{"id":68087,"date":"2024-07-01T10:38:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T08:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=68087"},"modified":"2024-07-01T10:38:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T08:38:55","slug":"samir-rzayev-cswc-champion-in-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/samir-rzayev-cswc-champion-in-azerbaijan\/","title":{"rendered":"Samir Rzayev CSWC Champion in Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">20 competitors showed up to the third edition of Cigar Smoking World Championship in Azerbaijan, and the obvious favorite was the 2023 champion, Elnur Adilov from Baku Cigar Club. This wasn\u2019t his year, however.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe cigar began to burn &#8222;spoon&#8220;, and being carried away by fixing this problem Elnur was eliminated just 47 minutes into the competition,\u201d organizer and CSWC judge, Yevgeniy Zhidkov, says.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\">For the last half an hour two other guys fought for the title as newcomer Elnur Mammadov pushed Samir Rzayev, a board member of the cigar club Aficionados of Baku, into breaking his personal record as well as the national record.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\">At 1 hour 58 minutes and 51 minutes he was almost exactly 11 minutes ahead of Mammadov and another 30 minutes ahead of\u00a0Ayhan Askerov in third place.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\">Rzayev\u2019s result wasn\u2019t the best this evening, though. Guest of honor, 2024 year\u2019s second runner-up at the grand final, Anastasia Arsenova, once again proved she\u2019s one of the favorites.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThis year she decided to participate in all the tournaments held by me,\u201d Zhidkov says. \u201cThis time she gave up at the second minute of the third hour, realizing that she wouldn\u2019t reach a better time than in Kazakhstan.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Her time in Kazakhstan of 3 hours 24 minutes and 11 seconds took her to 8<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> place on the all time top 20 list.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1.<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Samir Rzayev 1:58:51<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">2.<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Elnur Mammadov 1:47:52<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">3.<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Ayhan Askerov 1:16:21<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 competitors showed up to the third edition of Cigar Smoking World Championship in Azerbaijan, and the obvious favorite was the 2023 champion, Elnur Adilov from Baku Cigar Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":68088,"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\/68087"}],"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=68087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68091,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68087\/revisions\/68091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}