{"id":19603,"date":"2025-08-02T00:37:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/excelling-in-excel-inside-the-high-stakes-secretive-world-of-competitive-spreadsheeting\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T00:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:37:29","slug":"excelling-in-excel-inside-the-high-stakes-secretive-world-of-competitive-spreadsheeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/excelling-in-excel-inside-the-high-stakes-secretive-world-of-competitive-spreadsheeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Excelling in \u2026 Excel? Inside the high-stakes, secretive world of competitive spreadsheeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New documentary Spreadsheet Champions follows six competitors as they head to the Microsoft Office Specialist world championship in Florida<\/p>\n<p>Six years ago, Melbourne-based film-maker Kristina Kraskov read an article about an international Microsoft Excel competition and had two thoughts. The first: \u201cWhat the hell, that can\u2019t be real.\u201d The second: \u201cThere\u2019s got to be a film about this \u2013 I want to watch it so badly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There wasn\u2019t a film about competitive spreadsheeting, so Kraskov decided to make it herself. The subject appealed to the director, whose work captures \u201cdifferent inner worlds that are a bit unusual on the outside\u201d, including a short film titled Party in the Back, about a mullet festival.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/aug\/02\/excelling-in-excel-inside-the-high-stakes-secretive-world-of-competitive-spreadsheeting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b5160f51b50f4ff5ea4ea653c34271fa86930fd3\/910_0_7920_6336\/master\/7920.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5529a40b7dfb3af19f25357566509215\" title=\"Excelling in \u2026 Excel? Inside the high-stakes, secretive world of competitive spreadsheeting\" \/>New documentary Spreadsheet Champions follows six competitors as they head to the Microsoft Office Specialist world championship in Florida<br \/>\nSix years ago, Melbourne-based film-maker Kristina Kraskov read an article about an international Microsoft Excel competition and had two thoughts. The first: \u201cWhat the hell, that can\u2019t be real.\u201d The second: \u201cThere\u2019s got to be a film about this \u2013 I want to watch it so badly.\u201d<br \/>\nThere wasn\u2019t a film about competitive spreadsheeting, so Kraskov decided to make it herself. The subject appealed to the director, whose work captures \u201cdifferent inner worlds that are a bit unusual on the outside\u201d, including a short film titled Party in the Back, about a mullet festival. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New documentary Spreadsheet Champions follows six competitors as they head to the Microsoft Office Specialist world championship in Florida Six years ago, Melbourne-based film-maker Kristina Kraskov read an article about an international Microsoft Excel competition and had two thoughts. The first: \u201cWhat the hell, that can\u2019t be real.\u201d The second: \u201cThere\u2019s got to be a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/excelling-in-excel-inside-the-high-stakes-secretive-world-of-competitive-spreadsheeting\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Excelling in \u2026 Excel? Inside the high-stakes, secretive world of competitive spreadsheeting<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}