no, it's like when someone is following the law to the letter but not the spirit of the law. Aka finding a loophole. No one will laud this.

In this instance I'd say it's funny and a bit creative, but way less creative than the other participants trying to build actual paper planes.

I think all this achieve is proving to the people who wrote the rules they made a mistake. Rules will hopefully be updated, so value is not zero, but it's not really what the spirit of the competition was about.

The only instance I admire this thinking is when the "wrong" rules are not written by humans but rather preexistent. If someone manage to find out the understanding we had of the rules was wrong and finds a quicker solution because of it, that's amazing.

I didn't say I didn't like the result. In fact, I think I explicitly stated that I enjoy this kind of "out of the box" thinking, the first time.