{"id":72159,"date":"2025-06-30T14:32:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=72159"},"modified":"2025-06-30T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:32:38","slug":"huberli-wins-cswc-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/huberli-wins-cswc-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"H\u00fcberli Wins CSWC Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the longest running national Cigar Smoking World Championship qualifiers in the world was recently held for the 11<sup>th<\/sup> time. As always, the Swiss qualification round, took place under the name Big Alpine Smoke at Don Alejandro\u2019s Cigar Lounge in Chur, an hour outside of Z\u00fcrich. The place might have been the same, but the people were all new, at least in the top three.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most notably was the absence of the national champion from 2021, 2022 and 2024, Natasha Nicolazzi. Instead, Swiss got a new, but in the cigar world well seasoned champion. As chief editor of the cigar.ch website, Tobias H\u00fcberli is a long-time friend of the CSWC and one of Switzerland\u2019s most respected cigar voices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTobias is a great champion and a true ambassador of our community,\u201d organizer Gian Carlo Casparis remarked. \u201cIt was special to see him win here, in this historic year for CSWC Switzerland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTobias brings not only deep knowledge but also a profound love for the culture of cigars, and on this night, he demonstrated his mastery of the art of slow smoking,\u201d CSWC founder Marko Bilic adds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The competition was far from one-sided, though. In an intense and well-fought battle for the podium, Rainer Oberholzer pushed hard, finishing just five minutes behind H\u00fcberli, and 35 seconds behind him Fabian Sutter added even more drama to one of the closest Swiss races in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe quality of the competition and the atmosphere of camaraderie spoke to the deep roots CSWC now enjoys in Switzerland,\u201d Bilic concludes. \u201cIt\u2019s a testament to the tireless work of Casparis and his dedicated team, who have helped make this qualifier a cornerstone of the championship calendar.\u201d<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Tobias H\u00fcberli 1:23:24<\/li>\n<li>Rainer Oberholzer 1:19:00<\/li>\n<li>Fabian Sutter 1:18:25<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As always, the Swiss qualification round, took place under the name Big Alpine Smoke at Don Alejandro\u2019s Cigar Lounge in Chur, an hour outside of Z\u00fcrich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":72160,"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\/72159"}],"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=72159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72163,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72159\/revisions\/72163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}