Cups and competitions
The contests where strains and growers earn their names: where each began, what it is like to be there, and what it looks like now.
4.20 Cannabis Light Cup (4.20 Hemp Fest, Milan)
- 15results on record
- 2019years in our data
- 1editions
- 6matched to strains
- Milanlatest location
A flower competition born inside a Milan hemp fair that began as a garden festival in 2016, grew into a trade show, and found itself at the centre of a political row by 2019.
710 Degree Cup
- 404results on record
- 2016–2025years in our data
- 10editions
- 194matched to strains
- Arizonalatest location
An Arizona concentrates contest built around the 7/10 "OIL" date, and the 2018 court ruling that changed how it ran.
Read the full story →A Taste of Texas Hemp Cup
- 32results on record
- 2020–2024years in our data
- 5editions
- 18matched to strains
- The Far Out Lounge in Austin, Texaslatest location
A hemp-only competition first held in San Marcos, Texas, in December 2020, and documented here through its third edition in 2022.
American Autoflower Cup
- 54results on record
- 2023–2026years in our data
- 4editions
- 46matched to strains
- Be True Los Angeleslatest location
A Los Angeles competition and festival for autoflowering cannabis genetics, founded by filmmaker Jeremy Norrie, which reached its fourth annual edition in 2026.
Read the full story →Arkansas Times Cannabis Awards
- 17results on record
- 2023–2024years in our data
- 2editions
- 12matched to strains
- Arkansaslatest location
A reader-voted awards project from the Arkansas Times that launched in 2023 and put the state's medical cannabis scene up for a public vote.
Australian Cannabis Cup / Nimbin Mardi Grass Cannabis Cup (incl. Hemp Olympix)
- 66results on record
- 1995–2025years in our data
- 23editions
- 12matched to strains
- Nimbin, NSWlatest location
A low-key competition held alongside a long-running cannabis law reform festival in Nimbin, northern New South Wales.
Read the full story →Autoflower World Cup
- 62results on record
- 2021–2026years in our data
- 6editions
- 55matched to strains
- OG Club, Barcelonalatest location
An autoflower competition staged in Barcelona, with murky origins and blind judging. Its most recent edition was reported in a release datelined Berlin.
Read the full story →Best in Grass
- 571results on record
- 2024–2026years in our data
- 3editions
- 180matched to strains
- Phoenixlatest location
A cannabis competition judged by consumers, which gives the scorecard to everyday shoppers. It was founded in 2024, began in Michigan, and has since run in other states.
Read the full story →Breeder(s) Cannabis Cup (Made in Thailand Cannabis Cup team)
- 8results on record
- 2024–2025years in our data
- 2editions
- 0matched to strains
- Saint Herb Hemp, Lam Luk Ka, Pathum Thanilatest location
A Thai competition for cannabis breeders, run by the people behind the Made in Thailand Cannabis Cup, with a 2025 edition held in Pathum Thani.
Read the full story →Bushido Cup
- 9results on record
- 2025years in our data
- 1editions
- 3matched to strains
- Phuketlatest location
A cannabis competition in Phuket, Thailand, with a 2025 edition held on 21-22 January, and not much else on record yet.
Read the full story →Business of Cannabis Awards
- 11results on record
- 2024years in our data
- 1editions
- 0matched to strains
- Amazing Grace, London, 25 June 2024latest location
A London evening of drinks, canapés and networking for Europe's cannabis trade. It is an industry awards night, not a product competition, with documented editions in 2024 and 2025.
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California State Fair Cannabis Awards (California Cannabis Awards)
- 571results on record
- 2022–2026years in our data
- 5editions
- 363matched to strains
- California Cannabis Experience during the California State Fairlatest location
A cannabis contest that found a place at the long-running California State Fair, next to its baking and canning competitions.
Read the full story →Calyx-Art Cannabis Cup (Calyx Art Club)
- 12results on record
- 2025–2026years in our data
- 2editions
- 10matched to strains
- Ostrava, 25 April 2026latest location
A cannabis competition run by the Calyx Art Club, with flower and solventless extract categories, whose 5th edition was set for Ostrava, Czech Republic, alongside the KONOPEX Expo.
Canapa Mundi (International Hemp Expo of Rome)
- 6results on record
- 2018–2024years in our data
- 4editions
- 0matched to strains
- Rome, 16-18 February 2024latest location
A Rome hemp fair that started in 2015 at PalaCavicchi and, by 2023, filled Fiera di Roma with food, textiles, building and culture.
