Participants, competition, structure

• Number of participants: 18 (6 participants per session × 3 sessions, each lasting 10 minutes, followed by a final)

Competition time:

• Manual grain selection time: 5 minutes
• Time to prepare your setup: 5 minutes (Personal installation, filter rinsing, grinding, heating your kettle, etc.) Caution: check the water used in a cupping bowl if water has been prepared beforehand
• Extraction time: 5 minutes (Participants must provide at least 150 ml of liquid)
• Judging time: 3 minutes (Coffee is poured into cupping bowls and then randomly presented to the judges)

Procedure :

• The competition takes place in the form of a multi-round tournament.
• In each round, 6 competitors prepare their coffee simultaneously.
• Competitors have 5 minutes for preparation and 5 minutes for extraction.
• At the end of the session, each coffee is poured into identical cupping bowls (with a numbered label under the bowl) and then presented to the three judges.
• The judges taste the coffees with a cupping spoon for 3 minutes and individually choose the best.
• On the count of 3, 2, 1, the judges simultaneously point to the coffee they consider to be the best.
• The bowl is lifted, the number is revealed, and the winner is announced. They advance to the next round; the others are eliminated.

A clean and balanced cup that highlights the coffee to extract its full potential and reveal it. A few details:

• Each round is judged blindly using cupping techniques
• The participant's name or number is completely hidden under the cup.
• No scorecard is used. Judges evaluate according to specified criteria.
• Each judge makes his or her decision independently, without discussion with the others.
• On the count of 3, 2, 1, all judges point to the cup they have chosen.
• Then the MC lifts the winning cup and announces the winner of the round.
• If each judge chooses a different cup, the head judge tastes the coffees and selects the winner.

• Three judges will determine the winner by majority vote (cupping judges).
• If each judge chooses a different coffee, the head judge will make the final decision.

The elements provided by the organizers:

• ORIGAMI Dripper (porcelain or resin)?
• Coffee beans
• ORIGAMI conical filters
• ORIGAMI wave filters (other brands also authorized)
• Carafe
• Balance
• Mill (2 Timemore Sculptor 78 + Comandante C40 + Comandante C60)
• Cupping bowls
• Cupping spoons
• Cupping bowl (water control)
• Kettle
• Mixer
• Mineral concentrate (2 boxes 150ml Apax)
• TDS meter (Apax)

Items you can bring :

• Kettle
• Balance
• Mill
• Water (control of your water at the start of the competition)
• Extraction aid (Paragon, distribution shower, etc.)
• Thermometer
• Sieve (Kruve type)

Filtered water from Belleville (new BRITA “ “ ppm cartridge)

It's the taste! Have fun 🙂

• The dripper used must be an official ORIGAMI model. No unofficial models are allowed.
• No other dripper can be used to prepare the drink.
• If the organizers impose a specific coffee, no other coffee can be used.
• Competitors must provide at least 150 ml of brewed coffee.
• Coffee not submitted within the 5-minute time limit will not be evaluated, and the entrant will be disqualified.
• Any violation of these rules may result in disqualification.