The answer to your question is, YES: there are actual Excel World Championships.
We’re not just talking about, like, an event played by the contestants among themselves. No, this is streamed, with commentators and everything.
Now, I’m going to fully admit to you that I don’t quite know what’s going on (some journalists are REALLY good at Excel. I am not!). But it looks intense and sounds really intense and well, you’ve just got to watch some highlights.
There were others who were buzzing about it on Wednesday, which I’ll share below, along with what else I found on YouTube: