End-of-year ranking 2018 (#2 in 2): official top 10

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The official top 10 for the end-of-year 2018 ranking is as follows:

1 Konstantin Tikhonov & Waldemar Schulgin (20.7319)
2 Cyrille Delabre (20.8711)
3 Motoki Saitama (20.908)
4 Hamlet Jesse Medina Ruiz (20.9396)
5 Olivier Arnoult (20.9749)
6 Etienne Seckinger (21.1613)
7 Lucas Boczkowski (21.1846)
Richard Beneyton (CFM) (21.1923)
8 Elies Lahmar (21.2706)
9 Cyril Garcia (21.2895)
10 Rémi Jézéquel (21.2921)

Congratulations! A second set of prizes will be awarded as planned to the people who joined the top 10 since the other ranking from June (ranks 1, 3, 4 and 6).

This closes the 2018 season: thank you everybody for your participation in this challenge and for your questions and contributions in this forum!

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Thanks for the excellent competition. It would be interesting to learn whether the improvement of the scores over the initial benchmark achieved in the competition could be considered economically significant from the point of view of potential applications.