Raymond Raymond He's Our Man !!!!!

[pstlpkr]

Raymond did us proud!

Here are the results:
Raymond:

Placed 34th out of 400 contestants

His time: 1 hour 45 minutes and change

Set a new record: Best time ever for an American at the World Smoking Championship!

And, Highest place ever for an American Smoking Champion
Raymond Lykins
Edit:

Here is the link: Top 10 Times
Hope he brings home some secrets....

 

[bubbadreier]

Way to go Raymond!!!

 

[menckenite]

Congratulations Raymond! An impressive showing.

 

[classicgeek]

That's about an hour better than my best! Way to go, Raymond. An amazing result.
Simon

 

[cortezattic]

That's great news! Congrats Raymond for a great time-mark, and picking up a couple of awards of recognition.

That competition had to be fierce! All that, and despite the handicap of not having access to the pipe model

and tobacco blend during practice and conditioning. Well done.
Like Simon, I too am impressed. Under contest constraints the best I've managed is about 33 minutes

-- and that was with C&D's Night Train!

 

[admin]

Great job Raymond! Your time shows you've been practicing.
Bob & I heard that the competition is unbelievably fierce over there, and you did great.
Congratulations!

 

[unclearthur]

Excellent!

 

[scratchglfr]

Excellent job you are a master of the art.

 

[python]

Way to go and Congrats Raymond!
Lawrence,

The link that you posted doesn't show the Top 10 Times. What was the number 1 time?

 

[pstlpkr]

Hey Bob,
They changed it.
I think it was 3 hours 10 minutes & change.

 

[ernest]

Congratulations Raymond !! Nicely done.

 

[hobie1dog]

3 hours??????

 

[fred]

The accolades are well deserved Raymond!

This is a sport that requires absolute concentration.

Good for you!

 

[pstlpkr]

Hey Hobie....
Believe it... the 3 hour 10 minute mark is about 23 minutes short of last years mark.
Like I said: I hope Raymond brings back some newly uncovered secrets.

 

[spacecowboy57]

I don't get it. What do you do?

 

[mlaug]

Smoke.
In slow motion.

 

[pstlpkr]

Hey Space,

Raymond nailed what a slow smoke is at about the 18:30 mark in his interview.

Check out Raymond's blog posts and even mine may explain it to you.

It really is a sport and very competitive.

 

[tanless1]

I'm thrilled if I make 6min before relight required.

 

[jship079]

is there a link to the rules pipe size and type type of tobacco etc.

 

[pstlpkr]

Here ya go jship079.

This might fit the bill.