Updated: July 20, 2026
The Solventless Cup has quickly become one of the most interesting annual markers in New York cannabis. It sits at the intersection of 710 culture, solventless education, brand competition, consumer choice, and Buffalo’s growing role in the state conversation.
This page is built as an evergreen Buffalo Cannabis Network reference hub. Instead of treating each year as a one-day recap, it tracks the event across 2024, 2025, and 2026, with links to deeper reporting and source material where available.
Solventless Cup 2026
2026 extended the Solventless Cup from a strong Buffalo-based competition into a more durable New York reference point.
The 2026 Solventless Cup gave BCN a strong bridge between live event coverage and long-term search value. It is the clearest recent year for readers looking for Buffalo context, New York winners coverage, and a reliable jumping-off point into the broader Solventless Cup archive.
- Read BCN’s 2026 Solventless Cup article
- Read the 2026 winners announcement from AudioKush
- View the official Solventless Cup site
Regional Impact
Buffalo remained the local anchor while the event gained more statewide relevance.
Editorial Value
2026 gave BCN both local coverage and a published external winners source to build from.
Search Value
This is the year that makes the archive useful for ongoing searches around winners, brands, and category history.
BCN takeaway: 2026 now has both local editorial coverage and a published winners announcement. That is enough to anchor the year in this hub without forcing a full category table before we complete a separate source-verification pass for every placement label, spelling choice, and brand presentation format.
Solventless Cup 2025 Winners
2025 showed the Solventless Cup was not just about concentrates, but about storefront reputation, budtender credibility, and the broader culture around New York solventless products.
The 2025 Solventless Cup was held in Buffalo and presented as a larger, more immersive New York cannabis gathering, with an industry networking mixer on 7/10, an expo, awards programming, and strong crossover between judges’ categories and consumer-voted awards.
BCN takeaway: 2025 helped show that the Solventless Cup is not just about concentrates. It is also about brand reputation, dispensary trust, budtender credibility, and the broader community around New York solventless culture.
Multi-award signal
Rythm kept showing up
Rythm landed in Live Rosin, Ice/Water Hash, and Rosin Cart categories, making it one of the clearest recurring names in the 2025 results.
Community signal
Devil’s Lettuce stayed visible
Devil’s Lettuce appears repeatedly in consumer-voted awards, reinforcing its reputation around staff knowledge, menu confidence, and dispensary presence.
Lounge signal
Roaring 420s kept cultural gravity
Recognition in the dab bar category points to the importance of community gathering spaces in solventless culture, not just products and retail shelves.
2025 Industry Categories
| Category | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Rosin | 818 Headband – Grow Space Killa | Hachimaki Grape Juice – Grow Space Killa | Tropicana – Rythm |
| Ice/Water Hash | Peach Pie – Trout Hash | Velcroz – Rythm | Papaya Cake – Jungle Bear Exotics |
| Traditional Hash | GMO – Static Room | Fried Bananas – Mokotoke | Garlic Spuds – Mokotoke |
| Edibles | Dippin Pots: Freeze Dried Ice Cream Bar – Freddies Headies | Mango Chili Lime Gummies – High Peaks | Strawberry Jam Gummies – Jaunty |
| Rosin Cart | Animal Face – Rythm | Orange Creampop – Nyce | Papaya – Jetty |
| Infused Pre-Roll | Pre-98 Bubba Kush x Purple Sunset – Fire Nation | Funky Mac x Egg Roll – Nativa | Sour Apple Glue – Bison Botanics |
2025 People’s Choice and Community Awards
| Category | Winner | Runner-Up |
|---|---|---|
| Dispensary of the Year | Devil’s Lettuce | Star Buds |
| Sovereign Dispensary of the Year | Hollyweed | Nativa |
| Solventless Processor | Jaunty | Nyce |
| Solventless Menu | Leaf Plug | Devil’s Lettuce |
| Budtender of the Year | Mary @ Devil’s Lettuce | Buffe @ Star Buds |
| Most Knowledgeable Staff | Devil’s Lettuce | Star Buds |
| Dab Bar | Roaring 420s Lounge | Hollyweed |
| Best Glass Artist | Aaron | JP Toro / Toro Glass |
| Most Creative Storefront | Yeti Canna | Planet X |
Momentum signal: Devil’s Lettuce, Jaunty, Rythm, and Roaring 420s Lounge all show up as category leaders in ways that mirror what consumers and insiders were already saying about the market. That is what makes the Solventless Cup useful beyond the trophy count. It captures momentum.
