It’s an annual source of amazement for many that this competition even exists, but Toronto’s Michael Jarman won the 2024 Microsoft Excel World Championships in Las Vegas, and it’s exactly what it sounds like.
After the competitors ran through the entrance tunnel to cheers from the crowd at the HyperX Arena, they settled in and got to work on spreadsheets.
The final event involved using Excel to track stats in a simulated World of Warcraft game.
An estimated several hundred people watched the event live, and the livestream on YouTube was viewed by 60,000 people.
It’s worth a click just to hear the theme song for the Excel World Championship at the beginning because of course one exists.