""It was a hard fought battle. To win by 11 points out of a maximum possible 3,750 is what some might call 'by the skin of my teeth'.""
""Around 30 competitors vied to be crowned the UK champion. The competitors' wits have been thoroughly tested: they have battled through three challenging cases, surrendering to the malice and humility of the case designers, solving difficult problems of Excel, mathematics, and logic.""
""I remember at five years old being drawn to the telly screen when there were educational programmes on and finding it fascinating that typing in some texts (which I now suspect to be VLOOKUP formulae) could make stuff 'magically' appear on a grid.""
Ha Dang won the inaugural UK Excel Championship and will represent the UK at the Microsoft Excel World Championship in Las Vegas this December. The finals followed several online rounds and were livestreamed from an in-person event in London. Competitors earned points by solving Excel-based problems and the final was closely contested, with Dang narrowly defeating Lorenzo Foti 2,474 to 2,463. Around 30 competitors faced three challenging cases that tested Excel skills, mathematics, and logic. Dang is a qualified accountant based in Leeds and traces a long-standing enthusiasm for spreadsheets back to early childhood. XLOOKUP is noted as Microsoft's preferred lookup function in recent Excel versions.
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