The Elimination Round is an online Jeopardy style of Capture the Flag (CTF). In Jeopardy CTF, the participants will be challenged with a number of security scenarios to look for special data (Flags) that can be obtained by exploiting system vulnerabilities or by looking for important security information details from the prepared data.
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Mechanism
1. Each question contains a narrative case along with supporting files or addresses of network/web services that must be analyzed from cybersecurity perspective.
2. Each question has a different weight/points which will be calculated dynamically based on the question’s submission order/sequence.
3. To get a score on a question, participants must submit the Flag in the submission form for each question.
4. Scoreboard will be displayed during the preliminary round and will be frozen in the last 1 hour of the competition.
Special Terms
Participants may be given a penalty or even disqualification if proven to have done the following:
1. Committing DoS (Denial of Service) in any form.
2. Committing foul such as sharing Flags, viewing other team’s work, sharing accounts to people outside the team, or cooperating to other teams.
3. Damaging the system or exploiting target so excessively that other teams cannot complete it. In case a participant does this by mistake, please report it to the committee as soon as possible.
4. Doing excessive access to the server. There is no case requires online brute force. Excessive access will result in IP being banned automatically within a certain time.
Competition Reference
This competition is held based on the Capture the Flag standard (https://ctftime.org/).
