It is difficult to capture all the complex facets of a single university's performance in a single, one-dimensional ranking. But every year Canadian universities condense all the complex facets of a student's performance into a single, one-dimensional measure that can be ranked against other performances in other programs, and they do it thousands of times a year. A global top 00 challenge could not rely on just one rankings system to judge results. Rewarding universities that place in the truly elite ranks of any of two or three established rankings systems would avoid casting too narrow a definition of academic excellence.