Codegate CTF 2024 Preliminary

RULES

1. CODEGATE 2024 CTF has three divisions: Junior and General.

2. Each division has conditions of participation:

Junior Division
Individual competition
Only those born in 2006 or after 2006 can participate

General Division
Team competition
Everyone else who is not in the junior division

3. There may be some common challenges, the Junior Division is different.

4. For the General, the details of the limit on the number of team members are as follows:

There is no limit on the number of team members in the preliminary round. (But 10 or less are recommended.)
For the final round, a maximum of 4 members are allowed, and these members must be from the original preliminary round team.
Remote participation is not allowed in the final round; all team members must be physically present.

5. Official Channel : Discord (We will communicate any updates during the competition via Discord.)

6. If you have any questions about the challenges or rules, please open a ticket on the Discord.

7. These actions are subject to disqualification:

Seeking or providing hints, clues, flags or answers to participants other than your own team members. However, hints or clues provided by the organizers to all participants are allowed.
Participating in multiple teams
Any activity or action that interferes with, obstructs, or disturbs other teams, participants, or organizers. Such activities or actions are not limited to DoS and DDoS.
Attacking or spying on other teams, participants and organizers.
Brute forcing flags on the *.codegate.org flag authentication system.
Intentionally interrupting or hindering others from submitting or obtaining flags.
Participating in divisions other than those allowed by the rules. (e.g. participating in the junior division even if you were born in 2004)
Attacking any machine or infrastructure other than the designated challenges provided in the competition.
Failing to provide a reasonable explanation for suspected cheating.

8. After the preliminary round ends, these teams must submit write-ups to [email protected] within 24 hours:

General Division: Top 25 teams
Junior Division: Top 25 participants

9. The organizers will officially announce the finalist teams after carefully verifying write-ups from top teams. The scoreboard cannot be used to confirm that the teams are going to the final round even after the preliminary round ends.

a. The number of finalist teams is as follows:

General Division: 20 teams
Top 19 teams from the preliminary round
1 team from the winner of the general division of CODEGATE 2023 CTF Finals
Junior Division: Top 20 participants from the preliminary round

b. The user account created in the preliminary registration process, must belong to the participant, himself. Identification of information is required in the final round.