NWRBC: your cat-like, caviar-slinging barista action here
October 25, 2006 – 12:01 am
let this be a lesson to you: waspish blog-moaning pays off!
herewith, we offer video of billy wilson’s entire final-round routine from the northwest regional barista championships. yeah, there’s caviar involved. and yeah, it’s bedazzling. and yeah, he appears to spend more time wrasslin’ with his tablecloth than he does pulling spros. some vigorous dude-n-tablecloth motion, we’d say. talk about dancing with the stars…
quicktime version here.
note: might have to let the entire video load before viewing — or download the file to your machine. problems? leave a comment.
flash version here.
note: this one streams. requires flash player 8.
special thanks: ben king, who did the shooting and compressing. and billy, for hooking us up. this concludes this blog’s quasi-weekly, bandwidth-gobbling, barista-related public service.
UPDATE: no sooner does a guy push the crazy envelope than some other guy starts going all nutso on the drink ideas. clearly, billy better watch his back.
UPDATE: does it seem to you like this guy might be talking some smack about billy wilson? yeah. it seems that way to this blog, too.
7 Responses to “NWRBC: your cat-like, caviar-slinging barista action here”
that damn tablecloth! what the eff? let this be a lesson to ya… if you devise a last second switch in the way your folded the damn thing, you had best remember.
i walked away from the judges table convinced that i was going to go over time.
rumor has it, that in two WBCs from now, the competitor might be able to set the table in his/her 15 minute prep… how bout that!
By billy wilson on Oct 25, 2006
even though you’d already told me about the tablecloth, i couldn’t beLIEVE how tortuous it was. that was downright funny.
and you looked a wee bit frantic after that.
By bz on Oct 25, 2006
Since Billy took the caviar off the table, we’re now thinking of eschewing the whole Ferran thing and going with a Copperfield-esque removing of the tablecloth in one quick yank without spilling a drop. We keep hearing the crowd wants showmanship
Oh, and Black Cat Fizzies are still under consideration.
If we do that, we’ll have no intention of actually winning, but the kids backstage in prep will have a blast chewing on them and foaming at the mouth.
By Rich Westerfield on Oct 25, 2006
As far as I know for Tokyo you should be able to lay out the prep table in your 15 minutes, but we shall see.
The new rules as I heard them had still to be finalised at the WBC meeting in New York.
Congrats to Billy - awesome and inspiring.
By Hoffmann on Oct 25, 2006
clealry, billy, you need to be very afraid of those pittsburgh people.
By bz on Oct 26, 2006
that guy cut and paste the link to Billy’s competition clip and the reference to your site.
Cheers!
By Steve on Oct 26, 2006
Ben,
Appreciate the encouragement, but really, in our experiments, the things taste truly awful. You’re probably too young to remember Fizzies, but they had a cola one that tasted like the spawn of RC and Robitussin. That’s sort of where we’re at. It’s fun to think about, but you wouldn’t want to drink it.
Still, we’re exploring other entertainment possibilities. Perhaps our own version of an Irish coffee… making a liter of the Cat Fizzies in a jug with some whip cream and adding a pack of Mentos.
By Rich Westerfield on Oct 26, 2006