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We observe the key limitation of the existing state-of-the-art semi-supervised solution cross pseudo supervision is the unsatisfactory precision of foreground classes, leading to a degenerated result under barely-supervised learning. In this paper, we propose a novel Compete-to-Win method (ComWin) to enhance the pseudo label quality. In contrast to directly using one model's predictions as pseudo labels, our key idea is that high-quality pseudo labels should be generated by comparing multiple confidence maps produced by different networks to select the most confident one (a compete-to-win strategy). To further refine pseudo labels at near-boundary areas, an enhanced version of ComWin, namely, ComWin+, is proposed by integrating a boundary-aware enhancement module. Experiments show that our method can achieve the best performance on three public medical image datasets for cardiac structure segmentation, pancreas segmentation and colon tumor segmentation, respectively. 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