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So by now you no doubt know the result.

I thought Carl’s performance was particularly impressive and deserves a lot of credit for his innovation and paced set. Heather’s set was polished to the enth degree and as regards James, I’m not really sure what to say other than I’m just so proud of him.

I think many people were capable of claiming the title , but at the same time, feel that James is truly worthy.

It is now 2.13 am here in Tokyo, and we need to be at the airport in a few hours, so apologies for not providing much more than this.

I’m sitting backstage, listening to Nick Cho calling out the sponsors, and James is getting miked up beside me. Once again, everything is ready, its all set on the trollies, all polished, everyone is nervous, and the first competitor from Switzerland is about to finish her prep time.

The day before James’ first round performance, the Herbazu shots we tasted in practice were worryingly up and down. When his hot plates didn’t work properly, preventing his drinks from infusing all the flavours as intended, I knew it was down to whether his shots were up or down on the day. It seems they were good enough.

So it was particularly pleasing today when in his practice time, every shot was just wonderful. I’m honestly  not just saying this, but one of the espressos he made was easily up there among my best ever, making the number now 6.

Ok, no more time, Klaus has walked up to me and says that I’m blogging is awesome