Now that we’ve published our final booth post from the 2022 PCA Convention & Trade Show, it’s time to pick the contest winners.

Like we’ve done for many years, there were four contests, one each pertaining to posts we published on July 9, 10 and 11, and a grand prize that covered all 145 booth posts we published. As is typically the case, the winners were picked using random.org. I counted the number of posts per day—except for the last one—and then used random.org to pick a random post and then a random comment.

The winners are as follows:

  • Day 1 — Eric Nguyen for this comment on the Cigar in the Bottle post.
  • Day 2 — Frank B for this comment on the J.C. Newman post.
  • Day 3 — Arash Shekarriz for this comment on the Drunk Chicken cigars post.
  • Grand Prize — George Karr for this comment on the Plasencia 1865 post.

If you won, details about how to claim your prize are here.

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Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.