WBC 2011 and congrats El Salvador
Wow, its June already and this being my first blog for the month and a few weeks after my last one. Handing over duties has certainly took up alot of my time of recent weeks. Anyway, WBC 2011 has just concluded over the weekend and we have a new Champion from the country of origin, El Salvador. I have posted the results in FaceBook:-
2011 WBC FINALS RESULTS
2011 WORLD BARISTA CHAMPION:
ALEJANDRO MENDEZ, EL SALVADOR (710.5)
2nd Pete Licata, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (659.5)
3rd Matt Perger, AUSTRALIA (659)
4th Javier Garcia, SPAIN (631.5)
5th Miki Suzuki, JAPAN (629.5)
6th John Gordon, UNITED KINGDOM (613.5)
and i got a reply from a mentor and friend, Irwan, with my response too. (See attached below threads)
Irwan Abu Shama- I am curious on huge score difference between alejandro n pete.. Any reason y aside from sensory? As it is hosted in latin america n won by latin american....
Suhaimie Sukiman- Hey Irwan, actually 50++ points not so far away. Taking into consideration that all the 4 sensory + 2 tech judges were to give perhaps just 1-3 extra points on certain categories and it is further multiplied by a certain numbering the scori...ng formulae has. The number gets bigger.
Another consideration, a Latin American feels at home in another Latin American country. There is home ground advantage. Water boils at 91-93 deg there and I am sure a Latin roaster and Barista are accustomed to it and can customized their coffee roasting to complement this factor. High coincidence that they won but also to consider that Alejandro has been competing in WBC for 3 or 4 years now and is consider highly experience. See just how our John Ting improve from the first to his second WBC. :)
So, what is your take on this?
2011 WBC FINALS RESULTS
2011 WORLD BARISTA CHAMPION:
ALEJANDRO MENDEZ, EL SALVADOR (710.5)
2nd Pete Licata, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (659.5)
3rd Matt Perger, AUSTRALIA (659)
4th Javier Garcia, SPAIN (631.5)
5th Miki Suzuki, JAPAN (629.5)
6th John Gordon, UNITED KINGDOM (613.5)
and i got a reply from a mentor and friend, Irwan, with my response too. (See attached below threads)
Irwan Abu Shama- I am curious on huge score difference between alejandro n pete.. Any reason y aside from sensory? As it is hosted in latin america n won by latin american....
Suhaimie Sukiman- Hey Irwan, actually 50++ points not so far away. Taking into consideration that all the 4 sensory + 2 tech judges were to give perhaps just 1-3 extra points on certain categories and it is further multiplied by a certain numbering the scori...ng formulae has. The number gets bigger.
Another consideration, a Latin American feels at home in another Latin American country. There is home ground advantage. Water boils at 91-93 deg there and I am sure a Latin roaster and Barista are accustomed to it and can customized their coffee roasting to complement this factor. High coincidence that they won but also to consider that Alejandro has been competing in WBC for 3 or 4 years now and is consider highly experience. See just how our John Ting improve from the first to his second WBC. :)
So, what is your take on this?
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