2011 World Barista Championship

2011 WBC
June 2-5th
Bogota, Coloumbia
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In it's 12th rendition; this year brings 53 competiting countries duking it out in lovely Bogota.
This is the first time that a coffee producing country has hosted the WBC.
catch the live action TODAY. (follow the live streaming)

Below is the schedule for round 1

2011 WBC ROUND ONE SCHEDULE All times tentative and subject to change. Bogota local time is UTC/GMT -5 hours

ROUND ONE DAY ONE (2 JUN) 1 Ryan Tan 8:15 AM, SINGAPORE 2 Ya-Ting Lee 8:34 AM, TAIWAN 3 Olga Melik-Karakozova 8:53 AM, RUSSIA 4 Efrat Maimon 9:12 AM, ISRAEL 5 Ricardo Azofeifa Mora 9:31 AM, COSTA RICA 6 Stefanos Domatiotis 9:50 AM, GREECE 7 Patrik Vilhelmsson 10:09 AM, BULGARIA 8 CM Raja 10:28 AM, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 9 Francesco Sanapo 10:47 AM, ITALY 10 AnneStine Bae 11:06 AM, DENMARK 11 Domas Ivonis 11:25 AM, LITHUANIA 12 Izabela Popiolek 11:44 AM, POLAND 13 Toth Sandor 12:03 PM, HUNGARY 14 Ludovic Loizon 12:22 PM, FRANCE 15 Yakup Aydin 12:41 PM, Netherlands 16 Mihai Panfil 1:00 PM, ROMANIA 17 Cem Korkmaz 1:19 PM, AUSTRIA 18 Travis Scott 1:38 PM, SOUTH AFRICA 19 Vicky Fitz-Henry 1:57 PM, IRELAND 20 Alexander Ruas 2:16 PM, SWEDEN 21 Alejandro Mendez 2:35 PM, EL SALVADOR 22 Jose de la Pena 2:54 PM, GUATEMALA 23 Rob Kettner 3:13 PM, CANADA 24 Felipe Oliveira 3:32 PM, BRAZIL 25 Lina Zea 3:51 PM, COLOMBIA 26 Javier Gamboa Rendor 4:10 PM, MEXICO 27 Matt Perger 4:29 PM, AUSTRALIA 28 Miki Suzuki 4:48 PM, JAPAN

ROUND ONE DAY TWO (3 JUN) 29 Kathleen Serdons 8:15 AM, BELGIUM 30 Gan Shilin 8:34 AM, CHINA 31 Catherine Maringi 8:53 AM, KENYA 32 Wisanu Bunchuen 9:12 AM, THAILAND 33 Wolfram Sorg 9:31 AM, GERMANY 34 Monika Palova 9:50 AM, SLOVAKIA 35 Lauri Pipinen 10:09 AM, FINLAND 36 Matija Hrkac 10:28 AM, CROATIA 37 Michael Jungling 10:47 AM, SWITZERLAND 38 Francisco Atencio 11:06 AM, PANAMA 39 Zdenek Smrcka 11:25 AM, CZECH REPUBLIC 40 Hakon Kinn 11:44 AM, NORWAY 41 Mark Okuta 12:03 PM, UGANDA 42 Edgardo Texidor Rosa 12:22 PM, PUERTO RICO 43 Oleksanr Galitsyn 12:41 PM, UKRAINE 44 Ozkan Yetik 1:00 PM, TURKEY 45 Tumi Ferrer 1:19 PM, ICELAND 46 Pete Licata 1:38 PM, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 47 Karen Pisconte 1:57 PM, PERU 48 John Gordon 2:16 PM, UNITED KINGDOM 49 Carlos Vladimir Lopez 2:35 PM, NICRAGUA 50 Jose Luis Herrera 2:54 PM, HONDURAS 51 Hide Kono 3:13 PM, NEW ZEALAND 52 Javier Garcia 3:32 PM, SPAIN 53 HyunSun Choi 3:51 PM, KOREA

Should be quite exciting.