Nevada's only blind cup · Five years in
The NuWu
Cannabis Cup
It started on New Year's Eve 2021 as the only open-air cannabis festival in Nevada's history. Five editions later it's the state's defining competition — brands stripped, labels removed, judged on merit alone. 2025 marked a double milestone: five years of the Cup, eight years of NuWu.
How the Cup works
No labels.
No brand thumb on the scale.
Entries are decanted into unmarked jars, each jar gets a number, and the numbers go to the judges blind. The inaugural 2021 Cup ran a single hand-picked panel; in 2022 NuWu added the Consumer's Choice — billed as the largest consumer-led cannabis contest in Las Vegas — so every recent year crowns two winners per category.
The Influencer's Choice panel is content creators and operators inside the industry. The Consumer's Choice panel is everyday Nevadans who shop the menu. They never see the same ballot. When they agree, that's a double — and that brand has earned the year.
Five editions strong
From a downtown street festival to Nevada's defining cannabis competition.
Categories — Flower, Extract, Edible, Vape, Pre-Roll, Infused.
Panels per year — Influencer + Consumer (since 2022).
The archive
Pick a year.
Five editions on file — every winner, every panel, back to the inaugural festival. Tap any year for the full board.
2025
Oct 18, 2025 · Tom Nieves & Jenn From Japan
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2024
NYE 2024 → Jan 1, 2025 · Tom Nieves & Jenn From Japan
See the winners
2023
NYE 2023 · Peter Dante & Jenn From Japan
See the winners
2022
NYE 2022 · NuWu & Jenn From Japan
See the winners
2021
NYE 2021 → Jan 1, 2022 · Hand-picked NuWu judges
Where it all began
Bring your flower
Want to enter next year?
Submission windows open in the summer. Drop your details and our events team will reach out when the next Cup opens.