BACARDI® Legacy Cocktail Competition Invites Bartenders to Compete for New 'Wildcard' Spot, as Entries Open for 2020 Finals in Miami

HAMILTON, BERMUDA, 13 June 2019 - The BACARDÍ Legacy Cocktail Competition is opening entries on 20th June for its 2020 global finals with exciting news that will allow bartenders from all over the world to enter, regardless of whether their country currently participates.

Forty of the world’s most innovative and exceptional bartenders will compete for the global title and one spot will be taken by the winner of the new Wildcard entry channel – bringing the opportunity to create a lasting legacy and join the BACARDÍ Legacy Gran Familia to more bartenders than ever before.

All bartenders can enter BACARDÍ Legacy from 20th June by visiting www.bacardilegacy.com. Thirty nine countries will be represented in next year’s final but, until now, bartenders could only enter if they worked in a participating country. Those who do not will, from this year, be able to submit their original BACARDÍ rum cocktail recipes for selection to go through to regional rounds at which they will compete with each other under the same process as all other competitors, before a Wildcard final will decide who takes the fortieth spot to compete in Miami.

“I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to be finally making this announcement because I know how many bartenders around the world have been waiting for this,” says Dickie Cullimore, Global Ambassador, BACARDÍ Rum. “As more and more bartenders see the incredible opportunities competing in Legacy offers, we get countless enquiries from them asking how to take part. It’s always been gutting to have to say that they can’t because their country isn’t participating – so we just knew we had to come up with a creative way to make the competition open to as wide a field as possible. The Wildcard is finally here, it opens the competition up now to over 100 countries, and I can’t wait to see what the bartenders who enter it will bring to BACARDÍ Legacy!”

The BACARDÍ Legacy Cocktail Competition is one of the world’s largest cocktail competitions and receives thousands of entries each year. The 2020 Global Finals will be held from 1st – 7th May in Miami, USA - a city with a long-standing association with BACARDÍ rum.

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