DEEP DIVE: A look into The Errl Cup's Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 Winners

The Errl Cup has spent ten years telling Arizona cannabis consumers that its awards mean something. That the products winning are tested, vetted, and genuinely the best the state has to offer. That, unlike every other cannabis competition, this one can be trusted.

The Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 results make that a very difficult claim to defend, and despite my many, MANY, attempts to get any sort of statement from the team directly, they've yet to actually make any sort of comment on any of the points that I've collected below.

Vape Categories

In Fall 2025, Pressure Extracts were placed in two Live Resin vape categories with products whose COAs explicitly list Distillate as the source material. I documented this, reached out to the Errl Cup for five months, and got nothing.

This past cup, Spring 2026, Pressure Extracts did not place in any vape categories. They were still present at the event with a branded space on the grounds, and Pepper was hosting Bong Wars. The giant trailer they occupied last year, the same one seen very prominently in promotional videos leading up to this event, was gone. Just tents this time. 

Because the Errl Cup does not publish entry counts, we have no way of knowing whether Pressure entered products and simply didn't place, or didn't enter at all. What we do know is that the Live Resin categories were won by brands with legitimate live resin products this time around. 

What still hasn't happened is any public acknowledgment of what occurred at Fall 2025, any explanation of how a distillate product won a live resin award, or any response to over six months of documented outreach asking exactly that question. The problem got quieter. It didn't get answered, the erroneous awards were not acknowledged in any way, and in fact still stand and be claimed by the brand.

DRIP won an unprecedented number of categories, and at least seven of them had no competition

DRIP placed in:

Vape Pen Hybrid - 3rd

Vape Pen Indica - 2nd

Vape Pen Sativa - 3rd

Vape Pen Non-Solvent - 1st

Flower Hybrid - 1st

Flower Sativa - 3rd

Pre-Roll - 1st

Moon Rocks - 1st

Concentrate Hybrid - 1st

Concentrate Indica - 1st

Concentrate RSO - 1st

Concentrate Isolate - 1st

Concentrate Sauce - 1st

Concentrate Non-Solvent - 2nd

Beverage - 1st

Topical - 1st

Tincture - 1st

CBD - 1st

To my knowledge, no brand has ever swept so many categories simultaneously, yet a closer look at DRIP's wins reveals that the following categories list only a 1st place, with no 2nd or 3rd listed:

- Concentrate Isolate

- Concentrate Sauce

- Beverage

- Tincture

- CBD

- Moon Rocks

- Pre-Roll

Seven categories out of 13 were first place wins with no runners-up. That means in almost half of DRIP's first placements, there is no evidence that anyone else entered.

DRIP is a legitimate brand with real market presence and no majorly documented quality failures. This is not an attack on their products. The point is that the Errl Cup is handing out awards in categories that may have had a single entrant and presenting them to the public as competitive wins. Until the Errl Cup publishes full entry counts per category, which they have not done for Spring 2026, there is no way to know how many of these were actual competitions.

Mohave and Copperstate Farms are repeat winners with documented industry ties

Mohave Cannabis Co. is a documented headline sponsor of the Errl Cup, confirmed by Phoenix New Times coverage of Spring 2024, while simultaneously placing in competition across multiple events including 2020, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, and Spring 2025. Copperstate Farms won Sun-Grown Flower at Spring 2025 as the sole entry in that category. Both placed again in Spring 2026. The winner of Sun-Grown Flower this year again has no runner-ups listed at all.

The Errl Cup's website claims "winners can't buy trophies" but provides no public methodology for how conflicts of interest between paying participants and competition winners are identified or managed. There is no disclosure of which brands hold sponsorship arrangements in any given event cycle, and no public process for challenging a result - in fact in my experiences personally challenging a result just ended in the page blocking me and accusing me of harassment because they no longer wanted to talk about the problems being called out.

Mohave and JARS are the same corporate family

Most people treat Mohave Cannabis Co. and JARS Cannabis as separate brands. They are not.

Both are controlled by Devine Holdings LLC, whose members include Curtis Walter Devine (Mohave's founder), Sara Rose Presler (General Counsel for both Mohave and JARS, and the Arizona Dispensaries Association), and Debbie Sue Hunter (Curtis's sister). Multiple JARS Arizona dispensary locations operate under Mohave entity licenses directly.

This was confirmed through a Connecticut Attorney General settlement executed January 9, 2026, where Mohave paid $416,000 in civil penalties for operating what were supposed to be independent dispensaries as a coordinated enterprise, including sharing pricing data and exercising control before regulatory approval. 

Just shortly before this year's competition there were two documented recalls:

- JARS Super Yuzu flower recalled February 2026 for Aspergillus contamination

- JARS Cheech and Chong infused preroll recalled March 18, 2026 for Aspergillus contamination, three days before the Errl Cup event

Both Mohave and JARS placed in Spring 2026. As a connected corporate entity with two active recalls in the months leading up to the event, their combined presence raises questions the Errl Cup has no public mechanism to answer.

The structural problems that make all of this possible

The Errl Cup has no public process for challenging an award. They publish no entry counts per category. They provide no criteria for what disqualifies a brand from participating. They have no functional public point of contact, as I documented extensively over six months of trying to get a response about the Fall 2025 distillate situation. Their only point of contact is a volunteer named Sunshine who, by her own admission, feels that relaying information to the people running the event is not her job to do because she is just a volunteer.

The only response I eventually got from Jim Morrison was asking for my phone number through Sunshine after I called out their selective re-sharing of historical results publicly - leading up to this year's event they conveniently re-published every awards list but the one naming Pressure as a Live Resin product. When I asked to keep everything in writing, the conversation ended and the page blocked me for continuing to ask the questions they refused to answer.

The Bottom Line

The Errl Cup was founded because Jim Morrison's sister was sold garbage by an industry that didn't care what was in its products. Ten years later, a distillate product wins a live resin award and the only response is silence. Two brands connected through a $416,000 antitrust settlement rack up recalls before the event and still walk away with placements. And the person running the competition is unreachable by any documented means.

This is the story of an organization that seemed to genuinely care once. Listening to older interviews with Morrison, I'm struck by how much he would have agreed with almost every criticism in this post. He built the Errl Cup because he was furious at an industry that put money over patients. That fury was real. But somewhere between then and now, either the momentum faded, or the money got too comfortable. Whatever the reason, his current actions speak far louder than his past words ever could.