There are less than a dozen hours of the year— the year—remaining. As I’ve done at this point of each year for over a decade, it’s time for an article filled with something we otherwise try to avoid: speculation. Prior to the creation of halfwheel, at a website I started called TheCigarFeed, I’ve closed out the current year by asking 10 important questions for the cigar world for the upcoming year and trying to predict their outcomes. Some years, there is a struggle to get 10 questions and a very large drop off in importance after the first few questions. The 2020 list of questions—none of which predicted or took into a global pandemic—were all important, as the cigar industry was closing out a 2019 where business was down and internal tensions were high.