The Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge (MECC) is a Microsoft Excel esports competition.
Background
The MECC started in 2022 and combines elements of the Financial Modeling World Cup and the Microsoft Excel World Championship, targeting college students. Contestants solve problems, in the form of case studies, using the spreadsheet software. Competitors are ranked through multiple rounds of timed competition, including an in-person final round. Participants may compete in either individuals or teams. The competition is jointly organized by the Eller College of Management and Financial Modeling World Cup.
In each round, competitors solve problems presented as one-to-five-page-long financial modeling case studies with questions at the end, using Microsoft Excel.
2022 edition Competition Details and Format Changes 2,730 students from 93 countries and 596 universities and colleges registered for the 2022 MECC. The total prize pool was $30,000 USD. Competitors could sign up individually, or in teams of up to 3 athletes.
The MECC began with two preliminary rounds, taking place online in October 2022. Competitors were allotted two hours to complete each round. Both rounds featured three FMWC style cases. The cases for the 2nd preliminary round were equivalent to those for Stage 7 of the FMWC competition.
Invites to the final day were distributed in the following manner: 30 individual competitors with the highest combined scores of the preliminary rounds Five teams with the highest combined scores of the preliminary rounds Five schools with the highest number of MECC signups
The final day took place on December 3, at the University of Arizona . The final day started with two semifinal rounds. The top eight individual competitors and top four teams advanced to the final rounds.
The final rounds were held in the University of Arizona Esports Arena and consisted entirely of Microsoft Excel World Cup style cases. It was livestreamed on FMWC's YouTube channel, and ESPNU later aired a condensed version on December 18.
Results Source: Individual
Finals - Round 2 Rank Athlete Nation University Score Prize Isaac Lee National University of Singapore 381 $10,000 Gavin Hartzell 216 $5,000 Forrest Liu 205 $2,500 4 Andrew Cheng 176 $1,250
Finals - Round 1 Rank Athlete Nation University Score Prize 1 Forrest Liu 1,014 2 Isaac Lee National University of Singapore 1,000 3 Gavin Hartzell 836 4 Andrew Cheng 775 5 Patrick Chatain 760 $750 6 Danendra Lohanata Nanyang Technological University 724 7 Nitish Mehta 722 8 Morgan Carr Middle Georgia State University 617
Semifinals Rank Athlete Nation University Round 1 Round 2 Score 1 Patrick Chatain 640 670 1310 2 Isaac Lee National University of Singapore 510 710 1220 3 Andrew Cheng 690 485 1175 4 Gavin Hartzell 659 430 1089 5 Forrest Liu 720 286 1006 6 Morgan Carr Middle Georgia State University 550 454 1004 7 Danendra Lohanata Nanyang Technological University 540 429 969 8 Nitish Mehta 570 392 962 9 Suman Acharya Maharishi International University 589 304 893 10 Athanasios Dogramatzidis University of Athens 410 430 840 11 Leslie Cannell Fanshawe College 342 442 784 12 Pieter Pienaar University of Pretoria 310 465 775 13 Venkat Ravi 405 295 700 14 Prarthana Magon 345 350 695 15 Samuel Henley Curtin University 345 340 685 16 April Grossi 307 377 684 17 Antonio Gorgijovski Macquarie University 130 480 610 18 Tyler Street University of Waterloo 235 365 600 19 Matthé Hulshof Avans University of Applied Sciences 294 305 599 20 William Montgomery 375 212 587 21 Chirayyu Jain 228 275 503 22 Nicole Rong 298 193 491 23 Hayden Boccardo 150 335 485 - Ankit Kumar IIM Bodh Gaya colspan=3 () - Samarth Anand Delhi University colspan=3 () - Aditya Kumar Darak Gujarat University colspan=3 ()
Team Finals Rank Nation Athletes University Score Prize Roshni Chandawarkar Manny MehtaAustin Towle 558 $6,000 Kiraën Andriamandimbisoa Tafitantsoa Rakotondrafara Ny Tsiory Nomentsoa Rakotonanahary INSCAE 420 $3,000 Garima Gupta Pranjal Bhatt Thomas Ewing University of Texas at Dallas 328 $1,500 4 Samuel Primack Brandon Jung Benhamin Cherdak 204
Semifinals Rank Nation Athletes University Case 1 Case 2 Total Score 1 Kiraën AndriamandimbisoaTafitantsoa RakotondrafaraNy Tsiory Nomentsoa Rakotonanahary INSCAE 710 485 1195 2 Roshni ChandawarkarManny MehtaAustin Towle 345 610 955 3 Samuel PrimackBrandon JungBenhamin Cherdak 385 465 850 4 Garima GuptaPranjal BhattThomas Ewing University of Texas at Dallas 262 442 704 5 Tammy BrewerRowen FletcherKate Martin 269 410 679 6 Akshay KolteMaria ToledanoFlorian Mehl 336 267 603 7 Kayla OxleyKrishang AgarwalDivyansh Gour 228 305 533 - Saeed ShaffiqMichasel Muiruri Strathmore University colspan=3 () - Maarij HaroonSwaleh Ahmed NED colspan=3 ()
2023 edition Competition Details and Format Changes Team sign up is no longer available to all students. In order to compete as a team, students must be enrolled in a partner school. Partner Schools have coordinated with the FMWC organizers to be named as a partner school and receive an automatic bid for one team (up to three people) to compete in-person on the final day
Invites to the final day will be distributed in the following manner: 20 individual competitors with the highest combined scores of the preliminary rounds One team for each partner school
Results Qualification Round Rank Athlete Nation University Round 1 Round 2 Score 1 Benjamin Weber University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien 1360 765 2125 2 Tim Froelich 1230 855 2085 3 Gavin Hartzell 1110 825 1935 4 Zefanie Gayle Tan Ateneo de Manila University 1140 705 1845 5 Antonio Gorgijovski Macquarie University 1090 650 1740 6 Patrick Chatain 1080 610 1690 7 Jonathan Razanamparany INSCAE 1080 530 1610 7 Samuel Hanley Curtin University 840 770 1610 9 Julian Poeltl Hochschule Reutlingen 780 800 1580 10 Giorgi Goderzishvili Free University of Tbilisi 850 690 1540
References
External links Official webpage