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Mục tiêu chung của gameshow cũng chính là triết lý cốt lõi của Co-CO - một cái nhìn rõ ràng hơn về ngành cà phê được mang đến cho người tiêu dùng cà phê, sau đó tất cả chúng ta sẽ nhận thức rõ hơn về chất lượng cà phê và đặc biệt là khái niệm 'cà phê đặc sản'.
Coffee Road Game Show—Ready, Set, Go!
WHILE MANY EVENTS are on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic, new ones are still popping up here and there. One we’re really excited about is taking place in the wake of the suspended Cafe Show Vietnam, normally home to the Vietnamese Coffee Championships. This new event for coffee lovers is called the Coffee Road Game Show, and it’s planned for November.
“The Game Show is open for everyone who [is] interested in coffee, from barista, coffee professional, to coffee lovers and customers. If you are curious and would love to find more about coffee, you are welcome,” says organizer Thanh Trong Tuan Phi, also known as Tim Phi.
Contestants will work in teams of five (you can register as either an individual and be assigned to a team or as a team with five members). Each team will complete multiple stages for the game show including traveling to a coffee farm to pick and process cherry. “The Game Show will be divided into several stages matching coffee processes,” explains Tim. “One mentor in each stage will provide basic knowledge and guidelines, so that the competitors could understand, practice, and earn the highest score for their team.” Tim expects about 10 teams to participate in the competition.
The Coffee Road Game Show is a co-production of Co-Consistency (Co-CO), an organization based in Ho Chi Minh City that works to build a bridge between coffee customers and producers in an effort to develop a sustainable specialty-coffee industry in Vietnam, and B’laca Coffee.
The Coffee Road Game Show is a natural outgrowth of Co-CO’s mission “to be a source of inspiration which motivates young baristas.” Says Tim, “They are potential and talented candidates in the industry who are still reluctant and reserved to participate in local and global competitions, mainly because they have no idea where to start. Co-CO truly wants to be the community which supports these friends in their career path.”
The event will run over the course of a week, with the first two days spent picking coffee in Vietnam. Teams will score points based on the quality of the coffee they pick, the amount, and their teamwork and spirit. Over the following days, teams will move onto processing, sorting, and fermentation. Then the competitors will evaluate, roast, and cup their coffees before serving them as espresso and filter. Each step of the competitions has several areas where the teams can score points as they move through the week.
Vietnam “is a promising playground for everyone in the coffee industry which helps exchange network knowledge as well as gather people working from different parts of the coffee chain together,” says Tim Phi of the Coffee Road Game Show, which he is organizing to take place in November.
He adds that the overall goal of the game show is in keeping with the core philosophy of Co-CO, where “a clearer view of the coffee industry is brought to coffee consumers, then we all be more aware of the quality coffee and especially the concept of ‘specialty coffee.’” We say it sounds like fun!
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