Practice:

• Competitors have 30 minutes to dial in their coffee

Qualification Round

• Each qualification round, competitors have 10 minutes to brew and present their carafe of coffee

• Qualification round will consist of 3 competitors brewing at a time for judging

Semi-Finals

• Competitors in each round have 10 minutes to brew and present their carafe of coffee

• Semifinal round will consist of 2 competitors brewing at a time for judging

Finals

• Competitors have 10 minutes to brew and present their carafe of coffee

Rules and Regulations

• Coffee: Competitors must use the provided coffee

• Carafes: Competitors must use host-provided carafes

• Grinders: Competitors may use their own grinders, but it must be a hand grinder that does not require electricity.

• Water: Competitors must use host-provided water. Nothing may be added to this water by competitors, and they are prohibited from adding anything to the coffee after brewing.

• Power: Competitors will have access to one outlet (i.e. one kettle)

• Competitors may use their own brewer(s), filter paper(s), scale(s), and kettle(s).

• Assistance: Competitors may have 1 assistant to help them dial in their coffee during the practice round but may not have anyone assist them in subsequent rounds.

• Brewed volume: Competitors must serve 160ml-200ml of liquid the provided carafe in every round; failure to do so will result in disqualification.

Judging format

• Each judge will be presented at least 40ml of liquid in their own cup, and each cup color will correlate to a specific competitor .

• Each round will be judged blindly; judges will come from an isolation zone without any knowledge of what each competitor brewed.

• Judges will have 3 minutes to taste the coffee presented to them

• After 3 minutes, the event MC will ask the judges to simultaneously point to their preferred cup on the count of three.

• In the event of a tie, the head judge will break the tie.

• Tiebreaker: If a tie occurs in the finals, the head judge will choose the winner . Then the other three judges will point to their second favorite cup to determine the runner up.

• After the winner of each round is decided, judges will leave the tasting station and return to the isolation zone before the next round of competitors are brought to their brew station.

• First Place: Option-O Lagom Casa

• Second Place: Weber Workshops Bean Cellar & Looking Glass

• Third Place: Apax Labs Water Kit