{"id":72824,"date":"2025-08-20T14:32:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=72824"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:32:35","slug":"knezevic-won-cswc-montenegro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/knezevic-won-cswc-montenegro\/","title":{"rendered":"Kne\u017eevi\u0107 Won CSWC Montenegro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time ever, Montenegro\u2019s Cigar Smoking World Championship qualification round wasn\u2019t decided by a 15 minute penalty for burning of the ring. In 2023 then newcomer Udo Becker lost the title because of that, in 2024 he instead won because of that, but this year he had to settle with third place despite any penalties involved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event was as always held at Aleksandar \u0110ureti\u0107\u2019s Casa de Puros in Podgorica, and it brought together passionate cigar lovers from both Montenegro and abroad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCasa de Puros proved once again that it can host a world-class competition with style, precision, and warm hospitality,\u201d CSWC founder Marko Bilic says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The competition was judged by \u0110ureti\u0107 himself and Milica Popovi\u0107, and in the end last year\u2019s runner-up took a step up on the podium to claim the title.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stefan Kne\u017eevi\u0107, who was <em>not<\/em> the one receiving the decisive penalty last year, smoked for 1 hour and 10 minutes, beating Branko Bo\u0161kovi\u0107 by seven minutes and Becker by eight.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Stefan Kne\u017eevi\u0107 1:10<\/li>\n<li>Branko Bo\u0161kovi\u0107 1:03<\/li>\n<li>Udo Becker 1:02<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSWC in Montenegro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":72825,"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\/72824"}],"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=72824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72827,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72824\/revisions\/72827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}