The result will also have strengthened chairman Barry Hearn's view that the competition format is sacrosanct.

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DARPA's staff worked out the format for the competition, the prize money was put on the table and the Grand Challenge was born.

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They have enacted a series of immediate rule changes aimed at pleasing an IOC board that complained about the sport's confusing rules and competition format.

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