Read the full story →Cannabis Industry Awards (Australia)
- 77results on record
- 2019–2022years in our data
- 4editions
- 0matched to strains
- Australialatest location
A community-and-business awards programme founded by Benjamin Jesse, announced in Sydney in May 2019 as Australia's first industry awards for cannabis.
Read the full story →Cannabis Industry Awards (Cannabis Industry Council, MCCS, Drug Science)
- 6results on record
- 2024years in our data
- 1editions
- 0matched to strains
- HAC, London, 7 November 2024latest location
A young UK awards night that began with a London dinner in November 2024 and was back a year later, sold out and already looking toward 2026.
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Cannabiz Awards for Australia and New Zealand
- 98results on record
- 2023–2026years in our data
- 4editions
- 0matched to strains
- Plaza Ballroom, Melbournelatest location
A trans-Tasman awards night for the medicinal cannabis sector, seen through its 2024 and 2026 editions, with the gaps in the record left unfilled.
Read the full story →Cannapedia Growers Cup
- 20results on record
- 2020–2024years in our data
- 5editions
- 16matched to strains
- Tbilisilatest location
A growers' competition that started in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2020 and has run through autoflower, pro-grower and high-THC editions.
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CannaPortugal Global Cannabis Awards
- 10results on record
- 2022–2025years in our data
- 4editions
- 0matched to strains
- Pavilhão do Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisbon, 16-17 May 2025latest location
An awards ceremony held on the opening evening of CannaPortugal, the hemp and cannabis expo in Lisbon, whose named honourees include people and a justice organisation.
Read the full story →CannaSwissCup
- 173results on record
- 1999–2026years in our data
- 10editions
- 110matched to strains
- Zurichlatest location
A Swiss cannabis product competition with a closed jury day, a public rating round and a link to the CannaTrade fair. Its start date is documented. Its founder and current organiser are not.
Read the full story →CannaTech Tel Aviv (startup pitch)
- 1results on record
- 2019years in our data
- 1editions
- 0matched to strains
- Tel Avivlatest location
A two-day Tel Aviv cannabis-tech conference whose last day, in 2019, let five companies pitch to judges, with Kassi taking the win.
Read the full story →Cannex Asia Cannabis Cup
- 11results on record
- 2023years in our data
- 1editions
- 8matched to strains
- EmQuartierlatest location
A Bangkok shopping-mall gathering in April 2023, part trade show and part fan party. The only link to a Cannabis Cup in the surviving coverage is a page tag.
Read the full story →Chalice California
- 109results on record
- 2015–2019years in our data
- 5editions
- 53matched to strains
- California, USAlatest location
A Southern California festival where live music, glass art and hash competition share a field, and where a 2018 legal first was the plan.
Read the full story →Clouds in the City Cup (Berlin edition)
- 1results on record
- 2026years in our data
- 1editions
- 1matched to strains
- Berlin, 14 June 2026latest location
A multi-day cannabis cup listed for Mary Jane Berlin week in June 2026, with seven judging categories and sample submission scheduled to open on a Thursday afternoon.
Commercial Cannabis Awards (Global Health & Pharma)
- 673results on record
- 2019–2023years in our data
- 5editions
- 0matched to strains
- Global Health & Pharma Magazine, Burton On Trent, UKlatest location
An annual awards programme run by Global Health & Pharma. Winners are not picked by public vote: GHP researchers build case files and a judging panel reviews them.
Read the full story →Connoisseur Cup
- 435results on record
- 2016–2026years in our data
- 11editions
- 199matched to strains
- Dave’s House in Denver, Coloradolatest location
A Colorado cannabis competition whose origins are still a mystery, but whose 2021 and 2022 editions left a clear trail in the press.
Read the full story →Copa Cannabis Uruguay / Copa Cannábica de Uruguay (AECU)
- 55results on record
- 2012–2025years in our data
- 13editions
- 28matched to strains
- Uruguaylatest location
A Montevideo cup that began in 2012, grew up alongside Uruguay's 2013 cannabis law, and is documented here through its 2015 and 2016 editions.
Read the full story →Copa Cannábica del Plata (Revista THC / Convención Cannábica del Plata)
- 50results on record
- 2002–2026years in our data
- 25editions
- 23matched to strains
- Buenos Aires, Argentinalatest location
A tasting contest inside a Buenos Aires cannabis convention with booths, talks, workshops and auctions. One source says it has been held every year in the city since 2002.
Read the full story →Copa Cannábica El Copo
- 10results on record
- 2016years in our data
- 1editions
- 4matched to strains
- Colombialatest location
A weekend cannabis fair and growers' contest held near Medellín, Colombia, in April 2016, known mainly from two press reports.
