It's worth noting that as a consequence of an impromptu 2018 university policy change, this same team forfeited preliminary event 2's $750k prize directly to the university last year that would have gone towards funding subsequent R&D efforts leading up to the final challenge, and, yet again, will almost certainly forfeit this $2M grand prize to the university[1].
[1] https://www.alligator.org/news/uf-engineering-team-wins-mill...