Best Blend of 2024: The Elimination Game Part
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As per Ziph's Law - and the theme of the Old Testament, according to a history teacher of mine back in college - the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. We're back to 11 blends in the 20+ category, with several more in striking distance of that number. Sometime over the next few days we'll have to introduce another temp rule to whittle down some points, and I've already got one planned.
Even still, we lost another blend over the past day, yet another that JimInks called "mildly moist." Either he really likes employing that term (but eww... why?) or the users here have discerning taste and are eliminating wisely. It's hard to say, since 1792 is still here and kicking.
R.I.P. to Phantom Privateer. As @Pipke noted earlier, it's an odd choice in terms of naming a tobacco blend. It seemingly defies the rules of marketing. Phantom Privateer is a full five syllables, and if you add Sutliff before it, it comes to seven syllables. It's just too much. For simplicity's sake, I'll eulogize it as P.P.
Sutliff's P.P. was thrust into the fray, but it was not long for this game. Indeed, this P.P. was unable to penetrate deeply into the game, as instead it came up short. P.P. thought it could measure up to the competition, but in terms of the iceberg, what it saw was just the tip.
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+ Escudo
- Old Dark Fired
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Nominees
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AC Peterson
Escudo - 15
Cornell & Diehl
Eight State Burley - 4
Exclusive - 22
Steamworks - 23
Sun Bear - 24
Winchester - 24
Country Squire
Cowboy Coffee - 12
Daughters & Ryan
Ryback -11
Dunhill/Peterson
Early Morning Pipe - 4
Erik Stokkebye 4th Gen
1931 Flake - 10
Esoterica
Pembroke - 16
Gawith Hoggarth
Aniseed Twist - 8
Bosun Plug - 20
Dark Flake Aromatic - 7
GL Pease
Bankside - 15
Horizons - 11
Telegraph Hill - 21
Quiet Nights - 22
HU Tobacco
Aus dem Krater no. 2 - 13
Director's Cut - 18
Makhuwa - 19
Mac Baren
HH Burley Flake - 20
HH Latakia Flake - 16
Old Dark Fired - 3
Royal Twist - 11
Missouri Meerschaum
Luminaire - 12
Samuel Gawith
1792 Flake - 20
Cabbie's Roll Cut - 11
Savinelli
Doblone D'Oro - 8
Sutliff
Cringle Flake - 20
Match Victorian - 12
Watch City
558 - 23
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
Dunbar - Esoterica
Pegasus - C&D
Shepherds Pie - Country Squire
Gates of Argonath - Ravenwood
The Old Boss - Sutliff
Geometrie - GLP
Phantom Privateer - Sutliff
Even still, we lost another blend over the past day, yet another that JimInks called "mildly moist." Either he really likes employing that term (but eww... why?) or the users here have discerning taste and are eliminating wisely. It's hard to say, since 1792 is still here and kicking.
R.I.P. to Phantom Privateer. As @Pipke noted earlier, it's an odd choice in terms of naming a tobacco blend. It seemingly defies the rules of marketing. Phantom Privateer is a full five syllables, and if you add Sutliff before it, it comes to seven syllables. It's just too much. For simplicity's sake, I'll eulogize it as P.P.
Sutliff's P.P. was thrust into the fray, but it was not long for this game. Indeed, this P.P. was unable to penetrate deeply into the game, as instead it came up short. P.P. thought it could measure up to the competition, but in terms of the iceberg, what it saw was just the tip.
-=--
+ Escudo
- Old Dark Fired
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Nominees
----------------
AC Peterson
Escudo - 15
Cornell & Diehl
Eight State Burley - 4
Exclusive - 22
Steamworks - 23
Sun Bear - 24
Winchester - 24
Country Squire
Cowboy Coffee - 12
Daughters & Ryan
Ryback -11
Dunhill/Peterson
Early Morning Pipe - 4
Erik Stokkebye 4th Gen
1931 Flake - 10
Esoterica
Pembroke - 16
Gawith Hoggarth
Aniseed Twist - 8
Bosun Plug - 20
Dark Flake Aromatic - 7
GL Pease
Bankside - 15
Horizons - 11
Telegraph Hill - 21
Quiet Nights - 22
HU Tobacco
Aus dem Krater no. 2 - 13
Director's Cut - 18
Makhuwa - 19
Mac Baren
HH Burley Flake - 20
HH Latakia Flake - 16
Old Dark Fired - 3
Royal Twist - 11
Missouri Meerschaum
Luminaire - 12
Samuel Gawith
1792 Flake - 20
Cabbie's Roll Cut - 11
Savinelli
Doblone D'Oro - 8
Sutliff
Cringle Flake - 20
Match Victorian - 12
Watch City
558 - 23
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
Dunbar - Esoterica
Pegasus - C&D
Shepherds Pie - Country Squire
Gates of Argonath - Ravenwood
The Old Boss - Sutliff
Geometrie - GLP
Phantom Privateer - Sutliff
mildly moist and limp should be a warning to everyone for anything.
Randy Newman once put it even better: "The rich just get richer, and the poor you don't ever have to see."
What he overlooked however, is that the moist just get moister. Thankfully, only mildly so.
Oh my… such a dilemma. As a predator (even if a small squeaky one that eats mice and chickens). I want to cull the weakest.
But I like(d) Old Dark Fired. However, only the strongest gets a Eulogy, so…
Euthanasia!
-1 HH ODF
+1 HH Burley Flake
But I like(d) Old Dark Fired. However, only the strongest gets a Eulogy, so…
Euthanasia!
-1 HH ODF
+1 HH Burley Flake
If I am ever out that way, I am totally buying you a beverage, brother. (and I am originally from WA, another area that would be wiped out by mobilized Tennesseeans... )Scrappy Americans fight behind enemy lines
Yes Tennesseean’s would annihilate Long Islanders
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