The Cigar Smoking World Championship organization called it the most anticipated qualification round of the season. Sweden prides itself with a few top names, including former world champion Henrik Kristensson, two time Swedish champion Mikael \u201cZeke\u201d Zander and of course, the until recently world record holder Igor Kovacic, commonly known as \u201cThe Swedish Tiger\u201d.<\/p>\n
Out of the three, last year\u2019s qualification round, which was a Swedish\/Danish combo held in Copenhagen, only featured Zeke for various reasons. This year, all three of them were going to go head to head for the title, but just like last year Kovacic didn\u2019t turn up. Word on the street, or in the lounge at least, was it was due to a man cold. This we will probably never know.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the qualification was held at what is definitely one of the most spectacular cigar lounge location in the world. In the north tower of the steps leading up to the only remaining part of a 14th<\/sup> century castle in Helsingborg, lies the headquarters of the cigar association Garrarna, with a bridge-like terrace overlooking the steps, city, \u00d6resund and even Denmark.<\/p>\n Kristensson and Zeke positioned themselves at a corner table, as far away from the doors and the rest of the participants as possible. It was obvious who took this the most seriously.<\/p>\n And of course, in the end it came down to these two gentlemen. When Bo Petersson\u2019s cigar went out after one hour and 18 minutes the two guys in the corner didn\u2019t flinch. Judge Pierre Gustavsson sat down at the table and followed the whole denouement and at one hour, 58 minutes and 30 seconds he concluded Zeke to be the winner, for the third time in the row.<\/p>\n \u201cThe room was a bit too light for those top performances. It makes it hard to see the glow of the cigar properly, but I\u2019m happy I was able to win for a third time, despite the tough competition. Too bad Igor wasn\u2019t here, though. I would have enjoyed beating him too,\u201d he laughs.<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mikael \u201cZeke\u201d Zander 2:12:21 The Cigar Smoking World Championship organization called it the most anticipated qualification round of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":63540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[49,63,44],"tags":[5366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63539"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63544,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63539\/revisions\/63544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Henrik Kristensson 1:58:30
\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bo Petersson 1:18:50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"