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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


With the clock ticking and the Las Vegas audience on the edge of their seats, the two-time spreadsheet world champion started “furiously checking” his answers.

The glitch was fixed, the scoreboard corrected and the 36-year-old from Sydney stormed to victory on Saturday night, becoming the triple world champion in data processing.

On X, one fan said the victory “will go down as a historical American sports moment on par with Babe Ruth calling his home run shot in the 1932 World Series”.

Contestants need to create formulas and subsets to process the data, working against the clock to solve stages of the case and earn bonus points.

For example, Ngai had to calculate the market value of a fleet of spaceships using real data from the video game Eve Online – with the action televised live on ESPN.

The community is tight-knit and the championships coincided with the Active Cell conference, where fans can join Excel masterclasses and finesse their skills in the spreadsheet’s new functions.


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[–] kamenlady 3 points 10 months ago

The Annihilator - Excel Master - Awesome