Well fellow tokers I'm off to the 18th Cannabis Cup,first time i've actually attended as i usuallyvisit the Damjust before or after always missing those elusive cup winning budz,so heres hoping...
gonna be a judge this year.don't really know how that works couldn't possibly test all those goodies and give an accurate evaluation in 4 days !!!.Has anyone been a judge in the past or have any insight to the procedures any info would be appreciated.
Any other UK420'S attending let's hook up
Peace Out

I got a spare set of lungs...

good luck indica on being a Judge and let us know how u get on cos i might do it next year

Being a judge can work out pretty pricey sometimes What with all the travelling (if you miss the coffee shop tour buses ) food and drink during the days and evenings.

With your ticket you get to sample 2 (I think ) different strains per day, this can be 2 weeds or hash or 1 of each (they have prob upped this by now ) each sample was a certain amount of grams.

The benefits of the judge passes is that you get into all the exclusive coffee shop parties where they try to sway your vote by handing out freebies and such like

Another benefit is that you get to smoke allllll the decent weed, not the usual they give out to the normal punters, the stuff you will be sampling will have been curing prob since September.

Is it worth the £150ish??? each to their own on that score

I've never been a judge, but have been to the event and blagged me way into a coupla parties (just bundle in with the crowd don't ya) Mebbe I'll give it a blast next year.....who knows.

Hey how do you become a judge? If possible it would be great to be a judge at 2006

Oops just looked it up looks good, but not really worth all that money if you only get to try 2 types of weed, i mean it would be alot cheaper to get 2 diff kinds from a regular coffee shop....

I mean how does it work, you pay £150 for a judges pass, then have to go around 20odd coffee shops buying weed to judge, doesnt seem that good to me...

If you ask me, it's the Kudos your paying for, not the actual weed. The bragging rights must be everlasting, something to tell the grand kids about (once they reach a mature and responsible age of course )

I could think of at least 15 different ways of working that info into more or less any conversation:

"Well take it from an old Cannabis Cup Judge like me..."

"When I was over in the 'Dam back in 2006, in my official capacity as a Cannabis Cup Judge..."

and so on

You would be able to hold court at parties, giving out your 'professional' opinions on the samples of scraggy mixed leaf matter that always seem to appear at these parties (or at least the ones I go to ). You would become the local Ganja-Guru, keeper of the sacred wisdom, privvy to arcane rituals of herbal sacrifice, toker of all that is good and holy.

That's why I want to be a CC Judge in the near future (probably not '06 unfortunately, unless I go alone ). I would gladly pay the money for whatever amount of weed you get. Smug in the knowledge that I shall return home King of Cannabis.

On a side note: Has anyone seen the Cannabis Cup DVD which is floating around? It has some entertaining bit's and some good music. The reality-tv sections were funny, but not in the way the contestants were hoping to be. It's floating around on the torrent sites if anyone's interested.

Peace

Was a judge in the 2004 cup. Thoroughly recommend it, although the pass does not get you too many freebies, you have the main party access and there is a lot going on if you are not too out of it. I usually make the week of it - then spend the next week recovering...

My advice - stay as central as you can to the city - having to travel in/out on trams when the world is not making sense is surreal at the best of times. Managed to get 95% of the cup entries done before judging, and suprisingly enough, you can discern the difference (to some extent).

If you want to get some quality smoke AND start to recognise the strains, then the cup is the place to be.
Any serious connoisseur HAS to attend at least once

See you there later this year!

i plan to attend the cup this year from my point of view i dont care if i judge or not i just want to get really really really STONED pass out wake up do it again every day for a week

missed the cup last year but have seen some of the highlights on various sites
going to dam in 3 weeks almost and both me and my girlfriend have agreed to
spend the money for judges passes this year. even though she dont smoke.
she knows all my attention would be concentrated on the cup and all the wonderful weed
id be around


does anyone know excactly what u get for ur money as a judge? i aint looked that far into it yet.
through different people you hear different things.


Peace

Absolutely nothing, apart from being able to try the cup entries..

Pickle

Am thinking of going to the cannabis cup this year myself, but was hoping to gen up on latest grow technology as well! Is there any kind of grow expo thingy going on at the same time? I mean 10,000 stoners in amsterdam, they're missing a trick if not!