Source: AudioKush 2025 Solventless Cup Winners & Post Event Recap
Solventless Cup 2024 Winners
2024 established the first Buffalo-rooted edition and gave the event its earliest local identity as a solventless-first competition.
The 2024 Solventless Cup (710 Edition) was the inaugural regional competition held in Buffalo, New York and positioned entirely around chemical-free cannabis extracts, artisanal processing techniques, and a stronger consumer understanding of full-spectrum solventless products. The evaluation phase ran from July 5 through July 10, 2024, culminating in a live presentation tied to Downtown Buffalo and The Roaring 420s Lounge.
BCN takeaway: 2024 established the early Buffalo footprint for the event and set the table for the broader, more visible format that followed in 2025 and 2026. It matters not just as a first-year archive, but as the year that helped frame Buffalo as a serious home base for New York solventless culture.
First-Year Identity
The event launched with a clearly solventless-first mission instead of trying to be a generic cannabis competition.
Buffalo Anchor
The Roaring 420s Lounge and Downtown Buffalo context helped establish the local scene as part of the event’s identity.
Foundation Year
2024 gave later years a base to build from, making the broader 2025 and 2026 visibility easier to understand.
2024 Event Structure
- Mission: increase local market consumer awareness around full-spectrum, chemical-free processing methods including sifting, ice water extraction, and heat pressing.
- Timeline: judging and evaluation ran from July 5 to July 10, 2024, including dedicated judge outings and local consumption-oriented experiences.
- Host venue: the final awards celebration was tied to The Roaring 420s Lounge in Buffalo, NY.
- Media and production partners: Case Study Labs, AudioKush, and Skunk Magazine were all part of the wider event presentation and documentation ecosystem.
2024 Product Category Winners
| Category | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Rosin | Cereal Mix – RYTHM | Velcroz – RYTHM | GMO – Jetty |
| Hash (Bubble, Kief & Sift) | Big Foot Glue (Bubble Hash) – Red Leaf Cultivation | Tropicana Cherry (Kief) – House of Sacci | Velvet Pancakes (Dry Sift) – Underground Geneticz |
| Solventless Vape Cartridges | Kitchen Sink – Juicy Concentrates | Banana Ghost – Rezinators | Strawberry Guava – Luci |
| Solventless Edibles | Unwind 2:1 Chocolate Bar – Soft Powered Sweets | Strawnana Split Gummies – Off Hours | Sour Apple Gummies – Rezinators |
2024 People’s Choice and Industry Awards
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Dispensary of the Year | Devil’s Lettuce Dispensary |
| Most Knowledgeable Staff | Devil’s Lettuce Dispensary |
| Budtender of the Year | Axel L. (East Leaf Dispensary) |
| Best Solventless Menu | Hollyweed Irving |
| Best Dab-Bar | The Roaring 420s Lounge |
| Processor of the Year | ROC Flower |
| Best Glass Artist | Terrestrial Glass |
Featured Brand Signal
House of Sacci appears early in the archive
House of Sacci’s second-place finish in the 2024 hash category matters because it gives readers a longer view of the brand’s presence in New York competition and culture. For more on the brand, see BCN’s House of Sacci coverage.
What Is the Solventless Cup?
The Solventless Cup is a New York cannabis competition and community event centered on solventless products and the culture around them. That includes categories like live rosin, ice water hash, traditional hash, rosin carts, and edibles, plus consumer-voted awards that recognize dispensaries, budtenders, menus, processors, storefronts, glass artists, and dab bars.
What makes the event interesting is that it does more than name winners. It helps surface who is building trust in New York’s concentrate space, who is educating consumers well, and which businesses are repeatedly earning attention from both insiders and the public.
Why 710 Matters
710 is often called Oil Day in cannabis culture. Turn the number upside down and it reads like OIL, which is why the date became associated with concentrates and extraction culture. Where 420 is the broader cannabis holiday, 710 is much more closely tied to hash, rosin, live resin, carts, and dabs.
For a competition like the Solventless Cup, that matters. The event is not just a party attached to a date. It is part of a wider effort to educate people about clean extraction, concentrate quality, and the differences between solventless and non-solventless products.
Why BCN Built This Hub
Buffalo has become an important backdrop for New York cannabis events, and the Solventless Cup is one of the clearest examples. This page gives BCN a place to keep the event organized year by year, connect readers to deeper reporting, and create a resource that stays useful long after the latest awards night ends.
Source Notes
- 2026 links directly to AudioKush’s published winners announcement and BCN’s own event coverage.
- 2025 winners are compiled from the published AudioKush post-event recap.
- 2024 is based on the event record details and category results supplied for BCN’s archive build, alongside supporting event-network and media context.