2025 US Coffee Championships

We’re excited to launch the 2025 Season for US Coffee Competitions!

The USCC Leadership Committee has been working the past few months to take a candid look at the state of US competitions, what we value, what the community values, and have begun to make strategic changes in order to create a more sustainable, accessible, and notable competition structure for US competitions. After many conversations within USCC Leadership, past and present, each of the leadership teams for the individual competitions, valued sponsors and previous hosts, and folks in the Coffee Community, SCA, and US Chapter, we have decided to return to a Regional Qualifying Competition Structure to be launched in the 2025 season. This will effectively combine the Preliminary & Qualifier format to return to the Regional Competitions format that existed before.

While there are many things to consider as we walk through this new season together, we hope that this decision creates a competition culture that better represents those who produce, support, and participate in the USCC while also allowing the specialty coffee community to have deeper involvement in its production and a more valuable impact on the communities who engage with it.

The USCC Leadership Committee will be hosting a public listening session to discuss, in more detail, what these changes will look like for the 2025 Season and beyond. This virtual session will take place next Wednesday, August 7th at 5 pm CST. For registration information, please follow the link in the USCC bio. We encourage the community to listen, attend, and ask questions during this time.

The USCC is a community organization with so much value and potential, and we hope that the changes we embrace this season will create a better USCC for years to come.

Cheers to the 2025 Season!

-USCC Leadership Committee

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