[y1tan]

Goes to contest rules : https://gitlab.aicrowd.com/minerl/minerl-resources/blob/mast... Search 'source' :

- must submit source code - must submit source code - must submit source code

There's your problem right there. It's not that 'creators' are stumped. It's that, given how much it would be worth pitching the same closed source to an investment group or solution seeker directly, no 'creator' with a sufficiently advanced 'new' or capable system would ever submit their source code to one of these competitions. This goes for all competitions that require participants to submit their source code. It's what you you seek or your backers after-all which is valued far more than the potential prize you're doling out. Thus, your business model. The question is always, will someone who can develop such an advanced system be dumb enough to part ways with their IP for such low value? I think not.

So, you can pretty much throw any conclusions made from any such competitions in the trash. This goes for even bigger ones by bigger names. You're going to get what you'd intelligently expect : a small sampling of the same ol' same ol' approach. Don't expect any novel submissions. Don't expect any surprises. So, what's the point of this? I'm speaking about the whole site 'aicrowd' btw and any other group that organizes a 'submit your code' competition ...