{"id":68574,"date":"2024-08-29T22:49:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=68574"},"modified":"2024-08-29T22:49:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:49:44","slug":"ivam-zizic-defended-his-cswc-title-in-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/ivam-zizic-defended-his-cswc-title-in-croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivam \u017di\u017ei\u0107 Defended his CSWC Title in Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the last report is in, and it\u2019s none other than the home of slow smoking, Croatia. Now, only the final remains on Saturday and the Croatian representative is a well-known one. His name was mentioned among the favorites on beforehand last year, when he took home the Croatian title with a smoking time just three minutes shy of the three-hour mark. Ivan \u017di\u017ei\u0107 had lost the qualifier the year before by just 29 seconds, but in 2023 his performance resulted in a 6th<\/sup> place on the Top 20-list. Unfortunately he didn\u2019t do as well in the grand finale in Split, ending up just outside of the top ten, but now it seems he\u2019s going for the win again.<\/p>\n

A total of 10 competitors participated in the Cigar Smoking World Championship qualifier in Croatia this year. It was held at the Mandrach Restaurant in Split, the same venue used for the first day of the CSWC grand finale in 2023. Among the competitors was Toni Stoilov, the inaugural world champion of the CSWC in 2010, but this year he found himself outside the top three.<\/p>\n

\u017di\u017ei\u0107\u2019s main rivals this time were last year\u2019s runner-up, Dino Tomic, and Nenad Medak.<\/p>\n

\u201cThroughout the competition, the top three competitors were closely matched in both time and cigar length, with Medak initially holding a slight advantage,\u201d the CSWC organization reports. \u201cUnfortunately, early in the race, Medak’s cigar began to tunnel, and by the midpoint, it was burning unevenly on the wrapper side.\u201d<\/p>\n

This setback caused him to fall behind, leaving Tomic and \u017di\u017ei\u0107 alone in the fight for the crown. \u201cDespite struggling with an uneven burn throughout the race, \u017di\u017ei\u0107 managed to stay in competion. In the final moments, Tomic’s cigar began to burn faster and in the wrong place, leading to it burning the ring and costing him the win. \u017di\u017ei\u0107 seized the opportunity, extending his smoking time by another two minutes before calling time and securing first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the final time of 2 hours 25 minutes and 29 seconds might not be one of the absolute best, but it gave him an 18th<\/sup> place on the Top 20, and there\u2019s obviously more where that came from. Tomic\u2019s time wasn\u2019t too bad either, especially considering the 15-minute penalty, but he won\u2019t compete in the grand finale anyway, since he\u2019s part of the organizing team.<\/p>\n

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  1. Ivan \u017di\u017ei\u0107 2:25:29<\/li>\n
  2. Dino Tomic 2:09:16<\/li>\n
  3. Nenad Medak 1:58:04<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So the last report is in, and it\u2019s none other than the home of slow smoking, Croatia. Now, only the final remains on Saturday and the Croatian representative is a well-known one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":68575,"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\/68574"}],"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=68574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68578,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68574\/revisions\/68578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}