Copa Farallones
- 19results on record
- 2016–2024years in our data
- 6editions
- 10matched to strains
- Santiago de Cali, Colombialatest location
A first-edition cannabis cup in Cali, Colombia. We know it from one pre-event preview, and a lot about it is still undocumented.
Copa Cannábica México (Copa México)
- 21results on record
- 2018–2024years in our data
- 5editions
- 11matched to strains
- Mexicolatest location
A grower-run cannabis cup held on an avocado farm outside Guadalajara, Jalisco, and billed as the first Copa Cannábica in Mexico.
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Copa del Rey (Colombia)
- 31results on record
- 2016–2023years in our data
- 5editions
- 12matched to strains
- Bogotá, Colombialatest location
A Bogotá cannabis cup known as "El Rey", glimpsed in a single line of reporting. Here is what the sources confirm, and what they leave blank.
Copa Medellín
- 23results on record
- 2019–2021years in our data
- 2editions
- 17matched to strains
- Colombialatest location
A two-day cannabis culture fair and growers' competition held near Medellín, Colombia, in April 2016 under the name Copa Cannábica "El Copo".
Cowboy Cup Cannabis Championship
- 528results on record
- 2019–2026years in our data
- 8editions
- 222matched to strains
- Rocklahoma – Pryor, Okla.latest location
An Oklahoma cannabis competition and festival, held in Stillwater in 2022, that hands belt buckles to winning growers. Its founder is Daniel Lewis, who previously worked in commercial construction.
Cup Fest (Montana)
- 4results on record
- 2023years in our data
- 1editions
- 4matched to strains
A Montana cannabis competition that bills itself as the state's biggest and longest-running. It is now part of a hemp and cannabis festival at Lolo Hot Springs.
Dab Rite Cup (Dab Rite Invitational)
- 37results on record
- 2023–2025years in our data
- 3editions
- 22matched to strains
- USAlatest location
A solventless hash contest that ran a 2023 invitational series of small-field events for invited makers, then moved to regional rounds and a national finale.
Read the full story →Dab-a-Doo
- 77results on record
- 2013–2024years in our data
- 9editions
- 27matched to strains
- San Francisco, California, USAlatest location
A concentrate competition that began as a birthday party for Mila Jansen, the Hash Queen, and now pops up in different places, from Massachusetts to San Francisco.
Read the full story →DC State Fair – Best Bud contest
- 1results on record
- 2015–2017years in our data
- 3editions
- 0matched to strains
- Washington, DClatest location
A home-grow cannabis contest at the D.C. State Fair in Washington, D.C., billed as the first of its kind at a state fair and judged by eye, nose and touch.
Read the full story →Dope Cup
- 274results on record
- 2015–2018years in our data
- 4editions
- 128matched to strains
- Staver Locomotive, Portland, Oregon, USAlatest location
A Seattle magazine's cannabis competition and festival, best documented through its fairground-themed 2015 edition.
Read the full story →Dopefiend Cup
- 72results on record
- 2011–2018years in our data
- 8editions
- 42matched to strains
- London, UKlatest location
A one-day, invitation-only London contest for British cannabis growers and breeders, first held in 2011 and tied to the Dopefiend.co.uk podcast. [1][2]
Read the full story →East Coast Canna Cup / Green Cup & Expo (Quick Buy n Grow)
- 30results on record
- 2022–2024years in our data
- 3editions
- 14matched to strains
- Wacky Woods Riverside Resort, Eastern Capelatest location
A South African cannabis cup held by the Gamtoos River in the Eastern Cape in 2022, with Quickbuyngrow among its listed organisers.
Ego Clash
- 24results on record
- 2024–2025years in our data
- 2editions
- 12matched to strains
- GWA Social Club, Barcelona, Spainlatest location
A private, invitation-only contest in Mendocino County where growers and hashmakers compete with their best work, and where indoor flower entrants judge one another.
EIHA Hemp Product of the Year (European Industrial Hemp Association conference)
- 9results on record
- 2018–2020years in our data
- 3editions
- 0matched to strains
- online, 16-17 June 2020latest location
The European Industrial Hemp Association's first Hemp Product of the Year award, where nominees pitched to conference delegates and the delegates did the voting.
Read the full story →enOrmus Bud Budmaster / Bushmaster growing competition (TransfOrmus)
- 2results on record
- 2019years in our data
- 1editions
- 0matched to strains
- Southern Africalatest location
A South African cannabis growing contest from the makers of enOrmus Bud, with one prize for the best big bud and one for the largest plant.
