The 2016 global final played out in San Francisco with America's Chia-An (Gn) Chan declared Bacardi Legacy 2016 champion with his Venceremos cocktail. Runner up places were awarded to Moe Aljaff of Norway with his cocktail Carousel and Lizaveta Molyavka of Belarus with her drink Anything Else. The other five, of the eight finalists, were: Andrew Bennett (Australia), Choni Song (China), Bar Shira (Israel), Mitchell Kai Lum (Thailand), Iain Griffiths (UK). The competition attracted entries from some 10,000 bartenders worldwide.