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While students around the world are slowly coming back to campuses. MECC started its Fall Season with a big bang. Starting with an MECC Team e-Invitational and Weekend Battle.
The Team e-Invitational was hosted by the University of Texas at Austin in collaboration with Clint Tuttle. He is not only coaching his student team to get them ready for MECC Championships, but also enjoys creating great Excel themed songs. Watch the video he dedicated to last year’s Team Finals case here.
The Team e-Invitational is a hybrid competition where students participate in person at their universities under the supervision of College Ambassadors, while simultaneously connecting online with teams from other institutions. Participants can choose to compete at either the Junior Varsity (JV) or Varsity level; however, only the top scores from the Varsity division qualify for the MECC Team Championship Quarterfinals.
The Team e-Invitational allows universities to bring multiple teams.
This time we had the 25 Varsity teams and 8 Junior Varsity teams, representing 10 universities worldwide:
The battle case was an adaptation of Andrew Grigolyunovich’s Tug of War adapted by David Brown asking students to analyze data of different kinds of teams participating in Tug of War competition. The tasks included calculating team mass and force, as well as switching up participants from team to team to change the final results.
This year’s MECC Team Championship introduces an important update to the format – Quarter-Finals: universities may enter the Quarter-Finals with multiple teams. To be eligible, each team must include at least one pre-qualified player.
Team e-Invitationals serve as one of the qualification pathways for the MECC Team Championship Quarter-Finals in December and offer multiple opportunities to qualify throughout the season. In the Team e-Invitationals, the top 30% of Varsity team players qualify for the MECC Team Championship Quarter-Finals in Las Vegas, allowing them to compete in December either with the same teammates or by forming new teams – provided they are still enrolled at their university at that time. Next Team e-Invitational: September 25 (scheduled at a time convenient for African, European, Australian, and Asian schools).
To learn about other way how to qualify and see the list of currently qualified players, visit MECC Championship page.
From the August Team e-Invitational, eight schools secured their Quarter-Finals spots with the following players:
As soon as the Team e-Invitational concluded, the same cases opened for individual players as part of the Weekend Battle. What teams of three tackled collaboratively, individual competitors now faced alone.
Participation was open throughout the weekend, allowing students to choose a time that worked best for them. Players could also compete in both Junior Varsity and Varsity to compare their performance against students worldwide. This was the first Weekend Battle played on the Excel Esports Online platform. If you haven’t yet tried it, sign up today!
Overall, this case was more challenging than the ones our students saw earlier in the Spring Season.
We hope all participants enjoyed the experience and take time to return to the cases to master concepts they didn’t quite finish during the competitions.
This month, competitors can also learn from video walkthroughs created by two Excel Esports players:
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