Read the full story →Errl Cup
- 1,009results on record
- 2016–2026years in our data
- 11editions
- 449matched to strains
- Scarizona/Thompson Event Center in Mesa, Arizonalatest location
An Arizona cannabis awards-and-festival event in Mesa, started in 2015 by Jim Morrison and Jay Neri, that grew from a product-voting idea into a twice-yearly crowd-puller with bong-speed tournaments and a ride-home booth.
Read the full story →Essie Awards (New Mexico's Cannabis Awards, Kurple Magazine)
- 154results on record
- 2023–2025years in our data
- 3editions
- 44matched to strains
- Albuquerque, NMlatest location
A short look at the Essie Awards, New Mexico's cannabis awards, set up in 2017 by Kurple Magazine. The 2024 and 2025 editions were held at the El Rey Theater in Albuquerque.
Read the full story →Explore Maryland Cannabis Awards
- 34results on record
- 2020–2025years in our data
- 6editions
- 0matched to strains
- Refocused Space in Baltimore, MD, United Stateslatest location
A Baltimore-area awards show with a community mission, one documented 2021 edition, and a few honest blanks in the record.
Read the full story →Expogrow Cannabis Cup (Irún)
- 171results on record
- 2012–2023years in our data
- 12editions
- 92matched to strains
- Irúnlatest location
A Basque trade fair with a long September habit, a pandemic detour to Málaga, and an Open Cannabis Cup in its 2022 finale.
Read the full story →Farmers Cup
- 424results on record
- 2020–2025years in our data
- 5editions
- 205matched to strains
- Moonlight Amphitheater, Vista, CAlatest location
A friendly, vote-driven celebration of California sun-grown cannabis, held in downtown San Diego. Much of its early history is still missing from the record.
Read the full story →Full Moon Sesh
- 7results on record
- 2025years in our data
- 1editions
- 0matched to strains
- Barcelona, Spainlatest location
A hash competition series named after the Full Moon Parties on Koh Phangan, Thailand, which made its US debut in Los Angeles in 2023.
Read the full story →Full Moon Sesh (Berlin)
- 1results on record
- 2025years in our data
- 1editions
- 0matched to strains
- Berlinlatest location
A Berlin gathering that magazine coverage describes as a living gallery rather than a typical festival or cup. It was started by Igor and is now run as a collective effort. [1]
Read the full story →Ganja Guru Cup
- 16results on record
- 2024years in our data
- 1editions
- 10matched to strains
- Trinidad & Tobagolatest location
A young cannabis competition from Trinidad & Tobago, first held in 2024 and already announced for a second round in 2025.
Garden Route Cannabis Cup (GRCC)
- 19results on record
- 2022–2024years in our data
- 3editions
- 6matched to strains
- Fairy Knowe Backpackers Lodge – Wilderness Hotels, Georgelatest location
A small-town festival in Plettenberg Bay that set out to put Garden Route growers on the map. Coverage runs to its third edition, and nothing after that is documented.
Read the full story →Global Marijuana Music Awards (Nimbin Mardi Grass)
- 2results on record
- 2004years in our data
- 1editions
- 1matched to strains
- Nimbin, NSWlatest location
A $2-entry music contest tied to Nimbin MardiGrass in NSW, Australia, with a 2024 edition that honours the late activist Frances Moonshadow Hood.
Green State Cannabis Awards
- 54results on record
- 2018–2019years in our data
- 2editions
- 0matched to strains
- Californialatest location
A small, thinly documented awards programme from GreenState, known only through its 2018 winners and a call for 2019 nominations.
Read the full story →GrowDiaries Awards (Grow Awards; first edition called POTY / Plant of the Year)
- 26results on record
- 2022–2026years in our data
- 5editions
- 12matched to strains
- Barcelona, Spainlatest location
A community-voted awards run by the GrowDiaries team, which started as POTY, grew into the Grow Awards and now covers seeds, gear and growers.
Harvest Cup
- 251results on record
- 2017–2025years in our data
- 9editions
- 73matched to strains
- DCU Center, Worcester, Massachusetts, USAlatest location
A Worcester convention hall, a contest judged blind, and a giant joint handed out in 1-foot pieces: the first Harvest Cup, December 2017.
Read the full story →Hash Bash Cup
- 45results on record
- 2017–2024years in our data
- 7editions
- 38matched to strains
- Wyndham Gardens & Hampton Inn and Suites, Romuluslatest location
A cannabis competition held in Michigan in April, timed to line up with the long-running Hash Bash gathering in Ann Arbor.
