MILAN – The Specialty Coffee Association has recently released updated rules & regulations for the 2024 World Barista Championship (WBC), which takes place at World of Coffee Busan, Korea, May 1-4. This year’s rules changes are focused on minor language clarifications to current practices around judging, conflicts of interest, and the milk beverage.
Additionally, the tactile experience section of the espresso evaluation protocol has been updated.
Updates to the rules & regulations are overseen by the WCC Competitions Strategic Committee, a volunteer leadership group that meets regularly to work on strategic initiatives, including rules updates, that foster the competition community and keep the competitions moving forward.
Last year’s updates to the WBC rules and regulations saw wide-ranging updates, including new scoring scales to better reflect where our coffee value assessment systems are headed, an adjustment to the weighting of categories to reflect the skills and focus of the competition, more options in how to prepare the milk beverage, and a wider range of temperatures for brewing espresso.
View the WBC Rules & Regulations
The World Barista Championship (WBC) is the preeminent international coffee competition produced annually by World Coffee Events (WCE).
The competition focuses on promoting excellence in coffee, advancing the barista profession, and engaging a worldwide audience with an annual championship event that serves as the culmination of local and regional events around the globe.
WCE Certified Judges from around the world evaluate each performance on the taste of beverages served, cleanliness, creativity, technical skill, and overall presentation.
The ever-popular signature beverage allows baristas to stretch their imagination and the judges’ palates to incorporate a wealth of coffee knowledge into an expression of their individual tastes and experiences.
