36-year old Sydney actuary, Andrew "the Annihilator" Ngai, is the Microsoft Excel e-sports world champion after defeating a global cohort of competitors in Las Vegas. Yeah, Excel can be competitive and there's a world championship in it! If you're curious how it works, "in each round, eight players are given a big ream of data, plus a set of instructions. 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. Every seven and a half minutes the lowest scorer is eliminated". You can watch Andrew's victory on YouTube. I'll admit, I have no idea what is going on here. Is this how people that hate sports view a cricket test match or a game of tennis??
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