The Danish competitor Mikkel P. Madsen was together with Turkey's representative Seckin Sinanoglu the first to take stage in this years World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship.
It is always nerve racking to open a world championship competition and the atmosphere was the beginning a bit hectic. The nervous atmosphere somehow caught Mikkel and Seckin and they both got a shaky start. 

 
The very energetic master of Ceremoni Manuel Demets tried to get the crowd to help the two competitors but for some odd reason the Danish spectators were very silent, and the Turkish spectators were also very quiet.
But after a nervous start on the competition Marcin Michalik of Poland went on stage and all of a sudden the crowd went nuts. Marcin had brought about 10 to 15 very active and loud fans to help him on his way to the final. The Marcin fan club sat a new standard for the crowd and for the entire competition good job Poland, good job!!

Coffee in good spirit is one of the minor competitions at the Wonderful Coffee fair but if you judge a competition on the amount of noise generating by the spectators during the competition Coffee in Good Spirit was definately a major competition.
After the morning elimination round the competition continued with the finals in the afternoon. Poland, Iceland, Estonia, England, Korea and Greece qualified for for the final. The Marcin fan club was ready for another round of wild cheering but the supporters of the other finalists were equally set for a noisy and supporting final.

Manuel Dements decided to introduce a "hot seat" to the final round, what a great idea. The crowd was already well pumped, but the head to head like setting really got the crowd flying.
It all ended with a head to head battle between Korea and Greece with Greece as a well deserved winner.

We have shot a video of the first two competitors. Follow this link to see the video