This leaves the ultimate victory of completing the entire course, including marking the target zone and returning to a set recovery area, for a future competition. All contestants that demonstrate autonomous intelligence are successful. Instead of having a course where the winner is determined by a race against each other and the clock, the course is designed to be the main challenge. The only contestants that are unsuccessful are those that don't enter. We consider it a success if you learn something about making machines work intelligently underwater.
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