Excel's Esports Revolution is Coming Back To ESPN This Week (theverge.com) 24
The Excel World Championship is coming back to ESPN this week. On Friday morning at 7AM ET, as part of ESPN's annual "The Ocho" event, a few of the world's foremost Excel experts will battle to solve puzzles on the biggest stage in sports. From a report: The Ocho is an ESPN event designed to show off otherwise un-televised sports -- Excel is on the docket alongside "2023 Slippery Stairs," the "Pillow Fight Championship," and competitions in everything from belt-sanding to sign spinning -- but it's still a big deal. When competitive Excel showed up on the network last year, the sport found a whole new audience. More than 800,000 people have since watched the full 2.5-hour competition on YouTube (ESPN showed a 30-minute edit of the battle), and the folks who started the World Championship say it changed the event's trajectory forever.
Could be worse (Score:5, Funny)
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The Ocho? (Score:2)
Is this on ESPN's Spanish channel or something?
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Watch the movie "Dodgeball"...
I haven't (and likely wont, those kinds of movies bore me to tears)... but a quick google is that yes, it is the Spanish word for 8... Why I have no idea and stopped caring before the fact that they used the English word for "the" but the Spanish word for "eight" started to bother me, it should be "El Ocho" or "The Eight", imagine if we called it "The Angeles".
Typical journalists (Score:2)
> It’s the Sheeter Bowl! The VLookup Cup! Merge Madness! Whatever you want to call it, the Excel World Championship is coming back to ESPN this week.
Who wrote this article? Are real exceller would know vlookup was effectively deprecated by xlookup.
(News for nerds)
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There is no wlookup
https://www.mrexcel.com/board/... [mrexcel.com]
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> It’s the Sheeter Bowl! The VLookup Cup! Merge Madness! Whatever you want to call it, the Excel World Championship is coming back to ESPN this week.
Who wrote this article? Are real exceller would know vlookup was effectively deprecated by xlookup. (News for nerds)
xlookup isn't backwards compatible and is only available on Office 2021 and later.
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> isn't backwards compatible
Thanks for pointing out the concept of a new function. That is literally how every newly introduced function call works in every language and piece of software. That's why vlookup is still around for legacy. Going forward you use xlookup.
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> isn't backwards compatible
Thanks for pointing out the concept of a new function. That is literally how every newly introduced function call works in every language and piece of software. That's why vlookup is still around for legacy. Going forward you use xlookup.
And thanks for pointing out you've never held a job in the real world where you have to collaborate with people who might not have the latest and greatest version of MS Office.
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Doesn't matter much, both are less useful than libreoffice calcwhich had regex match capable lookup.
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this "calcwhich" would surely have saved me time over the years, instead of assembling rail columns, but I don't see it in either web search or libreoffice.
Cyril Figgus (Score:2)
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A Href to YouTube Stream (Score:2)
Wait, did they take that name from Dodgeball? (Score:2)
I don't want or watch ESPN, but kudos to them for a sense of humor.
max.com/providers (Score:1)