No Such Thing As The Little Spreadsheet Loving Mermaid

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  Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,

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  a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Aberdeen!

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  My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Tyshensky and James Harkin,

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  and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,

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  and in a particular order, here we go!

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  Starting with fact number one, and that is, Andy.

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  My fact is that, in America, you can watch televised Microsoft Excel competitions.

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  You can do a lot of things in America, doesn't mean you should.

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  It's the newfound land, I'm so excited.

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  This is a thing called Microsoft Excel eSports, and it's been on, I think it's been on a couple of years,

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  it was definitely on this year, it was on ESPN, which is a sports TV network, and it's called the Excel All-Star Battle,

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  and it was organized by a group called the Financial Modelling World Cup, and there is a slight caveat here,

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  it was organized as part of something called the Occhi,

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  which is a 24-hour celebration of the stupidest imaginable sports.

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  However, that included Corgi Racing, Stone Skipping, a number of other dumb stuff,

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  but it did happen, it was a televised thing, there were commentators who were Excel pros,

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  the aim of the game, basically they had a problem setting up this as a sporting competition,

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  because, as some of you will have noticed,

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  Microsoft Excel, not a game, it's fun, but it's not a game, and so they had to invent ways of competing at Excel,

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  so one of the challenges was to create a yacht regatta game on Excel,

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