Earlier this month, we introduced the launch of the Excessive Instances Hashish Cup Individuals’s Version in Michigan, however now we’re hyping up the West Coast for the return of its personal Individuals’s Alternative Awards! Welcome to the Excessive Instances Hashish Cup SoCal: Individuals’s Alternative Version 2023, a recreational-only competitors celebrating a number of the greatest hashish merchandise within the area.
The SoCal Hashish Cup was first launched in 2015, the place it thrived as an in-person occasion between 2015-2019. Again in 2015, strains like Flower Bomb Kush, True OG, and Amnesia Haze had been the cream of the crop, and classes like “Greatest Sales space” and “Greatest Glass” had been nonetheless commonplace. The pandemic could have put a halt to in-person occasions, however the Individuals’s Alternative has taken the nation by storm, with a Individuals’s Alternative competitors held for SoCal in each 2020 (with winners introduced in 2021) and 2022. In 2021, large favorites like Biscotti, Gelonade, and Lemon Sponge Cake took first place, amongst a diversified collection of pre-rolls, edibles, and extra. Our 2022 SoCal: Individuals’s Alternative Version was one of many greatest cups thus far, with winners equivalent to High Shelf Cultivation’s Whoa Si Whoa, Sense’s Pink Certz Flower, Wizard Bushes’s Studio 54, and Staff Elite Genetics’s Pearadise Flower—just some of the wonderful strains that gained over our judges.
Quick ahead to this 12 months’s Excessive Instances Hashish Cup SoCal: Individuals’s Alternative Version 2023, and we’re anticipating one other thrilling assortment of merchandise to expertise. With that in thoughts, right here’s the schedule for this 12 months: Product submissions will probably be dropped off on the Moxie Lynwood facility between Might 8-10. Then our official consumption companion, Moxie, will construct the choose kits after which we’ll transport the kits to all collaborating Excessive Instances and Have a Heart retailers. On Might 20, choose kits will formally go on sale! Judges could have between Might 21 to July 10 to check out their goodies, submitting their ideas on product differentiators equivalent to aesthetics, aroma/scent, style/taste, results/effectiveness, and a lot extra.
In keeping with Excessive Instances Director of Competitions Mark Kaz, 2021 was a record-breaking 12 months by way of participation. “Twenty-one Cups, 339 manufacturers, 1,389 batches of entries, all judged by about 15,000 judges who helped crown 249 award-winners for greatest merchandise of their state,” Kaz stated. “Our business goes via a tricky recession, restrictive laws, and loads of different woes, however one factor that’s for sure is that folks need to discover out who has the very best weed, and we’re right here to assist.”
For corporations who need to submit merchandise for this 12 months’s competitors, please check with the next guidelines.
Entry Classes:
- Indica Flower (2 entries max per firm)
- Sativa Flower (2 entries max per firm)
- Hybrid Flower (2 entries max per firm)
- Pre-Rolls (2 entries max per firm)
- Infused Pre-Rolls (1 entry max per firm)
- Solvent Concentrates (2 entries max per firm)
- Non-Solvent Concentrates (2 entries max per firm)
- Vape Pens & Cartridges (2 entries max per firm)
- Edibles: Gummies & Fruit Chews (3 entries max per firm)
- Edibles: Candies & Non-Gummies (3 entries max per firm)
- Edibles: Drinks (2 entries max per firm)
- Sublinguals, Capsules, Tinctures + Topicals (3 entries max per firm)
Entry Necessities:
- Flower: (228) 1-gram samples. We won’t settle for any 3.5-gram entries.
- Pre-Rolls & Infused Pre-Rolls: (228) samples: Pre-Rolls will probably be capped at 2g flower-only every; Infused Pre-Rolls will probably be capped at 3g flower equivalency or 1g focus equivalency every.
- Concentrates & Vape Pens: (228) .5-gram samples. We won’t settle for any 1-gram entries. Batteries required for Carts.
- Edibles: (100) samples with 100mg THC max.
- Drinks: should be a max of 16 fluid ounces, non-glass containers most popular.
- Sublinguals, Capsules, Tinctures + Topicals: (60) samples with 500mg THC max
By way of submission pricing, rivals ought to notice the entry charges relying on what number of merchandise they submit. Whereas one entry is $250, and two entries is $100 per entry (each non-refundable), submissions of three or extra entries is a $100 refundable deposit per entry held, which is refunded when all entries are efficiently submitted. Lastly, for those who’d wish to sponsor this 12 months’s Excessive Instances Hashish Cup SoCal: Individuals’s Alternative Version 2023 then all entry charges are waived. We additionally provide a number of tiers of sponsorship, together with Basic, Bronze, Silver, and Presenting Sponsorships.
That sums up the main points of our occasion this 12 months however try our High Times Cannabis Cup web site to view the entire particulars.
A particular thanks to:
Moxie – Official Consumption Associate
Have a Heart – Official Retailer Associate
Excessive Instances Dispensaries – Official Retailer Associate
