[Last Minute] Capture The Flag 2022
The Last Minute Capture the Flag [CTF] event is back for another year during Blue Team Con. We’re looking to bring another beginner-friendly CTF competition. As we were happy to announce last time around, this was originally a very last minute thing. This time, not quite so late, but still pretty last minute. However we aim to provide continue to provide a fun game via a unique learning experience. As this is being run at Blue Team Con, all of the puzzles and challenges will be related as best we can to defensive cybersecurity topics.
Our goal is to create somewhat friendly introduction to CTF-style challenges and being very accessible to users of all skill levels. We have reworked and rebuilt how we want to start the competition in effort to help show newer CTF players a bit of what we have going on. To this end, the competition requires you to complete two introductory challenges that walk you through some important information and will hopefully help get you into the spirit of the competition. Remember, we want you to learn, we just might not make everything too easy…
However, a big difference that we can impart on this competition compared to other competitions, as we did last year, is that the Last Minute CTF wants to see you document your work and provide write-ups for each of the challenges. This is totally not because we’re doing this at the last minute and don’t want to do it ourselves… However, half of the available points will come directly from these write-ups. While documentation is not something for everyone, it is a highly desirable skill to have and use in any day-to-day operation and who knows, we may even feature your write-up and tell everyone how awesome you did the thing.
Whether you have never played a CTF before, or have been completing challenges for years, we want you to play.
More information, as well as competition updates, will be provided directly via this page and Discord. And no, this is not a flag.
The 2022 CTF Competition has closed. We Look forward to seeing you at the next CTF Competition!
CTF Hours:
The competition homepage will go live for player signups (and to allow people early access to complete the introduction) when registration opens on Friday, August 26th, 2022 at 6:00pm CDT.
The rest of the challenges and the competition will begin Saturday, August 27th, 2022 at 10:30am CDT until Sunday, August 28th, 2022 at 1:00pm CDT.
Help and Assistance:
- Join the Blue Team Con Discord and then the #ctf channel
- Stop by the CTF Room during Admin Availability Hours* for Assistance
- Saturday, August 27th: 10:30am to 5:00pm
- Sunday, August 28th: 10:00am to 1:00pm
*These hours are subject to change.
