> What this essentially comes down to is a bunch of teams with high domain expertise and high technical capability was beaten by a team with higher comparative

> What this essentially comes down to is a bunch of teams with high domain expertise and high technical capability was beaten by a team with higher comparative technical capability and lower comparative domain expertise. The fact that the experts are entrenched in departmental trench wars and crippled by bureaucratic crap on every step is probably a contributing factor. If they were free to advance actual research instead of contributing to some middle manager's manager's agenda, thinks might look different.