{"id":63774,"date":"2023-06-18T10:57:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T08:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=63774"},"modified":"2023-06-18T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T08:57:28","slug":"loser-winner-of-cswc-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/loser-winner-of-cswc-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Loser winner of CSWC in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, sorry Ren\u00e9 Loser for the headline. It\u2019s definitely not the first time, I realize that, but hopefully it\u2019ll be the last. But probably not.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the oldest qualifications rounds in the history of the Cigar Smoking World Championship are Estonia and Switzerland. While Estonia is one of the last competitions of the season, Switzerland\u2019s took place in the beginning of June. The competition goes under the name of Big Alpine Smoke and it was held in Cigar Club Chur about an hour outside of Z\u00fcrich.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s champion Natasha Nicolazzi was back to defend her title, and it was a close call, but in the end she had to admit defeat. A ten minute penalty for losing ash made the time difference bigger, but even without that she would sitll have been a minute behind Loser, the winner. Sorry again.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>His time of 1 hour 12 minutes and 1 second was enough to take this first time competitor to the final in Split in September.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Ren\u00e9 Loser 1:12:01<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\u00b7 Natasha Nicolazzi 1:01:02<br \/>\n\u00b7 Yves Vonlanthen 40:00<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSWC in Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":63777,"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\/63774"}],"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=63774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63779,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63774\/revisions\/63779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}