Ladies and gentlemen, let’s get ready to modelll! Broadcast on ESPN, watched by tens of thousands of people around the world, and featured across CNN,BBC, ITV, and The Atlantic, the Financial Modeling World Cup (FMWC) is the hottest esport on the planet. If you ever wanted to apply for the Excel Modeling World Cup against top stars, feature on ESPN, or wonder if you have what it takes, this is the must-listen to episode of the year.  Chief Operating Officer of the FMWC, Maksims Sičs reveals the inside story of how the “Excel World Cup” was started and the success story ever since. Maksims Sičs is himself an expert in Corporate Finance advising customers on financial planning and analysis at companies including AG Capital, and PNB Banka. In this episode Maksims reveals: How the Financial Modeling World cup started The success of the sport in creating a global Excel community How a little help from Microsoft helped FMWC get broadcast on ESPN  The glory: the prize fund for winning and being an Excel world champion stands at $30,000 jackpot and a trip to Las Vegas  The pain: how one competitor tried to do the final stage in VBA and his Excel crashed five minutes before the final How to enter the tournament for only  $20 ticket  How good do you need to be to enter the competition?  How a competitor called the Excel Wizard Bo Rydobon managed to complete cases in 2 minutes through dynamic arrays  Helping SME business with finance  in his (second) day job  Why FP&A provides “light in the darkness” for a business  Enter the Financial Modeling World Cup YouTube video of the episode Follow Paul Barnhurst on LinkedIn  Follow Datarails on LinkedIn