{"id":16720,"date":"2017-07-19T14:05:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T12:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=16720\/"},"modified":"2018-11-14T12:59:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T11:59:58","slug":"bill-hroncich-to-represent-the-u-s-at-the-2017-slow-smoking-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/bill-hroncich-to-represent-the-u-s-at-the-2017-slow-smoking-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Greenwald to Represent the U.S. at the 2017 Slow Smoking Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national and regional qualification tournaments prior to the 2017 Cigar Smoking World Championship (CSWC) are finally completed. Now is the time to prepare for the actual <a title=\"Cigar Smoking World Championship Finale 2017\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/the-cigar-smoking-world-championship-2017\">World Championship in Slow Smoking on September 1, 2017 in Split, Croatia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cigar Journal will provide a brief review of the qualification season. Today, we look back on the four events held in the U.S.A.<br \/>\nThe first competition took place at Cigars by Chivas in Pasadena, California. Mr Edgar Paez won this competition after 1.5 hours (01:34:22).<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chase Lyle achieved the best time at his own cigar bar Primings Cigar Lounge &amp; Bar in Nashville (02:45:37).<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Patricia Benden from Germany (02:33:27) won the title at Biggs Mansion in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>At New York City\u2019s Club Macanudo, Mr Igor Kovacic from Sweden, who participated as a guest-smoker, set a new world record at close to 3 hours (02:55:27). Mr Bill Hroncich took the title as U.S. champion (01:37:03). Wayne Greenwald finished only 30 seconds off and will represent the U.S. in Split, since Bill Hroncich will not be able to attend the Grand Finale.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16722\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16722\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-usa.jpg\" alt=\"Cigar Smoking World Championship 2017 Winner USA\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-usa.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-usa-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-usa-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-16722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Club Mareva<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national and regional qualification tournaments prior to the 2017 Cigar Smoking World Championship (CSWC) are finally completed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[53,49,2808,2796],"tags":[5366,4136,2851],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16720"}],"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=16720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}