If CS:GO isn't your thing, you can still be an esports hero in Microsoft Excel.
. If it's a program that runs on a computer, no matter what it is, someone will find a way to make it competitive. So, this past weekend Excel esports got a lot of new fans when ESPN aired a replay of the Excel All-Star Battle that took place back in May.
The more I see offbeat esports competitions, the less surprised I feel having to say this: Excel esports are great fun to watch. I really don't know what's going on in most of the Excel All-Star Battle—the highlight of my own professional Excel career was when I worked in construction management and figured out how to make a pivot table—but then again I don't understand what's happening in a typical Dota 2 or League of Legends match, either.
Over three rounds, the competitors were given extremely complicated tasks to accomplish on their spreadsheets with a 30-minute time limit. Half the contestants were eliminated in each round. Appropriately enough, each round is a"case study" problem involving a different game of some sort. In round one, the eight cyber athletes are challenged to create a slot-machine game with eight different symbols and a complicated point scoring system.
And it really does feel like watching a sport, as Jelen and Oz shift focus from desktop to desktop, discuss the methods the competitors are using, and occasionally drift into topics like the challenges of importing emojis into other programs."I moved a pretzel emoji into Power Query and it bombed out," Oz says at one point during a discussion about using symbols in Excel forumlas."The poop emoji showed up, but the pretzel didn't.
Add another weird esport to my must-watch list, I guess. And like many esports, if you feel like you've got the skills to compete, why not enter a competition yourself? You can sign up for. The top 128 competitors will be selected in October, with the finals happening on November 12. The prize last year was $10,000, and you can watch the 2021
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