Rules of WBrC World Coffee Brewing Competition 2018 and World hand Coffee Competition

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The winner of the 2017WBC World Barista Competition has been announced! British player Dale Harris wins the championship!

1. What is the meaning of the game?

Reflect the results of the game or test your ability, want to know your own strength to play is the best choice. Don't go to the game if you are already in the game, so that you can continue to wear the emperor's new clothes.

The process of preparing for the game can improve your ability. In fact, when you think about it, you will feel excited to solve all kinds of problems in a short-term and high-pressure situation.

It must be helpful for you to get the score form and communicate with the judges after the game, and listen to the judges explain the scores of the score form to you. When I attended the post-match sharing meeting of Sasa, the 2015 wbc World Championship champion, he told his own experience that when the Slavs immigrated to Australia, he didn't know anyone (before he was a handball player), and even bought an espresso machine and powder when he opened the first store, not even a bean grinder. The way for him to improve himself is to play and improve himself by communicating with the judges at the end of the game. (because I don't know anyone in a foreign country.)

two。 Does the game need a team?

Yes, we need good raw beans, good baking, good extraction, and good service.

If you are capable enough to do all this, you can form an one-person team to win the game.

It's not a shame to have a team.

It is very important that an industry can develop healthily, practitioners can earn decent money to support their families, and the outstanding ones are recognized and respected by everyone. As a boss, you have like-minded friends to collect firewood for you; as a new force, some people are willing to give you a push, depending on your EQ character. But it's not shameful to have a team. I can bake the beans for you for free in the main competition, as long as you are serious.

The third wave of fans, such as intellectuals, Tree Pier City, Blue bottle, square miles, can be customized from raw beans to baking, from production to service. These stores have this ability, and it's not a shame at all.

The judges act as guests, and the competition is to restore the coffee shop guests to consume a cup of coffee. Or from the seed to the cup. Watch more videos of the game. I'm sure you'll have a new experience.

Ability to reach, or leading in this field, suffering from the lack of a good team, you can also participate in the training and assessment of the judges to enter the field. Not every judge is a contestant, and not everyone is suitable to be a contestant or judge, but you need to go through training and assessment, and you will always find your suitable role.

3. Take part in similar competitions: if there is no team, the best match of the wce's seven events is the triangle cup test (the other items are: hand brewing, barista, baking, flower drawing, coffee and spirits, Turkish coffee). The most expensive and demanding game is wbc, so don't try if you are not ready. In addition, you can only sign up for one of the competitions every year. Signed up for giving up for no reason, suspended for three years.

The rules of the triangle cup test competition are also the simplest: a group of three cups, two cups the same, a different cup, a total of eight groups limited time 8 minutes. It depends on who is right, and who is fast.

You can practice alone without a baker coach (of course, it's better to have a coach), as long as you practice more diligently. In addition, it is also because there is less luck in this competition. If you can drink it, you can drink it, but if you can't drink it, you can't drink it.

4. Rose summer cup?

The "theory of roses" that can be won by using geisha in self-selected cooking. The wbc champion of the 2016 China Division, the runner-up of wbrc, did not use geisha.

The most important thing is whether it tastes good or not, it doesn't matter whether it is geisha or not. You know, there are so many rose summers in Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, etc., so many manors / producing areas / batches, not every rose cup can be drunk when it is tested. Rosy summer is not indestructible and indestructible. Even a rose with a very high score in a coe or SCAA cup can be ruined by poor baking and extraction.

Even if the team is good, you can find a good raw bean, bake it, and give you an excellent extraction plan to arrange the lines and the content of the show. The contestants can't win the game even if they don't have enough technical ability. According to the wbrc rules, the ranking of the final is not only the score of the final, but also the total score of the previous preliminary rematch and ranking. That is to say, no matter how good the beans are, there will be no good results in the designated cooking of the preliminary round. You may not even get into the rematch.

I especially like baking game beans for people. Generally speaking, for those who participate in the competition for the first time, I will not recommend them to use Rose Summer. Fame is very natural and the price is also arrogant. With such expensive beans, the contestants are nervous and play improperly without experience, and may even stop the preliminary round because they accidentally make the mistake of "layman". Unfortunately, there is also a lot of economic pressure: it is normal for a complete training process to come down to nearly 10,000 yuan for beans weighing less than 1k per kilogram. The cost of failure is so high that it is totally unnecessary to gain experience.

5. If you win, you can definitely win if you choose to cook.

In the competition before 2016, the designated beans were all distributed 12 days in advance. At present, beans are distributed to contestants only during the specified practice time arranged on the day of the competition, and only a maximum of two players and coaches are allowed to enter during the practice. Therefore, this designated cooking part of the game, the team will not help you much. Set a full score of 100 for cooking. Full score of 140 for optional cooking.

1. The ranking of the preliminary round depends on the total score, the full score = 1000.140

two。 The ranking of the semi-finals depends on the total score, the full score = 140,100,140.

If you don't have the ability to make a random cup of coffee, you can imagine that you can't win.

-- do not answer questions within the dividing line.

Briefly talk about some of the rules of wbrc, take this part as an example, because many contestants skip a lot of rules and look directly here when reading the rules. Of course, every rule can be interpreted as such an extension.

The rules of more than 20 pages include the definition and interpretation of coffee, water, brewing utensils, bean grinders, etc., the schedule of the competition, the handling of objections, and so on. I will not explain them in detail here, but say a few points as a side of the game.

The following quote the original text (2016 China Division qualifier):

That is to say: the wbrc game is divided into two parts: designated cooking, everyone uses the same beans; 2. Make your own cooking, bring your own beans and compare them to see who tastes good!

Explain a few points:

1. Present three cups of coffee one for each judge, not a cup of coffee for three people, let alone a cup of coffee divided into three cups.

