Cannabis cup

The Lovers Cup (Montana)

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.

  • 5results on record
  • 2022years in our data
  • 1editions
  • 5matched to strains
  • Draught Works, Missoulalatest location

01Beginnings

The Lovers Cup was a cannabis competition in Montana. Leafly's write-up calls it the first cannabis competition in the state since recreational sales began1.

The sources do not say who organised it, when it was first planned, or where the name came from.

02The story

The contest took place at Draught Works, a brewery in Missoula1. Winners were announced on 23 February 20221.

There were five categories: Best Flavor, Best Smoking Experience, Most Relaxing, the Aphrodite Award and Best Overall Strain1.

Best Overall Strain went to The Woah!!!, an Exotic Genetix cross grown by Pure Remedies1. Tropical Runtz from Big Sky Buds took Best Flavor1. Wedding Pie from Spark1 won the Aphrodite Award1. The sources do not list winners for the other categories.

03Culture

The contest was held at a brewery, Draught Works1. The sources do not describe the crowd, the atmosphere or any ceremony.

Judge Tom Winter is quoted in the Leafly piece1. The sources do not say who else judged or how entries were scored.

04Now

The sources cover only the 2022 contest. They do not say whether it has been held again or whether it is still running.

05Future

The sources do not mention any plans for later editions, new dates or changes to the format.

The results, in our data

CannaLib holds 5 results from this cup across 1 years (2022 to 2022), 5 of them matched to a strain in the catalogue.

Recent first-place strains

YearStrainCategoryEntrant
2022The WoahBest Overall StrainPure Remedies
2022Wedding PieAphrodite AwardSpark1
2022Tropical RuntzBest FlavorBig Sky Buds

Editions on record

  • 2022 · Draught Works, Missoula

Every result, edition by edition →

Sources

  1. Montana weed contest winners 2022 (Leafly)

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