This weekend, we ran the qualifier event for this year’s DEF CON CTF. 1828 teams registered to play in our game, and we want to thank all of you for registering. We hope you all had an amazing weekend solving the challenges we created for you, even if only 535 teams actually solved something!
If you’re interested in all of the data from this year’s game, you can find it on this page.
The top 11 teams from this year’s qualifier, plus last year’s winner (Maple Mallard Magistrates), will be invited to play in the final event. This will be held later this year from August 11-13 in Las Vegas at DEF CON 31. If any teams decline our invitation, we will move further down the list to ensure we have 12 total teams.
This was the top 20 for this year’s event:
- Blue Water - 3753 points
- The Parliament of Ducks - 3499 points
- orgakraut - 3466 points
- SuperDiceCode - 3398 points
- TWN48 - 3236 points
- Straw Hat - 3204 points
- Norsecode’23 - 3090 points
- mhackeroni - 2920 points
- P1G BuT S4D - 2745 points
- Shellphish - 2500 points
- undef1ned - 2481 points
- HypeBoy - 2417 points
- PTB_WTL_0T - 2156 points
- Katzebin - 2112 points
- if this doesn’t work we’ll get more for next year - 2083 points
- Never Stop Exploiting - 2078 points
- untitled - 1590 points
- Team Baguette - 1369 points
- JMP FS:[RCX] - 1284 points
- tasteless - 1211 points
fuzyll has been playing in and running CTFs since 2010. His highest finish in DEF CON Finals as a player was 2nd in 2013 with Men in Black Hats. He was previously an organizer and challenge author for Ghost in the Shellcode (2012-2015), DEF CON (2017), and Hack-a-Sat (2020-2021).