VOL-3244 - remove competing mode flag

it is no longer used

Change-Id: I19a1c9e11eed34049b99d533e158bc25de13a3eb
diff --git a/voltha/Chart.yaml b/voltha/Chart.yaml
index 24152ee..f95b07a 100644
--- a/voltha/Chart.yaml
+++ b/voltha/Chart.yaml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 ---
 apiVersion: "v1"
 name: "voltha"
-version: "2.4.15"
+version: "2.4.16"
 description: "A Helm chart for Voltha based on K8S resources in Voltha project"
 keywords:
   - "onf"
diff --git a/voltha/templates/core-deploy.yaml b/voltha/templates/core-deploy.yaml
index a5b3878..502acc3 100644
--- a/voltha/templates/core-deploy.yaml
+++ b/voltha/templates/core-deploy.yaml
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@
             - "-kafka_adapter_address={{ .Values.services.kafka.adapter.service }}:{{ .Values.services.kafka.adapter.port }}"
             - "-kafka_cluster_address={{ .Values.services.kafka.cluster.service }}:{{ .Values.services.kafka.cluster.port }}"
             - "-rw_core_topic={{ .Values.defaults.topics.core_topic }}"
-            - "-in_competing_mode=false"
             - "-core_timeout={{ tpl .Values.rw_core.core_timeout . }}"
             - "-timeout_long_request={{ tpl .Values.rw_core.timeout_long_request . }}"
             - "-timeout_request={{ tpl .Values.rw_core.timeout_request . }}"