{"id":72392,"date":"2025-07-25T11:09:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=72392"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:09:26","slug":"ranawala-wins-indian-cswc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/ranawala-wins-indian-cswc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranawala Wins Indian CSWC"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time in three years, the Indian slow smoking record wasn\u2019t <\/em>broken during their national Cigar Smoking World Championship qualifier, but it could\u2019ve been.<\/p>\n

The event was hosted by India Cigar Club, a part of Luxury Ampers and Frolics Group, at the specially converted venue Thanks & Beyond in New Delhi.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe event brought together discerning participants, cigar sommeliers, and select invitees in a celebration of ritual, heritage, and precision,\u201d Shruthi Gupta, partnership manager at Luxury Ampers and Frolics Group. \u201cThe ambience was one of a meditative focus, with beautifully crafted cocktails, scrumptious food and a pre-party with sake, whiskeys, tequila, wine and snacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actual competition turned into what might be the one with the most penalties on the circuit this year. Within the first half hour, several contestants were penalized and all of the top three received at least 18 minutes in penalties. In fact, Ramit Narang\u2019s time of 1 hour and 48 minutes would\u2019ve won it for him, hadn\u2019t he received his penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsistent and methodical, Ramit held his lead until the final third of the cigar before conceding time due to a mid-round penalty,\u201d Gupta explains.<\/p>\n

Instead he had to settle for second place with a time of 1 hour and 30 minutes, as the title of champion went to Vikramaditya Ranawala at 1 hour and 46 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn exercise in stoic control, Vikramaditya\u2019s unshakable pace earned him the national title and a place at the world finale in Split, Croatia.\u201d<\/p>\n

In turn, his 20 minute penalty cost him the Indian record and the historical achievement of being the first Indian slow smoker to break the two hour barrier. Instead, the national record of 1 hour 59 minutes and 3 seconds, all penalty free and set by last year\u2019s winner, Aakansha Vashist, remains.<\/p>\n

Third place went to Sachin Vaish, who came in at 1 hour and 27 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cA close contender throughout, Sachin lost precious minutes to a technical infraction, but still remained among the top three,\u201d Gupta says.<\/p>\n

Penalty or no penalty, nothing takes away the world class performance of Ranawala.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis time places him among serious international contenders,\u201d Gupta concludes. \u201cAnd the CSWC India Qualifier 2025 proved not only the growing passion for cigars and the immense hard work to build the cigar community in India, but also the rise of a disciplined, global-standard community that appreciates the art of taking it slow.\u201d<\/p>\n

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  1. Vikramaditya Ranawala 1:48:00<\/li>\n
  2. Ramit Narang 1:30:00<\/li>\n
  3. Sachin Vaish 1:27:00<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    CSWC in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":72393,"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\/72392"}],"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=72392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72396,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72392\/revisions\/72396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}