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WHY THE 2025 CSWC BY OLIVA CIGARS SEASON MIGHT BE THE MOST COMPETITIVE IN HISTORY

New partnerships, global expansion, and a powerful new cigar Oliva CSWC racing cigar — the CSWC arena is set to ignite like never before.


One of the CSWC legends – Igor Kovacic, also known as the Swedish Tiger – captured in deep focus during a Grand Final battle for the top three. Now, he’s geared up for the new season with the all-new Oliva CSWC cigar.
One of the CSWC legends – Igor Kovacic, also known as the Swedish Tiger – captured in deep focus during a Grand Final battle for the top three. Now, he’s geared up for the new season with the all-new Oliva CSWC cigar.

As the slowest race in the world prepares for its grandest start yet, the 2025 Cigar Smoking World Championship by Oliva cigars - season is already lighting sparks — and not just at the end of a cigar.

With a record-breaking number of countries joining the circuit and the thrilling debut of the Oliva CSWC Competition Cigar, this year promises a showdown unlike any before. Veterans are sharpening their senses. Newcomers are lurking with strategy. The air is thick with anticipation… and it smells like glory.


Klaudia Ide from Poland, the World Record holder in high action at the Final, faces a challenge. Will she be prepared to break her own record with the new Oliva, or will she require time to adjust to it?
Klaudia Ide from Poland, the World Record holder in high action at the Final, faces a challenge. Will she be prepared to break her own record with the new Oliva, or will she require time to adjust to it?

For the first time in CSWC history, Oliva Cigars steps in as the official competition cigar — and not just with a name, but with a masterfully crafted cigar made specifically for the challenge. This collaboration between Oliva’s renowned craftsmanship and CSWC’s uncompromising standards brings a fresh rhythm to the battlefield.


This beauty is one of the most anticipated cigars in the 2025.  Everyone are eager to see how the Oliva CSWC cigar perform. What the results be? How will it handle? We’ll soon find out!
This beauty is one of the most anticipated cigars in the 2025. Everyone are eager to see how the Oliva CSWC cigar perform. What the results be? How will it handle? We’ll soon find out!

From the busy and vibrant New York and London, from calm elegance of Switzerland , over the Middle East, Asia, Hong Kong to the tropical pulse of the Caribbean, toward far away Australia and Japan - the 2025 CSWC by Oiva tour will stretch across over 50 countries — each hosting fierce qualifiers with hungry champions. New territories are joining. Old champions are returning and the new competitors are getting ready and motivated to became new names - the famous one's .


Fresh challengers arrive each year, driven by even greater determination to claim top results and championship titles. With every new season, rising stars emerge to take on the legendary names of the past.
Fresh challengers arrive each year, driven by even greater determination to claim top results and championship titles. With every new season, rising stars emerge to take on the legendary names of the past.

And the map of the slow-smoking world is glowing red with passion. Behind closed doors, the competition is already burning - and everyone are asking - how it will be to race on the new CSWC Oliva competition cigar


Tokyo is set to ignite with CSWC excitement for the very first time.
Tokyo is set to ignite with CSWC excitement for the very first time.

There are whispers that new strategies and tactics are trained, modified new ways of smoking under the ring are showing great results, and even new way of puffing the first puffs of the race are creating additional times.


The Grand Final stage – set and ready for the world-famous slowest race to begin.
The Grand Final stage – set and ready for the world-famous slowest race to begin.

One organizer confessed:

“It’s not about how slow you can smoke. It’s how deep you can connect with the cigar. That’s the real game.”

“It’s not about how slow you can smoke. It’s how deep you can connect with the cigar. That’s the real game.”
“It’s not about how slow you can smoke. It’s how deep you can connect with the cigar. That’s the real game.”

In an age where time is money and speed is king, the CSWC reminds us that greatness lives in the pause, in the draw, in the beauty of being fully present with a single cigar.

And this year, more than ever before, the world is watching.

The countdown has begun. The cigars are getting ready. The stopwatch is waiting.


Let the slowest race on Earth begin —

and may the slowest smoker rise.


Grand Final – the ultimate race, where the world unites with one mission: to crown the CSWC World Champion – the most skilled  smoker on the planet.
Grand Final – the ultimate race, where the world unites with one mission: to crown the CSWC World Champion – the most skilled smoker on the planet.

 
 

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