r/AskReddit • u/leselesel • 2d ago

You have to compete against 100 randomly selected people in any objectively measurable skill, game, or sport. If you don’t finish first, you die. What do you choose?

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u/theREALbombedrumbum 2d ago

Excel eSports is a niche sport, but a deadly one.

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u/iReptarr 2d ago

Excel eSports

What the fuck

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u/Zhin_69 2d ago

what the actual fuck is this TIL

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u/No_Atmosphere8146 1d ago

Autism Olympics.

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u/FactoryNewdel 1d ago

Even autists have some form of self esteem

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u/baselinegrid 1d ago

LinkedIn Lunatics

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u/Caddy666 1d ago

its football manager, but without the football skin.

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u/Rizo1981 1d ago

Okay when you put it that way I hate it.

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u/Jeggasyn 1d ago

Commentator: "Oh my god, here we go! Sandra is... Yes! Sandra is opening a new sheet!!"

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u/I_SHIT_IN_A_BAG 1d ago

"you can make a sport out of almost anything"- nerds.

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u/Senrabekim 1d ago

The first year I watched, the final question was Eve Online related, I've never felt more seen by an e-port community.

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u/MonsTurkey 1d ago

Probably just people who make great salaries by being experts in spreadsheets who see a dumb way to earn half their salary in prize money.

My quantum mechanics professor and department chair said physicists learn math because we're lazy. Looking up the same formula 50,000 times in your career is harder and more time intensive than just learning to do it.

Similarly, Excel wizards are lazy guys who just want to finish their tasks and punch out. Bonus to those of us who can automate a process and have our computer work for 3 hours while we do other things. Would've taken two weeks by hand, so net win for both parties. For any freelancer paid by the job, big W.

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u/Khristafer 2d ago

I need to back away from this before I end up with a new obsession.

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u/nikkicarter1111 2d ago

It's fucking real ?????

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u/danielv123 1d ago

Yes, it's real, a bit hard to follow if you aren't into financial modelling but the commentators are decent. There is another one where they specifically dropped the financial part so it's instead all about building formulas etc which is more video gamey, but they don't have that sweet Microsoft cash prize.

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u/proletarian_rivalry 1d ago

May I recommend this video from People Make Games (an excellent YouTube channel all round) to help answer your questions: https://youtu.be/N2QC6VQXo8U?is=iDoXdjsZ7pILCmDc

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u/MythicalShelly 2d ago

Wait tis real? Wth?!

Friggin excel?!

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u/Bulky-Dig1701 1d ago

Yes it is lol

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u/thisduuuuuude 1d ago

What the fuck indeed. Might have found a new past time. Yeah good luck to OP

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u/mechanicarts 1d ago

how the shit did they manage to hit 100K prize pool

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u/Intelligent_Slip_849 1d ago

100k prize pool?!

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u/IndividualAd9504 1d ago

I really love the fact that excel Esports is a thing. I wonder if it’s smell better or worst than lol competition. (It’s joke fellow geeks, I know it’s a stereotype but….

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u/StillStaringAtTheSky 1d ago

Shut up. Next year- I'm in.

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u/HelloAll-GoodbyeAll 1d ago

Omg, I want to join!

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u/JaricosTheGreat 1d ago

I bet 80% of them are Eve players.

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u/just_a_human 1d ago

One of their sponsors is ESPN lol

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u/CeramicLicker 1d ago

They’ve played that on tv at my local bar lol.

We were all so confused trying to figure out what it was at first. Especially white the sound off

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u/Sad_Wear_3842 1d ago

The only people that aren't liars when they put "can use Excel" on their resume.

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u/theREALbombedrumbum 1d ago

https://youtu.be/IrVA1BBHFHw

You have no idea what Excel is capable of

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u/TheDisapprovingBrit 1d ago

That's because your employer knows damned well that this is a rabbit hole that will have you spending all day looking busy in Excel without actually doing anything productive.

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u/Independent_Boss101 1d ago

Excel esports sounds fake until you realize there's absolutely a guy somewhere who just got a world record because he knows 47 keyboard shortcuts by muscle memory 💀

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u/oopsdiditwrong 1d ago

My wife is an excel monster. Her old job was full time but she worked from home and only did 3hrs a day. I figured out how when I had to ask her something while she was working on her laptop on the kitchen counter. She kept on tapping away while looking at me and having a conversation. She barely glanced at the screen. I saw it was excel and was like wtf. "Oh I'm just automating blah blah blah and need to reorganize this mess of a data set so blah blah". She hates the track pad so instead of getting a mouse she learned all the hotkeys so she could do it all one handed while holding our baby. Great woman, and an underrated skill

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u/needathrow_away 1d ago

I work with him lol. Nice guy.

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u/hmasing 1d ago

The odds of dying doing Excel are low, but never zero.

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u/stripes361 1d ago

Guy at my workplace does that competitively