winchester - 11
Country Squire
Cowboy Coffee - 10
Shepherds Pie - 9
Daughters & Ryan

3 Sails - 10
Ryback - 9
Drucquer & Sons

Rule Britannia - 10
Dunhill/Peterson
Early Morning Pipe - 9
Erik Stokkebye 4th Gen

1931 Flake - 10
Esoterica
Dunbar - 9

Pembroke - 10
Gawith Hoggarth
Aniseed Twist - 10
Bosun Cut Plug - 7
Bosun Plug - 11

Dark Flake Aromatic - 10
Ennerdale Flake - 11
GL Pease

Bankside - 10
Geometrie - 9
Horizons - 12

Telegraph Hill - 10
Quiet Nights - 14
HU

Makhuwa - 10
Lane
1-Q - 5

BCA - 10
HU Tobacco
Aus dem Krater no. 2 - 10
Director's Cut - 10
Mac Baren
HH Burley Flake - 11

HH Latakia Flake - 10
Old Dark Fired - 10
Royal Twist - 10
Missouri Meerschaum
Luminaire - 10
Orlik
Golden Sliced - 11
Ravenwood

Gates of Argonath - 8
Samuel Gawith

1792 Flake - 16

Cabbie's Roll Cut - 10
Savinelli
Doblone D'Oro - 10
Sutliff

Cringle Flake - 12

Match Victorian - 10
Phantom Privateer - 10
The Old Boss - 10
Watch City
558 - 10
Bipolar Express - 9

@cshubhra is bemoaning the poor performance of Lane 1-Q, especially after having submitted the winner of last year's game. He's attempting to remind us all that 1-Q is technically the most popular blend ever, but Bud Light is the most popular beer in the country... but that doesn't mean that everybody likes it.

Will he continue his winning streak and win us over, or will 1-Q be discontinued... again? Only time will tell. Still, it's probably the latter. Just saying.
 
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I figured, but I didn't want to assume...1Q is already walking the plank, shark food imminent...

I'm trying to only downvote blends I have actually tried, but this leads to another quandary: how is it that I have so much tobacco cellared, yet I have so little tobacco cellared? 🤔 That ought to keep the ol' 🧠 in a 🥨 shape for a while...
 
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jbfrady

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I figured, but I didn't want to assume...1Q is already walking the plank, shark food imminent...

I'm trying to only downvote blends I have actually tried, but this leads to another quandary: how is it that I have so much tobacco cellared, yet I have so little tobacco cellared? 🤔 That ought to keep the ol' 🧠 in a 🥨 shape for a while...
That's what I liked about this game the last time around. In fact, I discovered my favorite blend - HU Dockworker - from this game the last go 'round. @WerewolfOfLondon nominated it, and while he was sorely disappointed by its performance, it got a new fan in me!