By Andy Edser
Publication Date: 2025-12-04 14:29:00
I’ve found something you need to see. We’ve covered the Excel World Championship before, highlighting its excellent theme song, which starts off with the immortal line:
“It’s the Excel World Championship—who’s going to win?”
But this year, the organisers have upped the ante. While the championship has experimented with wrestler-style intros before, in which competitors run down a tunnel to a smattering of muted applause from the Las Vegas crowd, this year, they’ve gone full “let’s get ready to ruuuuuuumbblllleeeeeee.”
“I feel like we need to get [inaudible] more pumped up in here” screamed one of the hosts mid-way through a competitor intro sequence, her voice audibly breaking with excitement. “From the United States of America,” the other interjects. “Let’s give it up for… Peeeeeter Scharl!”
Enter Scharl, merrily running down a neon lit tunnel holding a sign saying “I love to merge cells”. The crowd boos, because, according to my data-science-au-fait partner,…
