There are many ways to measure your mastery of Microsoft Excel: the admiration of your peers, the efficiency of your formulae, the beauty of your tables and graphs. But for the true spreadsheet wizards there's only one distinction that matters, and it's a massive championship wrestling belt.

I'm talking of course about the Microsoft Excel World Championship belt, which was just awarded this week to newly-minted MEWC 2025 champion Diarmuid Early after three days of Excel competition live in Las Vegas.

Competitors from around the world gathered there this week to try and solve Excel challenges as fast as possible. This year the top spot went to Early who (according to PCGamer) beat out 23 other competitors on the final day of competition to win the $5,000 cash prize and accompanying ridicu

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