This is the result of National tea jury 2008, which shows the leadership in each tea type.

It is decided by picking top 3 pointed tea in each autonomy and summing them up, so that the full score is 600.

• Sencha 10kg is the hottest contest in the jury.  Shizuoka prefecture is deep in this category, so it often appears in the leadership ranking.  In these days, Kawane and Yamé compeat closely each other for the top.
• Sencha 30kg is category for the mass productive tea.  It is dominated by Kagoshima prefecture because other sources cannot cultivate tea in large farm to get 30kg homogeneity.
• Sencha 4kg is newly set in 2007.  A lot of unique Sencha can be nominated, so that the competition is in chaos at this moment.
• Fukamushi can be called the category for Shizuoka prefecture.  Other sources hardly process Sencha into Fukamushi.
• Kabusecha is shade grown tea, and the speciality of Kinki area such as Kyoto, Mie and Shiga.  Some high quality Kabusecha tend to sold as Gyokuro, or the farmers of Kabusecha would convert the orchards into Sencha or Gyokuro, so the competition is getting quiet recently.
• Gyokuro is from Yamé, Uji, and part of Shizuoka like Okabe.  For more than 20 years, Yamé have got to be outstanding in this category over Uji, and the competition has made by each appellation inside Yamé.
• Tencha is the crude tea of Matcha, and Uji always hold the top ranking.
• Tamaryokucha is the speciality of middle Kyusyu area, Kumamoto and Saga.  The tea is processed into ball shape.
• Kamaguri is the only toast processed crude tea in the jury, while others are steam processed.  It is contested very closely between Ureshino in Saga and Kumamoto.