Readers’ Choice Awards 2024: Nominations Open

It’s December, which means it’s cigar awards season.

Our awards won’t get published until January, but for the second year in a row, we are giving you an award of your own. The Readers’ Choice Awards are exactly what they sound like, though it’s really just a single award. Between now and Dec. 23, you can nominate a cigar to be eligible for the Readers’ Choice Awards. The top five (or so) vote-getters will then be placed on a final ballot, which you can vote on later this month and into early January.

As we did last year, for the second round of voting, we’ll ask some questions about you, such as how often do you visit this website and how often you smoke cigars. We aren’t interested in harvesting your personal information, but we are interested in learning more about our readership. Last year’s data was insightful, for example, nearly 30 percent of you said you smoked a flavored cigar in 2023.

This is the second year that we have done this, so I have more insight into what could go wrong. When nominating a cigar, please only list one cigar. Hundreds of nominations were excluded last year; the most common reason why was that people tried nominating two or more cigars. The second most common reason is that people would just list a company or a factory; please just list the name of a cigar.

Submit your answers below or go to halfwheel.com/vote.

Some details:

• Feel free to answer this question however you’d like. The best cigar, your favorite cigar, the cigar you smoked the most of, etc. However, please nominate one cigar.
• Anyone can participate. Whether you are a consumer or a brand owner, whether you read this website daily or have no idea what this is and just got sent here via Facebook, go for it.
• Nominations are open between Dec. 2-23, 2024.
• Final voting will take place Dec. 30, 2024-Jan. 10, 2025.
• You don’t need to participate in both the nominations and voting.
• Please only nominate once. We will be filtering out multiple votes from the same IP address.