Hi all!
We now have a leaderboard up for the Dec. 15 event:
(there are links to a baseline system to get you started)
We have a great slate of human players signed up, including someone many consider the best active quiz bowl player on the planet. Hopefully you'll participate yourself, but if not, I hope that you'll spread the news to your friends and colleagues. I have made a short video here trying to explain why quiz bowl is a good format for computer question answering: