{"id":29738,"date":"2019-06-21T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T08:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=29738"},"modified":"2019-06-21T10:49:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T08:49:25","slug":"anastasia-arsenova-wins-tallinns-qualifying-tournament-for-cswc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/anastasia-arsenova-wins-tallinns-qualifying-tournament-for-cswc\/","title":{"rendered":"Anastasia Arsenova wins Tallinn\u2019s qualifying tournament for CSWC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 7th cigar festival Fine Spirits & Cigar Weekend (FSCW) carried out by Tallinn Cigar Club and its president Tullio Liblik, came to an end in Tallinn, Estonia on Sunday, June 16.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, June 15th, FSCW held the Northern European Qualifying Tournament of the Cigar Smoking World Championships (CSWC) at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds, which is a most significant place to the Republic of Estonia. At that very same sport, the Singing Revolution took place in the late ’80s.<\/p>\n

The tournament was won by Anastasia Arsenova from Moscow, Russia who earned a ticket to the CSWC finals held in late summer. The Russian lady is the first ever woman who has won Tallinn\u2019s qualifying tournament.<\/p>\n

Arsenova succeeded to keep the official competition cigar, a Macanudo Inspirado Mareva, alight for 2 hours, 43 minutes and 43 seconds.<\/p>\n

\"CSWC<\/p>\n

Winner Anastasia Arsenova |Photo: Veiko Visnapuu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Overall second place finisher was also a woman, Valeria Mikhailova from Russia with a result of 2:20.15, and overall third place was earned by Markku Kukkonen from Finland, the best smoker among men, with a result of 2:12.07.<\/p>\n

Among the ladies, third place finisher was Ulyana Galevskaya from Russia with a result of 1:54.23. Men\u2019s runner-up was Estonian Silver Randalu with a result of 1:56.22, and third place finisher was Kaido Randalu, also from Estonia, with a result of 1:49.20.<\/p>\n

Both, overall winner Arsenova and men\u2019s winner Kukkonen received exclusive watches from a Swiss company Cuervo y Sobrinos as a prize. Altogether 36 cigar smokers attended the qualifying tournament.<\/p>\n

The Estonian competition was followed by a glamorous gala dinner with more than 100 guests. It was presented by the festival\u2019s co-partner Habanos Nordic. Gala dinner was entertained by rockabilly-band The Tri-Tones and dancers from Mystika Dance Studio, the hosts of the night were popular singer Tuuli Rand and well-known entrepreneur Imre Soo\u00e4\u00e4r.<\/p>\n

The three-day festival was topped off with a Sunday brunch at Schl\u00f6sse Hotel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe event was a success! We\u2019re expecting all cigar friends back to Tallinn in 2020, from June 12th to 14th for the next, already 8th Fine Spirits & Cigar Weekend,\u201d summarized Tullio Liblik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tournament was won by Anastasia Arsenova from Moscow, Russia who earned a ticket to the CSWC finals held in late summer. The Russian lady is the first ever woman who has won Tallinn\u2019s qualifying tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":29741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[63,2796],"tags":[5366,5623,5861,5860],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29738"}],"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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}