19 competitors took the stage for Round One of the 2025 US Barista Championship at the Black & White Coffee Roasting HQ here in Raleigh, North Carolina. And after nearly seven hours of high-caliber barista routines, the dust has settled, the scores have been tallied, and we know who is moving on to tomorrow’s Semi-Finals round.<\/p>\n
12 of those that went today were able to make it through to the Semis. There, they will meet the other six competitors, who earned a bye to Day Two by placing in the top three at one of the two Regionals that took place earlier this year. So let’s meet them all, shall we?<\/p>\n
11:20am Christian Ortega (he\/him) \u2013 Olympia Coffee Roasters \u2013 Seattle, WA
\n11:40am Tyler Montague (he\/him) \u2013 Brew Coffee Bar \u2013 Raleigh, NC
\n12:00pm Brooks Berdeen (he\/him) \u2013 Union Coffee Greensboro \u2013 Greensboro, NC
\n12:20pm Christian Gutierrez (he\/him) \u2013 Moongoat Coffee Roasters \u2013 Costa Mesa, CA
\n12:40pm Isaiah Sheese (he\/him) \u2013 Archetype Coffee \u2013 Omaha, NE
\n1:00pm Dakota Graff (he\/him) \u2013 Onyx Coffee Lab \u2013 Rogers, AR
\n1:20pm Noel Goodwin (she\/her) \u2013 Hagen Coffee Roasters \u2013 Seattle, WA
\n1:40pm Cory Sponsler (he\/him) \u2013 The Coffee Movement \u2013 San Francisco, CA
\n2:00pm Kay Cheon (he\/him) \u2013 Dune Coffee Roasters \u2013 Santa Barbara, CA
\n2:20pm Jak Ryan (he\/him) \u2013 Proud Mary Coffee \u2013 Austin, TX
\n2:35pm Jake McFarland (he\/him) \u2013 Black & White Coffee \u2013 Raleigh, NC
\n2:50pm Gray Kauffman (they\/them) \u2013 Seattle, WA
\n3:05pm Jason Yeo (he\/him) \u2013 Saint Frank Coffee \u2013 San Francisco, CA
\n3:20pm Seidy Selivanow (she\/her) \u2013 Kafiex Roasters \u2013 Vancouver, WA
\n3:35pm Miranda Huncovsky (she\/her) \u2013 Moongoat Coffee Roasters \u2013 Costa Mesa, CA
\n3:50pm Circle Chan (she\/her) \u2013 The Coffee Movement \u2013 San Francisco, CA
\n4:05pm Hugo Cano (he\/him) \u2013 Amberson Coffee \u2013 Indianapolis, IN
\n4:20pm Jamie Patel (he\/him) \u2013 Counter Culture Coffee \u2013 Durham, NC<\/p>\n
Sprudge\u2019s coverage of the 2025 US Barista Championship in Raleigh, North Carolina is presented in by La Marzocco<\/a> and Pacific Barista Series<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And then there were 18.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[10753,18601,4636,28134,8196,10964,22],"class_list":["post-296332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-events-features","tag-barista-championship","tag-black-white-coffee","tag-events-2","tag-north-dakota","tag-raleigh","tag-us-barista-championship","tag-usbc","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}