https://twitter.com/boringcompany/status/1437247885951651841

The 'TUM Boring - Innovation in Tunneling' team from the Technical University of Munich has won the first ever tunnel boring competition of The Boring Company.

The German company was one of the 12 finalist teams (out of the 400 applicants) competing to achieve tunneling speed "to beat the snail". 

It is not clear whether the snail has been beaten.

The finalists for the 2021 Not-a-Boring Competition were:

Biggus Diggus - Hobbyists - United Kingdom

CU Hyperloop - University of Colorado Boulder - United States

Dirt-Torpedo - DHBW Mosbach - Germany

HyperloopUC - University of Cincinnati - United States

MIT Hyperloop III - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - United States

Paradigm Boring - Memorial University of Newfoundland and Northeastern University, St. John's - Canada and United States

Swissloop Tunneling - ETH Zurich - Switzerland

Team Badgermole - Hobbyists - India and United States

The Diggeridoos - Virginia Tech - United States

The Warwick Boring Team - University of Warwick - United Kingdom

TUM Boring - Innovation in Tunneling - Technical University of Munich (TUM) - Germany

UMD Loop - University of Maryland - United States

Technical University of Munich is a known entity at Elon Musk's competitions as other teams from the university, in the past, have either won or scored high at hyperloop competitions.