{"id":35319,"date":"2020-06-11T12:39:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=35319"},"modified":"2020-06-11T12:40:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:40:57","slug":"stunning-results-at-cswc-stay-strong-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/stunning-results-at-cswc-stay-strong-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning Results at CSWC \u201eStay Strong\u201c-Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During the global lockdown the Cigar Smoking World Championship (CSWC) qualifiers\u00a0are being held in a new format called \u201cStay Strong\u201d. The bi-weekly qualifiers are being held each 2nd Friday at 8pm CET via Zoom video conferences: ID 923 757 2471, Password slowsmoke. The next session is scheduled for June 12, 2020. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The kick-off was held on Friday, April 18th, 2020 and we have seen some stunning results during these tournaments (see the current Top 10-list below).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">You know my friends, it is fun to see more and more people hucked up on our CSWC online competition, it is happiness when you see that they can&#8217;t wait to take part again and again in this unique zoom challenge which truly brings fun, a lot of leafing and entertainment but also in the same time and excitement and happiness when good result is achieved&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Marko Bili\u0107, founder and president of the CSWC noted: \u201eBeing online and at home, the competitors are in a different atmosphere compared to previous competitions. The comfort of their home provides them more relaxation and focus, with little distraction. Also, the new official competition cigar \u2013 the Rocky Patel CSWC \u2013 obviously allows an extremely slow burn.\u201c <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Many new competitors \u2013 men and women alike \u2013 are reaching smoking times between two and three hours and more. Of course, the leading champions show impressing results, as well. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Hauke Walter from Germany, called &#8222;Iceman&#8220;, a former world champion won one of the online qualifiers at 195 minutes. And Alexander Shagai (pictured) from Russia recently even set a new world record at 227 minutes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Tomorrow, Friday, June 12, a large group of the Odessa Cigar Club is ready to compete in the tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/STAY-STRONG-TOP10-2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-35326 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/STAY-STRONG-TOP10-2-770x770.jpg\" alt=\"Stay Strong Top 10\" width=\"520\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/STAY-STRONG-TOP10-2-770x770.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/STAY-STRONG-TOP10-2-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/STAY-STRONG-TOP10-2-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/STAY-STRONG-TOP10-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the global lockdown the Cigar Smoking World Championship (CSWC) qualifiers\u00a0are being held in a new format called \u201cStay Strong\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":35324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[53,49,2808,63,44],"tags":[5366,6177,6240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35319"}],"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=35319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}