Missouri Growers Cup
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.
- 86results on record
- 2023–2026years in our data
- 4editions
- 37matched to strains
- the Tre House in Kansas Citylatest location
01Beginnings
The Missouri Growers Cup is a blind-judged cannabis competition held in Missouri, USA. Its first edition ran in 2023, and Greenway Magazine covered that inaugural cup in an article dated October 2, 20231. The organizers describe themselves as the production team behind the 1st Annual Oregon Growers Cup, an early competition held in Oregon shortly after cannabis became legal there on July 1, 20153. That Oregon event is a separate cup in a different state, and this page is only about the Missouri one.
The organizers say their Oregon experience, roughly a decade of it, led them to run cups in several states, with Missouri among them3. Their stated mission has three parts: gather the Missouri cannabis community, give consumers a way to meet sponsors and vendors, and celebrate the state's best producers3. Beyond those self-descriptions, the sources do not document how the cup was founded, who funded it, or how the Missouri edition was first planned.
02The Story So Far
The first edition had a rocky start. According to Greenway, extreme weather forced an emergency cancellation of the public-facing event in 2023, but the competition itself went ahead and winners were still named1. The debut also included a home-grower contest called GrowMaster, which tried to level the field by giving every entrant clones of the same cultivar, rather than letting people bring their own genetics1. Commercial brands competed too, across categories such as flower, cartridges, edibles, solventless products and drinkables1.
The second edition took place over a weekend in early September 2024, and Greenway reported on it on September 10, 20242. The category list shifted: pod/AIO, rosin and tincture categories show up in the 2024 results, and none of them appear in the 2023 list12. A homegrown flower category was also among the 2024 results2. The organizers later said the 2024 edition drew more than 160 entries and called the cup Missouri's largest3. That figure is the organizers' own claim, not an independent count.
03Culture and Character
The cup's main selling point is its judging. Organizers say judges are not shown brand or strain names, and that lab potency percentages play no part in scoring3. The panel is described as hand-chosen Missouri industry peers, whom the organizers characterize as unbiased3. Whether that claim holds up is for readers to weigh, since the sources only repeat the organizers' own description. Entries come from both licensed commercial brands and home growers, so hobbyists sit in the same results as products found in dispensaries2.
Greenway's 2024 coverage also pointed to the event's community feel and camaraderie alongside the competition itself2. By 2025 the public side of the event was billed as a festival, with musical guests, DJs, a vendor village, an awards ceremony and another round of Canna Games3. Rapper Dizzy Wright was named the musical guest, as a stop on his 2025 Growing Process 10 Year Anniversary Tour, and comedian Ngaio Bealum of Netflix's Cooking on High was set to host and perform a comedy set3. The venue was described as partly indoor and partly covered outdoor, with consumption allowed3.
04Where It Stands Now
The latest status in the sources is an announcement dated July 16, 2025. At that point the 3rd Annual Missouri Growers Cup had been announced, and the organizers were inviting competitors, sponsors and vendors to take part3. The sources do not include results for that edition, so what actually happened at the 2025 event is not documented here. Nothing in the sources mentions a 2026 edition either, which means the cup's current status after 2025 is unknown. Anyone who needs a present-day answer should check with the organizers directly.
05What Comes Next
No announced plans for future editions were found in the sources. The only forward-looking statement is from the 2025 announcement, where the organizers said they wanted that year's event to be bigger and better than 20243. That is an ambition for a single edition, not a roadmap. There are no documented dates, locations or format changes for 2026 or later, and this page does not speculate about the cup's direction beyond 2025.
The results, in our data
CannaLib holds 86 results from this cup across 4 years (2023 to 2026), 37 of them matched to a strain in the catalogue.
Recent first-place strains
| Year | Strain | Category | Entrant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Blueberry Clementine | Solventless | Amaze |
| 2025 | Garlic Cookies | Cartridges | Standard Wellness |
| 2025 | Skunkberry | Home Grown Flower | GroUrOwn Consulting |
| 2024 | Bison Breath | Carts | Illicit Gardens Hidden Tracks |
| 2024 | Grape Cream Cake | Home Grown | Charles Unger |
| 2024 | Buff Cherry | Pre-Roll | Elevate |
| 2024 | Buff Cherry | Flower | Elevate |
| 2024 | Garlic Cookies | Rosin | Standard Wellness |
| 2024 | Grapefruit Durban | Pre-Roll | Elevate |
| 2023 | Blueberry Muffin | Growmaster | Green Thumb Grow Pro |
| 2023 | Diamonds | BHO | Goat Extracts |
| 2023 | Florida Purple | Carts | AMAZE Cannabis |
| 2023 | Tropicana Cherries | Home Grown | Weed Smith |
| 2023 | Gary Poppins | Indoor | Elevate |
Editions on record
- 2023 · Smokey River Entertainment District in Kansas City
- 2024 · Smokey River Entertainment District in Kansas City
- 2025
Sources
- Missouri cannabis companies shine in inaugural Missouri Grower’s Cup — Greenway Magazine
- Missouri Grower’s Cup highlights the best of state's cannabis offerings — Greenway Magazine
- The Missouri Growers Cup returns — Greenway Magazine
Written from the sources above and checked on 2026-10-29. Spot an error? Tell us on the contact page.