{"id":11194,"date":"2016-04-22T13:56:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T11:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=11194"},"modified":"2018-11-14T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T12:44:04","slug":"norway-has-held-their-first-slow-smoking-contest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/norway-has-held-their-first-slow-smoking-contest-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway has held their first slow smoking contest ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Augusto Cigars and SOL Cigar Co. hosted the first Norwegian Cigar Smoking World Championship (CSWC) qualification tournament in Norway on April 20, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Christoffer Wahl Sundli made an impressive debut and finished his Macanudo Inspirado Petit Corona after 1 hour and 16 minutes as the slowest Norwegian smoker. He will participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/global-gathering-the-5th-cigar-smoking-world-championship-in-split\/\">CSWC final in Split, Croatia<\/a> in September 2016.<br \/>\nTrond Thomsen, took second place with 1 hour and 1 minute smoking time.<br \/>\nThird place: Knut Are Hole, 54 minutes (not present in attached picture).<\/p>\n<p>The slowest smoker overall in the Norwegian tournament was Igor Kovacic from Sweden (2 hours and 8 minutes). Darren Cioffi, the current holder of the world record, exited the Norwegian tournament after just over 30 minutes, when his cigar cracked\u2026<br \/>\nThere were 15 competitors in all.<\/p>\n<p>The three best smokers received a box of Macanudo cigars (3 different versions) and one bottle of Champagne each. In addition the winner received a collectors pack of three aged Cuban cigars.<\/p>\n<p>Front row (from left): Trond Thomsen, Christoffer Wahl Sundli<br \/>\nBack row (from left): Marko Bilic, Igor Kovacic, Oystein Kleven of Augusto Cigars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augusto Cigars and SOL Cigar Co. hosted the first Norwegian Cigar Smoking World Championship (CSWC) qualification tournament in Norway on April 20, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[63,44],"tags":[2255,5366,1273,1592,1590,1986,2362],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}