The finals of the 2018 World pull Flower Art Competition in China, the competition rules and pre-competition preparation

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Speaking of coffee flowers, this should be the first reason why many coffee lovers and even baristas fall in love with coffee. Maybe he accidentally saw a flower-pulling show and fell in love with it, and then fell in love with coffee. Coffee lace not only pays attention to the sense of beauty in visual appreciation, but also constantly improves the way and skill of the integration of milk foam taste and coffee, and then expresses the taste of the whole work. Finally achieve "color, aroma, taste, shape, art" complete artistic effect.

90% of people do not understand the rules of the flower-pulling art contest. Maybe you are just watching a flower-pulling performance, watching the result of the game, not really watching a flower-pulling competition. What is the key point of a game? do you understand? Today, let's learn:

The China finals of the 2018 World pull Flower Art Competition:

Champion: Liang Fan

Second Runner-up: Zhang Yuanyi

Second Runner-up: Lu Daoqiang

Fourth place: Ma Haoyue

Fifth place: Huang Kai

No. 6: Yin Guanghui

Congratulations to the winners!

World Latte Art Championship World Coffee Art Competition is a professional coffee competition launched by the world coffee and event pioneer-WCE (World Coffee Events) based on the promotion of boutique coffee and based on boutique coffee. It is the second largest competition in the world and the highest level professional competition for the art of coffee jacquard.

The event will be introduced to China for the first time in 2013, with a grand opening at the Shanghai International Hotel supplies Expo. The champions selected in China will represent China in the World Series, which is the second wave of coffee competition frenzy in China after WBC.

The rules of the Coffee draw Competition:

First, do not limit the cup shape, must use more than 200ml, 350ml below, the competition need to use direct injection method (Free Pour) molding, do not use other auxiliary tools, pull pattern can be freely chosen. Being able to choose whether to use Single Espresso or Ristretto is also an important key to score.

The basic pattern of FREE POUR flower drawing is as follows:

Love (Heart) Tulip (Tulip) leaves (Rosetta)

Second, before the start of the competition, the organizer will draw out the order in which all the contestants will appear, and the contestants must come out in accordance with the host's calling order. The competition venue uses two single-head synesso coffee machines and two bean grinders. The contestants decide to use the position of the competition machine according to the odd and even numbers of the draw.

Before the competition, the organizer will inform you of the rules for the use of the venue, the use of the machine and the moving line of the activity, so each contestant should attend the draw and sign in 60 minutes in advance.

4. on the day of the competition, all players are strictly prohibited from using coffee beans and milk in the venue (but after the list of players is announced, they can buy their own practice or arrange to test the machine in advance)

The procedure of the Coffee pull Competition:

After the contestants take the stage, it is also forbidden to make coffee and foam in preparation. But you can test the steam size and the machine button switch.

At least one cup of work must be completed within 3 minutes. If the time is exceeded, you will be disqualified according to international standards.

32 into the top 16 rule: at the beginning of the competition, the host will operate the timer and the two contestants will finish the operation within 3 minutes at the same time. During the competition time, the contestants can make one or more cups of work, but within 3 minutes, place the finished product in the designated area. The three judges counted down to five seconds, and the contestants favored by more than two judges moved on to the next round, while the other one was eliminated.

16 into top 8 and top 8 into championship rules: at the beginning of the competition, the host will operate the timer and the two contestants will finish the operation within 3 minutes at the same time. During the competition time, the contestants can make one or more cups of work, but within 3 minutes, place the finished product in the designated area. The three judges scored and commented according to the scoring system.

Sixteen contestants scored the first eight points and advanced to the next round

Eight contestants scored the top four to compete for the championship and sub-season

Final rules:

Contestants will first provide pre-made pictures of the entries to the judges, which will be used as a reference for grading.

The scored items include: consistency of the two groups of patterns and corresponding pictures, contrast, harmonious size and position of the pattern in the cup, creativity of the pattern (referring to the preliminary competition), difficulty score, visual effect of the foam, overall visual effect, professional performance (customer service skills, self-confidence, talent), there are also some technical types scores that are finally combined.

Score according to five criteria: (the score is not divided first or later)

Scoring criteria: 5 points for each item, with a minimum of 1 point. A total of 25 points.

