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Clockwise from top right: Barista Champion of Japan Miki Suzuki was a crowd favorite from the get-go. Her performance focused on natural coff ees, which she confi ded to the judges she had only recently begun to embrace, but now they are her favorites; Vienna at night, outside of the Coff ee Kids Reception; Noah Namowicz of Cafe Imports, which sponsors an origin trip for the U.S. Regional Barista Champs, the USBC Champ, and the WBC Champ, greets Salvadoran coff ee producer Aida Batlle, and her nephew, Roberto Gonzalez, as they arrive to the compeition; Barista Champion of the UK, Maxwell Colonna-Dash- wood, at the ready before his performance in the fi nals; Barista Cham- pion of Greece, Stefanos Domatiotis, tells his judges how he spent the last year sourcing his coff ee from Aida Batlle Selection in El Salvador, trying diff erent processing experiments, playing with the roast at Taf, where he works in Athens, and preparing with his coach, Tracy Allen; A judge evaluates the aroma of Barista Champion of Switzerland, Philipp Meier's signature drink; Barista Champion of Mexico, Fabrizio Sención Ramírez (in hat) practices backstage under the watchful eye of his roaster. Fabrizio would go on to win 2nd place in the WBC. WORLD BARISTA CHAMPION 2012 54 barista magazine