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Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship

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Re: Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship

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I was not expecting a sweet photo of a beaming actuary when opening an article about someone nicknamed the “Annihilator.” That Excel championship wrestling belt is really cool though.

It's not a novel observation that in the online world, the people with the most badass handles tend to the most harmless in real life.

In Ngai's favor, though, apparently somebody else came up with his moniker.

Re: Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship

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“…spreadsheet world championship” There’s a competition for everything now. What’s next? Most Compelling Deck Championship? edit; I’m convinced this is a just a massive MS excel advertisement. Smh

>edit; I’m convinced this is a just a massive MS excel advertisement. Smh

If Microsoft was behind this, why would they hide their involvement? And if they were, why would that change anything about it?

Re: Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship

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I wish they would explain more about what the actual tasks are. They basically jus said 'you get data and you do calculations'. Well thanks, thats basically all excel. A link to the problem set would be interesting. Real time data from Eve is pretty cool, but whats the actual results they are trying to get? How do they do scoring?

I have a feeling that these sorts of questions will be answered if we look at the actual video from the finals. https://www.youtube.com/live/UDGdPE_C9u8

13 minutes in.

Re: Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship

#34
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“…spreadsheet world championship” There’s a competition for everything now. What’s next? Most Compelling Deck Championship? edit; I’m convinced this is a just a massive MS excel advertisement. Smh

Aren't moat sporting events just one massive advertisement?

Re: Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship

#36

> with the action televised live on ESPN. That’s what happens where there are more TV minutes than sports minutes.

As someone who steamed a bit of kabaddi last weekend, we are nowhere near that point.

Re: Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship

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“…spreadsheet world championship” There’s a competition for everything now. What’s next? Most Compelling Deck Championship? edit; I’m convinced this is a just a massive MS excel advertisement. Smh

It might be a MS pr move. But it seems a lot of competitions are for boosting an industry. The Oscar's celebrate movies, he Grammys promote music, "the game awards" promote games.

I imagine a fornite competetion would be sponsored by epic.

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