I think all the people who came here in that uncalled era had the experience of occasionally making a cup of coffee delicious. Maybe you can stumble out a good cup of coffee by chance, and all three cups taste good, which requires you to have the ability to reproduce. As a rule, avoid this chance (or reduce it as much as possible).

two。 The judges of three cups of coffee and each cup of coffee are evaluated independently.

In principle, each judge is evaluated on the basis of actual performance. The judges will do one or more sensory proofreading before going to work. That is, the judges will drink the same cup of coffee together under the auspices of the referee (referee), and then make independent objective evaluations, and then each judge will give his or her own scores, and even explain the basis and logic of their own scores. The high or low scores will be adjusted to the corresponding consistent scores, and ensure that the standards are consistent in the following competitions. When reviewing the training and assessment every year, teacher Hu Yuanzheng will almost always say that the contestant may have prepared a cup of coffee on the court for as long as three months, and the score you give must be prudent and objective. (general meaning).

In addition, when each judge scores in the backcourt, he or she will actually drink the cup of coffee from the same group of judges to see if the performance without the cup is consistent. Although the referee will not directly participate in the scoring, but will record every detail, drink every cup of coffee, taste dozens of cups of this a day is very hard. If your score as a judge is biased, you will also be challenged. Although the judges say that they can evaluate independently and stick to their own opinions, you should know that there will be judges' comments at the end of the competition, and the contestants will come to you with your score form. If the scores are capricious and illogical, they will not only be questioned by the contestants. They will also gain the disdain of other judges.

3. Quantification in sensory evaluation is an objective prerequisite.

Coffee is a drink, the drink is for drinking, and the coffee in the competition has to be good. It's good. Either you say it's good or it's good. Comprehensive sense of smell / taste / touch, the score is divided into these items:

① aroma aroma, ② flavor flavor, ③ aftertaste finish (afterrhyme), ④ acidity acidity, ⑤ body mellow thickness (oral touch), ⑥ balance balance, ⑦ overall overall impression

There are many answers to explain sensory evaluation, which does not explain each item, in short, what is good, which one, how good is it?

And follow the rules, pay attention! The full score of each of the seven items is 10, and the score of flavor,balance,overall is × 2, with a total score of 100.

Pay more attention! If the scores of the three items of "× 2" are not high, the remaining scores will not be recovered even if they are high.

For example, usually feel that flowers and fruit sour are flirtatious bitches, only like body thick, sweet and bitter low-key coffee, put on the score table, body score is high, but the flavor score is not high, acid strength is not enough from the score will not be too high. At the same time, the balance score of the comprehensive items can not be high. Drop the score of two "x 2" items at once, so you don't have to talk about it later. (some logic of baking and cooking is omitted here.)

4. When you specify the cooking, the judges are blind, and even if you speak loudly while rushing in front of you, the judges will not be affected when they hear it.

5. Efforts to improve the positive experience: your introduction is useful only when cooking on your own, because it includes the exhibition section.

But not everything works. What is useful is the content that enhances the experience.

The following is the score table of self-selected cooking, three items of taste description,customer service,overall impression, in which the score of overall impression is × 2, so the total score of optional cooking is 140points.

Taste description: the flavor description part of the judges drank it. You didn't say it. If you don't drink it, you won't get a high score. Of course, there have been competitions described along with negative flavors before, and almost all of them have won. Do you think you can get any points? Is it already Chang Huai's benevolent heart to start with a score of 4? Because this introduction is negative flavor, negative flavor, negative flavor! That's a negative experience.

Customer service: I have seen people holding the mouth of the cup, seeing hair falling into the filter cup, seeing the judges write that there is water on the table, water in the cup, water in the pot, and so on.

Overall impression: this covers a wide range of content. Lack of affinity, lack of enthusiasm, lack of eye contact and so on can leave a bad impression on guests, right? That's the same for the judges.

Instead of the rating scale, let me give you a few examples:

For example: "I chose the water temperature of 85 degrees to improve the sweetness of coffee", this …... Are you sure it won't be sour?

For example, "this cup of coffee has a creamy texture". As a result, it is not smooth at all, and there is no sense of stickiness and water. This is definitely not to enhance the experience, but to make the experience worse.

For example, "the ratio of powder to water I used for cooking is 0.06." as a result, the referee recorded 18g of your powder and washed it down with 315g of water.

For example:

"I use a sieve to remove the very fine powder, which increases the sweetness of the coffee."

"I use a sieve to remove the very fine powder, so adjusting the particle size distribution can improve the best extraction rate of coffee and increase the sweetness of coffee while maintaining cleanliness."

Which experience is better for you to feel?

Everyone will talk about altitude, bean species, producing areas, treatment, annual rainfall, and average annual temperature, and they do not necessarily correspond to the performance of this cup of coffee. Similarly, they can not get any good scores.

If you have the temper to read so much text, it must be true love, don't you like it?

There is no end to talking like this, although there is still a lot to write about. Go ahead if you need me.

Without the basic spirit of competition, it is not suitable for participating in the competition as a contestant, and it is not suitable for close contact with judges. Contestants, coaches, judges; and volunteers who fly out of hotels every year to serve, each out of love for the coffee industry, in their respective positions to do their own efforts to promote the industry step by step prosperity.

Moreover, just because a coach is better than a player doesn't mean that a judge is better than a player. We are all equal and love each other. God's people are always outsiders.

Words are full of contempt and sarcasm, you do not respect the attitude of the industry to improve and pay hard work.

There are also some coffee for the industry, while bragging about how much they love this industry, in order to engage in this industry to give up all kinds of high-level work before, but also please sit in the right place. I wonder how your logic is consistent? And how do you handle yourself?

The above is for coffee lovers and all the tireless practitioners in the industry.

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