Championships (17)
- Australian Barista Championship — Australia’s national barista title and the country’s only route to the World Barista Championship — fifteen minutes, twelve drinks, run by the volunteer-led Australian Specialty Coffee Association, and the qualifier behind four Australian world champions.
- Cezve/Ibrik Championship — The World Coffee Championship for coffee brewed in a cezve — the small long-handled pot of Turkey, Greece, the Balkans and the Levant. Who has won it recently, where it is held, and how thin the public record of it actually is.
- Coffee Masters — The knockout barista tournament run inside the London and New York Coffee Festivals — 16 competitors, seven disciplines, head-to-head matches decided in front of a live festival crowd rather than by a scored fifteen-minute routine.
- Nordic Roaster — The Nordic roasting title decided not by a judging panel but by everyone in the room — ten Nordic roasteries roast the same coffee, the whole conference cups it blind, and the averaged scores pick a winner.
- Sprudge Design Awards — The coffee trade’s annual design prize, run by the news site Sprudge since 2023 — free to enter, decided by a public vote across roughly two dozen categories, and judging packaging, cafés, photography and products rather than the coffee inside them.
- Sprudgie Awards — The specialty coffee trade’s annual popularity awards, run by the news site Sprudge since 2009 — reader-nominated, reader-voted, free to enter, and judged on affection rather than cupping scores.
- Swiss Barista Championship — Switzerland’s national barista title and the only way a Swiss competitor gets a seat at the World Barista Championship — three pre-rounds, a semi-final at the Swiss Coffee Festival, and a four-person final.
- World AeroPress Championship — The fan-led global brewing competition in which everyone brews on the same device — an AeroPress — and a blind panel picks the best cup through fast head-to-head elimination rounds. First held in Oslo in 2008 with three people; by 2025 it ran across 70 countries.
- World Barista Championship — Coffee’s biggest individual title — fifteen minutes, twelve drinks, one espresso machine, and a panel of judges deciding the best barista in the world.
- World Brewers Cup — The world championship for hand-brewed filter coffee — one round on beans everyone is given, one round on a coffee the competitor chooses and defends out loud.
- World Coffee Championships — The seven world titles in professional coffee — barista, brewing, latte art, tasting, roasting, coffee cocktails and cezve — how each one is actually judged, and who holds them in 2026.
- World Coffee Championships records — Cross-competition roll-ups for the seven World Coffee Championships — the country medal table and what the imported results archive covers.
- World Coffee Events — The body that ran coffee’s seven world championships — including the World Barista Championship — and which has since been absorbed into the Specialty Coffee Association’s own branding.
- World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship — The world championship for coffee-and-alcohol drinks — a random spirit handed to you at a bar, four drinks on stage, and a compulsory Irish coffee in the final. The only one of the seven world coffee titles built on mixology.
- World Coffee Roasting Championship — The one world coffee title where the competitor never serves a drink — three days of grading green beans, finding a roast profile and delivering it at production volume, judged only on what ends up in the cup.
- World Cup Tasters Championship — The purest test of the seven World Coffee Championships — three cups, two the same and one different, find the odd one, eight times, against a stopwatch. No routine, no coffee to choose, just a palate under a clock.
- World Latte Art Championship — The world championship for the pictures in the foam — six matching drinks in eleven minutes, judged on symmetry, contrast and creativity rather than on how the coffee tastes.