“World of Warcraft” has become the theme of the Excel World Series finals, and there is also a poisonous circle that forces contestants to compete in the battle royale!

The annual Excel World Championship “Microsoft Excel World Championship 2024” made its lively debut in Las Vegas and ended perfectly. This year’s finals climaxed in an unexpected way – the classic game “World of Warcraft” unexpectedly became Showdown theme. Not only that, the final also has a “poison circle” to continuously eliminate the players with the lowest points, creating an exciting final!

The “Microsoft Excel World Championship” (MEWC) will be held for the first time in 2021. The competition format provides players with data and asks questions to the players, requiring them to find specified data to answer. These “data” are presented in various forms, allowing the competition to break away from the traditional use of Excel and encourage participants to use Excel to solve various challenges.

In this year’s finals, “World of Warcraft” will appear as the theme of the competition. The finalists will obtain the initial data of 20 characters, and continuously track the character data through 7 stages of calculation, and finally defeat the classic copy “Molten” Ragnaros in the heart.

In the first stage of the task, players need to find the corresponding “answer” through the level, race, and occupation of each character. In the second stage, they may need to refer to the “answer” in the first stage to complete the “mission” to gain experience points. and money and other new data; these data will affect the calculation of the next stage, so players need to complete the “task” of each stage very accurately.

As the game progresses, complex dynamic attributes such as the character’s armor value, agility, and sustained damage output need to be tracked in later stages. In addition to the serious questions, there are also advanced bonus questions in the game: such as tracking the total life points, total experience points of all players, or the number of “W” letters in all tasks.

Not only does it have to be precise, the finals also have a “poison circle” mechanism like a battle royale game. The player with the lowest score is eliminated every five minutes, so players not only need to answer accurately, but also have great time pressure to complete the task quickly.

Among the 12 finalists, Michael Jarman from Canada solved all LEVEL4 answers within 40 minutes, won the championship with 905 points, and took home a prize of US$5,000.

The MEWC 2024 Finals will be broadcast live for seven hours. If you are interested, you can watch the game VOD on YouTube.

What’s more worth mentioning is that this competition also has an epic theme song “The Excel World Championship Song”, which is generated for netizens using the generative AI service Suno and is played throughout each stage of the competition. It is worth listening to.