Does anyone happen to know where and when the 2013 world snuff taking championships are taking place? I have seen the pics from the last one and I have to witness this competition at first hand. Would be even cooler if Snuffhouse entered a contestant!

Its always in Bavaria. Google is not much help to me, not being a German speaker, but here is something to get you started in a search google Image search for 2012: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1ZMDB\\_enUS502US502&q=schnupftabak+weltmeisterschaft+2012&bav=on.2,or.r\\_gc.r\\_pw.r\\_cp.r\\_qf.&biw=1024&bih=653&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=pMEcUZrOII260QGKj4BQ

I don’t get it. You mean whomever can snuff the most wins? Like, the guy w/ the biggest nose? If so, it sounds as tortuous as that hot dog eating contest.

No, you have 1 minute to shovel 5g of schmalzler into your nose. You lose points for spilling any or lack of cleanliness. You want it all in your nose not on your face. A bigger capacity nose is an advantage, but not as much as technique.

Thanks for the info, I can get to the other side of Bavaria in 6 hours by car…this year I’ll be there! I won’t believe it until I’ve seen the real deal with my own eyes. If anybody else thinks they might wanna go for a bit of a jolly and a tour of the tobacconists in Munich just give me a shout.

We’d love to see any photos or video that you can capture of the event, @Ubert!

Absolutely, I intend to obtain firsthand photographic evidence that these guys really do what they say they do, namely, hardcore premier league snuff abuse …

You should strut your stuff and compete!!

@stapf I appreciate the encouragement stapf…I like snuff a lot and I am hugely grateful that it exists but trying to force as much of it as possible up my hooter in sixty seconds is not my idea of enjoyment. So for my part at least, snuff chugging remains a comically macabre fascination or at the very least a very messy spectator sport. However, there must be someone here on the forum capable of taking on the world champ…how deep are the sponsors’ pockets?

We are looking forward to any pics or vidi’s you can get…It’s all very high school and in good fun.

The great thing is I was planning on stopping off to visit a friend in Bavaria on my way to Hungary this summer so if I time it right I’ll be able to watch the pros in action (and stock up on snuff). Nearer the time when I can confirm for sure that I’ll be there I’ll be relying on you guys for a list of interview questions for the winner

Well guys, the sad news is that I didn’t stop off to see the world snuff taking championships this year as I had hoped to. I had planned to drive to Hungary and spend some time in Bavaria on the way but ended up taking the train instead. However, I have stocked up on snuff but have no intention of trying to get through it all in record breaking time - sorry for letting the side down but I have plenty of time now for training for next year’s event Just wondering though - did anyone from this forum go?

Well it sounds a good idea! I would certainly like to see it the coming year

Obviously it is a schmalzler they are using, does anyone know which? Does it change from year to year?

@Ivan - no idea, all I know is that you can pick up schmalzer anywhere in Bavaria…there’s tonnes of the stuff

What does the winner get, besides being able to say they are the “snuff campaign”?

I reckon one of us should slip in under the cover of darkness and switch the schmalzer for Dholakia white and up the stakes… :ar!

@Roderick - Bring him on! And get the bloke on the forum, he might brighten the place up a bit

OK guys I have a big bag of German schmalzer and I am in training - pranayama yogic breathing exercises - the full monty! I intend to starve myself of snuff for at least …maybe, at least a good 15 minutes before the contest just to get my appetite up and then it’s shovel the lot up my hooter. My technique may need a little work at present but I was thinking of inverting a funnel and attempting to snort the lot in one hit. If anyone can offer some sound coaching I am all ears…or perhaps all nostrils might be more appropriate…Snuff olympics her we come!

@Ubert it don’t look like much snuffing is going on. It just looks like who can shovel it in fastest. If you want to win I say practice with Copenhagen snuff, after shoveling five grams of that in; A schmalzler should be like candy . I do think getting that much snuff out after the contest you would need a spoon.

@basement_shaman yeah you’re right - somehow it does seem like a waste of good snuff.

When is the snuff championship scheduled ?

I have read about this event on the internet. All I know is that I love snuff,however, I would never want to participate in this competition. I snuff for enjoyment and the pictures that I have seen from this event, seems like it would be too much of a rush for me and wasting too much snuff.

@sixphoto it is usually in the summer in Bavaria - I have a friend down there so I will ask him to find out and let you know. I was banging on about this event last year and didn’t make it in the end. Definitely on the cards again for this year.

Interesting to hear that there is a snuff taking championship. I tried a pipe smoking contest at last year’s Chicago pipe show (given 2 matches, a set amount of tobacco, a tamper made from a wooden dowel, and a brand new pipe, try to keep your pipe lit longer than anyone else). I was the second or third person out, but it was fun to try, and price of admission was about the same as the value of the pipe I got.

@Ubert Please pass on any info you have on this championship.we would love to be associated with it in any way possible may be as the sponsor of snuff.

@BarkingLeopard, @lunecat, I was last year on the Pipe Club Teams’ World Cup which was held in my city. It was a big show with lectures on tobacco and pipes, a small fair with pipe tobacco and accessories, etc. Pipe smokers have a very friendly atmosphere going one around them. That’s what todays snuff’s community should look like. Despite the fact that the atmosphere on the Schnupftabak Weltmeisterschaft is probably also friendly, the competition is rather a farce (at least from another point of view). Picking the champion by the amount of snuff he consumed is a bit strange and viels the charm of proper snuff taking. However, tradition is tradition and this is not to be missed. Although I personaly call this event “The Snuff Taking Championship of the German World”. Ok, time to end this jeer and practice to be the Polish Snuff Champion! (Rocky soundtrack in the background)

Snuff Taking Championship? More like Schmalzler Cramming Championship

@sixphoto sure no problem

ok guys, so I can’t say I was genuinely in training as such but I was curious about how much schmalzer I could get up my hooter in 60 seconds and as I had just bought a 100g bag I thought, what the hell - start the stop watch (ok I pigged out and had a schmalzer fest all on my own). So all was going pretty well for the first 4 larger than usual pinches but then my nose troughs were just so blocked that relying on inhalation alone just didn’t work any more and there was more tobacco on my desk than anywhere else. So as n9inchnails points out above, the rest is literally just cramming ie. get a load of snuff on the end of your finger and paste it into your nose. So sadly I probably won’t be such a good contender after all…however if I was allowed to take strong, intermittent menthol blasts between hits to clear the airways then I might just manage to snuff a couple more gramms. Anyway - the nic hit was awsome!!