From November 10th till 12, the first national Barista Championship of UAB took place during the Specialty Coffee and Tea Convention 2009 at the Al Bustan Rotana Convention Centre in Dubai. The baristas had to pass a preliminary round and the best six classified ones passed to the final on November the 12th. An international judge team was responsible for the evaluation, Head Judge was Scott Conary and among the international judges team we could find Ben Bicknell, Sonya Grant, Ellie Matuszak, John y Pauline Sherwwod, Johanna Wechselberger y Adib Maksoud. The final classification ended up as follows:
1. Vikram Kashyap
2. Kim Thompson
3. Raja Muthusamy
4. Romeo Perello
5. Marjorie Briones
6. Roselyn Cordero
The champ will take part at the World Barista Championship in London in 2010. The audience was great and even a video was posted on the internet version of a newspaper - The National Newspaper. You can have a look at http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091112/MULTI...

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