Read the full story →Hash Times Cup (Hashtimes Cup BCN)
- 17results on record
- 2024–2025years in our data
- 2editions
- 4matched to strains
- Native Club, Barcelona, Spainlatest location
A hash competition in Barcelona. Its 2025 edition ran during Spannabis week and judged rosin, dry sift and isolator entries.
High 95 Cup
- 1,108results on record
- 2017–2025years in our data
- 9editions
- 754matched to strains
- The Franco Center in Lewiston, Mainelatest location
The High 95 Cup started in 2017 in Lewiston, Maine. The one source we have lists five categories and names the first-place winners in three of them.
Read the full story →High Times Cannabis Cup (Amsterdam)
- 604results on record
- 1988–2014years in our data
- 27editions
- 261matched to strains
- Amsterdamlatest location
The Amsterdam Cannabis Cup is a cannabis judging and awards event that High Times magazine started in November 1988. This page covers its history, its traditions and where things stand now.
Read the full story →High Times Cannabis Cup (United States)
- 3,569results on record
- 2010–2026years in our data
- 17editions
- 1,218matched to strains
- Massachusettslatest location
A festival that began in Amsterdam, crossed the Atlantic, and became a US fixture tied closely to state law. Dates here are tentative, and the sources do not always agree.
Read the full story →Highlife Cup (Netherlands)
- 866results on record
- 2002–2026years in our data
- 25editions
- 693matched to strains
- Bredalatest location
A Dutch cannabis competition with roots in a magazine, a long run as one of Europe's oldest cups, and a present-day status that the sources leave open.
Read the full story →Highlife Cup Barcelona (Highlife BCN)
- 71results on record
- 2004–2013years in our data
- 6editions
- 42matched to strains
- Barcelonalatest location
A Barcelona cannabis cup that appears in seed-company award lists from 2004 and 2005. The organiser says it is held in the week before the festival and judged by a large panel.
Read the full story →Hip & Healthy UK CBD Awards (Hip & Healthy CBD Awards)
- 146results on record
- 2020–2024years in our data
- 5editions
- 0matched to strains
- Hip & Healthy magazine, UKlatest location
A brand-entry CBD awards scheme run by Hip & Healthy, known from its 2022 call for entries, with product and brand categories and a winners' badge.
Read the full story →Humo en la Montaña
- 6results on record
- 2023years in our data
- 1editions
- 3matched to strains
- Jardín de Delicias, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapaslatest location
A grower-focused cannabis cup near San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico. It began in December 2022 and came back for a second edition with indoor and outdoor winners.
IC420 Growers Cup (ICMag 420 Cup)
- 304results on record
- 2003–2026years in our data
- 24editions
- 217matched to strains
- Barcelona, Spainlatest location
A cup run by forum members that started in Amsterdam, moved to Barcelona, and has a few gaps in its own record.
Read the full story →Jack Herer Cup
- 482results on record
- 2016–2025years in our data
- 10editions
- 188matched to strains
- Germanylatest location
A cup named for a famous hemp activist, with a well-documented namesake and almost no record of its own.
Read the full story →Jalisco Cannabis Cup (Copa Jalisco)
- 57results on record
- 2019–2022years in our data
- 4editions
- 24matched to strains
- Mexicolatest location
A look at what a 2018 article billed as the first cannabis cup in Mexico, a contest for Mexican growers held on an avocado farm outside Guadalajara.
Karma Cup
- 610results on record
- 2014–2025years in our data
- 12editions
- 302matched to strains
- Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canadalatest location
A Toronto cannabis festival, trade show and competition, seen through the one detailed account we could find: glass trophies, a last-minute run-in with the city and makers from coast to coast.
La Revolta Verda (Copa de Girona)
- 48results on record
- 2005–2008years in our data
- 4editions
- 32matched to strains
- Gironalatest location
A Spanish cannabis cup known as La Revolta Verda. Its 2005 seventh edition and an outdoor winner from that year survive in online results archives.
Read the full story →Las Vegas Weekly Cannabis Awards
- 47results on record
- 2022–2026years in our data
- 5editions
- 23matched to strains
A reader-voted contest that grew into a judged spring ceremony, told entirely through the organizer's own pages.
Read the full story →Leafly Budtenders' Choice Awards
- 73results on record
- 2023–2025years in our data
- 3editions
- 0matched to strains
- United Stateslatest location
An annual Leafly poll that hands the microphone to the people behind the dispensary counter, naming a favorite strain and brand in each legal US state.
