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Esports for geeks: Here’s how Microsoft Excel Championship works
The spreadsheet is also an Esports category.
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Published onFebruary 5, 2024
published onFebruary 5, 2024
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If you are a geek, an Excel professional, the Microsoft Excel Championship is more exciting than any online shooter. You can test your knowledge against professionals from different domains. The most important aspects of the competition are speed and critical thinking.
How does Microsoft Excel Championship work?
You’ve got half an hour to solve some complicated exercises using spreadsheets. In addition, you will compete with seven other professionals.
Each round will be a bit different from the last one. Moreover, if that isn’t enough for you, know that you will be working with a large amount of data. Furthermore, every seven minutes, someone gets out of the competition for having the lowest score on the board.
We keep mentioning exercises, but you might want to know how they look. According to competitors, they are funny and unrelated to real-life events. However, the methods used are great for daily use. To entertain you a little, below you can find the best moments of the Excel Esports battles.
If the competition piques your interest, you might want to try theMicrosoft Excel World Championship bundlesold by the Financial Modeling World Cup organization. Also, the Excel Champion of the World, Andrew Ngai, stated that he uses Excel for daily needs, and you could try doing it too.
What is the reward of Excel Esports?
The prize pool is 50,000 USD. Thus, your reward depends on the win count. For example, Andrew Ngai won around 3 thousand in prize money. Overall, the competition isn’t that rewarding from a monetary point of view.
Somehow, the experience is the greatest reward in this case. Additionally, you could meet some of the world’s most experienced spreadsheet users. Moreover, many companies searching for Excel professionals could see you.
If all of this competition appeals to you, learn more about thenew features of Exceland find out how to use food, movies, and similarnew data types.
What are your thoughts? Would you like to one day compete in this championship? Are you interested to see how a game works or to learn more from the professionals? Let us know in the comments.
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Sebastian Filipoiu
Sebastian is a content writer with a desire to learn everything new about AI and gaming. So, he spends his time writing prompts on various LLMs to understand them better. Additionally, Sebastian has experience fixing performance-related problems in video games and knows his way around Windows. Also, he is interested in anything related to quantum technology and becomes a research freak when he wants to learn more.
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Sebastian is a content writer with a desire to learn everything new about AI and gaming.
