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 - **State of the art**
 
-  This was the codebase of the *MMDet* team, who won the [COCO Detection 2018 competition](http://cocodataset.org/#detection-leaderboard). 
+  This was the codebase of the *MMDet* team, who won the [COCO Detection 2018 challenge](http://cocodataset.org/#detection-leaderboard).