The US Cigar Slow Smoking World Championship pre-qualification rounds are now done. Some events were canceled but all in all 17 competitions took place between June 23 and August 6. They offered a various degree of excitement, of course. Some qualifiers were a close race, some not so much. Some of the winners smoked for long while some didn\u2019t have to. Shane Ireland, the champion of Little River, South Carolina, even made it into this year\u2019s Top 20, at least for a while.<\/p>\n
The winners will now meet up at BURN by Rocky Patel in Indianapolis, Indiana on August 13 to decide who gets to represent the US at the Grande Finale in Split in the beginning of September.<\/p>\n
These are the winners on the circuit:
\nDrew Emch (Apex, North Carolina) 1:30:01
\nDalton Cole (Atlanta, Georgia) 1:39:47
\nChristina Bartnikowski (Media, Pennsylvania) 1:24:50
\nShane Ireland (Little River, South Carolina) 1:47
\nNicole Fielder (Germantown, Wisconsin) 1:11:32
\nMichael Imagna (Orchard Park, New York) 1:14:48
\nJD Preston (Ashland, Kentucky) 1:23
\nMike Lamen (Naples, Florida) 1:39:08
\nChris Ginn\u00a0(Omaha, Nebraska)\u00a01:33
\nRobb Webb (Huntersville, North Carolina) 1:31:19
\nCasey Bonincontro (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 1:32:44
\nBarrett Johnson (Evansville, Indiana) 57:54
\nSteve Pullin (Anthem, Arizona) 1:30:02
\nMichael Gomez (Noblesville, Indiana) 1:21:24
\nMike Williams (Houston, Texas) 1:26:39
\nMose Ramieh (Troy, Michigan) 1:42
\nSergio Diaz (Placentia, California) 1:29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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