Inside an Excel battle

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Player number eight, Michael Jarman.

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The first 5 minutes is just absolute

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bedlam as everyone's just trying to get

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something on the board to not be the

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first person out.

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Welcome to the Excel World Championship

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in Las Vegas.

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Yeah!

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Michael Jarman!

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And here's the current world champion,

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Michael Jarman, who turns formulas into

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a superpower.

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I just have zero coordination. I cannot

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kick a ball. I can barely hit one or

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throw one. And I'm the one who's now on

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ESPN doing, you know, these e-sports.

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[Applause]

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I am excited for our MWCC and MECC world

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finals.

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Competitive Excel's been a thing for

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about 12 years now. Um, but it generally

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started more in sort of financial

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modeling.

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They decided that that might not be the

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most interesting thing to watch people

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do. So, they now have this Microsoft

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Excel Championship, which is sort of

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slightly more gamey to try and sort of

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make them a little more sort of

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approachable for, you know, people just

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tuning in.

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Every champion has an origin story, and

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Michael's