Jarman, the new champion, is a Toronto-based financial modeling director who came in second to The Annihilator each of the last few year’s go-rounds. “It was an amazing feeling,” Jarman told the CBC of his breakthrough. “It’s definitely, you know, a really great memory for me, and will be for a long time.”

Michael Jarman, a Toronto financial modelling director, has become the undisputed world champion of managing spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel.