My only surprise is that the winning team didn't keep their product quiet beforehand and do a good acting job on how hard they had to work to get it done within

My only surprise is that the winning team didn't keep their product quiet beforehand and do a good acting job on how hard they had to work to get it done within the deadline. A million dollar prize is very likely to create controversy when there are loop holes and ambiguity in the rules and even if I did get a head start, I would have wanted to avoid the chance of this type of blowback.