Excel Worldcup Competition: It Is A Real Thing
Jacques du Rand 2022-08-11
What Does Excel And ESPN (Sports Tv Network) Have In Common ?
Usually nothing, until now...
Enter 'The Excel World Cup Competition': Excel experts all compete in a series of time restricted analytical tasks, to be solved via the spreadsheet of course.
No specific industry knowledge is required and all required data and files are provided for you, the only requirement is to have an unnatural good working knowledge of Excel and understanding of statistics
There is even a live stream of the event on their YouTube channel
Some of the previous problems include:
Analyze a purposed an Ice Hockey World Championships event and answer questions like:
- Which team will win the tournament? – 25 Points
- How many fans will come to see the tournament? – 25 Points
- Under the new assumptions, which team’s fans and supporters will spend the most money over the course of the tournament? – 50 Points
Electric Car - Charging Stations Viability
“Your client considers rolling out a nation-wide network of charging stations for electric car batteries.” Your goal is to create a 10-year monthly financial model, forecast the financials, calculate the project’s NPV and IRR and determine the required level of state subsidies for the project to be economically feasible for GE.
FMWC - The Event Organizers
The competition is held by FMWC every year and the prize pool is $10,000 !
FMWC is a consulting and analytics firm, and on their website they describe their services as
- FMWC Consulting from best analysts in the world
- Financial Assessment Tests for potential employees
- Financial Training with world-class trainers
If you asked us, they just found the world's best recruiting tool for Grandmaster Level Analyst !
Who Can Enter ?
Looking at the published rules: It seems mostly anyone with a good internet connection and working copy of any spreadsheet program. They do split up the participants in two age groups, those under 25 years of age and those that are older.
Finally there is a nice sport to participate in from the couch.