In a spectacle of bright lights and dramatic fanfare worthy of any sporting final, Irishman Diarmuid Early took the stage at Las Vegas’s HyperX arena. His tools weren’t a ball and a court, but a keyboard, a mouse, and the humble spreadsheet.
Dubbed the “LeBron James of Excel,” the Galway-born, Waterford-raised competitor has now been officially crowned the world’s best.
By winning the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships, Early conquered a field of elite “worksheet whizzes” and claimed a $60,000 prize, cementing the office computer program’s new status as a high-stakes, global competitive spectacle.
By James Kisoo
