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Saw some articles late last week and over the weekend describing YouTube livestreams of Excel pros competing in a Financial Modeling World Championship "esports" competition. I'm vaguely aware that some YouTubers are making millions of $$ livestreaming their online gaming endeavors, but have no sense what the entertainment value there would be. However, I spent years working in Excel for financial institutions, building models both simple and complex, and was baffled by the idea that somebody would willingly spend upwards of 90 minutes to watch Excel experts competing on these models.
OK, so thinking that maybe you might learn something by watching, I invested about 15 minutes to watch a portion of one of the videos. [^]FMWC Open - Dec 8 (America Session) - Excel as esports - YouTube[^]
Initial suspicions were confirmed. The views of competitors' screens are small, you can't really see well what they're doing, you have little chance to tease out any single person's approach or logic, and they move from cell to cell so quickly that you can't even begin to see the formulas they've used. Additionally, in the portion I saw, they had 3 "experts" in small windows at 3 corners of the screen commenting on what "current" competitor was doing - that competitor appearing in the 4th corner of the screen.
They have links below the video to the various challenges on the FMWC web site, but if you want to see completed Excel models, it'll cost you $10 US EACH to download the files.
Am I wrong to think Excel as an esport is bizarre?
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Duke Carey wrote: Am I wrong to think Excel as an esport is bizarre?
No.
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Been there, done that. Back in the MS-DOS days, Lotus created an office suite called Symphony[^]. One of our customers at the time wanted us to aggregate information from their existing data acquisition system into a single spreadsheet. They had dozens of separate sheets, none of which updated consistently. First we reworked the original sheets to improve their consistency. Next we created an overlay system using macros that loaded an unloaded the individual sheets as needed, and added a menu system on top of that to manage the whole mess.
Probably the worst obscenity I've ever built in my career. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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I once spent a few months building up a financial model for a car importer in Oz, excel dragging in data from various systems (mini, PC and banking services). After 3 months I apologised as I could not get it closer than $1m to the target - manager was delighted no one else had got closer than $10m. Excel took 9 hours to recalc the sheets.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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9... hours... Good grief.
Software Zen: delete this;
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BEZOAR
It's Calculus, furball!
A Calculus is a mineral Bezoar[^], a Furball is a organic Bezoar[^] called a Trichobezoar.
And I'm up tomorrow! 
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All jabbed up ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yep! Pfizer this time, to go with the AstraZeneca last time.
Hopefully no nasties from this one, but I've planned a "slob day" for tomorrow just in case.
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I've had Pfizer three times with no side effects at all - and I had my first ever flu jab at the same time as the booster - we're becoming a nation of narcos
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pkfox wrote: I've had Pfizer three times with no side effects at all
According to the nurse today, the side effects generally happen in the "super fit", so we know which side of that equation you fall!
I just looked down at myself when she said that and raised an eyebrow Spock stylee. 
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I've never been described as super or fit ! never mind super fit 
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Same mix as me, but I was somewhat dodgy for a couple of days after the booster. And definitely not super fit ...
Good luck!
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It's Calculus, furball! (6)
Sorry it's early, but I'm booked for a booster jab and it's an 80 mile round trip ... this is not a part of the clue or related in any way to the solution.
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tartar (double definition)
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Nope!
4 minutes to go ...
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Still nope!
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If an octopus lose it's foot, is it still called Octopus?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Humans are bipeds. If a human loses a foot, does he/she stop being a biped?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yes - he becomes a unidexter[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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If the foot is simply injured but becomes septic, s/he'd be a septopus. Until it had to be amputated, when it would become just a septo.
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What if it lost two legs, would it be a sexopus or a hexopus?
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As much as it could become a Centipede.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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