Perfect, winning Excellence or Design is better than winning the event. It shows that the team has mastered all the skills that everyone can use in the future.
I’m OK with a team using the “Tube Bot” ™ and then improving it. That gets you into the design cycle also. TBH, it’s very few times in my D$yJ$b that I got to make things from scratch, most of the time it was “extend, improve, add features” etc to existing products.