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Cannabis Cup-winning strains in the library

Cannabis cup placings are an imperfect signal — judging panels rotate, categories drift between events, and a 1995 Cup is not the same competition as a 2018 Cup — but they remain one of the few public benchmarks where breeders submit genetics for blind evaluation against their peers. The list below pulls every library entry that carries a documented award entry, ranked by how many wins and how high the placings climb. High Times Cannabis Cups, Spannabis Cups, and IC420 Growers Cups all count, with first-place finishes weighted more heavily than second or third. A cup win does not guarantee a strain will perform identically in a different room with different lights and a different phenohunt — that is a documented historical achievement, not a forward-looking guarantee. The ranking below is purely descriptive, reflecting the awards data recorded in the breeder catalogues used to build the library.