Hmm, maybe I should turn my new flock of GPUs towards this challenge.
BOINC let's you cheat a little for a race, you can disable network communications (assuming you have enough tasks to last 24 hours), and then re-enable the network once the race starts, giving you a cache of finished tasks to dump at the start of the race.
The setting is under "Activity" on the advance BOINC manager.
Incase I missed it, what's the actual start time for the contest and time zone. Don't want to dump these Wu's too soon. All tasks were completed this morning so I am idle until the show starts.