There is a joke that EVE Online is simply spreadsheets in space, so the joke came full circle when EVE announced it was adding in an Excel add-on last year at Fanfest. The circle continued this past weekend as it was one of the partners, and case study for the final round of the Microsoft Excel World Championships in Las Vegas.
Over the weekend here in Las Vegas (I live here and had no idea this was a thing), participants put their Excel skills to the test against other spreadsheet mavens. Over three hours of spreadsheet goodness is archived on both ESPN and YouTube, for those who really want to check out what even is a Microsoft Excel championship. Effectively, players compete to solve case studies presented by other spreadsheet experts, crunching the data in the fastest and most accurate way possible.
EVE Online Spreadsheets in Space at the Microsoft Excel World Championship 2023 Finals. Link below timecode to when the EVE segment starts. Great work from market guru OZ_Eve on building the case. #EVE + #Excel = #eSports https://t.co/R7Ove5F4qE
— CCP Hellmar (@HilmarVeigar) December 10, 2023
The finals included a case study created by EVE Online content creator Oz, which saw the Excel Championship finalists crunch data pulled from EVE's Microsoft Excel add-on. The case studies saw contestants crunch the numbers on asteroid mining and market trades within EVE Online, all using data pulled from Tranquility using the official add-on.
The Excel add-in was announced back at EVE Fanfest 2022, but it didn't make it into the MMO until June 2023. The goal here is to give all corporations much more information to work from that they might not have otherwise had, especially those smaller corps who don't have legions of data analysts using custom API scripts to pull the data.
You can check out the Championships on YouTube in the embed below. If you're interested in checking out the EVE-specific case study, skill to the finals timestamped at 2:21:06.
EVE Online is feeling more alive than ever thanks to both the launch of its latest expansion, Havoc, and the recent playtest of its upcoming FPS module, EVE Vanguard, which concluded today.
