Linus claims that his team achieved a moral victory by not cheating and by building better systems than the opposition.

“we had better rigs we were more interesting and we didn't practice outside of ours yeah we're not cheaters so i'm loving it”

Alex expresses that the team would have chosen better monitors had they known their remaining budget earlier.

“if we knew that we had like even the 300 at the time we would have been like okay yeah let's get some better monitors instead of just these three for a hundred”