Read the full story →
Leafly Strain of the Year
- 55results on record
- 2018–2026years in our data
- 9editions
- 55matched to strains
An annual award from Leafly, the strain database, that names one cannabis strain each year, from Gelato in 2018 to Hash Burger for 2025.
Read the full story →Legends of Hashish
- 26results on record
- 2021–2024years in our data
- 4editions
- 13matched to strains
- Redd East, Portland, OR, USAlatest location
A hash-focused invitation dinner and judging event that began as a conversation in Amsterdam, held its first edition there in 2003, and has since travelled to Vancouver, Barcelona, Los Angeles and Portland.
Lift & Co. Canadian Cannabis Awards
- 749results on record
- 2014–2020years in our data
- 7editions
- 202matched to strains
- Canadalatest location
A short, source-bound history of the annual industry awards run by Lift & Co., from a community vote that billed itself as a Canadian first to black-tie galas in Toronto.
Read the full story →Made in Thailand Cannabis Cup (MIT Can Cup)
- 9results on record
- 2023–2024years in our data
- 2editions
- 0matched to strains
- ST herb hemp – Lamlukka3, Bangkoklatest location
A Bangkok cup from December 2023, described as the first MIT Can Cup in Thailand, set up to raise the profile of Thai growers and draw in seed breeders from overseas.
Read the full story →Massachusetts Cultivators Cup (Cultivator's Cup)
- 20results on record
- 2021–2022years in our data
- 2editions
- 2matched to strains
- Worcester, MAlatest location
A consumer-judged cannabis contest and music festival that debuted in Somerset, Massachusetts, in September 2021 and returned in 2022.
Masters of Rosin
- 67results on record
- 2018–2026years in our data
- 7editions
- 28matched to strains
- New York City, USAlatest location
A hash rosin competition with one category and one question. In 2024 it held editions in New York City and Los Angeles.
Mid-Mo Canna Cup
- 43results on record
- 2021–2025years in our data
- 4editions
- 22matched to strains
- Knights of Columbus CKC Event Center in Columbia, Missourilatest location
A Missouri cannabis competition held inside the 2025 Mid-Mo Canna Expo in Columbia, with flower, hash and edibles winners.
Missouri Growers Cup
- 86results on record
- 2023–2026years in our data
- 4editions
- 37matched to strains
- the Tre House in Kansas Citylatest location
A blind-judged Missouri cannabis competition that began in 2023, survived a weather-soaked debut, and by 2025 was billing itself as a full festival.
Read the full story →MJBowl (MJBizCon x Budist)
- 7results on record
- 2025years in our data
- 1editions
- 2matched to strains
- MJBizCon, Las Vegas Convention Center, Nevadalatest location
A coast-to-coast product contest from MJBizCon and Budist that pitted California against New York in 2025 and adds Colorado for 2026.
Mother Cup
- 8results on record
- 2025years in our data
- 1editions
- 6matched to strains
- Cookies Social Club, Barcelona, Spainlatest location
A new cannabis competition, judged by women from the cannabis industry, listed for March 10, 2025 at Cookies in Barcelona.
National Cannabis Championship
- 27results on record
- 2022–2024years in our data
- 3editions
- 19matched to strains
- Washington, D.C.latest location
A home-grower contest born at a Washington, D.C. festival, with a documented trail that runs from a 2021 save-the-date to a 2024 winners' recap.
NECANN Cup
- 224results on record
- 2017–2026years in our data
- 7editions
- 82matched to strains
- Bostonlatest location
The NECANN Cup is the awards contest attached to NECANN's cannabis conventions. NECANN began in New England and now runs events in several US states.
Read the full story →Nevada Cannabis Awards Music Festival (Las Vegas Cannabis Awards; Nevada CAMF)
- 488results on record
- 2019–2026years in our data
- 8editions
- 183matched to strains
- Downtown Las Vegaslatest location
A Las Vegas cannabis awards night that doubles as a music festival. Its 2023 winners were picked by public vote, and its 2025 edition was billed as the seventh.
Read the full story →New Mexico Growers Cup
- 73results on record
- 2022–2025years in our data
- 4editions
- 42matched to strains
- HIGH SKY venue / The Horror Hall, Tularosa, NMlatest location
A home-grower competition and festival in Timberon, New Mexico. So far it is known only through one podcast episode from April 2021.
New Mexico Legacy Cup (also called the New Mexico Growers Cup)
- 20results on record
- 2025–2026years in our data
- 2editions
- 13matched to strains
- El Rey Theater, Albuquerquelatest location
A first-edition cannabis competition in Albuquerque, held at the El Rey Theater on March 22, 2025, with music, comedy and an awards ceremony.
