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Capture The Flag Competitions
Capture The Flag competitions describe challenge-based or adventure-based competitions that involve solving a series of technical challenges. After a team has solved a challenge, the team is presented with a flag, hence the name.
Challenge-Based Capture The Flag competitions are comprised of discrete and individual challenges. Each challenge is typically given a point value that will be awarded to the team that solves it. Challenges can be solved in any order; this allows teams to work on challenges individually and of any difficulty. Newbie teams that are trying to gain experience favor this type of competition because it makes it easy to give up on frustrating challenges to work on other challenges.
Adventure-Based Capture The Flag competitions are comprised of challenges that follow a structured order. Each challenge is typically part of a plot line, and the team who gets the furthest into the story wins. Challenges usually have to be completed in order, so teams have to solve each challenge before continuing on to the next challenge. Experienced teams favor this type of competition because it requires lots of skill and motivation to do well.
Attack-Defend CTF Competitions are
Wargames are always online CTF competitions.
Teams can only gain experience three ways: practice, practice, practice. But also, watching presentations about competitions and reading write-ups.
- Psifertex - DEFCON 17: Maximum CTF: Getting the Most Out of Capture the Flag
- atlas - DEFCON 14: The Making of atlas: Kiddie to Hacker in 5 Sleepless Nights
- Chris Eagle - Organizing and Participating in Computer Network Attack and Defense Exercises
- Mike Arpaia and Ted Reed - Beat to 1337: Create a successful university cyber defense organization - DEFCON 19
There are many different competitions held all year around, all around the world. The capture.thefl.ag Google Calendar can be used to supplement the list below.
Many teams keep an online presence and keep updated blogs with write-ups from many different competitions.