Starts tonight … well, tomorrow morning anyway.
Competition starts at 1am AEST. You can watch it live here.
And find out more stuff here. And there’s a sweet blog here.
Tim Adams, the Aussie competitor, is scheduled to compete at 4:27am AEST (Friday morning).
I’m also keen to watch Canada’s Sammy Piccolo who should take the stage at 5:43am AEST, and NZ’s Carl Sara (Day 2 - 3:30am AEST Saturday morning).
There are three days and 52 competitors in the first round, then the six finalists will be announced at 6:30am AEST on Sunday morning. Finals will take place from 2am AEST Monday.
Better stock up on some midnight snacks …
it’s nearly 9pm and i’m still roasting. looks like i’ll be roasting for a while more, so i doubt i’ll be up by 4.27am. please give Tim a big loud cheer for me if you’re watching…will any of these events be recorded?
Hazel!!! goto bed!! Unless ur roasting for Saturday’s cupping hehe
Heya Hazel! Hope that roasting you’re still doing has nothing to do with the email I sent you yesterday
They usually have an archive of all the competitors performances on the U-Stream site, so you can watch it at a more pleasant hour
Dan you’d better not be wrecked before we start tomorrow!
Finalists …
Hungary, UK, Canada, US, Ireland and Korea. (And they’re all blokes).
Finals are at 2am Monday morning.
Fun fact from the WBC blog. The Irish dude has been a barista for … 1 YEAR!!! And he’s now a WBC finalist. Crazy.
Tim Adams 13th, Carl Sara 8th (what a joke, he should have been way further up the charts.)
And the winner is … the UK’s Gwilym Davies. (Making it three from three for SQM.)
http://worldbaristachampionship.org/2009/?p=140
From the sounds of it, his signature drink(s) was a pretty amazing stunt. 16 possible ingredients, 256 possible combinations; the judges chose the ingredients at random. Wow!
I didn’t watch the finals; I needed the sleep, seeing as I’m just coming off possibly the worst weekend of my entire life. Will have to find some time to watch the performances at some point.
Hi Robert, the experience must be fun in Atlanta,do us good.much support.