Information

Prizes

To determine which bracket your team should register under, refer to the Bracket Eligibility section below.

RIT Students:

Each team member will win one of each prize.

U.S. Academic:

All prizes will be distributed among the entire team.

Prizes are offered in good faith; however, RITSEC and our sponsors reserve the right to modify or cancel prize awards for any reason, including unforseen circumstances.

Pirate's Code

Discord Rules:

  1. Treat everyone with respect. Absolutely no harassment, witch hunting, sexism, racism, or hate speech of any kind will be tolerated.
  2. No spam or self-promotion. Unless you have express permission from a member of the RITSEC CTF team, you may not promote servers or post advertisements.
  3. No NSFW or obscene content. This includes text, images, or links featuring nudity, sex, hard violence, or other graphically disturbing content.

RITSEC CTF Rules:

  1. Do not attack the infrastructure. The RITSEC CTF infrastructure is not part of the challenges. The use of penetration tools such as Nmap and DirBuster on the CTF infrastructure is strictly prohibited.
  2. Do not give out flags or hints. To keep this CTF as fair as possible, do not share any hints or answers with anyone outside of your team. You may discuss specific challenges in public channels only as long as you do not give away crucial information.
  3. Do not ask anyone for flags or hints. This includes event participants/organizers as well as Q&A websites such as StackOverflow and Quora. You are, however, encouraged to create a ticket with any questions you may have.
  4. No flag-hoarding. When you get a flag, submit it right away. It is important that you do not hoard flags to ensure that teams know exactly where they stand every step of the way.

General Rules:

  1. If you see anything that breaks one or more of these rules (including public messages, DMs, etc.), reach out to an admin (@Staff on Discord) and let them know as soon as possible.
  2. Failure to follow these rules may result in message deletion, temporary or permanent bans, score freezes, point deductions, etc.
  3. These rules are interpreted at the discretion of the RITSEC CTF team. As such, all decisions are final and unappealable.

Anyone participating must abide by our code of conduct, which can be found in Article 9 of the RITSEC Constitution. If a player is disqualified for any reason, they are removed from their team and are no longer eligible for prizes (including any individual prizes). If a team is disqualified, all members of the team are considered to have been disqualified as well.

Flags & Scoring

Points ("doubloons") are allocated to challenges dynamically on a logarithmic scale. All challenges (except the sanity check and feedback challenge) start at 500 points. As a challenge accumulates more solves, its value decreases (as does the score of any team who solved it) until it reaches a minimum of 100 points. Teams are ranked based on the total number of points they earn, and a tie is broken by the team who achieved their last solve most recently.

Unless otherwise noted, all flags match the regular expression RS{[\w\d_!?]*} (letters, digits, !, ?, and _ are allowed).

Bracket Eligibility

Each participant may compete on only one team. Participants may be required to complete a non-invasive verification process to confirm bracket eligibility. The combined scoreboard (which includes teams from all brackets) will be uploaded to CTFtime after the event.

RIT Students:

(Teams satisfying the eligibility requirements for both the RIT Students and U.S. Academic brackets may elect to compete in either bracket.)

*This is subject to change and will be finalized soon.

U.S. Academic:

(There is no limit on team size; however, prize availability is limited.)

Open:

Participation in the Open bracket is unrestricted (e.g., international participants, graduate students, full-time professionals). No prizes will be awarded in this bracket.



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