There's also a Guide to PBR by allegorithmic available as an e-book. That one also for a good job of putting the info into usable context for an artist.
Has anyone used that online service that uses machine learning to generate textures? that sounds interesting. What about the new project alchemy by Allegorithmic?
Interesting, but I can't help thinking that Allegorithmic Substance does all that compositing + more. Any reason you decided to go for an in-house solution?
Any questions you have about the contest should be posted here. The Allegorithmic folks will be watching here and providing the answers. The most common questions will be added to this post along with the replies.
You don't need to explode your meshes when baking with Allegorithmic products. https://support.allegorithmic.com/documentation/display/SPDOC/Matching+by+name