Color contrast

Pattern difficulty

Pattern completion degree

Pattern symmetry

The creativity of the pattern

The adjustment of China's final rules this year is as follows:

The preliminary round (time 8 minutes) completes 4 cups of flowers, two cups of the same Freepour and two cups of the same Designer (unchanged)

After completing 6 cups of flowers in the rematch (8 minutes), Freepour needs to do two groups (4 cups), preferably with different graphics. Plus two identical macidolas (new project)

Finals (10 minutes) to complete 6 cups of flowers, Freepour needs to do two groups (4 cups), preferably different graphics, plus two cups of the same Designer (new project).

Pre-match practice

Pre-competition practice is essential in every competition.

It is easy to achieve a similarity of seven or eight points in the same pattern, but it is almost impossible to do exactly the same, and the pre-game practice is to find out the problems that we did not find in the process of flower drawing and then solve them.

Even for veteran drivers, training is actually a high-intensity exercise for every contestant, which requires a step-by-step analysis of the process of making coffee.

Suggestions for pre-competition practice

The basic movements are often ignored by the contestants. In fact, the success or failure of a cup of flower drawing has been determined from the beginning of the production of espresso, so we have to understand every small move. Only in this way can we compare our actions with our goals (patterns).

To practice the composition of the pattern, when the milk foam turns into a line, we need to know which part of the flower this line will become, because the height, position, shaking, tilt angle and injection volume of the box are related.

Pattern analysis: thoroughly understand your game pattern and the structure of each line, and can achieve a highly perfect reproduction. Many beginners learn to pull flowers by comparing videos at the very beginning. In fact, this is the same truth. After watching the video many times, they carefully analyze and find out the key points of the pattern: when to lower the vat, when to shake it, and when to move the vat. This is the understanding of the pattern.

Control the sense of rhythm: record the production process and analyze whether the key points are in place.

Adjust foam proficiency: contact the espresso with different consistency and adjust the foam with appropriate consistency (thickness).

Photo source: Zhang Yuanyi

When it comes to the official competition, the most important thing is to understand and be familiar with the machine and raw materials, check the water status of the coffee machine, whether the milk tank is wiped clean, and the second is to understand the extraction state of espresso on that day. Before playing, we can first observe the extraction time of other contestants, magic bean time, and so on, so that our espresso can extract the effect that suits our competition pattern as far as possible.

Every little thing on the field will affect the development of the contestants. The usual practice of flower drawing is to practice ourselves into muscle memory. Even if we don't think about it deliberately, we can also complete the action of making coffee and flower drawing like a cloud. In case we don't have a good rest before the game or get nervous on the field, we can also finish the game smoothly through muscle memory.

Every creator is a painter, a cup of espresso and a portion of milk can make a mediocre cup of coffee with extremely exquisite patterns.

Do you think it is enough to practice hard?

Of course not!

Suggestions for pre-competition practice

The basic movements are often ignored by the contestants. In fact, the success or failure of a cup of flower drawing has been determined from the beginning of the production of espresso, so we have to understand every small move. Only in this way can we compare our actions with our goals (patterns).

To practice the composition of the pattern, when the milk foam turns into a line, we need to know which part of the flower this line will become, because the height, position, shaking, tilt angle and injection volume of the box are related.

Pattern analysis: thoroughly understand your game pattern and the structure of each line, and can achieve a highly perfect reproduction. Many beginners learn to pull flowers by comparing videos at the very beginning. In fact, this is the same truth. After watching the video many times, they carefully analyze and find out the key points of the pattern: when to lower the vat, when to shake it, and when to move the vat. This is the understanding of the pattern.

Control the sense of rhythm: record the production process and analyze whether the key points are in place.

Adjust foam proficiency: contact the espresso with different consistency and adjust the foam with appropriate consistency (thickness).

Photo source: Zhang Yuanyi

When it comes to the official competition, the most important thing is to understand and be familiar with the machine and raw materials, check the water status of the coffee machine, whether the milk tank is wiped clean, and the second is to understand the extraction state of espresso on that day. Before playing, we can first observe the extraction time of other contestants, magic bean time, and so on, so that our espresso can extract the effect that suits our competition pattern as far as possible.