Read the full story →New York Growers Cup
- 40results on record
- 2022–2024years in our data
- 3editions
- 22matched to strains
- Warsaw Concerts in Brooklyn, New Yorklatest location
A growers' awards weekend in New York, known to us through one personal account of its December 2024 edition, with plenty left undocumented.
No Man's Land Cannabis Cup (Cannabis Cup Thailand)
- 3results on record
- 2022–2023years in our data
- 2editions
- 0matched to strains
- Bangkoklatest location
A Bangkok dispensary with a hidden-rooftop-bar past put on its first-ever cannabis competition, mixing contests with workshops, music and art.
Read the full story →NuWu Cannabis Cup (NuWu Cup)
- 23results on record
- 2025years in our data
- 1editions
- 10matched to strains
- NuWu Courtyardlatest location
A blind, consumer-judged cannabis competition from a Las Vegas marketplace, told entirely through the organiser's own posts.
NW Cannabis Classic (NWCC) / Cannabis Classic Alaska
- 90results on record
- 2015–2019years in our data
- 5editions
- 54matched to strains
- Anchoragelatest location
An Anchorage trade show and competition that first ran in May 2015, clashed with venue rules over samples in 2016, and was fined by state regulators in 2018.
Read the full story →NY Craft Flower Cup (NY Small Farma)
- 1results on record
- 2024–2026years in our data
- 3editions
- 1matched to strains
- Warwick, NYlatest location
A New York flower competition run by NY Small Farma, with 2024 winners from both home growers and licensed cultivators. [1]
Oklahoma Cannabis Awards Music Festival (Oklahoma Cannabis Awards)
- 93results on record
- 2022–2024years in our data
- 3editions
- 46matched to strains
- Farmers Public Market in Oklahoma Citylatest location
An Oklahoma awards-and-music event whose listed editions run from 2022 to 2024, moving from a Route 66 campground in 2023 to a public market in Oklahoma City in 2024.
Read the full story →Oregon Growers Cup (Oregon Cannabis Growers' Fair)
- 415results on record
- 2015–2025years in our data
- 11editions
- 193matched to strains
- Riddle, Oregon, USAlatest location
In August 2016 the Oregon State Fairgrounds in Salem hosted what was billed as Oregon's first live cannabis plant competition, with ribbons, author Ed Rosenthal as a judge and nine winning plants.
Read the full story →Pakalolo Cup (Hawaii Islands Cannabis Cup)
- 15results on record
- 2023–2024years in our data
- 2editions
- 13matched to strains
- Care Waialualatest location
A farm-hosted competition on Oahu's North Shore in February 2023 billed as the first annual contest for the best cannabis grown in Hawaii.
Read the full story →Phuket Cannabis Cup (Phuket Cannabis Association)
- 25results on record
- 2023–2025years in our data
- 2editions
- 13matched to strains
- Beyond Patong, Pa Tong, Kathu, Phuketlatest location
A beachside debut in March 2023, a bigger sequel that December, and a trade group trying to give Phuket's cannabis scene a shared voice.
Platinum CBD Cup (Cann’Agri Expo)
- 93results on record
- 2023–2026years in our data
- 4editions
- 46matched to strains
- Nantes, L’Agronaute, 28 March 2026latest location
An awards ceremony held inside a Nantes hemp trade show, where CBD products go before a judging panel.
Read the full story →Siam Cannabis Cup
- 7results on record
- 2024years in our data
- 1editions
- 6matched to strains
- Viva Alangka Cruise, Chao Phraya River, Bangkoklatest location
A first-edition Thai grower contest held on a cruise boat in Bangkok in May 2024, built around local licensed growers and landrace strains.
Solventless Cup
- 53results on record
- 2024–2026years in our data
- 3editions
- 17matched to strains
- Sol Buffalo Pool Bar & Restaurant, Buffalo, NY, USAlatest location
A cannabis event built around solventless products, whose 2025 edition was listed for Buffalo, New York.
Read the full story →South Pacific Cannabis Cup (Expoweed Chile)
- 18results on record
- 2018–2019years in our data
- 2editions
- 10matched to strains
- Santiago, Chilelatest location
A Chilean cannabis cup run by DNA Genetics alongside the Expoweed Chile expo. It was first held in 2017, and a second edition was planned for Santiago in 2018.
Spannabis Champions Cup
- 450results on record
- 2005–2026years in our data
- 21editions
- 280matched to strains
- Bilbaolatest location
A competition that lives inside a Barcelona cannabis fair, with a short paper trail, a curious gap in its year list, and plenty left undocumented.
