The Pipe Club of Lebanon

 

 

 

 

 

 

PCoLeb's Pipesmoking Competition results

 

 

 

(Thanks to Pedro for the competition logo!)

 

 

 

 

Ninth Competition: October 16, 2011

 

 

 

Tobacco: MacBaren's Mixture

In an all-purpose pipe stamped with the words "Real Briar."

 

 

Paul Jahshan, 45 mns

 

Fares Irani: 43 mns

 

Tarek Khalaf:  40 mns

 

Salim Khoury: 36 mns

 

Elie Seif : 29 mns

 

Marc Haddad: 20 mns

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note 1: Elie Seif is not in the photos above, as he arrived just on time for the competition, missing the shots.

 

Note 2: Marc Haddad officially stopped at 20 mns and put down his pipe. Taking it back about 10 mns later, he found it alight. Amidst general laughter, it was decided that either the pipe was haunted, or that the pipe was so bad the briar had been burning all along!

 

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Eighth Competition: November 20, 2010

 

 

 

Tobacco: MacBaren's Virginia Blend

In an all-purpose pipe stamped with the words "Real Briar."

 

 

Paul Jahshan, 52 mns

 

Salim Khoury: 40 mns

 

Tarek Khalaf:  34 mns

 

Marc Haddad: 33 mns

 

Fares Irani: 27 mns

 

Elie Seif and Peter Khatcherian: 23 mns

 

 

 

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Seventh Competition: October 19, 2008

 

Tobacco: MacBaren's Vanilla Flake

 

Paul Jahshan, 1 hr 38 mns

Salim Khoury, 1 hr 30 mns

Tarek Khalaf, 1 hr 22 mns

Fares Irani, 1 hr 15 mns

Elie Seif, 1 hr 07 mns

Jihad Asmar, 46 mns

Oliver Jeha, 37 mns

Marc Haddad, 34 mns

Gihad Abi-Rached, 20 mns

 

 

 

As always, the PCoLeb strives to do something new every year. The novelty for the 7th annual competition was the use of identical pipes for all contestants. Indeed, all nine members smoked a straight, rusticated billiard "Real Briar" pipe which beautifully served its purpose.

 

The details of the competition, as well as the pipe casualties (two pipes burned, one of them quite dramatically) will be recounted in the coming issue of the Journal of the Pipe Club of Lebanon!

 

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Sixth Competition: November 4, 2007

 

Tobacco: MacBaren's Navy Mixture

 

Paul Jahshan, 1 hr 9 mns

Salim Khoury, 1 hr

Jihad Asmar, 59 mns

Elie Seif, 57 mns

Tarek Khalaf, 53 mns

Fares Irani, 42 mns

 

 

 

From left to right: Jihad Asmar, Tarek Khalaf, Elie Seif, Fares Irani, Salim Khoury, and Paul Jahshan

 

 

The novelty, this time, was the use of a bell to signal the following events:

 

1. The beginning and end of the general competition

 

2. The beginning and end of the bowl-filling stage

 

3. The beginning and end of the lighting stage

 

4. The beginning of the smoking stage

 

5. The moment when the competitor finds that the pipe has gone out

 

 

1, 2, 3, and 4 are done by the president, 5 is done by the competitor himself/herself

 

 

Below is a photo of the bell, the competitors' pipes, and the tobacco used

 

 

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Fifth Competition: September 17, 2006

 

Tobacco: MacBaren's Virginia Flake

 

Elie Seif, 1 hr 29 mns

Paul Jahshan, 1 hr 17 mns

Salim Khoury, 1 hr 11 mns

Fares Irani, 1 hr 10 mns

Gihad Abi-Rached, 50 mns

Tarek Khalaf, 43 mns

Marc Haddad, 11 mns

 

The prizes for this year were two Royal Guard pipes, one for 1st place, and one for 2nd.

Sadly, Salim and Paul discovered that their pipes had burned in the process: Salim's first-ever pipe, a beautiful Stanwell, and Paul's second pipe, bought in 1989, a Stanwell as well. We mourn the passing of these two trustworthy pipes! Below are photos of the competition and photos of the casualties.

 

 

From left to right: Oliver Geha, Jihad Asmar, Paul Jahshan, Fares Irani, Tarek Khalaf, Gihad Abi-Rached and his wife Lina, Salim Khoury, Marc Haddad, Elie Seif, and Kifah Said

 

 

The winners, Elie and Paul, and their prizes

 

 

Salim's burned pipe, at the very bottom of the bowl

 

 

Paul's burned pipe, on the left side of the bowl

 

 

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Fourth Competition: September 15, 2004

 

Tobacco: MacBaren's Stockton

 

Paul Jahshan, 46 mns

Georges Hadchity, 43 mns
Fares Irani, 35 mns
Salim Khoury, 33mns
Tarek Khalaf, 29 mns
Elie Seif, 11 mns

 

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Third Competition: August 15, 2003

 

Tobacco: Davidoff's Danish Mixture

 

In an unusual display of pipesmoking cooperation and goodwill, all competitors agreed to lay down their pipes after one hour. Amazingly, all passed the one-hour mark with flying colours.

 

Competitors (listed alphabetically):

Fares Irani

Paul Jahshan

Tarek Khalaf

Salim Khoury

 

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Second Competition: August 18, 2002

 

Tobacco: MacBaren's Virginia Flake

 

Salim Khoury, 1 hr 3 mns

Paul Jahshan, 1 hr 2 mns

Elie Seif, 48 mns

Fares Irani, 47 mns

Tarek Khalaf, 45 mns

Moussa Hajjar, 36 mns

Sandra Hadchity, 34 mns

 

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First Competition: August 6, 2001

 

Tobacco: Dunhill's Early Morning Pipe

 

Salim Khoury, 50 mns

Fares Irani, 46 mns

Paul Jahshan, 45 mns

Tarek Khalaf, 36 mns

Elie Seif, 35 mns

Tony Hadchity, 22 mns

 

 

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