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Under the rules of the competition, the $ 50,000 challenge award would be granted to the first team to submit the answers to questions relating to a hidden mystery. The mystery verified that the team was able to extract meaningful intelligence from the page that was thought destroyed. The secret
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Nearly 9,000 teams participated between 12:00PM EDT on
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