MECC Regional Competition at UTS

The 2025 Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge (MECC) Regionals are in-person competitions held at 6 universities around the World.

UTS Business School and the UTS Finance Society are hosting one of the events on 5 April 2025.

Two levels of difficult:

• Junior Varsity – For newcomers to Excel Esports.
• Varsity – For more experienced students.

Competing in four different types of Excel Esports cases:

• Speed challenges
• Visual cases (mapping / directions / cell locations and distances)
• Lookups and data referencing
• Formatting and Excel tools

What do students get out of the event?

• The top Varsity-level player from each regional event will be invited to participate in the Online Battle on May 10 for a spot in the MECC Semi-Finals in December in Las Vegas.
• The top Varsity-level team from each regional will qualify directly for the MECC Team Semi-Finals in December in Las Vegas.
• A chance to interact with Excel gurus:
  • Andrew Ngai | Director, Taylor Fry | 3x MS Excel World Champion
  • Tim Heng | Director at SumProduct, Microsoft MVP (Excel)