How Excel battles work

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match,

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and each round lasts 30 minutes with

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ascending levels that get harder and

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harder.

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Players race for points, grab risky

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bonus questions, and every 5 minutes the

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lowest score is eliminated until only

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the top competitor remains. Our next

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elimination. Nick! Nick!

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>> What a Nick!

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Amazing effort.

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Each level you're given, like, you know,

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a variety of different scenarios and

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essentially have to, you know, give the

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answer of what happens. Last year, it

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was World of Warcraft themed. Uh, there

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have been, like, detective thriller

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ones. We've had code-breaking ones.

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We've had Scrabble. It's so cool to see

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the ideas people come up with.

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Three, two, one!

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Excel!

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>> All right. Even though it's only half an

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hour, like, it is mentally very

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exhausting. The finals in Vegas, got to

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do two difficult cases back-to-back with

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all the lights, the glitz, the glamour,

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the cheering, whatever. I'm not going to

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sit here and claim I'm a marathon

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runner, but it certainly does have a

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mental fatigue on things. Michael Jarman

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has taken an early

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100 points already. Okay. I just have

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zero coordination. I cannot kick a ball.

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I can barely hit one or throw one. And

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I'm the one