Esports are increasingly important and Microsoft is well aware of this. The Redmond company has indeed organized a Excel eSports tournament, the Financial Modeling World Cup, whose finals will air today, December 11, 2021, at 6pm.
Financial Modeling World Cup is a tournament made up of 128 participants from each region of the world (Africa, Asia / Pacific, Europe, North America, Latin America). The qualifiers started on November 13th and today, November 11th 2021, there will be the finals, divided into three parts: quarterfinals, semifinals, and final. The total prize pool is $ 10,000, funded by Microsoft of course.
Financial Modeling World Cup has been taking place for years. Every round consists of case studies that are provided to competitors at the start of the match. According to the rules of the FMWC, each case study consists of a problem whose length is between 1 and 5 pages with a list of questions to be answered by the competitors. To progress in the game, each competitor must fully answer the questions and produce and present financial models in a spreadsheet.
The atmosphere of a match is very similar to that of other eSports tournaments, with even live commentary on what happens during the tournament by well-known members of the community, including Bill Jelen, who calls himself “Mr. Excel”.
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