CannaSwissCup
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.
- 173results on record
- 1999–2026years in our data
- 10editions
- 110matched to strains
- Zurichlatest location
01Where it began
The word "cup" covers a lot of contests, so to be clear: this page is about the CannaSwissCup, a Swiss competition for cannabis products. It is not the Amsterdam Cannabis Cup. It runs in two stages, a closed jury day followed by a public rating round, and its winners are announced at the CannaTrade trade fair.1 According to a 2024 recap in Hanf Magazin, the CannaSwissCup has been comparing and awarding Swiss cannabis products since 1998.1
The recap leaves out the origin story. It names no founder or founding organisation, and it does not say why the contest started.1 It links to cannaswisscup.ch as the competition's own site, but we could not open that site, so we have not confirmed who organises the cup today or whether it has changed hands. For now, 1998 is the only sourced starting point, and we do not know who started it.
02A long pause and a comeback
The same recap describes a gap in the timeline. According to Hanf Magazin, the competition was not held between 2006 and 2017 and came back in 2018.1 That is more than a decade without a cup before it restarted.
We have not found out why the contest stopped or what led to its return. We also found no sourced account of format changes, disputes or other notable moments besides this gap and the 2018 return. Those parts of the story are still missing, and we would rather say so than guess.
03How the judging works
The first round is judged by invited jurors. According to the recap, they assess the samples by sight and smell, sometimes taste them, and record a rating on a jury card.1 The recap does not say how many jurors took part, so we cannot give the size of the panel.
This V.I.P. jury day works as a preselection. The finalists it picks go onto a jury card for a public round.1 In the round described in the 2024 recap, adults living in Switzerland or Liechtenstein could buy the card and test the finalists until 25 May. They could submit their ratings online or at the CannaTrade fair, where the winners are announced.1
04The 2024 jury day
The most recent edition we could document is the CannaSwissCup V.I.P. Jury Day 2024. Hanf Magazin published its recap on 7 February 2024, under the byline of Dieter Klaus Glasmann.1 The jury met on a Sunday early in the year at Die Grüne Fee, an absinth bar in the old town of Solothurn, Switzerland. The recap does not give the exact date.1
Before judging, the products were analysed in laboratories for THC, CBD and CBG content, for nicotine and pesticide contamination, and for terpenes. In total, 55 products were entered across four categories: Outdoor, Greenhouse, Indoor and Hash.1
05Where things stand
The 2024 recap said growers who wanted to enter the 2024/25 round had to register before the end of that year.1 That is the last forward-looking detail we could check. We could not confirm from any page we opened whether a 2024/25 edition or any later edition took place, so the cup's status as of 29 October 2026 is unverified.
The competition's own site, cannaswisscup.ch, could not be opened during research, so we have not checked anything it says about upcoming rounds.1 We will update this section once a current, verifiable source is available.
The results, in our data
CannaLib holds 173 results from this cup across 10 years (1999 to 2026), 110 of them matched to a strain in the catalogue.
Recent first-place strains
| Year | Strain | Category | Entrant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Stella Alpina | Indoor | CR Performance GmbH |
| 2024 | Limoncello | Greenhouse | Slow Farm SA |
| 2024 | Candy Kush | Outdoor | Slow Farm SA |
| 2023 | Cali Grapes | Indoor | Medi Grow GmbH |
| 2022 | Limoncello | Outdoor | Slow Farm SA |
| 2022 | Cr Pineapple Express | Indoor | CannaResearch GmbH |
| 2022 | Arancia Tonic | Greenhouse | Slow Farm SA |
| 2021 | Arancia Tonic | Outdoor | Slow Farm SA |
| 2021 | Saparot | Indoor | Grünhaus AG & JYM Seeds |
| 2021 | Nlx | Greenhouse | Chanvre DC |
| 2020 | Skywalker Og | Outdoor | Alplant GmbH |
| 2020 | Gold Haze | Indoor | Cannabar |
| 2020 | Og Kush | Greenhouse | Starbuds by D’JYMS |
| 2019 | Cpure Fedtonic | Outdoor | BioCan AG |
Editions on record
- 1999 · Ittigen (Stufenbau), later CannaTrade Bern
- 2017 · Bern
- 2019 · Bern
- 2020 · Bern
- 2021 · Bern
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024 · Zurich (CannaTrade, Halle 622)
- 2025 · Zurich (Buds and Beats Festival)
- 2026 · Zurich (CannaTrade)
Sources
Written from the sources above and checked on 2026-10-29. Spot an error? Tell us on the contact page.