Top Excel experts will battle it out in an esports-like competition this weekend

I really hope yer boi MAKRO does well this year, representing his team Ernst & Young.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY

Interesting. Are there similar real-time modeling competitions where participants are not restricted to Excel? (I know of Kaggle.)

I see that all the contestants pictured at https://www.fmworldcup.com/ are white or Asian males. Intellectual interests are not uniformly distributed across demographic groups, so one should not expect equal representation in professions.

There is the "Yellow Ribbon" movement campaigning to give second chances for former prisoners to reintegrate in society. They can add to the demographic diversity under represented in the traditional professions. Tricky former criminals ought to perform well in contests of sharp thinking.

I'm oddly intrigued by this.

Watching someone really good at Excel is kind of jaw dropping.