A lot of SEO experts from around the world participate in this contest and the competition is really tough. Winners of the previous SEO Contests are also joining in this contest that makes it tougher.
My friend's entry is late for almost a month but his entry is doing fine. He is in the 13th spot as of this writing for the term "oes tsetnoc" in Google's SERP. Furthermore, he is using a subdomain in supersized.org and I doubt if he can really land even in the top ten.
His entry is http://oestsetnoc.supersized.org