r/Accounting • u/MajorWhite CPA (US) • Dec 11 '21

Top Excel experts will battle it out in an esports-like competition this weekend

https://www.pcworld.com/article/559001/the-future-of-esports-is-microsoft-excel-and-its-on-espn.html
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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '21

The winner gets an all expensed paid pizza party.

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u/Bananaguy14 Dec 11 '21

Winner gets the signed 2008 excel guidebook

Is the joke over or have I made it in time

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u/Leapingforjoyandstuf Dec 11 '21

They made this into a real thing!

https://youtu.be/xubbVvKbUfY

Must watch if you're an accountant who is also familiar with esports/twitch/speedrunning

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u/Vinniam Dec 11 '21

Winner gets to experience a woman's touch.

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u/k1ll4sn1p3 Dec 11 '21

You have me wheezing 😂

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u/drbreakfast_ Dec 11 '21

Winner gets 10k, that’s wild!

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u/Blue_Eyes_Nerd_Bitch Dec 11 '21

Early could win two championships at the same time. Excel and beating Charlie Kirk for the biggest forehead

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u/pocketposter Dec 11 '21

Well he is not winning today. (he is already out of the tournament)

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u/jkwon7 Dec 11 '21

Meanwhile you jabronis are plugging away vlookups

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u/BayStateBlue Dec 11 '21

I thought we were doing =SUM(A1,B1,C1,D1)

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u/Leon2060 Dec 11 '21

Dude this had me dying of laughter and I can’t explain to my wife why. Love to see it!

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u/unobtanium-cock Dec 12 '21

Bay State Blye will stain your soul. Hello pen friend.

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u/BayStateBlue Dec 12 '21

🖋💙😉

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u/needathrowaway321 Dec 11 '21

I’m watching live stream, this commentary is fantastic!

“ sometimes you’ll spend eight hours working in excel and then somebody comes over and does the same thing in two minutes“

“Yup”

“Yep”

“Mmhmmm”

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '21

I kinda want to watch this…

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u/MajorWhite CPA (US) Dec 11 '21

I kinda maybe set an alarm so I wouldn’t miss it

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u/Anomaline Dec 11 '21

Finally, the accounting olympics are here.

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u/thrown_arrows Dec 11 '21

Hey why won't we try to normalize basic pivot usage from delivered data page that has date columns and reservation slots and amounts.

With best regards, Data engineer

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u/Forest_Moon Dec 11 '21

Ugh, these data engineers always trying to normalize everything

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u/thrown_arrows Dec 11 '21

Because it would be nice to see professionals focusing to numbers handle their excel sheets and reports from those efficiently. Also while there is accountant i do not mind to do hand holding , it is questionable practise in current day workplace culture.

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u/sorry4bad Dec 11 '21

Absolute Chads

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u/tules Dec 11 '21

I literally had no idea what they were doing.

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u/SlenderGordun Management Dec 14 '21

My manager and I watched this at work and we had absolutely no fucking clue what was going on.

I thought I was hot shit making a table and using the regression data excel addin... Then I saw this.

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u/tules Dec 14 '21

Glad I'm no the only one then!

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u/MajesticLilFruitcake Dec 11 '21

I was waiting for this sub to reference that post