The last day in competition at Luxembourg was exiting for every team, some of the big countries in the world had got gold both in hot and cold and now everyone was waiting for the final scores from the last day, but no one know anything before at the closing ceremony on Thursday morning, about 5 teams are compete about the over all price.

I had the pleasure to have dinner on Wednesday with the military team from Sweden and Team Milko the Swedish girl team, Team Milko is the only culinary girl team in the world, the dinner was at Lea Linsted restaurant and we got a warm welcome, it was a pleasure night with the team end se the spirit they have, the girls got silver for there work as a regional team from Sweden and the military team got two gold.

At the closing ceremony I talk to Euda Morales from Guatemala, she has been hear for 5 days to se how thing goes in the competition like this, she has a dream to see Guatemala team coming to Ika in Erfurt in 2008. She can see that this competitions have a different standard from what is happening in South and Middle America and that is an important for teams coming from this part of the world to see first what is happening in a competition like this.

At the closing ceremony Armand Steinmetz thanks everyone for the great days we have had together and welcome all again in 2010 to ExpoGast. It has been hard days for the chefs from Vatel Clup in Luxembourg but it has paid of, guests and teams are happy and pleased for the welcome they have got in Luxembourg.

Reinhold Metz continental director of Europe Central thank the Vatel Clup for their work on behalf of the WACS board and all the teams for the great effort they have put in to the culinary work.

The ceremony is now over and the final scores are like this:

National Team
1st - Norway
2nd - Sweden
3rd - Singapore

Junior Team
1st - Switzerland
2nd - Germany
3rd - Italy

Military Team
1st - Switzerland
2nd - United Kingdom
3rd - Germany

This is my last mail from Luxembourg and I like to thank my friends from Iceland, Jon Svavarsson and Gudjon Steinsson that have take over 6000 pictures and work hard sending pictures to WACS everyday, we hope that this will give chefs around the world opportunity to see what have been happening here. Big thanks to Vatel Clup for giving us a space to have the booth at the show and the Bank Kaupthing for loan us TV and computer so we could show the WACS website to chefs everyday. I like to say thank to the website team from Singapore for the great work you have done for WACS, without your help we will not have the possibility to present us like we have done for the last days.

With regards from Luxembourg

Gissur Gudmundsson

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