Highlife Cup Barcelona (Highlife BCN)
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.
- 71results on record
- 2004–2013years in our data
- 6editions
- 42matched to strains
- Barcelonalatest location
01Beginnings
The sources do not say when the Highlife Cup Barcelona first took place, or who founded it.
The oldest edition they point to is 2004. A seed-bank award list for Serious Seeds Chronic mentions a 2004 HighLife Cup Barcelona with a Hydro category.1
02The story
In the 2004 Hydro category, the same strain got two placings. Serious Seeds Chronic took 1st place when entered by Mundo Ganja, and 2nd place when entered by Tjamba.1
A year later, a seed seller's history of AK-47 lists two more wins at the cup: 1st place in the Resin category and 1st place in the Overall category, both in 2005.2
Both lists come from seed sellers, so they are secondary sources. The sources do not give full results for either year.12
03Culture
The cup is judged by a panel. A post on the organiser's Facebook page says the panel is made up of over 70 prominent industry figures.3
The same post says the cup is held in the week before the festival. The post is about Spannabis, so that appears to be the festival it means.3
Two different seed sellers list wins here among their strains' awards.12
04Now
The newest item in the sources is the organiser's Facebook post. It announces that Spannabis was postponed to September 2020.3
The page behind the post is called High Life Barcelona, at facebook.com/highlifebarcelona.3
The sources do not say whether the cup ran in 2020, or what its current format, categories or venue are.
05Future
The sources say nothing about future editions, dates or plans for the Highlife Cup Barcelona.
For anything current, check the organiser's own page.3
The results, in our data
CannaLib holds 71 results from this cup across 6 years (2004 to 2013), 42 of them matched to a strain in the catalogue.
Recent first-place strains
| Year | Strain | Category | Entrant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Critical Mass | Copa Highlife BCN 2008 (overall) | Yervagüena |
| 2008 | Super Silver Haze | Chica del año 2008 (Girl of the year) |  Greenhouse Seed Co. |
| 2008 | Critical Mass | Planta del año 2008 (Plant of the year) | Mr Nice Seeds |
| 2008 | Critical Mass | Bio Cup | Yervagüena |
| 2008 | Super Silver Haze | Indoor Haze | Iraila |
| 2008 | Llimonet Haze | Outdoor Haze | Elite Seeds |
| 2007 | Papa S Candy | Copa Highlife BCN 2007 (overall) | La Huerta JV |
| 2007 | Critical Mass | Hydro Cup | Delta 9 |
| 2007 | Papa S Candy | Bio Cup | La Huerta JV |
| 2007 | Margoot | Outdoor Cup | Green Devil |
| 2005 | Black Domina | Hydro Cup | Delta 9 |
| 2005 | Super Silver Haze | Bio Cup | Ortue |
| 2005 | Twister | Outdoor Cup | Ecomaria |
| 2004 | Critical Mass | Copa Highlife BCN 2004 (overall) | Ortue |
Editions on record
- 2004 · Barcelona
- 2005 · Barcelona
- 2007 · Barcelona
- 2008 · Barcelona
Sources
- Serious Seeds Chronic (The Attitude Seedbank)
- AK-47 variety: legendary genetics in history (Errors Seeds)
- High Life Barcelona (Facebook post)
Written from the sources above and checked on 2026-11-08. Spot an error? Tell us on the contact page.