St Vincent & the Grenadines Cannabis Cup
- 10results on record
- 2023years in our data
- 1editions
- 2matched to strains
- Pier 1, Kingstown, SVGlatest location
A contest announced in late 2023 as the country's first Cannabis Cup, set up to put traditional growers in the spotlight.
Terpestival (Center for the Study of Cannabis and Social Policy)
- 75results on record
- 2017–2019years in our data
- 2editions
- 68matched to strains
- Tacoma/Seattle, WAlatest location
A terpene-themed fair with a think tank behind it: what the sources say about the Original Terpestival, its producer Dominic Corva and the Seattle research group it helps fund, and what they leave out.
Read the full story →Texas Hemp Classic
- 5results on record
- 2024–2026years in our data
- 3editions
- 0matched to strains
- Austin, TXlatest location
A Texas-grown hemp contest with blind tasting, lab terpene testing, a growers' summit and a comedy-night finish at an Austin venue.
Read the full story →THC Championship (The Hemp Connoisseur)
- 42results on record
- 2012–2024years in our data
- 6editions
- 24matched to strains
- Colorado, USAlatest location
A Colorado judging contest run by The Hemp Connoisseur, best glimpsed through a snowy Denver awards night and a community judging-kit pickup.
Read the full story →THC Classic (Rooster Magazine)
- 572results on record
- 2012–2026years in our data
- 15editions
- 208matched to strains
- ReelWorks in Denver, Coloradolatest location
A Colorado cannabis contest run by Rooster Magazine where judges never see the labels, and the sources show it still going in 2023.
The Emerald Cup
- 1,212results on record
- 2003–2026years in our data
- 24editions
- 546matched to strains
- Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts, Oakland, CAlatest location
A cannabis competition and festival built around organic, sun-grown harvests, founded by Tim Blake and named for Northern California's Emerald Triangle. It started as a quiet gathering of farmers and grew into a large public event.
Read the full story →The Emjays International Cannabis Awards
- 4results on record
- 2023–2024years in our data
- 2editions
- 0matched to strains
- Pearl Concert Theater in the Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nevadalatest location
A Las Vegas industry awards show, run by a Seattle events company, where the trade votes for nominees and a panel picks the winners.
Read the full story →The Headies: Vermont Growers Cup
- 62results on record
- 2019–2025years in our data
- 7editions
- 30matched to strains
- The Barns at Lang Farmlatest location
A Vermont cannabis growers' competition run by Heady Vermont, from a surprisingly well-attended 2018 debut to a May 2023 gathering at a farm venue in Essex.
The Lovers Cup (Montana)
- 5results on record
- 2022years in our data
- 1editions
- 5matched to strains
- Draught Works, Missoulalatest location
A Montana cannabis contest held at a Missoula brewery, with winners named in February 2022 and billed as the state's first since rec sales began.
Treating Yourself Expo Cup
- 49results on record
- 2010–2014years in our data
- 5editions
- 34matched to strains
- Toronto, Ontario, Canadalatest location
The paper trail for this name starts with a Toronto trade-show weekend in July 2010, not a competition, so this page tells the expo's story and says plainly where the record stops.
Read the full story →Trinidad & Tobago Cannabis Conference, Expo & Growers Cup
- 33results on record
- 2023–2024years in our data
- 2editions
- 22matched to strains
- Green Yard, Port of Spainlatest location
A Port of Spain event that mixed talks, a trade expo and a growers' contest. Its second edition drew 38 entries, and a grower called Tobago Toni was its standout competitor.
WSIA Sun Cup and WSCA Craft Cannabis Cup: Washington's Sun-Grown Showdowns
- 148results on record
- 2018–2024years in our data
- 7editions
- 89matched to strains
- Seattle, WAlatest location
Two Washington State contests celebrate cannabis grown under the open sky. Their names are similar but their hosts are different, and the sources leave a few questions open.
Read the full story →X Cup (XpoCanna Connecticut)
- 19results on record
- 2023–2026years in our data
- 4editions
- 8matched to strains
- Plantsville, CTlatest location
A Connecticut cannabis competition that began as an add-on at the XpoCanna expo in 2023 and is now listed as its own event for late 2026.
Zalympix Michigan (and East Coast Zalympix)
- 83results on record
- 2022–2026years in our data
- 5editions
- 51matched to strains
- Michiganlatest location
A people's-choice cannabis contest that started in California, was taken up in Michigan, and is often called the Grammys of Cannabis.
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