From Going Concern, December 15:
In case you missed this year’s Microsoft Excel World Championships, the sporting event of the year for spreadsheet wizards everywhere, the king of Excel has been crowned. For the third year in a row, Andrew Ngai wiped the floor with the competition to take the top spot as GOAT in the rows and columns....*****....Ngai has 13 years of experience as an actuary in Australia and used to be a consultant at PwC. Along with his two (now three) Excel championship wins, he was Financial Modeling World Champion in 2019.This year’s win was almost taken from him not because anyone is better than him but due to an unexplained glitch. Reports The Guardian:
There was a moment in the semi-final of the Microsoft Excel world championship when Andrew “the Annihilator” Ngai thought he had been eliminated.
With the clock ticking and the Las Vegas audience on the edge of their seats, the two-time spreadsheet world champion started “furiously checking” his answers. Had he made a rounding error? Were his decimal places off?
Stressed and doubting himself, Ngai decided it wasn’t his night. Michael “the Jarman Army” Jarman from the UK or Peter Sharl – no nickname – from the US looked set to win. But Ngai had no reason to worry....
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