Coffee contest ranking error due to the system? Organizer: just reissue the bonus

There are so many coffee beans produced every year, and the flavors of coffee beans are different in different places and different ways of treatment, so it is better to start with the winners of the competition directly than to try them blindly. Every year, there are many coffee lovers and coffee growers waiting for the results of some important coffee competitions. They want to sell raw coffee beans at high prices and taste the winning taste at the same time. However, an own dragon appeared in a coffee competition in Taiwan, and the first class will become a golden prize.

Coffee beans in Taiwan have become more and more famous in recent years, and the auction price of a special prize-winning coffee bean soared to NT $520000 / 5kg at a raw bean auction in Taiwan in May. To be able to get the previous place in the competition is a rare publicity opportunity for coffee growers, and it also means being able to sell at a good price.

On July 3, 2022, the list of winners for the evaluation of Taiwan's home-made coffee beans in Yunlin County, Taiwan was announced. According to the local media Yunlin News, Guoyu Workshop won the special prize for washing treatment, Lai Lin Furong (Shibi) won the special prize for sun treatment, and Liguan Biotechnology Company won the special prize for honey treatment.

-- the list of winners before correction

After the results of the competition were announced, some contestants found that the coffee beans they sent to the competition were different from the coffee beans they had handed over, so they found that there was something wrong with the results.

Another contestant said in an interview with the media that according to the statement of the judges on the spot, the champion of the washing group was the coffee variety of Rosa. Because of its unique flavor and high degree of identification, after the competition, the judges went to the coffee grower's booth that won the championship for the first time to taste the coffee and found that it was not a Rosa variety, but a general coffee variety, so an emergency meeting was initiated.

On July 4, the local government launched an emergency meeting to summon the chief judge, the contractor and other relevant personnel to find out where the problem lies. On July 5, the competition staff were re-checking the sealed original paper documents, comparing each type of coffee beans one by one, re-measuring the water content and density, and rearranging the rankings according to the correct list, coding and evaluation results. and held a briefing to the contestants, randomly open the correct list of winners.

-- corrected list of winners

According to the Taiwan media United News Network, the organizers explained that due to a computer glitch, the contestants' coding corresponding to the coffee beans was out of order, and the system error was not found when uploading the evaluation results, so the ranking error was later corrected. as for the winners' bonuses, the competition did not recover the bonuses issued, while the winners who changed the rankings and received less bonuses were reissued with bonuses.

For contestants, being able to get the top ranking means that the quality of their products is excellent. When the results of the competition are announced, the winners will generally advertise their products with superior competition results and sell them at a higher price. The result of the game is wrong, and even if the game admits the mistake and corrects the list, the process can be a fatal blow to the credibility of the entire event and the crisis of consumer confidence, at the same time, it can also damage the reputation of coffee beans in a region.

From right, special prize sunburn group Lai Lin Furong, water washing group fruit language workshop, honey treatment power crown biotechnology

Contestants said in an interview with the United News Network that this is also the first time this has happened, but it is also understandable. The local government stressed that it would establish an inspection mechanism to prevent the occurrence of similar situations. This error exposed procedural omissions rather than human problems. Some contestants suggested customizing the highest standards of competition rules. After the ranking was announced, the winning beans should provide certificates of origin for comparison, so as to achieve the effect of double authentication.

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